Pingyao is an old city with a history of more than 2,700 years in Shanxi Province. Despite the turmoil in the changing dynasties, it has remained a county seat with the most complete features of the Ming and Qing dynasties. In 1997, the ...
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The xylographic painting is a replication technique peculiar to China. Integrating painting, engraving and printing, it presents brushwork and ink rhymes according to the principle of water-ink permeation. It can be used not only in ...
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Ash-dusting New Year print, as one kind of folk new year prints in China, came out in the Chenghua Period (1467-1487) during the Ming Dynasty and became popular in the Qing Dynasty. According to the existing material, it is only in Gaomi ...
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New Year paintings are wood engraving pictures that people use during the Spring Festival to ring out the old, ring in the new, seek good luck and ward off evil spirits. The elegant painting and engraving are well worth appreciating. There ...
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China is universally acknowledged as the birthplace of kites. Kites originated in the Spring and Autumn Period over 2,000 years ago. Legend has it that the wooden bird made by the ancient philosopher Mozi was the earliest kite. Later, his ...
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Huizhou in ancient times incorporated contemporary Huangshan City in Anhui Province and Wuyuan County in Jiangxi Province. As decorative carvings in the constructions of ancient Huizhou during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, "Three Types of ...
Grandpa Rabbit, or "Tu Yer" in Chinese, is a clay rabbit figurine said to be modeled after the legendary Jade Rabbit pounding medicine on the moon. It's an age-old folk toy and a mascot in Beijing. According to legend, once, a ...
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Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, is the longest and most important holiday for Chinese people. It is usually celebrated from the eighth day of the twelfth month to the fifteenth of the first month (lantern festival), by Chinese lunar ...
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The paper-cut is one of China's most popular and characteristic folk arts. It takes paper as the material and scissors or engraving knives as the tool. The tradition can be traced back to the 6th century. However, it probably emerged even a ...
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Chinese folk art is vastly different from Western traditional art in philosophy concept, art structure and form, and color composition. Philosophy concept — Chinese folk art, and the art of Chinese officialdom and professional ...
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Song Brocade refers to the brocade developed since the Song Dynasty. With Suzhou as its major production area, it is thus called Song Brocade of Suzhou. As an ancient city of silk famous in China, Suzhou has been recognized as the land of ...
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Bonsai is miniature landscape in pots of different materials, sizes and shapes featuring certain arrangement of flowers, trees and mountainous rocks. It is a comprehensive plastic art combining garden cultivation, literature and painting ...
Dresses and accessories mark the lifestyles and production levels of the people of a geographic region during a historical period, and they vividly reflect the people's customs and aesthetic tastes. Headdresses play an important role in ...
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At the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, a portrait of Jesus stuck the eye of the Westerners. It was not an oil painted portrait familiar to them, but had the space perception presented by oil paintings, and yet the delicacy and ...
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The cloud cape is a kind of clothing fastened about the neck and covering the shoulders. It evolved from the Sui Dynasty. By the Qing Dynasty, the cloud cape had been extensively spread to all levels of the society, and become indispensable ...
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