A traditional residential building assigns family members based on the family's hierarchy. Homes all over China in pre-modern times had...
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In Chinese history there were many imperial palaces, but with the passing of the time most of them were destroyed....
Royal architecture mainly refers to the palace and imperial tombs. The palace is the highest, most luxurious and valuable architectural...
Chinese ancient architecture features unique timber framework, with timber, bricks and tiles as the main building materials. Posts, beams, lintels...
There are three greatest architectural styles in the worldarchitecture: Western architecture, Islamic architecture, and Chinese architecture. Chinese architecture culture is...
After the traditional business teams there appeared a few new ones like Zhe Business, Yue Business, Lu Business, etc. Zhe...
Hui Business or Hui Camels began in the East Jin and developed into the prosperity in the Ming and Qing...
（1）Business Qrganization Jin business strengthened itself and protected its benefit with the business organization.At first it was the group of...
In the Ming and Qing Dynasties there was a business revolution，in which stood out about ten business teams.They were Shanxi...
China is an ethnically and culturally diverse country.Its dominant cultural tradition has been heavily influenced by Confucianism and Daoism. The...
Paper Paper is invented in China by Cai Lun.But paper used for traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy is not the...
Chinese Royal Painting The royal painting started from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties，ended with the down of the Qing Dynasty.It...
Chinese New Year Paintings can date back to the Qin and Han Dynasties. In the Song Dynasty block printing was...
Chinese Flower-and-bird Painting Chinese flower-and-bird Painting(see Figure 87) was already in the bud in the primitive society. Patterns of flowers...
Traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting have its special materials and tools: brushes, ink and pigments, Xuan paper, silk and various...
Traditional Chinese painting dates back to the Neolithic Age about 6,000 years ago. The excavated colored pottery with painted human...
Chinese calligraphy（Brush calligraphy）is an art unique to the world.Regarded as the most abstract and sublime form of art in Chinese...
The Scholars of Wu Jingzi The Ming and Qing dynasties are the golden age of ancient Chinese fiction.The satirical novel-The...
Cao Xueqin and his famous novel ,A Dream in the Red Mansions Cao Xueqin（1715-1763）（see Figure 69）was a great writer in...
Pilgrims to the West written by Wu Chengen（1500-1582AD），a scholar-official，is one of the renowned classical Chinese novels about an allegorical rendition...