Traditional Chinese painting dates back to the Neolithic Age about 6,000 years ago. The excavated colored pottery with painted human...
Chinese Literature and Arts
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...
Luo Guanzhong is also presumed to be the author of another Chinese best-known novel，The Story ofthe Water Mar-gin while some...
Guan Hanqing ，the founder of Zaju，was born in Qizhou ，i.e.，present-day Anguo City，Hebei Province.In his youth he worked as a doctor，but...
Novels of the Ming and Qing Dynasties The late years of the Yuan Dynasty and early years of the Ming...
During the Yuan Dynasty the Chinese nobility were not allowed to be involved in government，therefore，they were free to pursue art...
Li Qingzhao（1084s-1155？）was born of a famous literary man's family in Jinan ，Shandong Province. In her childhood，she had received a good...
In the Song Dynasty，technology progressed rapidly. Three major inventions such as the compass，typography and powder were put to use.Of the...
Du Mu（803-852 AD）was a native of Jingzhao-Wan-nian（present-day Xi'an City，Shaanxi Province）.He came from an established noble family of hereditary officials for...
Li Shangyin LiShangyin was a Chinese poet of the late Tang dynasty，born in Huaizhou in Hunan Province. Li Shangyin had...
During this period poetry continued to flourish and the poetic output was larger than ever before.The later poets were by...
Du Fu（712-770AD）was born in Gongxian，Henan Province but his family origin was in Xiangyang，Hubei Province.The son of an official，he was interested...
The Flourishing Tang This period saw the two greatest poets in China.There are may other great poets in China but...
Tang's Poetry During the long reign of the Tang Dynasty，accomplishments were made in all fields of science and learning but...
The legend A Peacock Flying to the Southeast was the work of an anonymous poet living in the Jianan period...
Hua Mulan ，the Synonym of a Heroine Hua Mulan was China's most famous woman warrior who lived and fought in...
The long period between the prosperous Han and Tang comprises the Three Kingdoms，the Jin Dynasty，the Southern and Northern Dynasties and...