Flower-and-bird painting gained great achievements in Qing dynasty. Painters learned from both ancient painting tradition and western painting skills. The...
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Chinese painting history entered a new era when it came to Qing dynasty.On the one hand，some painters were really conservative...
Differing from strength acrobatics and physique skills, the juggling acrobatics is the performing art following the objects' motion law. The...
The major aerial acrobatics such as "the dwarf climbing up the pole"and "Dai gan"have been mentioned in the preceding part....
In Ming dynasty, as figure painting could be used to serve the emperors directly, it was considered as one of...
Flower-and-bird paintings in Ming dynasty were more diversified and had moreachievements than landscape paintings. At the beginning of Ming dynasty,...
Compared with previous dynasties，Ming dynasty had more variety of painting schools.At the beginning of this dynasty，although rulers did not set...
In Yuan dynasty, mural paintings mainly demonstrated human activities. The extension and profundity of both theme and content of mural...
To consolidate their regime, rulers of Yuan dynasty adopted a high-handed policy. They divided people into four classes. Southern people...
Flower-and-bird paintings in Yuan dynasty were mainly featured by literati water ink freestyle. They were simple and clean, plain and...
The painting theme in Yuan dynasty was different from that of previous dynasties.Paintings of noble's outing life were taken place...
Yuan dynasty was under the reign of Mongolian nobles.Although it lasted for less than 100 years，it ended the territory disruption...
Literati painting, just as its name implies, refers to painting created by literati. The phrase was first brought forward by...
Paintings that depict folk customs and activities had come into being for a long time. In Northern Song dynasty, painters...
Figure painting at the time revealed more of people's daily life. Along with the development of economy, more and more...
Flower-and-bird painting gained great development in this period. There were many painters good at flower-and-bird painting. The rulers needed the...
Figure painting gained new improvement in the Five Dynasties. The Taoist and Buddhist figures were still very popular, but became...
The flower-and-bird painting played an important role in Chinese painting history. The subject matters of painting were more extended than...
Although the regime was transferred from one to another and the territory was disrupted in the Five Dynasties，the culture was...
After Qin Shihuang（"First Sovereign Emperor of China"）unified China，all the acrobatic performers from different areas converged in Xianyang and helped to...