The somersault, also called "flip", is quite familiar to us. It is a movement in which one touches his head...
Chinese Literature and Arts
The expression "circus acts"first appeared in the Han dynasty referring to the various acts performed by the man riding a...
The Chinese traditional art of acrobatics appeared as early as in the Pre-Qin dynasty.Though the acrobatics was quite primitive during...
Mural Painting in Tombs From the artistic works left till today, we know that the principal part of paintings in...
Flower-and-bird painting should be considered as the earliest kind of Chinese painting as the images of flower and bird appeared...
Paintings of mountain and water or landscape painting is a traditional Chinese painting with natural sceneries as its depicting object....
The period of Sui and Tang dynasties，especially Tang dynasty，was the most prosperous time in ancient China history.The society was comparatively...
The fashion of literati doing painting started from late Han dynasty, examples were Zhang Heng, Cai Yong, Liu Bao, etc....
The literature of the time exhibited a melting-pot scenario. All types of literature thrived and achieved high accomplishment. The Qing...
Although poetry continued to decline in the Ming dynasty, some influential schools sti1l brought themselves with certain fresh air, pushing...
Different from grotto murals, tomb murals at the time were mainly about real life. The theme was mainly description of...
Flowery Paintings with both Chinese and Foreign Characteristics in the Three Kingdoms，Wei，Jin and the Southern&Northern Dynasties.The period of Three Kingdoms，Wei，Jin...
Brick Relief Another unique representative of fine art in Han dynasty was brick relief. To produce a brick relief first...
Qin and Han dynasties were important periods in the history of Chinese fine arts.Along with the unification of the whole...
Pre-Qin period refers to the Xia，Shang，Western Zhou dynasties，the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period before Qin dynasty.Paintings...
In the Liao dynasty, emerged a scene of the scholars, literature and literary styles of Han people and Qidan coexisted....
In the Southern Song dynasty, poets represented by "Four Masters of Zhongxing", namely, Lu You, Yang Wanli, Fan Chengda and...
In the Song dynasty，scholars created a large number of poems with diverse themes and rich contents.And Wang Anshi，in particular，contributed greatly...
An-Shi Rebellion was a crucial turning point of the Tang society, as well as the development of Tang poems. Since...
An-Shi Rebellion was a crucial turning point of the Tang society, as well as the development of Tang poems. Since...