Huang Gongwang，Ni Zan，Wu Zhen and Wang Meng were entitled“Four Great Painters”because of their excellent landscape paintings. Huang Gongwang（1269-1354）was born in...
Chinese Literature and Arts
Chinese is an ideographic language，and in ancient times most of the Chinese characters were written with strokes according to the...
Gu Kaizhi（348-409）was born into an official family in today's Jiangsu Province. While young，he served as a court official.He was famous...
Painting in Primitive Times In the Paleolithic Age，there appeared Rock Painting in China.In the Neolithic Age，rock paintings began to show...
Chinese painting varies from ink-and-wash painting to Western oil painting.Here we will focus on the traditional Chinese painting，namely the Ink-and-wash...
Wang Xizhi was born in a callgraphic family in Shandong Province.When young，he served as a court official in the Jin...
Seal Red seal stamps always appear at the end of calligraphic works and paintings to show the identity of the...
Confucianism and Calligraphy Confucian thoughts promoted and influenced the evolution and development of the calligraphic aesthetics. First, the invention of...
Calligraphy in Pre-Qin Period Pottery script discovered in Shandong Province is the rudimentary form of Chinese language.It appears in single...
Brushes，paper，ink sticks and ink slabs together are called the Four Treasures of the Study，which are essential for the development of...
Before we review Chinese calligraphy history，it is necessary to first take a look at the origin of Chinese characters.There is...
Ah Q's Therapy of Spiritual Victory Lu Xun's“The True Story of Ah Q ”is profound.It probes into the very soul...
Literary Revolution and the Literature at That Time The literary revolution launched as part of the New Culture Movement marked...
The Tang Dynasty is the golden era of Chinese poetry. Wang Bo , Yang Jiong , Lu Zhaolin and Luo...
The Ancient Chinese Language (Part One) Chinese is truly an ancient language and one of the longest lived languages in...
In 202 BC Conqueror of West chu Xiang Yu and his 100 thousand army were tightly encircled in Gaixia by...
Most painters of the early Qing Dynasty（1644-1911）adopted the artistic style of their predecessors and created many animal paintings characterized by...
Many emperors of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) like Taizu, Xuanzong, Xianzong and Xiaozong were also skilful animal painters. The "Picture...
During the Mongol Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368), the Han literati who were deprived of any political privileges had to paint landscape,...
Carrying on the tradition of the Tang and the Five Dynasties，more and more horse painters appeared in the Song Dynasty（960-1279）.For...