Chinese characters are written within a square framework，so they are sometimes referredto as"square writing."Symbols inscribed on ancient pottery vessels excavated...
Chinese Literature and Arts
With a history reaching back over 3，000 years，Chinese characters are one of the world's oldest forms of writing.When Qin Shihuang（r.246-209...
The Chinese care about the health of their body as well as their mind.Sport is not only undertakenby professionals in...
The Chinese began to make and fly kites 2，000 years ago.They are called"yao"（sparrow hawk）in the south and"yuan"（glede）in the north.The homophone...
Wuqiao County in Hebei Province is known as the native place of acrobats. It has a history of 2,000 years,...
Shuochang (talking and singing), the most direct way of expression, form a genre of popular entertainment that has existed in...
It is performed in theaters, at teahouses, and in the open in the countryside. There are usually only a Ltable...
The leisure time of a scholarly Chinese gentleman has been largely occupied by the four arts of Qin (zither), Qi(board...
On the lunar New Year's Eve in 1998, in the golden halls of Vienna, the lively and magnificent Radetzky March...
1) Su Shi(1037-1101) and His Model Calligraphy Entitled Poems Written on Cold Food Day in Huangzhou. Su Shi's hometown was...
1）Preface to the Poems Composed at Orchid Pavilion Gathering and Wang Xizhi Preface to the Poems Composed at Orchid Pavilion...
1) Peaceful, Natural, Simple and Dignified Inscriptions on Ten Drum-like Stones Inscriptions on Ten Drum-like Stones in the Spring and...
The appearance of official script was the turning point in the evolvement from ancient characters to modern characters. In the...
If we take the inscriptions on bones and tortoise shells as the origin of Chinese characters，it has already had a...
The famous linguist Xu Shen in the Eastern Han dynasty mentioned a myth in his classics Analytical Dictionary of Characters...
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...