Many foreign friends first learn about Chinese culture through the numerous Chinese restaurants found all over the world. and soon...
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Gardens in the south are mostly small in size To evoke a sense of space, theuse of"borrowing a distant view"is...
Rock formations play an important role in the construction of a Chinese-style garden. Without them,a garden could not be considered...
Chinese people started to build gardens more than 2，000 years ago.Over this long period of time，three styles of gardens came...
Porcelain is a comprehensive art, and form is as important to a good piece of porcelain as it is to...
Most Chinese porcelain ware embodies the characteristics of Confucian aesthetics. In its pursuit of gentleness and refinement one senses the...
Pure and elegant beauty is the goal that porcelain pursues, and this ideal is best explained in the production of...
Anyone familiar with Chinese porcelain knows that the surface of some porcelain ware is covered with irregular cracks. This is...
In English, the country and"porcelain"share the same name-"China."This proves that Europeans have long known of China's relationship to porcelain. Porcelain...
The Ming and Qing (1616-1911) dynasties witnessed further development in ink-and-wash painting, in opposition to the traditions of the Song...
When people talk about Chinese landscape painting, they never fail to mention the landscape paintings of the Song and Yuan...
Ancient Chinese artists did not abide by the principle of perspective, and sometimes even tried to purposefully avoid the issue....
Apparently, the emergence and development of ink-and-wash painting is closely related to technology, materials and artistic traditions. Ink and wash...
Ink and wash is a unique genre of traditional Chinese painting. It uses little or no color but applies black...
China is a world-renowned ancient country of ceramics, which has long been one of the most significant traditional handicrafts in...
The artisan system of the Ming Dynasty inherited the hereditary system of the Yuan Dynasty. Artisans had more personal freedom....
As the handicraft level of the Song Dynasty was rather high, obvious development was made in various aspects, such as...
The period of the Sui Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty was a stage of great prosperity in the ancient society...
During the period of the Six Dynasties, wars occurred frequently in the north but the south was comparatively stable. The...
The period of the Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty was a period to establish and consolidate a centralized feudal...