Majiang is a social game of Chinese origin that enjoys worldwide popularity.The English name is simply the transliteration of the...
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Xiangqi is the classic Chinese popular board game，usually known as Chinese Chess or Elephant Chess.It is played on a board...
The essential rules of weiqi are as follows： a.Two players take turns placing black and white stones on the board's...
Weiqi is the Chinese name for the classic board game usually known in English as Go（from the Japanese go）.It has...
For thousands of years，people have been planning attacks，captures，chases，and conquests in a variety of different board games.Most such games commonly involve...
Environmental pollution causes damage to calligraphy and paintings.In cities，the air has high acid and alkali elements due to car exhaust...
In the West，the human form has been the point of central interest throughout most of history，from the sculpture of the...
Chinese brush painting can be classified into three main categories:landscape painting，bird and flower painting，and figure painting.Each classification can be further...
Three principal groups of artists were working during the Qing Dynasty.The first was that of the traditionalists，orthodox painters who sought...
During the Ming Dynasty，literati paintings were prized above academic paintings by most educated people who understood the goal of revealing...
In 1279，the Yuan Dynasty unified China under Mongol rule.Chinese literati ultimately learned how to live with Mongol rule，and many members...
Literati painters were amateurs.They painted as a means of self-expression，much as the same way they wrote poetry；both forms were the...
Chinese painting is a pure art.It is lyrical enough to stand on an equal footing with poetry and contemplative thought.It...
When did Chinese painting start？Who started Chinese painting？It is hard to trace it back to its roots.For thousands of years，this...
Chinese seal engraving，a combination of calligraphy and engraving，has a history of over 2，000 years.Most of the earliest ancient seals can...
When the ink slab was invented is rather controversial. Archaeologists have discovered from the ruins，dating back to the primitive society，simple...
Paper is a Chinese invention，and it is widely accepted that paper was invented by Cai Lun of the Eastern Han...
Traditionally a brush pen，an ink-stick，paper，and an ink-stone are indispensable to traditional Chinese scholars who call them the“four treasures of the...
The origin of Chinese calligraphy is not very precise.Chinese writing originated approximately 4，500 years ago.It is thought that the written...
The Chinese language is an institution，rather than a tool，of society.With their unusual script，Chinese characters developed a unique culture.The acquaintance with...