The saying about Tang calligraphy that"people of the Tang Dynasty advocated conformity with norms"refers to Tang calligraphy's strict conformity with...
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he famous"four regular script masters"in China's history of calligraphy refer to four calligraphers：Ouyang Xun，Yan Zhenqing and Liu gongquan in the...
Calligraphy as art originated in the Spring and autumn Period and the Warring States Period，matured in Qing dynasty and Han...
Writing of Chinese characters could develop into an independent kind of art not only because of Chinese characters special characteristics....
Early Chinese characters appear on various objects. According to today's archeological discoveries, pottery is among the earliest utensils used by...
Calligraphy a kind of art particular to china can show spirit，create artistic conceptions and manifest personalities this artistic feature originated...
In China, go is also referred to as"hand conversations through which players communicate with each other. In other words, they"talk"through...
Go players have beautiful names for the pieces: "crow"for the black pieces, andgull "for the white ones. They are placed...
A game of go has many implications for real life. It is for the appreciation of such inferences that go...
Pingxiang along the mid-stream of the Yangtze River is a border area of Hunan and Jiangxi provinces, situated right in...
China is the birthplace of wood block printing, and Chinese woodcut painting, also the earliest ever invented, enjoys high reputation in...
Telling stories of the ancient times over a curtain frame; playing music and beating drums under the stage light; the...
Career folk artists are creators who engage in folk art to make a living. They are already separated, or semi-separated,...
The creators of Chinese folk art come from millions of labourers among the People. They include both "the dexterous-hands"who engage...
For Chinese, red and white are colors for life and death. Red is for celebrating wedding and giving birth; and...
In folk art, art decoration features using live figures like plants and animals, or natural symbols, in place of lifeless...
The tiger image created by folk artists is not the natural image of a tiger at a specific time and...
Western artists tend to utilize focused perspective, and the literati employ traditional prosaic perspective. Following a style different from either,...
On Chinese New Year of the year of rat, a woman farmer named Li Aiping sent me a paper-cut of...
Chinese folk art is vastly different from Western traditional art in philosophy concept, art structure and form, and color composition....