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• Chinese art.
• works of art produced in the vast geographical region of China. It the oldest art in the world and has its origins in remote antiquity. (For the history of Chinese civilization, see China. ...
• Knowledge of ancient Chinese art is limited largely to works in pottery, bronze, bone, and jade.
• ), some of China’s most extraordinary art was created—its ritual bronzes. ... The art of bronze casting of this period is of such high quality that it suggests a long period of prior experimentation.
• The Later Han dynasty marks the end of the development of this art, although highly decorated bronze continued to be produced, often with masterly treatment of metal and stone inlays.
• Buddhist Art.
• ) introduced art of a different character. ... the Chinese artists succeeded in developing a national style in sculpture. ...
• Major sites of Buddhist art in cave temples include Donghuang, Lung-men, Yun-kang, Mai-chi-shan, and Ping-ling-ssu. ...
• Chinese Painting since the Fifth Century.
• Rendering of natural effects of light and shade is almost wholly absent in this art, the greatest strength of which is its incomparable mastery of line and silhouette. ...
• The art of figure painting reached a peak of excellence in the T’ang dynasty (618–906). Historical subjects and scenes of courtly life were popular, and the human figure was portrayed with a robustness and monumentality unequaled in Chinese painting. ... The T’ang dynasty also saw the rise of the great art of Chinese landscape painting. ...

• Chinese music appears to date back to the dawn of Chinese civilization, and documents and artifacts provide evidence of a well-developed musical culture as early as the Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC). ...
• In subsequent dynasties, the development of Chinese music was strongly influenced by foreign music, especially that of Central Asia. ...
• Chinese orchestras traditionally consist of bowed strings, woodwinds, plucked strings and percussion. ... The first major well-documented flowering of Chinese music was for the qin during the Tang Dynasty, though the qin is known to have been played since before the Han Dynasty. ...
• Chinese vocal music has traditionally been sung in a thin, nonresonant voice or in falsetto and is usually solo rather than choral. All traditional Chinese music is melodic rather than harmonic. ...
• The New Culture Movement of the 1910s and 1920s evoked a great deal of lasting interest in Western music as a number of Chinese musicians who had studied abroad returned to perform Western classical music and to compose works of their own based on the Western musical notation system. ... After the 1942 Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art, a large-scale campaign was launched in the Communist controlled areas to adapt folk music to create revolutionary songs to educate the largely illiterate rural population on party goals. ...
• After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, revolutionary songs continued to be performed, and much of the remainder of popular music consisted of popular songs from the Soviet Union with the lyrics translated into Chinese. Symphony orchestras flourished throughout the country, performing Western classical music and compositions by Chinese composers. ... A number of orchestras from Eastern Europe performed in China, and Chinese musicians and musical groups participated in a wide variety of international festivals. ...
• A form of soft, harmonic, generic, pan-Chinese music called guoyue was artificially created to be performed at conservatories. ...
• Parallel with the rise of Cantopop was Chinese rock, which drew on earlier, underground pioneers like Taiwanese star Teresa Teng. The widely-acknowledged forefather of Chinese rock is Cui Jian. ...
• In 1980 the Chinese Musicians' Association was formally elected to the International Musicological Society. Chinese musical groups toured foreign countries, and foreign musical organizations performed in China. ...

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• The artworks featured here are framed and hand-woven Chinese silk embroideries from Hunan Province of China. ...
• Xiang Embroidery in Hunan is one of the most famous among Chinese embroideries. ...
• These art pieces are uniquely crafted by skilled embroiderers. No two art pieces are exactly the same as they are all hand-woven. ...
• Read about the history of Chinese silk embroidery in the articles on the right. ...
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• The Art of War.
• The Art of War (Chinese: 孫子兵法 sūn zi bīng fǎ) was a Chinese military text written during the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu. ...
• Verses from the book occur in modern daily Chinese idioms and phrases, such as the last verse of Chapter 3: .
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• Born during the height of the China trade in Salem, the Chinese art collection is unique for its strength in vernacular art that explores the rich traditions of Chinese culture. ...

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• Other tiles on the temple bore pictures of dancers, spirits, monsters, lions, elephants and flowers and the range of styles of representation they display show the great number of influences which came to bear upon Chinese Buddhist art making during this period, largely because of links to other countries via the Silk Road. ...
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• Natsume Sōseki (夏目漱石, 1867 - 1916) is the pen-name of Natsume Kinnosuke, a Japanese novelist, scholar of British literature, and composer of Chinese poetry. ...
• In middle school, Kinnosuke became enamored with Chinese literature, and fancied that he might someday become a writer. ...
• Shiki tutored Kinnosuke in the art of composing haiku. From this point on, Kinnosuke began signing his poems with the name Soseki, which is a Chinese idiom meaning "stubborn". ...
• Along with fulfilling his teaching duties, Soseki published haiku and Chinese poetry in a number of newspapers and periodicals. ...

• Two ancient civilizations to use woodworking are the Egyptians and the Chinese. ...
• Similarly the progenitors of Chinese woodworking are considered to be Lu Ban (魯班) and his wife Lady Yun. ... It also contains extensive instructions about Feng Shui, the ancient Chinese practice of geomancy. It mentions almost nothing of the intricate glue-less nailless joinery for which Chinese furniture was so famous. ...
• Often regarded as a fine art form, equal to sculpture and painting. ...
• turning - The art of turning a piece of wood on a lathe and shaping it by holding various cutting tools against it. ...

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• Chinese Painters strive to create a balance of yin and yang in their works, which are the poetry of their meditations and thoughts. Everything depicted in a Chinese Painting matches a part of the human spirit. ...  A picture can help you to focus on the things that you are expecting to find in Life; to help you reach your goals our beautiful Chinese Scrolls can be just the thing because by displaying our beautiful scrolls in the right location could work wonders for you. ...
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• There are many modern discoveries in France, Africa and Australia of cave art (see e. ...
• The art itself is an example of interest in skills unrelated to the functional tasks of staying alive, and is itself evidence of there being leisure time available. ...
• There are artifacts and structures which suggest that Chinese people engaged in activities which meet our definition of sport as early as 4 000 years BCE. ...
• It certainly remains so today, as the skill of Chinese acrobats is internationally recognised. ...
• China has a Bejing Museum which is dedicated to the subject of Chinese sport and its history. See Chinese Sports Museum .

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• Wing Chun (詠春 in pinyin: yong3 chun1; in Jyutping: wing4 ceon1) is a Chinese martial arts system with an emphasis on unarmed close-range fighting, although it includes weapon techniques and techniques suitable for various ranges. ...
• Wing Chun, according to legend, was a style of Chinese martial arts technique designed by the Shaolin monks for the smaller stature of women fighters. ...
• The explanation is that while they were highly trained martial artists (in the Chinese opera tradition) their tasks as spies and assassins required specialized skills. ...
• The only historical figure generally agreed upon in Wing Chun history is Leung Jan (梁贊 liang2 zan4; loeng4 zaan3), an herbal doctor who lived in the Chinese city of Foshan in the 19th century. ...
• Leung Jan is said to have learned from two people, Wong Wah-bo (黃華寳 huang2 hua2 bao3; wong4 waa4 bou2) and Leung Yee-tai (梁二娣 liang2 er4 ti4; loeng4 ji6 tai5), both of whom are said to have been experts at different aspects of Wing Chun, and at least one of whom (Leung Yee-tai) was a traveling performer with a Chinese opera troupe which moved from place to place by boat. ...
• As the style is taught conceptually, rather than with emphasis on techniques, there have been several interpretations of the art over time. ...
• Wing Chun has managed to retain its focus as a practical fighting art. It has avoided being modified into a competitive (rule based) point-scored sport or demonstration art. ...
• This keeps the art a pure and integrated fighting system, while allowing direction for growth that is consistent with its principles. ...
• Wing Chun terminology is traditionally rendered in the Cantonese dialect of Chinese. ...
• The art is essentially tactile, and the practitioner learns the "feel" of correct technique only through extensive partner drills with skilled partners. ...
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• Wing Chun as taught by Yip Man was in some ways a socially revolutionary art. There were no ranks or titles in the art. ... Indeed, one of the first things that one learned was to look straight at the instructor, which could be difficult as Chinese social mores placed emphasis on respect for elders, for example by avoiding direct gaze. ...

• He studied art there for about a year with Alfred Fredericks and Theodore Kaufmann and at the school of the National Academy of Design. ...
• In general he was well known in his time for his political cartoons supporting American Indians, Chinese Americans and advocating abolition of slavery. ...
• John Chinaman, a sympathetic image of Chinese immigrants. ...
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• Vietnamese culture is highly syncretist, combining native, Western, Indian and Chinese influences. ...
• Vietnamese theater is strongly influenced by Chinese opera and other forms, and includes genres like hát tuồng, hát chèo and cải lương. ...
• Water puppetry, or rối nước, is a distinctively Vietnamese art form which arose in the 12th century. ... Due to strict restrictions on learning the art of water puppetry, the form had nearly died out before the Maison des Cultures du Monde intervened in 1984 and helped reinvigorate the genre. ...

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• 2 Taiwanese (dialect of) Mandarin (Chinese).
• Taiwanese is often seen as a Chinese dialect within a larger Chinese language. ... As with most 'language or dialect?' distinctions, how one describes Taiwanese depends largely on one's political views (see Chinese dialect: Manifestations of language differentiation). In any case, the classification may be represented hierarchically as: Sino-Tibetan Chinese Min (Fujian) Min-nan (southern Fujian) Taiwanese .
• The literary version, which was originally developed in the 10th century in Fujian and based on Middle Chinese, was brought to Taiwan by the migrants. ...
• Conventional linguistic analysis describes the tones on a five-level scale (shown after the traditional number, level 5 being the highest and 1 the lowest), and connects them with Middle Chinese tones (shown in Han characters, third column, below): .
• Cheng and Chin-An Li, for example) estimate that except for a small but sizeable fraction (circa 10 % to 25 %), most Taiwanese words have cognates in other Chinese dialects. ...
• The grammar of Taiwanese is similar to southern Chinese dialects and akin to Hakka and Cantonese. ...
• Most people in Taiwan can speak both Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese although the degree of fluency varies widely. ...
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• In addition to resistance against the government (both Chinese and Japanese), battles between ethnic groups were also significant: the belligerent usually grouped around the language they use. ...
• Later, in the 20th century, the conceptualization of Taiwanese is more controversial than most variations of Chinese because at one time it marked a clear division between the Mainlanders who arrived in 1949 and the pre-existing majority native Taiwanese. Although the political and linguistic divisions between the two groups have blurred considerably, the political issues surrounding Taiwanse have been more controversial and sensitive than for other variants of Chinese. ...
• In general, while supporters of Chinese reunification believe that all languages used on Taiwan should be respected, they tend to believe that Mandarin should have a preferred status as the common working language between different groups. ...
• A Chinese-English Dictionary: Taiwan Dialect. ...

• His best-known and most substantial work is The Adventures of Tintin, which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death in 1983, which left the twenty-fourth Tintin adventure, Tintin and Alph-art, unfinished. ...
• Father Gosset, the chaplain to the Chinese students at the University of Louvain, wrote to Hergé urging him to be sensitive about what he wrote about China. ... The two young artists quickly became close friends, and Chang introduced Hergé to Chinese history, culture, and the techniques of Chinese art. ... As a token of appreciation, he added a fictional "Chang" to The Blue Lotus, a young Chinese boy who meets and befriends Tintin. ...
• Published in Tintin magazine from September 1958 to November 1959, Tintin in Tibet sent Tintin to the Himalayas in search of Chang, the Chinese boy he had befriended in The Blue Lotus. ...
• In a remarkable instance of life mirroring art, Hergé managed to resume contact with his old friend Chang Chong-chen, years after Tintin rescued the fictional Chang in the closing pages of Tintin in Tibet. ...
• He left the twenty-sixth Tintin adventure, Tintin and Alph Art, unfinished. ...

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• Chinese sources link the fan with mythical and historical characters. ...
• The earliest known Chinese fans are a pair of woven bamboo side-mounted fans from the second century BC. ... The Chinese fixed fan, pien-mien, means 'to agitate the air'. ... Fans were part of the social status for the Chinese people. ... The Chinese dancing fan was developed in the seventh century. The Chinese form of the hand fan was a row of feathers mounted in the end of a handle. ... The Mai Ogi (or Chinese dancing fan) has ten sticks and a thick paper mount showing the family crest. Chinese painters crafted many fan decoration designs. ... The management of the fan became a highly regarded feminine art. ...
• In the 1930s, the first art deco fan was designed. ...

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• The earliest complex art in Japan was produced in the 7th and 8th centuries AD in connection with Buddhism. ...
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• Is astrology an art or a science? A. ... In other ways it is an arts subject, in as much as the interpretation of an astrological chart is based upon a rich and symbolic language, and the art of synthesising hundreds of variables into a coherent interpretation is a skill based more upon language and psychology than on science. ...
• It might be nice to have a section on the Chinese Zodiak and perhaps other systems of astrology. ...
• There is an article on the chinese astrology to which I have created a link. ...
• There is now a short main article on astrology, with links to the more specific articles on the Chinese and Western systems. The ``chinese zodiac article was much longer and more detailed than the short section in the original astrology article, so I kept the former and eliminated the latter. ...
• Didn't you just say that all science is provisional? In all this discussion, I haven't objected to your splitting off the Chinese astrology portion. ...
• There seems to be a clear arguement that classes astrology with medicine as an art. ...
• As also that most useful piece of astrology (long since promised) concerning elections for every particular occasion, now plainly manifested from rational principles of art, not published till now, by Richard Saunders (1613-1675), (G. ...

• As a child, she was fascinated with the Chinese art of silhouette puppetry, even building her own puppet theater so she could put on shows for her family and friends. ...

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