Pagoda of Bowls and the Tradition of Hospitality Pagoda of Bowls byXia Juhua(c.1950's) The use of common household objects such...
Culture
The Four Masters of the early Tang dynasty mainly made achievement in regular ot. And Lu Jianzhi is the representative...
In the early Tang dynasty, the political system followed that of the Sui dynasty. In Zhenguan period (627-649, the whole...
Whirling Meteors and Tools of the Hunt A shooting star flashes across the night sky and is gone, leaving a...
Detail of acrobats in Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 AD) carving What is acrobatics? In a nutshell, acrobatics is a unique...
Chinese musical instruments serve as an important bridge for cultural exchange. In ancient times, Chinese instruments were directly introduced to...
The yangqin (hammered dulcimer), one of the few Chinese hammered string instruments, was first improved in 1953. At that time,...
In the early Sui dynasty, Emperor Wendi conducted political reform and took some new measurement in cultural policy, for example,...
With China's economic reforms and the general rise in the standard of living, China's music industry has experienced vigorous growth,...
China's musical instruments, with a history reaching back to the remote past, are a priceless resource created not just by...
The Sui dynasty was founded in 581A.D. It unified China and ended the split situation between the north and the...
Styles Calligraphy in the Northern Dynasties was a system independent from the one in prevailed. In the Northern Dynasties, due...
There are three strings, the outer two tuned an octave apart and the middle one tuned to a fourth or...
As an important part of literary embellishment in the Eastern Jin and the Southern dynasties, calligraphy had attracted much attention....
Lihuapian (pear-flower finger cymbals) Shandong Dagu is a type of Quyi (vocal arts) popular in Shandong and southern Hebei Province....
Regular script and semi-cursive script had already germinated and received improvements in the later Eastern Han dynasty, yet they were...
Calligraphy in the Wei, Jin and Southern& Northern Dynasties: Flourishing in Turbulence and Tribulation The period of Wei, Jin and...
Danxian is another type of Quyi (vocal arts) popular in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei Province, and northeastern China. Danxian is performed...
The Han dynasty, which had lasted for 426 years from 206 B. C. to A. D. 220, was in the...
In Chinese, "jian" means long and narrow bamboo or wood slips; "bo" means untinged silk. So "Jian Bo Script" refers...