In the Ming and Qing Dynasties there was a business revolution，in which stood out about ten business teams.They were Shanxi...
Culture
China is an ethnically and culturally diverse country.Its dominant cultural tradition has been heavily influenced by Confucianism and Daoism. The...
Paper Paper is invented in China by Cai Lun.But paper used for traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy is not the...
Chinese Royal Painting The royal painting started from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties，ended with the down of the Qing Dynasty.It...
Chinese New Year Paintings can date back to the Qin and Han Dynasties. In the Song Dynasty block printing was...
Chinese Flower-and-bird Painting Chinese flower-and-bird Painting(see Figure 87) was already in the bud in the primitive society. Patterns of flowers...
Traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting have its special materials and tools: brushes, ink and pigments, Xuan paper, silk and various...
Traditional Chinese painting dates back to the Neolithic Age about 6,000 years ago. The excavated colored pottery with painted human...
Chinese calligraphy（Brush calligraphy）is an art unique to the world.Regarded as the most abstract and sublime form of art in Chinese...
The Scholars of Wu Jingzi The Ming and Qing dynasties are the golden age of ancient Chinese fiction.The satirical novel-The...
Cao Xueqin and his famous novel ,A Dream in the Red Mansions Cao Xueqin（1715-1763）（see Figure 69）was a great writer in...
Pilgrims to the West written by Wu Chengen（1500-1582AD），a scholar-official，is one of the renowned classical Chinese novels about an allegorical rendition...
Luo Guanzhong is also presumed to be the author of another Chinese best-known novel，The Story ofthe Water Mar-gin while some...
Guan Hanqing ，the founder of Zaju，was born in Qizhou ，i.e.，present-day Anguo City，Hebei Province.In his youth he worked as a doctor，but...
Novels of the Ming and Qing Dynasties The late years of the Yuan Dynasty and early years of the Ming...
During the Yuan Dynasty the Chinese nobility were not allowed to be involved in government，therefore，they were free to pursue art...
Li Qingzhao（1084s-1155？）was born of a famous literary man's family in Jinan ，Shandong Province. In her childhood，she had received a good...
In the Song Dynasty，technology progressed rapidly. Three major inventions such as the compass，typography and powder were put to use.Of the...
Du Mu（803-852 AD）was a native of Jingzhao-Wan-nian（present-day Xi'an City，Shaanxi Province）.He came from an established noble family of hereditary officials for...
Li Shangyin LiShangyin was a Chinese poet of the late Tang dynasty，born in Huaizhou in Hunan Province. Li Shangyin had...