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Calligraphic Copybooks
Before paper was invented our ancients were writing on bamboo or wooden slips,cloth and silk fabrics.Books written on bamboo or wooden slips are known as jian(slips),and those written on cloth or silk are books or tie(copybook).Copybooks are collect...
Tangkha Paintings
Tangkha,a transliteration of a Tibetan word,refers to a kind of painting scroll mounted on dyed brocade.The tangkha painting is one of two splended gems of Tibetan art along with Tibetan-style murals.A tangkha is usually one metre long,but the large...
Picture Mounting
A Chinese painting or piece of calligraphic work cannot be properly hung up for appreciation unless it is mounted.So,with the development of Chinese art in general came the special Chinese art of picture mounting,specially suited to xuan paper. The...
Image Seals
Seals carved with images(xiaoxingyin)developed as an off-shoot from the art of character-cutting on seals.They bear likenesses of scenes in life or things in nature.The cutting of these images come close in technique and skill to the art of engravin...
Tianhuang Stone Carvings
Tianhuangis the name of a kind of stone regarded as the most valuable of all stone sculpture materials is in China.For this reason there are suggestions that tianhuang be designated as theking of stonesof China.In bygone days one ounce of tianhuang...
The Iron Picture
A cross between painting and sculpture,the iron picture is an art probably unique to China. Reportedly it was first created by Tang Pen(alias Tang Tianchi),a blacksmith who lived in Wuhu,Anhui Province,in the mid-17th century when the Ming was repla...
Water Colour Block Printing
Water colour block printing,a type of block priting,is employed to reproduce famous works of painting and calligraphy. The art has a long history in China.In 1900,the world's oldest known book printed by engraved blocks came to light from the Dunhua...
New Year Pictures
The expression explains itself.The Chinese people have the custom of sticking up pictures to celebrate the traditional New Year--now called the Spring Festival.This was recorded in historical works of the Song Dynasty(960-1279).The custom is particu...
Ink Paste for Seals
The ink paste used for the imprinting of seals is called yinni in Chinese,which means literallyseal clay.It stems from the clay that was used in ancient times to seal official documents and which,like the modern sealing wax,was stamped by a seal.lat...
Interior Painting in Snuff Bottles
Snuff bottles are not native to China but were reportedly introduced from the West by Fr.Matteo Ricci,an Italian jesuit father who worked in Beijing in the early 17th century.Yet the art of interior painting in snuff bottles was born and developed i...