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Seals
Seal-cutting is traditionally listed along with painting,calligraphy and poetry as one of thefour artsexpected of the accomplished scholar and a unique part of the Chinese cultural heritage.A seal stamp in red is not only the signature on a work of...
Traditional Chinese Painting
An important part of the country's cultural heritage,the traditional Chinese painting is distinguished from Western art in that it is executed on xuan paper(or silk)with the Chinese brush,Chinese ink and mineral and vegetable pigments. To attain pro...
Red-Stained Stone
Jixueshi(literally,chicken-blood stone)is a precious stone found in China and is particularly good for making seals.A piece of this red-stained stone,greatly valued because it is rare,is worth up to 10,000 yuan. Produced at Yuyan Mountain in Changhu...
Rubbings
To make rubbings from carved inscriptions was the earliest method of making copies in China before printing was invented.In ancient times,engravings were often made on stone of important imperial decrees,texts of Confucian classics,Buddhist scriptur...
The Four Treasures of the Study
The writing brush,ink stick,paper and inkslab are the traditional implements and materials for writing and painting and have always been named collectively as thefour treasures of the study. Each of these items is represented by itsbest:the xuan pap...
Calligraphy
Calligrsphy is understood in China as the art of writing a good hand with the brush or the study of the rules and techniques of this art,As such it is peculiar to China and the few countries influenced by ancient Chinese culture. In the history of C...
Writings and Paintings on Silk
From sometime in the Warring States Period(475-221 B.C.) and over a long priod of time in ancient China,plain silk of various descriptions joined bamboo and wood slips as the material for writing or painting on.Silk had advantages over the slips in...
Inscriptions on Stone Tablets
Before the invention of the art of printing,how did ancient Chinese preserve and disseminate their culture and art?As mentioned before,they relied to a great extent upon inscriptions on stone tablets. These inscriptions are known as beiwen(weitings...
Bamboo and Wood Slips
In museums of ancient history one often sees bamboo or wood strips written with characters by the writing brush.These slips are called jian,the earliest form of books in China. The practice of writting on slips began probably during the Shang Dynast...
Inscriptions on Bronze Objects
Another type of early Chinese script in its long history of development is represented by the inscriptions cast or carved on ancient bronze objects of the Shang and Zhou dynasties.It is called jinwen(literally,script on metal)and,as ancient bronzes a...