The Portraits of Periodical Offering (simplified Chinese: 职贡图; traditional Chinese: 職貢圖; pinyin: Zhígòngtú) were tributary documentative paintings (with...

in light of the disturbance in the end of Sui dynasty. His realm was destroyed by Tang dynasty in 621. The Portraits of Periodical Offering of Liang by...

thousand li... — "Hua" paragraph in Portraits of Periodical Offering of Liang. The Portraits of Periodical Offering of Liang mentions that no envoys from...

have been the basis for the original Portraits of Periodical Offering of Liang, and the Hephthalites account of the Liangshu (Volume 54), and this account...

T'ukri-k'. Several portraits of ambassadors from the region of Tokharistan are known from the Portraits of Periodical Offering of Liang, originally painted...

Lifestyle of Siamese people and Traditional Thai house by Simon de La Loubère Portrait of Siamese aristocrats from The Portraits of Periodical Offering of Imperial...

Emperor. China already had a long tradition of such paintings (designated as "Portraits of Periodical Offering"), starting from around the 6th century CE...

Chinese geography Portraits of Periodical Offering Daston, Lorraine; Vidal, Fernando (2010). The Moral Authority of Nature. University of Chicago Press....

Chinese court of Emperor Yuan of Liang in his capital Jingzhou in 516–520 CE, with explanatory text. Portraits of Periodical Offering of Liang, 11th century...

from Kucha is illustrated in Portraits of Periodical Offering of Liang, painted in 526–539 AD, an 11th-century Song copy of which as remained. In the late...

dignitaries from foreign lands. These were depicted in the Portraits of Periodical Offering, probably painted by Yan Liben (601–673). Having entered Emperor...

Anyang Eagle-shaped pottery of neolithic Yangshao culture A Song dynasty copy of the Portraits of Periodical Offering of Liang, dated to the 6th century...

national costume Culture of Thailand School uniforms in Thailand Singhalampong, Eksuda (March 2019). "Picturing Femininity: Portraits of the Early Modern Siamese...

from Kucha is illustrated in Portraits of Periodical Offering of Liang, painted in 526–539 CE, an 11th-century Song copy of which has survived. The Chinese...

of Pax Sinica came into being during the Han dynasty of China. Domestically, the power of the emperor was consolidated following the devastation of the...

offering to cede the western Caucasus to the Byzantines. To cement the alliance, Khosrow also married Maurice's daughter Miriam. Under the command of...

Wa is the oldest attested name of Japan and ethnonym of the Japanese people. From c. the 2nd century AD Chinese and Korean scribes used the Chinese character...

constituted much of the northern half of the island, was the largest in terms of land area and military strength but was economically the weakest of the three...

given to various groups of people at different periods in ancient China. The Qiang people are generally thought to have been of Tibeto-Burman origin, though...

Republic of China and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Official diplomatic relations were first established in 1937. The two civilizations had a history of cultural...

document Huangqing Zhigongtu (Chinese: 皇清職貢圖, literally "Portraits of Periodical Offering of the Qing"), the entry regarding Koreans includes the statement:...

not the direct ancestors of the present Korean people, but their direct ancestors are thought to be the Neolithic People of about 2000 BC. According to...

to leave and stopped offering transport assistance for visiting missions. The size of delegations was restricted from hundreds of people to less than a...

to give Hou as a peace offering. Despite Emperor Wu's assurances, Hou decided to rebel in the name of Xiao Dong, the grandson of the former crown prince...

been established by descendants of Ashoka the Great. The name is Sanskrit in origin; it is thought to be a combination of langkha for "resplendent land"...

phi which are guardian deities of places, or towns are celebrated at festivals with communal gatherings and offerings of food. The spirits run throughout...

Initially, Goguryeo tried to appease Sui by offering tribute as Korean kingdoms had done under the Tributary system of China. However, Goguryeo continued insistence...

house of the Qing dynasty and the Manchukuo. The Portraits of Periodical Offering of Liang illustrates foreign envoys in the imperial court of the Liang...

after the First Opium War, the Chinese diplomat Qiying gifted intimate portraits of himself to representatives from Italy, England, the United States, and...

vassals of the Rouran Khaganate until the beginning of the 5th century, with the royal house of Rourans intermarrying with the royal houses of the Hephthalites...