monasteries. Such paintings and associated art works are a reflection of the vigorous medieval overseas trade between China and Japan. Piling (Chinese: 毘陵/毗陵; pinyin:...

of art rather than map. China portal Taiwan portal Arts portal Bird-and-flower painting Chinese art Chinese Piling paintings Danqing Eastern art history...

city where Changzhou now sits Chinese Piling paintings, the Pi-Ling style of art Piling Bay, Nunavut, Canada Kagaw Piling (林詹珍妹), a Taiwanese actress All...

monogatari emaki). List of National Treasures of Japan (paintings) Chinese Piling paintings Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Museums" in Japan Encyclopedia...

include paintings and rock-cut sculptures described as among the finest surviving examples of ancient Indian art, particularly expressive paintings that...

The Chinese garden is a landscape garden style which has evolved over three thousand years. It includes both the vast gardens of the Chinese emperors and...

southwestern France. Over 600 parietal wall paintings cover the interior walls and ceilings of the cave. The paintings represent primarily large animals, typical...

of painting or calligraphy. Artists themselves often used their own seals on artworks, such as on works of Chinese calligraphy or Chinese paintings. Collector...

Tuế hàn tam hữu in Vietnamese. Chinese culture Four Gentlemen of the Year Four Treasures of the Study Trees in Chinese mythology Mirror Flower, Water...

significant and complex artistic traditions. The earliest Indian paintings were the rock paintings of prehistoric times, the petroglyphs as found in places like...

Chinese knotting, also known as zhongguo jie (Chinese: 中國結; pinyin: Zhōngguó jié), is a Chinese folk art with ties to Buddhism and Taoism. A Chinese knot...

"Vietnam in Chinese flag faux pas". 23 December 2011. "Chinese Flag Variants (Unofficial)". Media related to Flags of China at Wikimedia Commons China: Index...

noun referring to people, rather than 個. China portal Languages portal List of Chinese classifiers Chinese grammar Collective noun Classifiers in other...

done in Chinese paintings until much later when there were influences from European paintings. Another difference from traditional Chinese painting is the...

Stilt houses in China known as guījiǎfángwū (simplified Chinese: 龟甲房屋; traditional Chinese: 龜甲房屋; lit. 'turtle shell house') because Chinese stilt house structures...

Sun Long. Sun Long (simplified Chinese: 孙隆; traditional Chinese: 孫隆; pinyin: Sūn Lóng; Wade–Giles: Sun Lung; was a Chinese landscape painter that was active...

only paintings in sheltered sites, in particular caves, have survived for any length of time. Therefore, these are usually called "cave paintings", although...

focused on Timurid period book illuminations and miniature paintings. Earlier Timurid paintings depict colourful carpets with repeating designs of equal-scale...

higher resolution images of the paintings, adds an original musical score, animates characters within the paintings, and "gives us a far better understanding...

Traditional Chinese bookbinding, also called stitched binding (Chinese: 線裝 xian zhuang), is the method of bookbinding that the Chinese, Koreans, Japanese...

Liu Wei (Chinese: 刘韡; born 1972 in Beijing) is a Chinese artist based in Beijing. He works in varied media – video, installation, drawing, sculpture,...

chinoiserie, from chinois, "Chinese"; traditional Chinese: 中國風; simplified Chinese: 中国风; pinyin: Zhōngguófēng; lit. 'China style') is the European interpretation...

Chinese tea culture (simplified Chinese: 中国茶文化; traditional Chinese: 中國茶文化; pinyin: zhōngguó chá wénhuà; lit. 'Chinese tea culture') includes all facets...

1640, masses of Chinese peasants who were starving, unable to pay their taxes, and no longer in fear of the frequently defeated Chinese army, began to...

principal uses. See Chinese classifier → Verbal classifiers. Hokkien counter word Wēi Zhǔbiān (危东亚), ed.; et al. (1995), A Chinese-English Dictionary,...

Chinese city walls (traditional Chinese: 城牆; simplified Chinese: 城墙; pinyin: chéngqiáng; "city wall") refer to defensive walls built to protect important...

the technical skills found in the weaving, hand-painting, and needlework of Chinese silk.: 15  Chinese textiles were readily tailored into Western-style...

else, to see the paintings in the Palazzo Pitti and the Uffizi in Florence. As Livorno's local museum housed only a sparse few paintings by the Italian...

back to 618-906 CE. They created paintings, carvings, and embroidered items with depictions of flowers. The paintings can be found on vases, plates, scrolls...

to be the starting event for the Chinese calendar, as they followed descriptions from a 1st Century B.C. Chinese passage "Hong Fan Zhuan" by 'Liu Xiang'...