Culture
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The biography of Five-Willow Gentleman is a life manifestation of Tao Yuanming. The character for the willow tree is a homophone of the cha…[详细]03-15-2018 -
The character for the willow tree is a homophone of the character liu, which means asking a person to stay when bidding farewell. Thus willows sym…[详细]03-15-2018 -
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A lonely fisherman afloat and angling in the snowy weather demonstrates the harmony between humanity and the nature in Chinese culture. Fish…[详细]03-08-2018 -
One of the three companions in winter, together with bamboo and plum trees, pine trees in Chinese culture are symbols of people who maintain moral…[详细]03-01-2018 -
A painting by Wen Zhengming (1470-1559) depicts that scholars make tea under pine trees by a stream. One of the three companions in winter, …[详细]03-01-2018 -
To illuminate themselves at night, ancient Chinese mostly used deng, meaning lamps or lanterns, or zhu, meaning candles. Red deng and zhu symboliz…[详细]02-22-2018 -
As history and literature evolved, lamps and candles gradually gained aesthetic attributes, evolving into typical symbols containing cultural connot…[详细]02-22-2018 -
Pottery lamps were created as technology for manufacturing pottery advanced. Some scholars believe a trumpet-shaped mouth utensil unearthed at the K…[详细]02-22-2018 -
- In 221 BCE, the Qin wars of conquest brought an end to the Warring States Period, a tumultuous era marked by…MORE
- The tradition of painting coffins is deeply rooted in Han culture, and the origin of the lian-bi patterns ca…MORE
- China’s Great Wall dates back as early as to the Spring and Autumn period.MORE
- The Miaodigou culture was viewed as the heyday of painted pottery.MORE
- Xu Zhimo was known for his efforts to set Chinese poetry free from the constraints of its traditional forms,…MORE
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For me, the three things that everyone should learn, especially in the college and university, but also in h…[详细]
