CHINESE ARCHITECTURE Ancient Chinese architecture is an important component of the world architectural system. Through the years it formed into a style that combined stone carving‚ rammed earth construction‚ bucket arch buildings and many other techniques. Chinese laboring people created many architectural miracles like the Great Wall‚ the Forbidden City and the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor. The most significant characteristic Is the use of timber framework. Painting and carving were
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“Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains”. In this long handscroll painting‚ Huang Gongwang painted the landscape in the area around the Fuchun River. As a main topic of this painting‚ I would like to talk about how this painting depicts the basic elements of Chinese painting: its balance or contrast and its subject matter or theme of the painting. First‚ the idea of balance or contrast in this painting by Huang Gongwang is depicted by his drawings of hills and mountains. As they scroll follows the riverbank
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Title: Four Anecdotes from the Life of Wang Xizhi‚ ca. 1310 By: Zhao Mengfu (Chinese‚ 1254–1322) Type: Handscroll‚ ink on paper Size: 9 5/8 x 46 1/8 in. (24.4 x 117 cm) The artist of this calligraphy scroll‚ Zhao Mengfu‚ was highly praised by the Yuan emperor Renzong as unrivaled traditional Chinese polymath (for a lack of a better word). It is said that the emperor admired him for possessing the following seven outstanding qualities: wide learning‚ Song royal ancestry‚ elegant and charismatic
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pulled the Chinese to America‚ but it wouldn’t keep
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Development of Chinese Calligraphy Chinese calligraphic characters are very well known even in modern days; we can easily find them on the walls or banners in chinese stores or restaurants. In fact‚ chinese calligraphy has gone through a period of almost five thousand years‚ from complex characters on bones‚ to seal script‚ clerical script‚ running script and finally the most well popular and known standard script‚ and other kinds of script like cursive script. Moreover‚ chinese calligraphy has
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Chinese Traditions Values for one society may seem strange to another society‚ but nonetheless‚ they are important to that society. For instance‚ the painful and debilitating Chinese tradition of foot binding‚ as bizarre as it may seem to our culture‚ to the Chinese people‚ it was the esoteric essence of pure beauty and signified status within the family structure‚ allowing young women with lotus feet better opportunities for marriage with well-to-do families. Traditional Chinese courtyard life
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the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882‚ nativism became another influential factor. Americans started to feel threatened by the massive presence of Chinese immigrants in the United States. In Document C‚ the speech given to the working men of San Francisco was created to encourage Americans that they need to reclaim “their rightful” jobs‚ and it was proclaimed‚ “We should all understand that this state of things cannot be much longer endured.” It is evident that Americans are annoyed with Chinese immigrants
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Chinese tattoos In China have many traditions cultural; today I want talk about Chinese tattoos. In china tattoos is called “Ci Qing”. And Chinese tattoos have become very popular things for who likes tattoos in western world. And Chinese tattoos offer beautiful and much deeper meaning‚ so this is a important reason why the Chinese tattoos is very popular. The most famous tattoos in china‚ I think is from the legend of the Chinese general Yue Fei. Yue Fei was in South Song Dynasty‚ in this
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Chinese Immigration & Exclusion Step: 1 What happened between the 1860’s‚ when Chinese were welcome‚ & 1882‚ when they were excluded? 1. They started getting worse treatment every year. 2. Many laws and acts were made against them. 3. The Chinese were feeling depressed and cheated out of their hard work. Step: 2 Based on this document‚ why did many white Americans support the Chinese Exclusion Act? Document A: Play White Americans supported the Chinese Exclusion Act because the Chinese
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Part 1 Essay | topics How Flower-and-Bird painting becomes a significant category in Chinese Painting & Today Flower-and-Bird paintings Part 2 Further developed | deliverables of the final project The expression and poetic meaning within the flower and bird painting is such a good value to today’s busy city. While we are lack of having the time with nature that far different from the ancient Chinese life‚ so‚ here design a hotel concept based on flower and bird paintings as the theme
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