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The Pierre of Dreams
In Europe in the centuries, these stones whose dream of veining evoke nimbus mountains of clouds would have caused at the honest man, the prince or the king a feeling of astonishment rather than a real aesthetic emotion.
Engravings of the New Year of Yangliuqing
The engravings of the New Year printed in xylography in the borough of Yangliuqing, in the suburb of the township of Tianjin, constitute an original folk art to the strong local colors.
Parallel verses to the mottos of the New Year
These practices pull their origin of the oblong boards of wood from to fish (taofu), suspended of the two sides of the door in the Zhou dynasty. Under the Five Dynasties, some enrollments were written on this kind of boards in the Court of the Shus of the west. Under the dynasty of the Song, the boards were replaced by papers, said “papers glued to the Feast of the spring.”
The Big Circus of Beijing History
Known in Asia under the name of “zaji” (assorted talents), the Chinese acrobatics is composed of multiple disciplines: juggling, gymnastic, trapeze, contortion, magic, mime and clownings.
Ju Ming, Chinese sculptor
Born to Taiwan in 1938, Ju Ming enters at the age of 15 years as apprentice by the master in traditional sculpture on wood Him Chin-Chuan.
To achieve a Chinese knot in picture
Make a buckle with the sprig of the right hand: the sprig of the right hand stands forward of the sprig of the left hand. Maintain this buckle between the inch and the index of the hand gauche(B). Make a second identical buckle forward of the first (TO) and maintain the two together of the left hand. They determine between them a space (OH).
The Chinese silk
China invented the raising of the verses very early to silk, the unwinding of the cocoons and the texture of the silks. One said that Leizu, the wife of Emperor Huangdi raised herself of the verses. The research of the archaeologists proved that the work of silk was known for a long time in China.
The Chinese bronze horse to the gallop (Han)
In October 1969, of the peasants of the district of Wuwei, province of the Gansu (northwest of China), discovered, in a local ancient tomb, a horse of bronze of the Hans of the East (25-220). 34 cm high and 45-cm long, the messenger gallops while neighing, the high head and the tail floating to wind, with three feet in air and the other, posterior right clog, based on a swallow to the expanded wings.
