Chinese Arts

A pavilion by a bridge - ink painting by a Chinese artist

Yellow Crane Terrace (Huanghelou) in Wuhan, Hubei Province, is one of the three best-known terraces in ancient China - an ancient Chinese ink painting. The terrace was first built in 223AD during the Three Kingdom’s period. Since then, it had been repeatedly burned to the ground and rebuilt, with the last blaze occurred 100 years ago, and the current one constructed in 1985.

A pavilion at the end of a verandah in a Suzhou garden residence. Watercolour painting by Chinese female artist Hua Yiyu (1922-2005).

Frog: I have a dream - I wanna be a politician! Ink painting by Chinese artist Xue Jiye.

A stone sculpture of Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD): A horse serving in Chinese defence force stepping on an invaded Hun

A copy of an over 1000-year-old mural painted on the ceiling of a cave in Mogao Grottes, Dunhuang.

Glazed dragon relief and bracket in Buddhist pagoda in Guangsheng Temple, Shanxi Province, built in 1305.

齐白石 作品《牵牛玉米 》

Classical Chinese painting and poem.

A drunken royal concubine in glorious Tang Palace before the Anshi Munity in 755-763, the turning point that led the powerful Tang Dynasty to its final demise - Chinese ink painting by Liu Danzhai (1931～2011). https://www.viewofchina.com/everlasting-sorrow/

A Tale of Nezha - a Chinese picture book. One day when Nezha’s spirit returned to the temple, he found the building was burned down to the ground by his father. His master Taiyi True Man thus reassembled lotus roots into a human figure and clothed it with lotus leaves to accommodate Nezha’s spirit. https://www.viewofchina.com/nezha/

Black leaves for a red flower - ink painting by a Chinese artist

唐寅 - 觀梅圖 Tang Yin (1470 -1524), courtesy name Tang Bohu (唐伯虎), was a Chinese scholar, painter, calligrapher. Ming Dynasty

Ink painting on a classical Chinese silk fan by contemporary Chinese artist Qingshui. In Chinese popular culture, peony blossoms represent peace, prosperity and celebration.