Chinese culture

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Shanghai Lantern Festival

Chinese lanterns at Tivoli.

𝑷𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕: 𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒚𝒋𝒊𝒏 ❀

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In recent years the market of Chinese art is widely reported to be among the hottest and fastest-growing in the world, attracting buyers all over the world. Observing from history of art, the Eastern painting has much difference with Western painting. It is probably because the eastern art attaches importance to subjectivity, and the western art places value upon objectivity. Therefore the traditional Chinese painting pays attention to romantic charm, while the western painting lays emphasis…

During China's Ming and Qing dynasties, which together spanned the years 1386 to 1912, few in the Middle Kingdom, let alone elsewhere, could hope for even a glimpse of the finest Chinese artworks of their time.

Among the many traditional musical instruments of China, the most popular nowadays include the stringed instruments called the erhu, pipa, and guzheng, and the dizi flutes. These stringed instruments originated in foreign regions and were modified. When tourists think of their experiences in China, the poignant sounds of these Chinese instruments often colour their memories. Erhu 二胡

(Not Mine) She was a pungent new military recruit, Cheng Xue. A woman who solely loved cherry blossoms. After crossing over, she was met with mishap and inexplicably chased down. When her escape led her to encounter cherry blossoms, she also encountered him. He was dressed in blinding white, pure and clean. When the flowers faded and fell, she made a firm decision. He was a soaring dragon. Every time he saw her in distress, he would save her, always, and treat her problems as everyday…