Stolen pagoda body returned to Chinese mainland
An ancient pagoda body has been returned to Taiyuan, China, 19 years after it was stolen and taken out of the mainland.
Study Abroad in China | City #3 & #4: Nanjing & Yangzhou | Gilman Scholarship Project Proposal
This video was created to fulfill my Gilman Scholarship Proposal Project. The Study Abroad in China was from Brooklyn College from May 31st – June 28th 2017 with a total of 28 students and 2 professors. The more students there are, the more classes are offered. This time around 2 classes were offered: Beginner Chinese and Development of the Silk Road. This Study Abroad program visited 7 different cities in China: Beijing, Xi’an, Nanjing, Suzhou, Huangshan and Shanghai.
There should be about 4 or 5 more videos left of this project.
A big and special THANK YOU to all those who let me use their photos (especially Nick) and or videos.
Anyone in the video referred to by name (Natia) was a classmate on the trip.
This was honestly one of the best decisions I have ever made and I am incredibly thankful to the Gilman Scholarship Program for being able to fund my journey and allowing me to experience this.
Feel free to contact me about any questions through the comment section of this video or through my e-mail keyabari04@gmail.com.
Video Details: Compilations of Videos & Photos
During our stay in Nanjing we had class every day. The Chinese class specifically had class twice a day once in the morning, and another time in the night. Leaving the afternoon to explore and or study.
Day 7: Nanjing, China
1. Jiming Buddhist Temple (0:00)
2. Professor Lu gives a history lesson (0:07)
3. Burning Incense (2:00)
4. Nanjing Park (2:28)
5. A SNAKE (2:50)
6. Chinese Women Dressed in Traditional Clothing (2:58)
7. Music! (3:07)
7. Meet Baby Momo! (Natia) (3:20)
Day 8: Yanghzou, China
1. China Block Printing Museum (3:56)
2. Carving a Printing Block (5:02)
3. Exhibit: Two Third of World’s Moonlight (6:55)
4. Yangzhou Lacquerware Factory (7:25)
6. Geyuan Garden (9:27)
8. Peacocks and Bird house (10:44)
9. Duck Feeding (11:31)
10. Beautiful Floral Walkway (12:10)
11. Waterfall! (12:26)
12.Tadpoles (12:45)
13. Bonsai (12:53)
Day 9: Nanjing, China
1. Xuanwumen Train Station (13:21)
2. Nanjing Massacre Museum (13:27)
3. Names of the Victims (14:21)
4. Burial Remains (14:36)
5. Peace Trees (14:51)
6. Origami Cranes (15:12)
7. Beautiful Lights (15:25)
Day 10: Nanjing, China (Mostly Shopping & Studying)
1. Children Fashion Show ft the judges (15:39)
Traditional Songs Used:
1. White Snow in Sunny Spring
2. The Warbling Birds
3. A Bit of Gold
4. Flowers on the brocade
5. Fishing Boats at Dusk
6. The Sorrow of Lady Zhaojun
7. Pleasures
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Beautiful Zen Chinese Garden of Buddhist Temple in Singapore of Asia
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Kare-san-sui, even Kasansui, Furusansui or Arasensui is a Japanese rock garden , a special type of Japanese garden . This often colloquially in German Beautiful Zen garden called the garden form is also referred to as dry garden or dry landscape garden because it only from gravel is, stones and boulders. With the exception of moss no plants are used. Water is indicated by wavy structures in gravel or sand.
Both the rake of beautiful rock garden by Beautiful Zen monks as well as the consideration of the Kare-san-sui considered part of the meditation .
Beautiful Zen garden miniatures , which are used for relaxation and playful meditation invite, are recent developments. They usually consist of a rectangular frame in which coarse to fine-grained sand and stones are colored or semi-precious stones. This includes usually a small wooden rake, with the sand surface can be structured.
Landscaping is an important component of traditional Chinese art , and can be traced back to 3000 BC. Unlike the beautiful garden, which in Ancient Egypt and the Near East emerged, not the plant stood in the foreground. Chinese beautiful garden are designed rather as a reflection of an ideal universe, the essential components were artificial lakes and hills, vegetation and unusually shaped stones.
Feng Shui is Chinese geomancy , which is the art of reading a landscape and the environment, and building align so that the flow of positive energy, known as Qi , is maximized and good luck. The ideal garden has according to this concept in the north high, protective mountains, in the east of rolling hills that slope to the south and continue to the west runs a protective river. Since Chi like flows in gentle curves that have ponds, paths no straight lines. In order to create good Feng Shui, had in the garden Yin and Yang be embodied balanced. This was achieved through the contrast of short and far views, of rough and Soft, of mountain and plain, vertical and horizontal, or simple and elaborate ornamentation of the buildings. For example, a simple porch with clean, straight lines have complex carved on the supporting beams under the roof or a whitewashed wall to be shaded dark from a tree.
Compared to foreign beautiful garden in China comes the buildings a much greater weight and an extremely important place to. You are in the beautiful garden both a jewelry as well as a place of enjoying the scenery of rest and pleasure. At the same time came the first beautiful garden, was where intervened heavily in shaping the landscape as well as the first large private beautiful garden. During this time, apparently arose the art of Penjing or Bonsai - even if some of the trees were two or more meters high and were maintained in large bowls in the garden.
Among the dynasties of Ming and Qing garden art was further developed on this basis and their technique perfected. During this period, private beautiful garden were widespread, with the connection of garden art with literature and painting ever became closer and reached a very high level. At the time of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) emerged mainly in the region around Yangzhou large private beautiful garden. They were generally not the living, but were sites where the owner - a wealthy merchant or official, for example - organized festivities, be amused with seal or rested. The main building of a garden that is usually used to receive guests or for the organization of festivals, are often designed as halls that are on the water or on all four sides are open to enjoy the scenery on all pages. Main objects of contemplation are the rocks and water. At the time, the heyday of Yangzhou beautiful garden were to be found in any garden watercourses and rock scenes. Famous are also the private beautiful garden of Suzhou , a region that was particularly favored for the development of garden design, as many water sources were available, the local flora was varied and also close to stones were broken.
Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum is a Chinese Buddhist temple and museum in Chinatown, Singapore . The temple is in 2002 founded and built in the style of the Tang Dynasty . He was in 2007 officially opened. In Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum is a relic , a piece of tooth to find, Sakyamuni Buddha . The building is a major tourist attraction in Chinatown. In the basement of the building, one can eat free vegetarian meals.
Beautiful Zen Buddhism or Beautiful Zen is in China from about the 5th Century of the Christian era resulting flow or line of Mahayana Buddhism that significantly from Daoism was affected.
【Chinese Civilization HQ】 Gold Mounted White Jade Cup from Sui Dynasty
Channel: CCTV-9 International
Program: Chinese Civilization
Date: 2008-10-03
Description: Gold Mounted White Jade Cup from Sui Dynasty
Video Series ID: 5pC8ZR8sTcNkFC+CGMfskA==
Chinese Art - 6 Ming and Qing
Sixth video about the Chinese Art serie. Any doubt? Send me a message.
Historia del Arte:
Land of the Art:
China is the main cultural center of Asia, centered near the rivers Hoang-ho and Yang-tse-kiang. With the introduction of buddhism, indian art influenced them, but soon they would transform it to their culture. They valuated equally calligraphy, ceramics, silk and porcelain as literature, architecture, sculpture and painting. Confucianism and Taoism are the main philosophical movements.
Ming: from 1368-1644. It was the restoration of a chinese dynasty after the mongol period. Cultural expansion.
Forbidden City, Beijing: this is the most important architectural complex, where the Ming and Qing emperors will live. Its name in chinese is Zijin Cheng, that means Purple Forbidden City. Purple is a reference to the Polar Star, the home of Celestial Emperor. The forbidden thing is because none could leave or enter the city without permission of the emperor. Among its many buildings, maybe the Temple of Heaven is the most famous, used to adorate spring for good cultives
Porcelain: wucai (five colors) and doucai (crystal blue and other colors) porcelain
Zhe School: Dai Jin
Wu School: Tang Yin, Shen Zhou, Xu Wei, Chen Chun
Songjiang School: Dong Qichang
Qing: from 1644-1911. It is a manchu dynasty that continued with the traditional forms. It began with emperor Kangxi, that lived in the Forbidden City, in Beijing. Economic control, trade with porcelain and artworks.
Orthodox Painters: these painters follow the tradition of the old masters. These are the Six Masters of Early Qing. Yun Shouping, Wu Li, and the Four Wangs, Wang Shimin, Wang Jian, Wang Yuanqi and Wang Hui
Individualist Painters: these painters do more experimentation and look inside them to express their feelings and thoughts. Original styles, expressionism. Zhu Da, Shi Tao and the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, Wang Shishen, Huang Shen, Li Shan, Jin Nong, Luo Pin, Gao Xiang, Zheng Xie and Li Fangying
Shanghai School: a traditional arts school that was born in the end of XIX century, it breaks the traditions of chinese painting, improving it. Wu Changshuo, Zhao Zhiqian, Ren Yi, Xie Zhiliu
Porcelain: in this period, it produced all kinds of objects. Exportation to Europe and America. Guan Yao porcelain was used by the emperor and his family. Min Yao porcelain is the popular and exportation one. Various kinds, as ercai, doucai, wucai, fahua, yingcai, tibor and meiping vases
Chinese Garden: it has its origin the enjoyment of landscape. Gardeners spotted a nice natural location and then they closed it in a square. Maybe they added some bridge or some building, but the plants were the same. This is based in taoism, to let nature flow and don’t alterate it. There is predilection for some plants, as plum blossom, bamboo or peach tree. Due to the inevitable passing of time, only Ming and Qing gardens remain
Suzhou Gardens: this is where there are many gardens, from the Ming period, as the Humble Administrator Garden, Lingering Garden, and Cultivation Garden
Yuyuan Garden: it is in Shanghai, in a part of Yangtze river
Summer Palace: from Qing dynasty, this is one of the most amazing complexes of the country. It combined various functions, as politics, administrative, residential, spiritual and for resting
Music: Don't Decorate Your Dreams 不装饰你的梦 by Huang Jiang Qin
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China in the Tang Dynasty
Tang Dynasty History Page
獨家探訪唐招提寺展，一年只能看三天的國寶有哪些看點？
Exclusive Trip to the Tōshōdaiji Exhibition, Lingering around the National Treasures that Are on Display Only Three Days a Year
【這個展覽真好逛】近1300年前，揚州和尚鑒真，用10年跨越東海，到達日本，從此開啟了一人改變整個日本的傳奇。 2019年12月，上海博物館跨年大展開幕，講的就是鑒真的故事。 5組11件珍品，從日本被運到上海，很多珍寶，你去日本都看不到。這次在上博，做了沉浸式體驗的展陳，現場復原了文物在唐招提寺展陳的原貌。
【This is such an Attractive Exhibition】Almost 1300 years ago, Monk jianzhen, born in Yangzhou, took 10 years to cross the East Sea and arrived in Japan, hence initiating a legend of changing a whole country on his own. December, 2019, Shanghai Museum unveiled its year end exhibition, which tells the story of Jianzhen. 11 collections in 5 groups were delivered to Shanghai from Japan, many of which is even not seen before in Japan. This time, Shanghai Museum created an immersive exhibition where you can see the the cultural relics exactly as they are in Tōshōdaiji.
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Three Monks Get into Fist FIght in Chinese Temple
Three Buddhist monks were expelled from a temple in Yangzhou after a video went viral of them fighting.
The footage captured the monks punch, smacking and shoving each other in the middle of the temple with bystanders looking on.
It is reported that the mid-level management monks had a personal issues with on another and took out their frustration on each other.
Mike and Dan discuss this video and the larger issue of monks, abbots, and the disseverance of spirituality and the regulated religions in China.
Treasure trade: The Maritime Silk Road (20.11.2016)
The Maritime Silk Road was a major conduit for foreign trade in ancient China. Not only did it promote trade, it also enhanced the exchange of art, religion and technology.
An exhibition entitled “Across the Oceans: the Local Connections & Global Dimensions of China’s Maritime Silk Road” is being held at the Museum of History.
It showcases precious relics from major Chinese port cities, reflecting the impact and contribution of the Maritime Silk Road to the development of the world’s civilisations.
The Maritime Silk Road was comprised of two major shipping routes: the East China Sea route linking China with the Korean Peninsula and Japanese archipelago; and the South China Sea route reaching from China westwards to Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean.
Eight Maritime Silk Road cities - Penglai, Yangzhou, Ningbo, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Guangzhou and Beihai - played important roles in the development of maritime transportation and trade.
Through these cities, Chinese silk, pottery, tea, and other goods were sent to the Middle East and other Asian and African locations via the South China Sea, Persian Gulf and Red Sea. Spices, woollen textiles, ivory, and other commodities flowed into China from overseas.
The exhibition displays 170 sets of cultural relics from the eight cities and 30 sets of artefacts from Hong Kong. Most are pottery pieces from different dynasties.
Precious porcelain
Museum of History Curator Terence Cheung said the well-preserved Ming dynasty blue and white porcelain from Zhangzhou kiln is the most precious exhibit.
The blue and white porcelain fired at Zhangzhou kiln in Fujian during the Ming dynasty was the signature product of the porcelain export trade. The product was sold in bulk to Japan and Southeast Asian countries like Indonesia.
Zhangzhou kiln porcelain is decorated with a rich variety of thematic designs, including flora, fauna, mythical creatures and auspicious Chinese characters.
Among the kiln's products are five-coloured porcelain plates with cartouches. The finer products were regarded as symbols of social status and wealth, and were used at weddings or other festivities.
Hong Kong connection
Located at the periphery of the Pearl River Delta, Hong Kong has long been an outer port of Guangzhou. As the economic centre shifted south during the Song and Ming period, Guangzhou gradually became a major port of national importance.
Foreign vessels heading to China usually replenished their supplies in Hong Kong before continuing up the Pearl River to Guangzhou. Simultaneously, commercial vessels exporting goods to foreign locations also sailed through Hong Kong.
Among the show's Hong Kong artefacts are blue and white porcelain bowls made by civilian kilns in Jingdezhen during the Ming dynasty. They were discovered in Penny’s Bay on Lantau Island. They were broken when unearthed and have been restored.
Why were no complete porcelain items found at the site? We believe when vessels passed through Hong Kong, some broken ceramics were discarded to make space. This proved Hong Kong was a stop along the Maritime Silk Road, Mr Cheung said.
Exotic riches
The Maritime Silk Road brought foreign valuables to China like glassware, agate and amber from Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean region, and as far away as the Mediterranean.
They were redistributed from Hepu, Guangxi, to different locations in China.
Mr Cheung said: Some agate accessories were discovered in the Han tombs in Hepu. The gemstone agate was primarily a product of Daqin, the ancient Roman Empire. The discovery of these materials proves Hepu’s position as a foreign trade hub for the Central Plains.
The show is a timely resource for the public to learn about the historic evolution and significance of this cultural heritage, as China vies for the nomination of the Maritime Silk Road for inclusion in UNESCO's World Heritage List.
The exhibition runs until December 27. (
桃花源记 Tao Hua Yuan Ji, Source of the Peach Blossoms
On view at the Taubman Museum till Sep 8, 2019.
Tao Yuanming, a Jin Dynasty (317-420 CE) poet, wrote of a traveler who came upon an isolated peach blossom valley beyond a cave where people seeking political refuge lived an ideal, harmonic life with nature and each other. Although villagers told the traveler not to tell of their location, he vainly marked his path and sent government officials who were unable to find it. To the Chinese, this story is metaphoric to an imaginary unattainable Utopia where the peach blossom symbolizes luck, love, and longevity, and to some – immortality.
The Zhuang people of Southwest Yunnan Province claim that they are the village depicted in Tao Yuanming’s story. I traveled there in 2008 and have not told anyone how to get there.
The Book of 25 - The Lost Dhow @ The Aga Khan Museum
The Aga Khan Museum – The Lost Dhow Exhibition
China’s role illuminates the most important marine archaeological discovery of the 20th century.
China’s active role in cross cultural exchange is explored in the Lost Dhow exhibition in Toronto Canada. The exhibition deemed as North America’s premiere opened in December 2014 and runs till April 26th 2015.
The Aga Khan Museum in Toronto plays host to an extraordinary exhibition of the artifacts of the lost Dhow. Henry Kim, the director of the museum took us on this particular journey, “It has long been suspected that sea-borne trade between, the Abbasid Empire in the near east and North Africa and the Tang dynasty in China was thriving as early as the seventh century CE. In 1998 a ninth century dhow was discovered shipwrecked off Belitung Island in Indonesia and it cemented and realised that trade was a fact. Kim says, “We always knew there was maritime trade, but where were the ships. This wreck gave us everything”
This exhibition is jointly organized by the Asian Civilizations Museum of Singapore and Singapore Tourism Board in concert with the Aga Khan museum. This is the most important Maritime archaeological discovery of the 20th century. Its hold presented fifty-seven thousand five hundred ceramic artifacts along with Gold, Silver and bronze artifacts. A mere three hundred made up the exhibitions display.
The dhow’s silhouette was cleverly outlined on the museums floor inviting you to graphically understand the dimensions of this ship that carried men and wares on this amazing journey that ended in shipwreck. The Dhow was only 6.4 meters wide and 17.7 meters long and was made out of wood sewn together with rope. Carbon dating of this particular dhow and the age of the artifacts found confirmed they originated in the 9th century. Some pieces had the date inscribed in Chinese and provided specific provenance. “This vessel was dated eight twenty six AD” Kim indicated, pointing to the glassed in bowl. “The significance of this collective find was that it not only contained items from its time but from earlier times as well; as early as the first century.”
Kim acknowledged. This was indeed treasure not only of material value but more importantly of cultural and anthropological significance that gave us all a rare glimpse into the collective mindset of merchants and artisans and the buyer of these wares. This was not a chance shipment it was a supply trade ship plying a well-established mapped out route. “From as far away as Iraqi Basra to Yangzhou China.”
The Abbasid Empire had trade with Egypt, Turkey, Baghdad, Kashgar, Changan and Luoang as these lands bordered on the vast empire as publicized by author Simon Worrall.
The cargo was substantial and astonishingly subscribed to a manufacturing culture of mass productions for a variety of wares in the thousand fold. This is reminiscent of modern china’s economic vibrancy circa 2015. Bowls were produced with patterns still favourited in today’s market. Birds and clouds, and calligraphy designs were well represented. Kim, continues, “The shipwreck is the earliest Arab vessel found with a complete cargo, including silver ingots, bronze mirrors. Jars were filled with spices. A level of sophistication appeared in the intricately worked gold and silver vessels. Jars made of yellowish clay that were once glazed in turquoise, survived relatively intact with only the glazing diminished.”
Many pieces were in a marvelous state of preservation giving this exhibition an uncommon point of view, one that reflects the ordinary day to day life of a long ago people. These finds were mirrored on land as many such containers were unearthed in Siraf on the Persian Gulf and in Chinese tombs and Buddhist temples. The vessels maritime routing was demonstrated on large wall maps to show us a view of geographical history.
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Walking Inside Yuyuan Garden in Shanghai China Part 2 of 2
Shanghai Sightseeing, Walking Inside Yuyuan Garden in Shanghai China Part 2 of 2
Confucius Was a Foodie—S2: Ep 3: Huaiyang-The Cuisine of Poets
Love Chinese food? Then you have to experience the exquisite, but relatively rare cuisine of Huaiyang. Watch the full episode on: You can rent, download to own, or catch it on a local PBS Station near you!
Chef Cushing discovers that Huaiyang cuisine is historically connected to poets and scholars, and demands meticulous knife skills and elaborate presentations. The cuisine appears to be a personification of the teachings of Confucius. The creative presentation of skillfully combined ingredients expresses the four most important elements in the art of Chinese cooking: color, aroma, flavor and texture. All of this is incredibly enticing, so why, then, is Huaiyang cuisine so little enjoyed or understood in North America?
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China's Best Treasures, Suzhou Tongli
China's Best Treasures, Suzhou & Tongli - - A No Struggle, No Development Production! By KennySnod * The fabled water town of Suzhou. Suzhou is often referred, by the Chinese, as the Venice of the East. It is a 2,500 -year-old city renowned the world over for its traditional gardens, ancient canals and silkworm production. In 1997 Suzhou was designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site. The construction of the Grand Canal created a means whereby goods from this region could be transported to the Northern capital, Beijing, a distance of over 600 miles. With prosperity came prestige as merchants and artisans plied their trade. Elaborate gardens were built. Visit the Garden of the Master of Fishing Nets, and experience all of the elements of a classical Chinese garden. In the afternoon, tour the Silk Spinning Mill, where you will learn how silk is created from the mulberry-munching silkworms to produce thread and fine cloth. Marco Polo once reported that so much precious silk was produced in Suzhou that every citizen was clothed in it. - - A No Struggle, No Development Production! By Kenny Snodgrass, Activist, Photographer, Videographer, Author of 1} From Victimization To Empowerment... trafford.com/07-0913 eBook available at ebookstore.sony.com
Buddha Temple in Yangzhou, China
Chinese New Year Celebrations, London, 2017, Travel UK
Year Of The Rooster,
Welcome to the Chinese new year celebrations in London 2017,
We have lion dancing, Chinese food, Dragon dancing, Kung Fu, Dancers, Singing, Chinese parade and much more.........
Mapping the Landscape: Vision, Memory & Place-Making
Xin Conan-Wu gave a richly illustrated lecture exploring the story of mapping the landscape in 12th-century China, when the center of politics and economy was shifting from the north to the south and military defeats spurred a new search for identity. Wu examined visual, physical and textual materials in poetry, paintings, prints, architecture, gardens, landscape and philosophy and explored the impact of pedagogy and ritual upon vision and place-making, as well as the relationship between education and natural environment.
Speaker Biography: Xin Conan-Wu specializes in the history of the representation of nature in East Asia art and global contemporary environmental art and landscape architecture. As a Kluge Fellow at the Library, Wu has leveraged the Library's collections to help develop a book manuscript, Vision and Place-Making in the Neo-Confucian Academies of Song China. He is an associate professor of art and art history at the College of William and Mary.
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Chinese ceramics
Chinese ceramic ware shows a continuous development since imperial times and is one of the most significant forms of Chinese art and ceramics. The first types of ceramics were made during the Palaeolithic era. Chinese ceramics range from construction materials such as bricks and tiles, to hand-built pottery vessels fired in bonfires or kilns, to the sophisticated Chinese porcelain wares made for the imperial court. Porcelain is so identified with China that it is still called china in everyday English usage.
Most later Chinese ceramics, even of the finest quality, were made on an industrial scale, thus few names of individual potters were recorded. Many of the most renowned workshops were owned by or reserved for the Emperor, and large quantities of ceramics were exported as diplomatic gifts or for trade from an early date.
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A cosmopolitan empire (EDC2_2.5.3)
MOOC: The european Discovery China. Week: Song Cities and Mongol conquest. Activity: Mongol's China: The Yuan Dynasty
Swarthmore Volleyball Team Shares Favorite Parts Of China Trip
Swarthmore Volleyball traveled in China for two weeks in August 2017. Here are some of their favorite parts of the trip.