Suzhou Confucian Temple / 苏州文庙
The Confucian Temple of Suzhou / 苏州文庙 and also known as the Suzhou Stone Inscription Museum and Suzhou Prefecture School (苏州府学; a state-run school), is a Confucian temple located in the ancient city of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, on the south bank of the Yangtze River. It was built by Fan Zhongyan, a famous state officer in Song Dynasty. It was the first temple school in China and is notable for containing the four greatest steles of Song Dynasty, of on which is the Map of Pingjiang. In 1961, the stone inscriptions in Suzhou Confucian Temple were listed among the first batch of National Key Cultural Relic Protection Units by The State Council of the People’s Republic of China. In 2001, together with the Confucian Temple, it was called Suzhou Confucian Temple and Stone inscription. Presently, it is known as new name as Suzhou Stone Inscription Museum.
Suzhou Confucian Temple is located in the central part of Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China. Built by the order of Fan Zhongyan, then the Prefect of Suzhou, it stands across from the street with Garden of Surging Wave Pavilion. In 1035, Fan Zhongyan was the Prefect of Suzhou. He combined the State School and the Confucian Temple, which began the State education. The system was imitated by other places, for which it got the saying State education began from Wu County . Suzhou Temple School had been extended several times, so presently, it takes up a large area. According to the record of County Wu, it had 213 rooms in Southern Song Dynasty (in 1241). In its day, it had classrooms, dormitoroes, exam rooms and canteens, besides the hall and temple. Suzhou Temple School also had gardening architecture, for instance, rockery, pond, bridge and pavilion. Its scale is the biggest among schools in the southeast.
With the abolition of the imperial examination system, an examination system in Imperial China designed to select the best administrative officials for the state's bureaucracy, at the end of Qing Dynasty, the Confucian Temple was gradually abandoned.
At present, the temple only occupies 17,800 square metres, which is one sixth of the area when it was in the prime. However, the architectural layout remains, with the temple and the school. In the eastern temple area, only Ji Men, Dacheng Hall and Chongsheng Memorial Temple are left, and in the western school area, only Pan pond, Qixing pond and Minglun Hall are comparatively complete.
Except the Dacheng Hall and the Lingxing Men, most of the architectures we can see now were rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty (1864).
Lingxing Men, built in 1373, Ming Dynasty, is a huge limestone memorial archway with six columns, three doors and four door leaves.
Dacheng Hall, rebuilt in 1474, Ming Dynasty, is 7 rooms wide, 13 purlins deep, Zhong Yan Dianding Veranda, and supported by 50 Nanmu columns.
Outside the hall are limestone platforms on which is a huge bronze statue of Confucius and inside the hall hangs a giant picture of Confucius, both of which are contemporary works.
The magnificent Dacheng Hall, is the main building of Confucian Temple and its scale is second in Suzhou only to Sanqing Hall in Xuanmiao Taoist temple in Suzhou.
There are a substantial number of stone inscriptions in Confucian Temple, among which Pingjiang Tu, Tianwen Tu, Dili Tu, and Diwangshaoyun Tu, known as Four Great Stone Inscriptions in Song Dynasty, are the most famous ones. They respectively represent sky, ground, people and city. Formerly placed in Dacheng Hall, they are presently in the wing-room beside the hall, under special protection.
Chinese Gardens: Pavilions, Studios, Retreats
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Human Landscapes: Gardens in Chinese Art
Maxwell K. Hearn, Douglas Dillon Curator in Charge, Department of Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The exhibition Chinese Gardens: Pavilions, Studios, Retreats is on view August 18, 2012--January 6, 2013 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Wen Zhengming’s Wintry Trees: Mourning and Reciprocity
Wintry Trees is a hanging scroll produced by Wen Zhengming at a time of personal loss. Craig Clunas explains some of its classic features and explores the work’s unusual inscription which raises as many questions as it answers.
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Zheng He (1371–1433), formerly romanized as Cheng Ho, was a Hui court eunuch, mariner, explorer, diplomat, and fleet admiral during China's early Ming Dynasty. Zheng commanded expeditionary voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa from 1405 to 1433.
As a favorite of the Yongle Emperor, whose usurpation he assisted, he rose to the top of the imperial hierarchy and served as commander of the southern capital Nanjing (the capital was later moved to Beijing by Yongle). These voyages were long neglected in official Chinese histories but have become well known in China and abroad since the publication of Liang Qichao's Biography of Our Homeland's Great Navigator, Zheng He in 1904. A trilingual stele left by the navigator was discovered on the island of Sri Lanka shortly thereafter.
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Red Delight & Green Joy Wang Qingzhou（王清州） Art Exhibition Opens in 798 Art District
Exhibition Time: From December 22, 2012 to January 6, 2013
Venue: First Sound Gallery of 798 Art District
Host: Geese-Change Book Club, First Sound Gallery of 798 Art District
Academic Director: Wang Yong (researcher and PhD supervisor of Chinese National Academy of Arts)
Inscription: Wang Yong (professor and PhD supervisor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts)
Co-organizers:
Creative Centre of Chinese Artists Association, Beijing Office of Anhui People's Government, Art Academy of Renmin University of China, Dangshan County Propaganda Administration of Suzhou City, Anhui,Anhui Beijing Enterprise Chamber of Commerce, Shandong Artists Association
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Red Delight & Green Joy Wang Qingzhou Art Exhibition will open in 798 Art District of Beijing on December 22, 2012, and end on January 6, 2013.
The exhibition will feature Mr. Wang Qingzhou's art with his fine ink paintings created by constant exploration of the nature in recent years. His works adopt various expression techniques such as traditional Chinese realistic painting, freehand brushwork in traditional Chinese painting, Chinese ink painting and heavy colors. The works are featured with bold use of colors, red and green, gorgeous finish, natural beauty, splendid but not tacky. The strokes are natural and plain, striving to be pure without over decoration. With integration of calligraphy and traditional pen and ink mode, he forms his own unique artistic language and infiltrated poetic imagery in his works, strengthening the abstract factors. His entire vision is beyond the limitations of time and space with both natural poetics and a pride of scholars, inducing the viewer's desires. It is also the deep understanding and the pursuit of unique vegetation floral beauty, and the charm with pen and ink that symbolize his works with contemporary ink paintings. Mr. Shang Yang wrote that: Wang Qingzhou's paintings, colors, lines are of an infinite variety, just like plants' natural growth, unexpectedly growing into all kinds of shapes, presenting beautiful pictures of sound and vision.
The art of Mr. Wang Qingzhou is with broad vision and a strong sense of innovation. It emphasizes more on colors, while reserves ink at the same time. The painting is also difficult to classify, neither traditional boneless, nor Western watercolor paintings. Some are combinations of color and ink, while some are with full color operation of the entire work, totally different from traditional Chinese ink painting, providing a whole new visual experience for the viewers. His works are of rich bright colors, sharp, contrasting, elegant but not gaudy. They show an ease, joyful emotional tone. Like the easy chair the French painter Henri Matisse mentioned, Wang Qingzhou's works offer aesthetic pleasure for people. Thus the works are commented, by Mr. Wang Yong, a researcher of the Chinese National Academy of Arts, as the Red Delight & Green Joy.
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Guangzhou
Guangzhou, known historically as Canton or, less commonly as Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province, People's Republic of China. Located on the Pearl River, about 120 km (75 mi) north-northwest of Hong Kong and north-northeast of Macau, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port. One of the five National Central Cities, it holds sub-provincial administrative status.
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Sanya China - Tianya Haijiao (End of the Earth)
Tianya Haijiao, also be interpreted as The Edge of the Sky and The End of the Sea, means the remotest corner of the earth, is undoubtedly Sanya's most famous scenic spot and the highlight for almost every visitors. Not only for the spectacular beaches and expansive ocean view, but its outstanding title and rich history, for its title is a set phrase in Chinese that brings profound poetic allusions with. In the past, the phrase was suggesting an unattainable place. From Song to Qing Dynasty, Officials out-of-favour with emperor were banished here due to the remoteness of the cape from Beijing.
Located about 20 km west of Sanya City, the cape is a perfect harmonization of nature's palette, with bleached white sands, turquoise seas, deep blue skies and lush green hills. Rising over the beach is an ancient rock formation inscribed with Chinese characters meaning The Edge of the Sky written by Chengzhe, the chief magistrate of Yazhou Prefecture in the Qing Dynasty. Another inscription nearby reads The End of the Sea.
Transformation of Historic City Centres in the Process of Modernization
Date: 08.12.2015
Speaker: Solmaz Yadollahi
Institution: Ph.D. Candidate, IGS Heritage Studies, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg
CV: Solmaz Yadollahi studied architectural conservation at the Iranian Cultural Heritage Higher Education Centre and graduated with a master degree in Conservation and Revitalization of Historical Buildings and Urban Fabrics from University of Tehran in 2010. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in the area of sustainable protection and use of World Heritage Sites at BTU. During and after bachelor and master studies she worked as conservation architect in heritage documentation and historic urban conservation projects. From 2008 to 2012, she collaborated with the World Heritage Inscription Bureau of Iranian Cultural Heritage Handicrafts and Tourism Organization in preparing four World Heritage nomination dossiers including three successful nominations.
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Guangzhou
Guangzhou (Chinese: 广州, literally wide state) (former common romanisation: Canton; less-commonly known as Kwangchow) is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province, People's Republic of China. Located on the Pearl River, about 120 km (75 mi) north-northwest of Hong Kong and north-northeast of Macau, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port. One of the five National Central Cities, it holds sub-provincial administrative status.
Guangzhou is the third largest Chinese city and southern China's largest city. As of the 2010 census, the city's administrative area had a population of 12.78 million, making itself the most populous city in South China. Some estimates place the population of the entire Pearl River Delta Mega City built up area as high as 40 million including Shenzhen (10.36 million), Dongguan (8.22 million) and most parts of Foshan (7.19 million), Jiangmen (4.45 million), Zhongshan (3.12 million) and a small part of Huizhou adjoining Dongguan and Shenzhen, with an area of about 20,000 square kilometres (7,700 sq mi). In 2008 Guangzhou was identified as a Beta World City by the global city index produced by the GaWC, the Globalization and World Cities Research Network.
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Longmen Shiku, or Dragon Gate Grottoes, commonly called the Longmen Grottoes, are a series of caves carved out of the mountainside along the Yi River that house tributes to Buddhism.
There are more than 2,100 grottoes housing more than 100,000 statues and 3,600 inscriptions and stelaes. The site represents a zenith in Chinese stone carving art and comprises the largest collection of Chinese Buddhist art of the Northern Wei and Tang Dynasties (316-907). Visitors today can discern the different carving and aesthetic styles of the different dynasties.
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Intimate Exchanges | Yeewan Koon
The Chinese scholar’s garden epitomises the social world of Ming- and Qing-era literati gentlemen. It was a site of private contemplation, a place for literary gatherings, and a space where expressions of culture and artworks were made, viewed, and circulated to reinforce the idealised world of educated male scholars. In this talk, artist and professor Yeewan Koon examines how depictions of gardens were used to address emotions and viewpoints that co-existed alongside the ideal image of scholars and the relationships they cultivated in late-imperial China.
The concept of the scholar’s garden was instrumental to the spatial arrangement of the exhibition 'Noguchi for Danh Vo: Counterpoint'. This talk challenges the conventional way of looking at the garden and explores the spaces of tension that open up when madness, obsession, and unusual claims of kinship transgress the traditional boundaries of the scholar’s world. How are issues such as love between men, devotion to a favourite rock, and memories of loved ones revealed?
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Date: 9 January 2019
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Jiang Zemin’s Appearance Postponed For Two Months: Does This Compete With the Hong Kong Incident?
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On Dec. 3, Mainland China’s Pengpai News reported
a piece of old news which took place two months ago.
It said that Jiang Zemin visited the National Museum,
wrote the inscription, recalling the grand return
of Hong Kong to Mainland China.
At the time when the Hong Kong Occupy Central Movement
had not yet fully subsided, the reason why the appearance
of Jiang Zemin was reported two months later
has sparked public interpretation.
The same day three key Occupy Central leaders surrendered,
Pengpai News suddenly reported that
two months ago Jiang Zemin, ‘recalled the return
of Hong Kong to Mainland China.’
Then Hong Kong Apple Daily reported this meaningful news
on Dec. 4 with the title, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
Factions Fighting Over Hong Kong Incident.
Apple Daily quoted a source close to the top level of the CCP
who said that Jiang Zemin and Xi Jinping are in rivalry.
The source also said, The Hong Kong incident is now
becoming severer, which impresses us
that all officials managing Hong Kong and Macao affairs
try to embarrass Xi Jinping.
If not clear the street, it is not right.
Of course Xi Jinping is also very tough.
Beijing political watcher Mr. Po Hua: He (Jiang Zemin)
means that Hong Kong was returned on my terms
and it’s good, so why the turmoil?
In fact, his is questioning Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping in disguise,
and ask them to take the accountability for the incident.
The reported appearance of Jiang Zemin took place
on Oct. 3 the day police shot 87 tear gas bullets during
Occupy Central, triggering a massive amount of people to go
out into the streets of Hong Kong for peaceful protests.
Before Oct. 1 of this year, nearly 20 million Hong Kong
people shouted for universal suffrage in the rain.
Meanwhile, Oct. 3 was the day the Hong Kong triad
first had their anti-Occupy Central debut.”
That evening, a large number of mobs dressed in black,
with face masks and tattoos, attacked the occupants
in Mong Kok and Causeway Bay with violence.
Hundreds of occupants wounded and bleeding.
Hong Kong police later confirmed that some mobs
were from triad.
Apple Daily also exposed that Mainland real estate
developers paid money to the triad forces to clear the street
in order to please the bigwigs.
Mr. Ke Ye, PhD of Public Policy at University of Southern
California: Jiang Zemin talked about the Hong Kong issue
on Oct. 3.
In fact, this precisely exposed the role of Jiang Zemin
and his followers played in the Hong Kong incident,
as well as their true intentions.
Oct. 3 is also the date of the Hong Kong triad’s debut
at the Occupy Central movement.
So in the hot situation he appeared.
This completely showed that he was secretly operating
a game of chess.
So his appearance this time is equivalent
to exposing his conspiracy.
However, that day Jiang Zemin not only mentioned
the Hong Kong incident, he also visited the National Museum
accompanied by a group of officials, where he wrote
the inscription: Building a world-class national museum.
This is clearly inconsistent with Xi Jinping’s “Eight Articles
Regulations” for regulating officials’ behavior,
which also states, No inscriptions.
So even when Hu Jintao visited Hunan Yuelu Academy
in April of this year, he also declined to make an inscription,
giving his signature only.
Dr. Ke Ye: There are two reasons
for Jiang Zemin’s inscription.
First, he loves showing himself off; second, due to the slow
disappearance of power, he does not want to accept it.
So he tries to use this way, like the inscription
and appearance to show his influence.
Of course, the most fundamental reason is that
he has been trying to pull Xi Jinping down,
so he is now against him overtly or covertly.
I think as long as Xi Jinping does not completely win
over Jiang Zemin, then such a confrontation will not stop.
However, whether it is due to a rivalry or to break the rules,
the report of Jiang Zemin’s October appearance
was postponed until two months later, only then
being reprinted by Mainland media.
Dr. Ke Ye: So now Jiang’s faction is panicked and is hyping
old news about Jiang Zemin to cheer for themselves.
This is an important reason for Jiang’s appearance.
But people will see Jiang’s appearances was published
later over two months.
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