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Classical Chinese painting across dynasties: landscape, birds-and-flowers, figures, and the literati eye.
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"Mai Toast in the Qing Festival, the ancient style is passed down in a gentle manner". Fifty-eight years ago, Deng Tuo donated more than 140 pieces (s...

Prosperous Bianliang recalled in Tokyo—how a Japanese exhibition stages Northern Song city memory.

Huang Binhong’s seal collection on view—stone impressions behind a modern ink master’s eye.

A textual reading of Zhang Mu’s cow-herding scroll—the “Zen machine” hidden in ink.

Today is Mother's Day. Since ancient times, "mother" has always appeared in various works of art as a beautiful image. From the "Stepmother W...

The Grand Canal in poetry and painting: how artists mapped a working waterway into cultural memory.

Why loquats mark Beginning of Summer—and how brush and ink keep returning to their gold fruit.

2022 marks the 500th anniversary of the establishment of Shanghai Guyi Garden. "Zhan Pi Qi Ao, green bamboo Yi Yi." This poem in "Book of Songs W...

The ancients often called the study "studio", which was elegantly furnished. The clear offering of the study room was originally a literati writing to...

Chengdu Museum’s portrait bricks—work, ritual, and street life cast in Eastern Han clay.

How Western visual ideas entered late Ming–early Qing Jiangnan urban painting.