Category Traditional Aesthetics 传统美学

文房四宝：笔、墨、纸、砚 English Brush, ink, paper, inkstone. At the level of function, these are simply the instruments of writing. What is notable is what Chinese literati culture made of them across more than a thousand years: objects of connoisseurship, aesthetic discrimination,…

梅兰竹菊-花中四君子 The Four Noble Plants English For more than a thousand years, Chinese poets, painters, and calligraphers returned to four plants above all others: the plum blossom, the orchid, the bamboo, and the chrysanthemum. They are called the Four Gentlemen…