Nov 12, 2020
Abstract:The Pingqi caisson ceiling was very common in grottoes in theNorthern Dynasties. The center of the caisson on the inverted funnel-shapedroof which appeared in the Western Wei Dynasty is still patterned with squareconcentric and inner circle. The bracket caissons in the grottoes of laterdynasties are basically all the transformation of the ceiling in the Western WeiDynasty and it lasted...
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Jun 23, 2020
Abstract: The fictitious Scare Animal (beasts that can ward off evil) was made up in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, an era of various mixing and coexisting religious beliefs. These beliefs all adopted the images of the Scare Animal, leading to divergent opinions in current textual research. Not limited to previous literature records, this paper investigates the image meaning of the Scare ...
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May 31, 2020
Abstract:From the 1980s, the systematic research on Chinese piano music began to revive. With the publication of relevant monographs and papers, this field has gradually become a hot topic of academic research. In this paper, the author will go over the research progress of Chinese piano music during this period and give an overview of the viewpoints of representative researches from three aspe...
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May 31, 2020
Abstract:The aesthetics of the Confucian and the Taoist music plays the motive of the Chinese classical music. Tao is the common value that they have been going after, the difference lying in that the Tao chased by the Confucian music attaches importance to the social value and that pursued by the Taoist music, the natural value. The lack of extreme desire as well as the weak motion for any dra...
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May 31, 2020
Abstract: Du Qiong, a Literati painter excelling in landscape painting, had induced the landscape paintings from Tang Dynasty to the early Ming Dynasty into two categories (on the macro level)—Jinbi Shan Shui (金碧) and Ink Painting (水墨). Du Qiong had also presented himself as more of a follower of the Wang Wei School featuring the style of “Ink Painting”. Therefore, Dong Yuan—the integra...
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