Chinese calligraphy has always been more than simply a tool for communication, incorporating as it does the element of artistry for which the practice is still valued in an age of ballpoint pens and ...

Furthermore, the guqin was one of the four arts - along with calligraphy, painting and an ancient form of chess - that Chinese scholars were expected to master. According to tradition, twenty years of ...

In 2010, Dizhuming, a Chinese calligraphy scroll by Huang Tingjian ... with sales of diamonds, paintings, and ancient ceramics shattering world records. A 10-metre-long triptych entitled ...

The documentary sheds light on the preservation of 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, the innovative development of ...

The exhibition, which features more than 110 artefacts, calligraphy art works ... is the first exhibition to prominently feature ancient Chinese picnic sets,” Chiang says.

Calligraphy is the ancient art of writing that sits at the ... Particularly important the art of calligraphy was for Chinese culture, where it originated at least four thousand years ago.

A special exhibition featuring ancient Chinese zithers ... instruments but as cultural artifacts combining lacquer art, calligraphy, and the Eastern philosophy of harmony between man and nature.

Titled "The Voice of Nature and the Human Soul from China - An Exhibition of Guqins from the China Three Gorges Museum" in China's southwest city of Chongqing, the display offers a rare glimpse into ...