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The Vase with the Poet Zhou Dunyi is a traditional Chinese porcelain vase produced in 1587, during the Ming Dynasty. [1] The Vase can be identified by its Wanli Mark and period qualities, constituting its cobalt blue paintings decorating the transparent glazed porcelain. [ 1 ]
Zhou Dunyi (Chinese: 周敦頤; Wade–Giles: Chou Tun-i; 1017–1073) was a Chinese cosmologist, philosopher, and writer during the Song dynasty. He conceptualized the Neo-Confucian cosmology of the day, explaining the relationship between human conduct and universal forces.
In Chinese philosophy, a taijitu (Chinese: 太極圖; pinyin: tàijítú; Wade–Giles: tʻai⁴chi²tʻu²) is a symbol or diagram (圖; tú) representing taiji (太極; tàijí; 'utmost extreme') in both its monist and its dualist (yin and yang) forms in application is a deductive and inductive theoretical model.
A group of over 15 kilns at the village of Qingliangsi, Baofeng County, Henan have been identified as the site manufacturing Ru ware. They were first identified in 1950, [24] and in 1977 the ceramic art historian Ye Zhemin found a sherd on the site which when analysed proved identical to a Ru ware sample in Beijing. [25]
The bagua (Chinese: 八卦; pinyin: bāguà; lit. 'eight trigrams') is a set of symbols from China intended to illustrate the nature of reality as being composed of mutually opposing forces reinforcing one another.
Chinese gymnast Zhou Yaqin’s endearing interaction on an Olympics podium is going viral, with fans praising her “Golden Retriever behavior” and “little sister” energy.. The first-time ...
In these later periods, Ge ware became fashionable for the scholar's table and flower vases. The crackle was compared from the Ming onwards to cracking ice, with its suggestion of spring arriving, and evoked a line in the classic Daoist text the Dao De Jing describing a sage as "shrinking, as when ice melts". [ 21 ]
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