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A longma (lower left corner) on a rubbing from the Wu Liang shrines' reliefs. Longma or "dragon horse" connects with other creatures in Chinese folklore.While longma sometimes applies to the Qilin, [13] the closest relative is the legendary tianma 天馬 "heavenly horse" or the "Chinese Pegasus", which was metaphorically identified with the hanxuema 汗血馬 "blood-sweating horse" or Ferghana ...
Ayers described himself to one writer as an artist who dealt with “the reality of dreams.” [4] His pen-and-ink works, in particular, have been described as “magically surreal,” mystical and existential. [8] [1] [7] The images include urban landscapes, people, African sculptures and nature. “Nature’s sounds, bodies moving, trees ...
Fuxi or Fu Hsi (伏羲) [a] [1] is a culture hero in Chinese mythology, credited along with his sister and wife Nüwa with creating humanity and the invention of music, [2] hunting, fishing, domestication, [3] and cooking, as well as the Cangjie system of writing Chinese characters around 2900 BC [4] or 2000 BC.
Longma: winged horse similar to the Qilin; Luduan: can detect the truth; Xiezhi (also Xie Cai): the creature of justice said to be able to distinguish lies from truths; it had a long, straight horn used to gore liars; Qilin: chimeric animal with several variations. The first giraffe sent as a gift to a Chinese emperor was believed to be the ...
Philosophical interest in nature, or in mystical connotations of naturalism, could also have contributed to the rise of landscape painting. The art of shan shui , like many other styles of Chinese painting has a strong reference to Taoism/Daoism imagery and motifs, [ 5 ] as symbolisms of Taoism strongly influenced "Chinese landscape painting ...
Simians of various sorts (including the monkey, gibbon, and other primates of real or mythological nature) are an important motif in Chinese poetry. Examples of simian imagery have an important place in Chinese poetry ranging from the Chu Ci poets through poets such as Li Bai , Wang Wei , Du Fu , and more.
Beginning around the 3rd century BCE, Chinese classics mention Bole, a mythological horse-tamer, as an exemplar of horse judging. Bole is frequently associated with the fabled qianlima (Chinese: 千里馬) "thousand-miles horse", which was supposedly able to gallop one thousand li (approximately 400 km) in a single day (e.g. Red Hare, sweats blood horse).
Shanshui poetry or Shanshui shi (traditional Chinese: 山水詩; simplified Chinese: 山水诗; pinyin: shānshuǐshī; lit. "mountains and rivers poetry") refers to the movement in poetry, influenced by the shan shui (landscape) painting style, which became known as Shanshui poetry, or "landscape poetry". Sometimes, the poems were designed to ...