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A subject for picture in ancient
China: Bamboo covers a wine-shop by the bridge.
Many competitors tried to concentrate on the wine-shop as
the center of the picture. There was one man, however, who
painted only a bridge, a bamboo grove by its side, and
hidden in that grove, only a shop-sign bearing the character
'wine,' but no wine-shop at all. And this picture won
because the wine-shop was hidden in the imagination.
- Lin
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Another subject, At the
deserted ferry, a boat drifts across by itself, a
winning picture by a Chinese artist is one which conveyed
this feeling of silence and desolation by drawing a bird
resting on the boat, and another one about to perch on it.
The presence of the birds near the boat suggests that the
boat was deserted and no human beings were about.
- Lin
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Crane is the symbol for
longevity in China. Therefore subjects relating to it are often
supposed to be dealt with by creating a fairy world, such as in
these: the thicksets, the imagery and huge leaves, the plot
lands in the form of nothingness that are never set trampled by
man, are engaging one into it, and the unspeakable calm posture
of the cranes
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One of China's thirty-three
happy moments:
It has been raining for a whole month and I
lie in bed in the morning like one drunk or ill, refusing to
get up. Suddenly I hear a chorus of birds announcing a clear
day. Quickly I pull aside the curtain, push open the window
and see the beautiful sun shinning and glistening and the
forest looks like having a bath. Ah, is this not
happiness?
"I remember that when I was
a child, I could stare at the sun with wide, open eyes. I
could see the tiniest objects, and loved to observe the fine
grains and patterns of small things, from which I derived a
romantic, unworldly pleasure. When mosquitoes were humming
round in summer, I transformed them in my imagination into a
company of storks dancing in the air. Continue | |
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Meditation Furniture
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The sided panels is J1-1.
Read about
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A1-2 |
Meditation Furniture (2)
The sided panels: A1-2. Read about it.
The top is Japanese Shoji
and the main body sided with the painting pieces, which makes
it fully an eastern item that breathes the
mystery. |
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Sliding doors - a move of the
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A happy moment in China:
"I am sitting alone in an empty
room and I am getting annoyed at a mouse at the head of my
bed, and wondering what that little rustling sound signifies
- what article of mine he is biting or what volume of my
books he is eating up. While I am in this state of mind, and
don't know what to do, I suddenly see a ferocious-looking
cat, wagging its tail and staring with wide open eyes, as of
it were looking at something. I hold my breath and wait a
moment, keeping perfectly still, and suddenly with a little
sound the mouse disappears like a whiff of wind. Ah, is this
not happiness?" |
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