1. Literature and Arts

2. Each dynastic period is known for
some type of artistic achievement
Distinctive Features of Each Period

3. Bronze vessels
Shang and Zhou Periods

6. Ritual bronze
.

7. Inscriptions were cast to
record events and report
them to ancestral spirits.

8. Wine Vessel in the
Shape of a Bull

9.  The Orchestral
 Set of the
 Marquis Yi of
 Zeng

10. Fu
(descriptive prose)
- forceful and
-expressive
Parallel prose
"Pian" is "in pairs"
Wei-Jin and Han Period

11. Poetry
Landscaping
painting
Tang and Song

12. -the finest of Chinese classic poetry
-a must-do for every well-educated person
-written by emperors, monks, scholars, and even by
prostitutes
- The most famous writers are Li Bai李白 (Li Taibai 李太
白), Du Fu 杜甫, Du Mu 杜牧, Meng Haoran 孟浩然,
Wang Wei , Bai Juyi白居易 (Bo Juyi),
Tang Poetry

13.  Household name in China
 10 October 2012 BBC news
 Li Bai and Du Fu: China's drunken superstar poets
 The language has changed so little that they remain
easy for modern Chinese people to read, and their
themes are still relevant today - from friendship, love
and landscape to the stench of political corruption.
Li Bai

14. He was quite a drunkard... and writing some of his best
poetry apparently, while completely inebriated.
If you were to grab any kid off the street and ask him,
'What was the greatest dynasty in China's history?'
nine out of 10 of them would answer the Tang.

16.  Moonlight in front of my bed
 I took it for frost on the ground
 I lift my head, gaze at the mountain moon
 Lower it, and think of home.
 床前明月光
 疑是地上霜
 举头望明月
 低头思故乡

17. The moon in China has a special
meaning. And when it's full, that
represents the fullness and
reunification of the family
The poem struck the deep core
of my heart whenever people
miss my family.

18. Landscaping painting

19.  Ranked the 2nd among the most artistic achievements
in Chinese history
 Its technique differs greatly from painting in the West
 Lack of a fixed vanishing point
 One-point perspective
Features of landscape painting

20. One-pint perspective

22.  http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9
/QingMingShangHeTu_Big.jpg
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_painting
Multiple-point perspective

24.  Presents the unlimited space of nature
 Constant shift of perspectives
 are expressions of the mind and heart of the
individual artists
 To grasp an emotion or atmosphere so as to catch
the "rhythm" of nature

25. Tang Dynasty art and literature
Combination of poem, landscaping painting,
and Chinese calligraphy

26. This is thought
to be the only
surviving calligraphy
of Li Bai

28. Practice Chinese Calligraphy

31. Four treasures of study

37. Pocerlain

39.  Drama
 political corruption
 social turbulences
 sharp class and national contradictions
Yuan Dynasty

40.  Love story
 Romance of the
Western Chamber

41. the tragic death
 of a girl named Dou E.
 loses her mother at the age of 7
 separated from her father at 10
 sold as a child bride to offset the debt
 after she grows up and gets married,
 her husband dies.
 subjected to the bullying and humiliation of hooligans and
gangsters.
 wrongly accused of involvement in a murder case.
 Under the torture of the corrupt interrogating officials,
 sentenced to death.
Injustice to Dou E

42. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
The Water Margin
Journey to the West
Story of the Stone
Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.
Golden Lotus
Ming and Qing Novel

43.  Conflict in the 3rd Century
 Popular in both China and Japan
 Sources for Chinese performing arts such as Beijing
Opera
The Romance of the Three Kingdom

44.  North Song time
 108 bandit heroes
 Fought against the suppress
 Corruption
 Social class struggles
 surrendered to the
 Song government in 1121
The Water Margin

45. Wu Song
Fights
the Tiger

46. Author:
Wu Chen’en
Ming Dynasty
Journey to the West

47.  Xuanzang left Chang'an in 629,
 crossed what are today
 Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan,
 and Afghanistan, into Gandhara,
 reaching India in 630
 Visited and studied for 13 years
 Xuanzang left India in 643
 arrived back in Chang'an in 646
Tang Xuan Zang

48.  a fictionalized account of the legendary pilgrimage to
India of the Buddhist monk Xuanzang,
 He travelled to the "Western Regions" during the
Tang Dynasty, to obtain sacred texts (sūtras).
 The Buddha gave this task to the monk and his three
protectors in the form of disciples
 They encountered various evils along the way (81
tribulations)

49. written in the middle of
 the 18th century
during the Qing Dynasty.
Also named: The story of the stone
Dream of the red masion
Hong Lou Meng (红楼梦)
Dream of the Red Chamber

50.  a masterpiece of Chinese literature
 Can be compared with War and Peace
 Redology is the field of the study of this novel
 一部《红楼》养活多少红学家?

51. is believed to be semi-autobiographical
mirroring the rise and decay of author Cao Xueqin's own
family
and, by extension, of the Qing Dynasty.

52. Cao Xue Qin (Ts’ao Hsüeh-ch’in)

54.  is considered to be China's greatest novelist,
 Hong Lou Meng as the greatest novel in the Chinese
language
 His grandfather was Cao Yin, a childhood playmate of the
 Emperor Kang xi
 His father was Cao Zhan (Ts’ao Chan), Commissioner of
Imperial Textiles
Cao Xue Qin (Ts’ao Hsüeh-ch’in)

55.  Cao clan was rich and influential
 was a host four times to the Kangxi Emperor in his six
separate itinerant trips south to the Nanjing region

56.  The emperor Kang Xi
 of Qing Dynasty

57.  the clan held the office of Imperial Textile
Commissioner at Jiangning for three generations
 (mismanagement, careless, fiscal deficit, Kang xi
ignored)
 This situation changed when Kang xi died and his son
Yong zheng ascended the throne

58.  Yongzheng severely attacked the family and later
confiscated their properties
 The family was completely impoverished and forced
to relocate to Beijing
 At that time Cao xueqin was a young child

59. Records of his life was not much
an intelligent, highly talented man
He lived in poverty throughout his life
He was an inveterate drinker
Made a living by selling his paintings

60.  spent a decade working diligently on writing the
novel
 Only had a son who was very young when died from
infection
 Cao was so sad that he died not very long after his
son’s death


61.  His novel was written in "blood and tears”
 is a vivid recreation of an illustrious family at its height
and its subsequent downfall
 Controversial issue: the first 80 chapters and 40
chapters
 Redology scholars are still debating whether the last
40 chapters is his original work

62.  In 1791, Cheng Weiyuan (程偉元) and Gao E (高鶚)
 Published the completed 120-chapter novel
 Gao E is suspected to be the author of the last 40
chapters, but no one can prove it up to date.

63. Main characters
Chia Pau yu
Lin Dai yu (Black Jade)
(cousin)
Storyline of the novel

64. Chia Baoyu’s
grandmother
daugther son daughter

66.  The story of the stone
 Stone nu wa bu tian
 Celestial plant (repay the debt of tears)
 A buddhist and a daoist

67.  The stone and the celestial plant want to experience the
worldly life
 They incarnated as a boy (Chia Pauyu, born with a jade in
his mouth), and a girl (Lin Daiyu without a jade)
 Jia was treasured and loved by his family and his maiden
servants


68.  His father was a Confucianist and wanted him to sit exam
and to serve the society ( Confucianism)
 Chia did not pay much attention to it, and despises men
around him, but regards women as pure as water
 Bao yu and daiyu love each other but Baoyu is predestined
to his another cousion Xue Baochai (Precious Clasp)
 Lin Daiyu (black jade) is obsessed with her orphaned state,
very stubborn, wants to marry Chia, but fears of doing
anything to bring about the result.

69.  Lin’s health condition was really bad, was rejected by her
grandmother
 Lin died on the night Chia marries Xue Baochai (Precious Clasp)
(Chia always thought that he is going to marry Lin Daiyu that
night)
 Xue Baochai (Precious Clasp) was a realistic person and hoped to
encourage Chia to be a Confucianist and to sit the exam
 She is intelligent and graceful, an ideal wife in the eyes of the
family, but Chia doesn’t love her.

70. Chia’s family status declines gradually
Chia Pauyu becomes low in his spirit after lin’s death
He gets a good result in the exam but decides to
become a monk (Buddhism)

71. 1. Offers insights into Qing society, the family, lives of
women and the status of servants
1. Reflects the Confucian, Buddhist and Daoist
worldview
2. Has been valued as much as a historical
documentation as it has a great work of literature
Cultural and philosophical
implications

72.  The story centres on Xi Menqin, a
corrupt social climber and lustful
merchant
 he is wealthy enough to marry a
consort of six wives and
concubines.
 identified as pornographic and
officially banned most of the time
Golden Lotus

73.  It is however been regarded a one of the four
marvellous masterpiece (together with Romance of
the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, and Journey to the
West)
 full of classical Chinese poetry
 deals with larger sociological issues—such as the role
of women in ancient Chinese society