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[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2664329423000018 by Li Wang 6/23 ScienceDirect] | [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2664329423000018 by Li Wang 6/23 ScienceDirect] | ||
This article analyses in some detail the silk fabrics that appear in a historical literary work of the early Qing dynasty, Dream of the Red Chamber, a famous autobiographical work in which the author describes many of the details of the fabrics based on his own experiences and his family's inextricable links with the imperial silk factories of Jiangnan during the Kangxi period. The text also cross-referenced historical archives to show the exquisite silk fashion at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the pursuit and enjoyment of luxurious silk and imported fabrics by the aristocracy class in the early Qing dynasty, and how this mode affected the lives of ordinary people. | This article analyses in some detail the silk fabrics that appear in a historical literary work of the early Qing dynasty, Dream of the Red Chamber, a famous autobiographical work in which the author describes many of the details of the fabrics based on his own experiences and his family's inextricable links with the imperial silk factories of Jiangnan during the Kangxi period. The text also cross-referenced historical archives to show the exquisite silk fashion at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the pursuit and enjoyment of luxurious silk and imported fabrics by the aristocracy class in the early Qing dynasty, and how this mode affected the lives of ordinary people. | ||
=====Words in Chinese Painting===== | |||
[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118885215.ch22 by Alfreda Murck 9/10/15 WILEY Online Library] | |||
This chapter examines one of the most obvious features of Chinese painting: the words written on them. The calligraphy enhances the image while the words extend the meaning. Although the focus of this chapter is on brush-written inscriptions on two-dimensional surfaces, it is important to remember the role of writing in early antiquity. The function of inscriptions in China evolved along with the perception that the written language was pictographic and magical. In the hierarchy of the arts, poetry traditionally was considered superior to painting. | |||
