Lang Shining, is the first artist to create the “combination of Chinese and Western” style of painting. Giuseppe Castiglione, also known as Lang Shining (郎世寧), was born in the central San Marcellino district of Milan, Italy, As a youth, Castiglione learned to paint from Carlo Cornara at the studio, and he also came under the […]
Double happiness is a ligature, “囍” composed of 喜喜 – two copies of the Chinese characters 喜 (About this sound xǐ) literally meaning joy, compressed to assume the square shape of a standard Chinese character (much as a real character may consist of two parts), and is pronounced simply as xǐ or as a polysyllabic
How 2 Chinese characters 喜 composed An amazing Chinese character 囍 Double happiness Read More »
The biggest feature of Ming Dynasty official clothes is Buzi. Different levels of ministers have different patterns of brocade. Group portraits of ten important court officials during the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty in China Zhu Yuanzhang promulgated an edict in the second year of his ascension. The costumes of hundreds of military commanders