
Four [ China & Chinese ] Garden Arts.

" Elegant Gathering,"
a painting by artist Zhou Yan - 1902,
which was on loan from Dr. James Hayes,
at the Art Gallery of NSW, Australia -
for an education event held on Monday, 3 October 2005 -
called ' Poetic Mandarin Calligraphy Culture Day.'
Please visit the Art Gallery of NSW, Australia - Asian Gallery
through LINKAGE:
<I>Meet a Chinese scholar...</I>
literati
Please visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, through LINKAGE:
The Four Main Arts of the Chinese Scholar - siyi
- qin ( Guqin )
- qi ( Chinese Chess )
- shu ( Calligraphy )
- hua ( Painting )
Guqin

Please visit information. through wikipedia LINKAGE:

Please visit Chouwenchung.org, through LINKAGE: <I>Philosophy Qin</I>
Please visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, through LINKAGE: <I>Qin</I>
Please visit Guqin Music at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco,
through LINKAGE:
The Guqin is China's Oldest String Instrument
and Guqin Lecture
Please visit the North American Guqin Association, through LINKAGE:
<I>Guqin product recommendations</I>
Please visit the New York Qin Society, through LINKAGE:
Please visit the London Qin Society, through LINKAGE of:
Qin virtuoso...........
Please visit Wikimedia.org through LINKAGE:
Painting: Listerning to the Qin [聽琴圖]
English Translation: Song Huizong's "Ting Qin Tu" 聽琴圖 Listening to the <I>Qin</I>
Date ca. 11th century
Please visit the Official Li Xiangting Guqin Gu Qin page, through LINKAGE:
Please visit the website of Wu Ziying, through LINKAGE:
Please visit the website of Chang Peiyou, through LINKAGE:
<I>Chinese guqin playing & notation</I>
Please visit the website of Yang Shin-Yi, through LINKAGE:
Please visit the website of Phimultic.com, through LINKAGE:
Please visit the website of Yip Mingmei, through LINKAGE:
Please visit the website of Silkqin.com, through LINKAGE:
Please visit the website of Stephen C. Walker, through LINKAGE:
Please visit the website of NPM.gov.tw, through LINKAGE:
It is said, that Immortal Qingao was so named because of his superb skill in playing the guqin.
This is a Qing imprint of the 6th year of the Xianfeng reign [ 1856 ].
Chinese Chess

Please visit firstly Chinese or Elephant Chess, through LINKAGE:
Then visit Reflections on Learning and Teaching Xiangqi in Canada;
through LINKAGE:
The Chess Game in the Tangerine

Please then visit Xiangqi organisations, through LINKAGE:
If you have a hankering, to play online, go to LINKAGE:
<I>Qianhong</I> And / Or HiddenLynx
Calligraphy
Calligraphy
Please click on the above stamp, to take you
(courtesy of Professor Patricia Ebrey & the University of Washington)
to some beneficial information about Calligraphy.
Please visit the National Palace Museum, through LINKAGE:
And / Or, the Selections Gallery, directly, through LINKAGE:
And / Or, visit the Calligraphic World, through LINKAGE of:
<I>Mi Fu's Art </I> and please be patient...
And / Or, visit through LINKAGE: The Music of Lines
Please visit Chilture.com - Disabled Artists, through LINKAGE:
Please visit Estudychinese.com, through LINKAGE:
<I>Chinese Calligraphy and Painting </I>
Please click on the Stamp for LINKAGE to 3benefits.com
Landscape Painting
Landscape Painting
Please click on the above stamp, to take you (courtesy of Professor
Patricia Ebrey and the University of Washington)
to some beneficial information about Chinese Painting.
Please visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, through LINKAGE:
Please visit through home.att.net, LINKAGE Ms Cheung Helena:
[ Professor Hsu Dan's art studio LINKS appear
to be down @ present ]
The Paintings of HSU DAN & Welcome to Dan's Art Studio
Please visit the Residence of <I>Chang Dai-chi'en</I>
courtesy of the National Palace Museum, through this LINKAGE.
Please click on the above stamp, to take you (courtesy of Professor
Patricia Ebrey and the University of Washington)
to some more Technical information about Chinese Painting.
Please visit the following web sites,for a refreshing look at
Chinese painting; through LINKAGE:
Please visit the Xiamen International Art Company Limited,
through LINKAGE: <B><I>Artree</I></B>
Please visit through LINKAGE:
Chinese Painting of Bamboo, Plum Blossoms & Pine Tree
Then also visit the main site of ChineseArtStore.com,
through LINKAGE: 3FriendsofWinter
Please visit the Wenshao Gallery, through LINKAGE:
Please visit Chinapedia - China Assistor, through LINKAGE:
<I>Qi Bashi</I> (1864 - 1957 )

Please visit the Weatherburn Gallery, for the Oil Paintings
of Artist Yiqian Shu, through LINKAGE:
Please visit artelino - Art Auctions, for contemporary Woodcut
paintings of Artist Liu Suying, through LINKAGE:
Please visit ArtworkOriginals, through LINKAGE:
<I>Suzhou Gardens in Violet Tones by Chuanzhe Sun</I>
Please visit the Fine Art Gallery, through LINKAGE:
Please visit Saatchi-gallery, through LINKAGE:
Artist Roger E Gorrin - Chinese Scholar's Garden
Please visit the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, through LINKAGE:
Chinese paintings from the Henricksen Collection - Garden Scene
Please visit The Palace Museum [ Digital Palace Museum ], through LINKAGE:
Fine Works of the <I>Ming</I> and <I>Qing</I> Women Painters
Please visit Wikipedia.org, through LINKAGE:
<I>Three-fold Masterpiece of Poetry, Calligraphy & Painting</I>
The above image, being scaned from WEN Zhengming 文徵明
An Old Chinese Garden.
A Three-fold Masterpiece of Poetry, Calligraphy and Painting,
by Wen Chen Ming 文待詔拙政園圖[全, studied by Kate Kerby;
textes translated by MO Zung Chung, Shanghai 上海,
Chung Hwa Book Company 中華書局, 1922.
Other Associated Scholar Arts
Chinese Seals

Please visit the China Culture Organisation, through LINKAGE:
Please visit China Art Realization, through LINKAGE:
Please visit the Hong Kong Art & Collectibles Club,
through LINKAGE:
Ancient Chinese Seal Collections
Please visit Sea Eagle Coins & Antiquities, through LINKAGE:
Please visit Chineseartnet.com, through LINKAGE:
Chinese Poetry

“ Thousands of feet high, tower the Yellow Mountains,
with their thirty-two magnificent peaks,
blooming like golden lotus flowers,
amidst red crags and rock columns.”
Li Bai
Please visit Mountainsongs.net, through LINKAGE:
<I>Chinese Poetry - An Entertainment</I>
Please visit Poet Chao Yu-Han, through LINKAGE:
and then
Please visit our dear friend Xu Shu Zheng ( Frank Xu ),
to read some of his poetry, at the conclusion of his biography;
through permitted LINKAGE.
Chinese Paper Cuts
Paper Cuts
Please click on the above paper cut, to take you to
Artistic Chinese Creations.
Please visit the China Art World, through LINKAGE:
<I>Lin Yu Qing's - Paper Cuts - Suzhou Garden Series</I>
Chinese Silk Embroidery
Silk Embroidery

Please visit the Gallery on the Lake in Buckhorn, Ontario,
Canada, through LINKAGE:
Carving Gate Garden - <I>Qing Zhang</I>
Please visit AllPosters.com, through LINKAGE:
Chinese Garden Scene by Artist: <I>Wu Changshuo</I>
