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Painting: Cloudy Mountains
2003-08-17
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Free Association of Red – Yellow – Blue, the Three Primary Colours
2003-08-17
Once, while writing to a friend about some things I had come to understand about painting, I paused when I got to the three primary colours of Red - Yellow - Blue to ponder this question: What should be the correlation of these 3 basic colours to the three cosmic characteristics, Zhen - Shan – Ren (Truthfulness – Compassion – Forbearance)? -
Painting: Flowers
2003-08-16
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Arhats in a Dream
2003-08-16During this time, he created portraits of sixteen Arhats, a portrait of a Buddha, and two portraits of Bodhisattvas in the Chinese style of painting using ink and water. In his paintings, boulders were enveloped by clouds and mist, while pines were knotted, serpentine, and dark green with ancient vines warped around them. The countenances of the Buddha, Bodhisattvas, and the sixteen Arhats looked ancient and rustic, yet superb and prominent, making them very different from similar portraits produced by other artists. -
Photograph: Sunrise
2003-08-15
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Stories From Ancient China: Gou Jubo’s Courageous Righteousness Saves a Town
2003-08-15The invaders stood in awe of Gou Jubo and started to discuss this unusual turn of events among themselves. One of them said, “It appears that we depraved people have entered a town of morality and justice.” They all agreed. Thereupon they withdrew their forces and left the whole town untouched. -
Graphic Design: Lotus Flower Together with Heavenly Beauty
2003-08-14
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Photograph: Plum Blossom
2003-08-13
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Stories From Ancient China: Besides the Gods’ Arrangements, Man’s Own Choices Also Affects One’s Life
2003-08-13Zheng Xiangru thereupon asked Zheng Qian, “Uncle, don’t you know that I will succeed in my examinations? Confucius said, ‘He who is capable of inheriting the Zhou Dynasty can be foreseen even a hundred generations in advance.’ I am only an ordinary person, but if Confucius were still alive, I would be at the same level as his second best students, such as Yan and Zi Xia, if not at the level as his best student Yan Hui.” Zheng Qian was quite astonished by his audacious comment on being able to foresee the future, so he tested Zheng Xiangru with several questions, which Zheng Xiangru answered with ease. -
Photograph: Cherry Blossom
2003-08-12
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Stories from Ancient China: Wei Zhao, A Master of the Book of Changes
2003-08-12The true masters of the Book of Changes in ancient Chinese times worked miracles in divination. They were capable of giving the finest details as if they had seen the future through the eyes of a god. Despite their incandescent capability in divination, the true masters of the Book of Change would never use it for personal fame or profit. They usually consciously avoided showing off their skills and remained unknown, which manifested all the more their noble moral standing. -
A Song for Xiong Wei
2003-08-11Xiong Wei for many only a name, which one hears, forgetsXiong Wei the whole world needs to know, where you areYou have been put behind barb wire and wallsThere is no TV, no law, no justice. -
Poem: Summit
2003-08-11Climbing ever steep,the path long and narrow.With hearts encompassingZhen, Shan, Ren... -
Did the Chinese Beat Columbus to America?
2003-08-11According to a book that was released in the United States, 1421: The Year China Discovered America, by Gavin Menzies, Columbus was about 70 years behind the Chinese. The author, a retired Royal Navy submarine commander and historian became fascinated with the Great Wall and the Forbidden City during a trip to China with his wife. This led to years of research on the Chinese Emperor Zhu Di. In the course of this, he learned about a Portuguese map from 1424 that depicted Caribbean islands. Subsequently he found other pre-Columbian charts of this and other regions that had come from the Chinese. -
Poem: Change of the Seasons
2003-08-10Leaves of an arriving springOpen before a glorious sunThankful for its benevolent embraceUnfolding layers of mysteryShadows brightened, the world is paradise
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