Chinese Traditional Arts Palace: Calligraphy, Paintings, Tea Ceremony and More
Chinese Traditional Arts Palace: Chinese Folk Music, Fine Arts and More
Focusing specifically on the stories of the Han Chinese (the largest ethnic group in China, numbering over a billion people), this collection presents more than 50 tales, both well known and obscure–from “Monkeys Fishing the Moon” and “The Butterfly Lovers” to “Painted Skin” and “Dragon Princess.” These are stories that will enchant listeners of all ages, while providing a glimpse into Chinese traditions and ways of thought. To further enhance cultural understanding, the tales are supplemented with historical and cultural background, notes on storytelling, crafts and games, recipes, proverbs, color photos, a map, a glossary, and more.
Kuaiban (Clapper Story-telling)
There are many forms of story-telling. Telling a story in rhythem with the help of a pair of bamboo clappers. See a sample of the art presented by Dr. Jan Walls, a scholar and diplomat from Canada.
Chinese Traditional Folk Arts and Crafts
A great site to introduceChinese traditional arts and crafts such as embroidery, knots and dolls. If you would like to try your hands on creating some Chinese knots, visit this introduction to Chinese knotting, which includes, among others, a step-by-step instruction on creating an endless knot.
Related sites:
How to Make a Flower Knot
Chinese Papercut
The is an introduction to Chinese paper cutting.
Related sites:
Chinese Papercuts, introduction and samples from a commercial site
Paper-Cutting from TravelChinaGuide
Chinese Music
While this author does not endorse the title of the page (the empire thing), he thinks this is a very comprehensive site for Chinese music, covering a great range of genre and a great span of time.
Related site:
Chinese Guzheng, a site by Lunlun Zou, provides a wealth of information about Guzheng, an ancient Chinese music instrument.
Beijing Opera
Jing Ju (Beijing Opera) is a traditional performing art of China, consisting of art forms of music, singing, dancing, pantomime, wushu (kungfu), acrobat, painting, costume, and etc. Like Chinese paintings, its beauty lies between realism and imagination and the engagement of the audience. this site.
Modern Chinese Drama (Hua Ju)
Different from traditional Chinese opera, it portrays the lives of common folks in realistic rendation. Therefore, it is more dialogues and actions than singing and dancing.
Related site:
Chinese Modern Drama from CCTV
Chinese Dance
China has 56 nationalities, each has a unique dance tradition. Here is a brief history of Chinese dances.
Related Site:
A movie clip of a Chinese dance
Lion Dance
Read the introduction of the page while waiting patiently for the exquisit lion dance pictures to load.
Related Links:
Lion Dance Multimedia Archives
Dragon Dance
Read and learn how dragon dance came about legendarily in history. You may view a dragon dance movie clip.
Chinese Movie Database
The Chinese Movie Database is a WWW database for Chinese movies. It covers Chinese movies made in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other countries/regions, from 1905 to present.
Comtemporary Film Teory in China (an article)
Chinese Films in the 30s (Indiana University)
Chinese Screne Queens of the 50s and 60s
Chinese Dianshiju (Teleplays)
An article that studies Chinese dianshiju, or teleplays and other TV entertainment.
Chinese Garden
This is part of a project known as “A Visual Sourcebook for Chinese Civilization.”
The Chinese Garden of the Montréal Botanical Garden
The New York Chinese Scholar’s Garden
Some Notes on Chinese Gardens
Traditional Chinese Gardens
Photos of Chinese gardens of Yangzhou and Suzhou
Traditinoal Chinese Architecture
If you would like to find more information about Chinese architecture, then you have come to the right place
Chinese Architecture (Learn about the terms ting, tai, lou, ge)
Chinese modern architecture
More about Chinese Culture
Artifacts of Chinese Bai Ethnic Group
Bai is one of the fiftty-six ethnic groups in China. Each has its own rich reservoir of traditional artifacts. More will be added when available.
Chinese Calligraphy
Chinese calligraphy is a form of art as well as a physical and mental exercise, the practice of which is believed to have a healing effect. As a matter of fact, quite a few calligraphers enjoyed longevity.
Chinese Paintings
It is to be noted that classical Chinese paintings consist of the image itself and calligraphy in the form of a poem descibing it. It won’t be complete with a seal, another form of the Chinese art. A commercial site that features a Chinese female artist whose works of art are fabulous.
The Chinese Tea Ceremony
I know you are quite familiar with the Chinese tea. Here is a link that introduces you to the Chinese art of tea-drinking. (Editting by Alice Liu)
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