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In his whole life, he had created many jade carving works, among which were the exquisite jade kettle with the baby playing paint, the jade cup with the circle hold and the cover, and the wonderful jade plate, the jade brush pot and the jade crystal stick for the sanctum, and the "exquisite and artful" jade hairpin with the "stem as thin as the hair" and the "price at fifty six gold", and furthermore, the jade plate that makes people fondling admiringly.
Traditional Chinese painting has a long history. Generally speaking, works before Tang Dynasty mainly focus on the reflection of people's activities, forming a prime time of figure painting. In the middle of Tang Dynasty, paintings in landscape and flower & bird began to be popular. Works with the theme of forest and rural area can free you from the hustle and bustle of the world and enable you to enter a peaceful land, so landscape painting is favored by scholars and officials. Flowers, plants, stones, birds and beasts in the paintings are living creatures in the mountains, full of vitality and also attractive to many people. Therefore, paintings of landscape and flower & bird started to be popular after figure painting. The three kinds of paintings form the three main categories of traditional Chinese painting.
Qi-pao is originally a member of gown family and derived from the female long gown of Manchu in Qing dynasty. Different with the popular loose ch'ang-p'ao and wide belt of Han, the nomadic clothing representative—Manchu Qi-pao is snugly fitting to human's body, and is very convenient in riding, toxophily and other violent activities. After the invasion of Huangtaiji, Beijing was settled as the capital, and a powerful and dynamic wave of changing clothes was called on. The female Qi-pao reached its zenith for the prosperous decorations.
Lu Zigang, from "Wumen" in Southeast of China, was a famous artist for the jade carving active in Suzhou in Jiajing and Wanli periods of Ming Dynasty, and was also a most reputable artistic master in the jade carving history in China. The jade carving by Zigang had totally changed the mossy style of the jade article in Ming Dynasty, with the exquisite jade material, the lofty techniques for the jade carving, which integrated the arts of the seal, the calligraphy and the painting into the art of the jade carving, and improved the craft of the jade carving in China to a new artistic level.
Traditional Chinese painting is a unique art in world art field. It adopts special brush and paper as tools, painting ink as paint, using wonderful expressional methods according to Chinese aesthetic habits. Traditional Chinese painting has long history and excellent traditions, which forms its own unique system in world art field. It is an important part of our country's traditional culture as well as the precious treasure of Chinese people.
Chinese Qi-pao is a typical national costume which embodies the harmony of external and the internal. Its fluent rhythm, unrestrained artistic quality and rich poetic flavor perfectly captures the virtue of elegance and serenity of oriental beauty.
