梅瓶三绝

The plum vases, one with a white dragon design over the blue ground of Yuan dynasty, one with a design of Xiao He chasing Han Xin in the moonlight in underglaze blue of the late Yuan and early Ming, and the other with pine, bamboo, and plum designs in underglaze red in the Ming dynasty under Hongwu‘s reign, are three important pieces in Yuan and Ming dynasties in Jiangsu Province. They might be rated as the three treasures in the Chinese porcelain world for their unique characteristics.     

明朝在西藏的统治地位（英文）

During the historic process that Tibet became an inalienable part of China,the Ming dynasty was one of the important phases.The central government of the Ming dynasty,especially Emperors Hongwu and Yongle paid significant attention to governing Tibet.They not only inherited the Yuan dynasty?s rights in Tibet,but also made some adjustments.     

关于莫高窟窟前殿堂与窟檐建筑的时代问题

There are more than twenty halls in front of cave in Mogao Grottoes, such as caves No.130,108,100,98,96,95,85,76,74,72,61,55,467,53,46,45,44,39,38,35,30-27,33-21,Most of caves have its own eaves building. The two kinds of architecture are both timber construction.After carefully research, we find that these special architecture were build during early Tang dynasty at the first time, developed in Middle Tang,and very popular during the period of Gui-Yi-Jun, and still continued in the West Xia and Yuan Dynasty. In this paper, the author specially discusses the two halls in front of caves No.130 and No.96.     

浙江出土的金银器

The gold was put into use as early as Shang dynasty. From the late Tang dynasty on, the private gold and silver workshop came into being in accord with the improvement of excavation and workmanship systems, which stimulates greatly the gold and silver production in the southern China. Most of the gold and silver wares unearthed in Zhe Jiang are from Late Tang to Ming dynasty. Its categories and shapes are closely fit in with the needs of daily life.     

明清家具装饰概述

The decoration of furniture in Ming and Qing Dynasties is an important part to display the grand achievement and advanced art level of that time, which echoes with the form and structure of the furniture. The following points can be studied for the decoration: the partly decoration, various methods and the topic and content of the decoration. Through long years' practice,special styles are created to dedicate obvious artistic characteristic and great value of beauty.     

DISAPPEARING OF GREEKS＇ LEGEND IN NORTH EAST OF IRAN

The Greeks legends, which appeared on the Parthian coins, seem to be meaningless and consider as one of the ambiguities in the history of Parthian dynasty. From the beginning of first century AD, the Greeks legend appeared on Parthian Coins are vague and only seem to be symbolic. By the invasion of Sakas to the north of Iran which led to extinction of the governing of the Greeks in Bactria and pushed them back to the north India, Romans finally succeeded to add the Seleucid as a part of their territory, and left the traders in Selucia and Babylonia in the west and Margiana and Bactria on the east under domination of locals rather than the Greeks. In this article we are to investigate of decline of Greeks in Bactria and its relation to meaningless Greek legends on Parthian coins.     

西藏夏鲁寺壁画中的“汉藏合璧”

Shalu Monastery is one of the most famous Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and is seated in Gyatso Shong Township of Shigatse Municipality in the Tibet Autonomous Region.The monastery is rich in murals that total over a thousand square meters in wall space,putting on display a fine example of Tibetan Buddhist mural art from the Yuan dynasty.     

Shangri La： the Paradise

Since the 1980s, I have tramped the mountains and rivers of nearly all the Tibetan-inhabited areas. What touches me deeply is that wherever I went, I would find holy mountains, holy rivers and holy lakes. Invisible deities can be found everywhere at any time. Like man, they are hierarchical. Small holy mountains serve large holy mountains and perform duties for them. The four largest holy mountains are: Magyiabenri Mountain in the east, Kawagyibo Mountain in the south, Dan-gdese Mountain in the west and Nyain-     

MAIN CONTENTS

Study on Tax Ingots in Ming Dynasty
Silver used as currency started in Ming dynasty. The official policy for silver using was at the beginning suppressive then gradually encouraging. The turning point was the use of silver as a substitution for actual paying of crops for land tax. This study shows although only few samples were found during last century, through the study of these specimens there still remain some traces of the transformation of silver as currency in China＇s. monetary system. Those land tax ingots are the evidence of this process.     

唐高力士墓发掘简报

Gao Lishi is the most celeberated eunuch in China‘s history. He served the emperor Tang Xuan zong(Li longji) all his life, and gained almost the first rank official position.At 762 A.D.,he was died in his 73, and was buried near the emperor‘s mausoleum named Tai Ling next year, which located at Shanxi village, Pucheng county. The tomb composed of a vamp, four narrow patios-like spaces, three passages, six niches, a brick corridor and tomb chamber, simple murals were painted on the both side of the ramp, the corridor and the chamber wall, but most of them were destroyed. Fancy patterns were carved on the surfuces of the stone tomb-gate and the stone coffin bed. More than two handred pottery statues were found in the miches, including housemen, servants and animals such as horses, pigs, camels, dogs, rabbits and so on. Some bones found in the coffin bed have been authenticated that belong to a man older than sixty. It is unusaal that the epitaph stone is vectangular. The epitaph narrated Gao‘s original name, ancestry, feats, official positions and his fanmily,ect. Excavation of this tomb provide valuable date for the research of Tang dynasty history, and we can see that Gao Lishi was down and out at his death from the tomb structure and the relics.     

MODERN TIBETAN ART

The endlessly emergence of Tibetan artists has been driven by the great contributions from the Art Department of Tibetan University for a long time.The Tibetan artist contingent features young artists.They are vigorous and transmit creative thought. They control the most splendid and far-reaching foreground. While enmeshed in the boundless ocean of Tibetan culture and living day and night with the landscape,divinities,and people, they took different approaches in their lives and pursue their unique creative arts which make them inseparable from Tibet.     

云南民族银饰

The Yunnan province enjoys many nationalities, accordingly, the silver jewels used by them are enormous and various. They are attractive for their abundance in types, excellence in workmanship, richness in styles, and the peculiar national features.     

湖北襄阳岗心与八亩坡墓地发掘简报

Three ancient graveyards at Gangxin, Bamupo and Paomagang graveyard in Xiangyang city were excavated from May to July in 2000. The excavation was done to cooperate with the construction of Xiang-Jing Highway. Fifteen tombs dated from Song to Ming and Qing Dynasty were unearthed, including small-scale brick-chambered tombs with earth pits, pit tombs and relocated tombs. Asmall quantity of burial objects such as copper cash, copper and jade hairpins are unearthed too. These tombs bear some unique features in forms and burial customs. The excavation will be helpful to the research on historical archaeology of Hubei province.     

谈三件宋瓷盏珍品

Without parallel either in history or in future the black porcelain in Song dynasty reached In its climax in tecbnulogy, style, and mond. The Jian Yang kiln in Fu Jian province and the Ji Zhou kiln in Jiang Xi Province are tv, ro well-known kilns in black porcelain prodoction. The black wares from Jian Yang kiln are sedate, simple and elegant. The black wares from Ji Zhou kiln are decorated with designs out of paper cutting, dignified and graceful In this Ihesis. the author centers on three treasures of black bowls and gives us some ideas about black porcelain.     

扶如石 衔如玉五彩缤纷话澄泥

Chemniink-stone was one of the four mosl famous ink-stones,which adopted liltered soil to make grinding objects attributed to ceramics ink-stone its manufacture appeaed in the tang dynasty first in jiangzhou of shanxi,popular in the song dynasty it is hard and durable while produring delicare and moist inks its capability of boarding ink and water can be compared with stone hard and durable while produeing delicare and moist inks,inks,its capability of boarding ink and water can be compared with stone inkslab.     

The Administrative System in Tibet during the Tang and Yuan Dynasties

(1)China's Tang Dynasty (618-907) and Yuan dynasty(1279-1368) were of epoch-making importance in theformation and development of the Tibetan ethnicgroup.Numerous ethnic tribes began to unite,and theprocess of evolution from a tribal to a political societywas basically completed over the span of the twodynasties.The advanced political,ec,onomic and cul-rural systems of the Han people were introduced intoTibet,primitive tribes were gradually replaced by a     

苏州狮子林屋脊装饰

Suzhou Gardens ,ingeniously constructed,are always looking invinting and fascinating. Though,man-made, they appear ratural.The architecture decoration sinside the gardens,obvionsly form the styles of their own.The clever conceptions, new approachs,beautiful patterns and pregnant meanings of the the gardens enjoy the high reputation at home and abroad. This essay deals with the Lucky Folk Culture implied in the roofs decoyations in Lion Gardens.     

Tibetan Knives

The style of Tibetan knives comes in four kinds:knives unique to the Lhasa and Xigaze areas,Gungbo area,Amdo area and Kham area.Lharze and Namling Tibetan knives are what people always talk about as being representative of the knives found in the Lhasa and Xigaze aareas.Craftsmen in the Lharze and Namling areas pay much attention to the steel-making fire when making the knife‘s edge.     

NEWS IN BRIEF

Stone Carvings from the Qing Dynasty Found in Chamdo In the middle of March,a group of stone carvings-originating from the Qing Dynasty-were found at Taktse Village of Lhatse Township in Palbar of Chamdo. Of around 140 stone carvings,the biggest one is 85 cm high and 64 cm wide.Most of them are small and 25 cm is usual. Experts found the carvings were colourfully painted,highly detailed and lifelike in execution.