Golden Tiles of Tibetan Houses

Golden tiled roofs are typically seen on the halls and dagobas of monasteries. They are a lofty and luxurious building decoration made of bronze with gold gild.This building decoration and building style is an exclusive possession of Tibet. The gilded bronze.tube-like tiles used to form the roof have upturned eaves at four comers each has an open-mouthed huge legendary turtle.The roof is decorated with Buddhist umbrellas and bottles and reclining deen.And the eaves are carved with such patterns as Dharma wheel.     

民间木雕之美

As a kind of art forms and a historic existence, the folk wooden sculpture has its own culture and value of arts. The broaden content of the topics and delicate decoration is its most appalling point.     

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.     

民间石雕艺术

Chinese folk stone sculpture has long history in people's material and spiritual life, most of which are made by unknown craftsmen.They are of great value on art and historic culture to display splendid technique, tricky design and admirable creativity of ancient Chinese craftsmen. As to the use of stone sculpture, it can be used as the part and decoration of the architecture, formed to serve the religion or practical utensil for daily use or appreciation, which is might be called a grand book.     

湖南津市窖藏元代金银器

A set of buried objects was found in Jin Shi, Hunan province in the May of 1984. The identification shows that two of them are ranked the nation‘s 1st rank treasures. Analyzed by their shape and decoration, they are of Yuan dynasty and bear the features of those of Song Dynasty. The designs on them are rather complicated, such as the dragon and phoenix, coiled grass, meander pattern, linked beads, and plum blossom, which are usually found in the objects of Yuan dynasty. The refined craftsmanship and gorgeous decoration demonstrate fully the features of Yuan dynasty.     

清代珐琅彩瓷器赏鉴

The porcelain in cloisoon enamel is a precious kind produced in the three reigns of Kangxi, Yongzhen, and Qianlong of Qing Dynasty. Its technological process is very complicated. The production and development of it plays an important role in the Chinese porcelain history, which enriches the decoration ways and categories of over-glaze porcelain family.     

Beautiful Aspect of The Tibetan Race——Preface to Tibet Folk Art

EDITOR'S NOTE: The Chongqing Publishing House has published a set of eight books under the general title of Series Books on Folk Art in Tibet, covering clay molding art, mask art, garments, tangka painting, weaving, building and decoration, Mani stone carving, and sculpturing. They contain some 20,000 illustrations to enhance reader interest.     

Double-body pottery pot

The double-body pottery pot was unearthed in 1977 at the Karub ruins in Chamdo,Tibet,and has a history of more than 4,000 years.The shape of the vessel is made of two identical bag-shaped gallipots connected together,so it is named"double-body pot".According to the fibet Museum,the pot mouse has a diameter of 11.3cm,a bottom diameter of 8.4cm and a height of 19cm.Its texture is yellow pottery with sand.The mouth is horn shaped,straight neckt abdomen is con nected bag shaped double body,cervical shoulder has a pair of holes for tying rope.The surface of the pot is exquisitely decorated;with the use of carved lines and Cinnabar black painting decoration.The ware is full and beautiful in shape,ingenious in conception and skilled in craftsmanship,which represents the highest level of pottery production of Karub culture at that time and is known as the representative work of neolithic pottery in Tibet.     

The Organs and Processes of Painting, Decorating and Mounting Thangkas for the Qing Court

The organisations in charge of painting and manufacturing Thangkas for the Qing Court were the Zhongzheng Hall and the Section for Manufacture and Purchase. Located to the west of the Forbidden City, Zhongzheng Hall was primarily used by the Emperor to worship Buddha and many religious services of the Inner Palace were also held there. At the end of each     

西安南郊皇明宗室汧阳端懿王朱公镨墓清理简报

This tomb,consisting of a vertical passage and a main room made of brick,excavated by Xi‘an Municipal Institute of Relics Preservation and Archaeology in August, 1998. According to the epitaph,the occupant was Zhuzeng(朱zheng),a member of imperial family,titled Qianyang Duanyi King(汧阳端懿王). There were 111 materials such as pottery ceremonial figurines with bright color,vivid expression and various action;fine models of house and furniture with well--preserved color,sacrificial utensils;porcelains ;bronze coins ;wooden stamp and stone epitaph etc. excavated out . This excavation provided detail data for us to study the tomb formation,burial custom,style of construction,art of clay sculpture,characteristics of furniture,ceremonial system and cloth fashion etc. of Ming dynasty.     

心有灵“觿”一点通

Jade xi is one kind analogous to the crooked animal tooth either animal horn form shape utensils, is one king of ornament that the ornament was wear with one, and dos worthwhile the use of Xie Jie. The development of jade xi evolution process along with artistic style were introduced to the orginal profile.     

漫话明清红木家具

The mahogany furniture in China of Ming and Qing dynasties is various in kinds and numerous in quantifies.It was widely accepted by all levels of the society for its high craftsmanship and aesthetic taste. Among them there are many treasures which are good for appreciation and collection.     

那曲牧民的新生活

At the end of 2019,Ireceived a message from Tsering Gyalpo,a singer and storyteller of the epic of King Gesar.He said he and his fellow villagers had moved from Tsonyi County in Nagqu City to Sengpori,which is in Gonggar County of Lhoka City.With the message,there were some photos of him standing in front of a row of new houses and of himsitting in a living room with brand new furniture all around.     

Button Headgear Women in Zhonyin

Zhonyin, covering 5,420 square km in the southeastern part of the Ganan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Gansu Province, has a population of some 80,000 people from the Tibetan, Han and Tu ethnic groups. For reasons of geography, climate and living style, Tibetan women have adopted a different style in garments and garment decoration than others. Living in towns along the Zhaohe River, these women are called Button Headgear Women. According to local traditions, two married women will be …     

THE FOLK TREASURES OF TIBET

tibetans are fond of carrying knives for different purposes such as domestic use, primary production, and self-protection as well as just for decoration. Tibetan knives have a history of over 1,000 years. It is quite difficult to produce a Tibetan knife and usually the blade is forged in steel while the knife handle is often made of either yak horn or hard wood. Tibetan knives are classified into three kinds,     

Victor REBRIK, IHAC

The book is confined to the study of the “popular morality” of the Athenians of the second half of the fifth century BCE and the whole extent of the fourth. The author moves outward from the central phenomenon of Athenian life, the oikos, comprising the family and extended family (Chapter 1), with a more sideways to take in threats or alternatives to the family, in the shape of courtesans and other ladies of irregular status (Chapter 2), returning then (Chapter 3) to the oikos with a chapter on problems of inheritance. After this he passes (Chapter 4) to the topic of friends and enemies, as essential feature of the Greekpolis.     

Aquatic Bird Winter In Lhunzhub County （Ⅱ）

EDITOR＇S NOTE The water birds wintering in Lhunzhub are peculiar to the many wetlands subject to special protection in Tibet. With a view to preventing overspending and destroying the hilly areas and the grasslands, the State has been working hard to seek protection of the wetlands, and the Forestry Bureau of Lhunzhub County seeks to control soil erosion by planting trees and gross. The problem is that the lacul.farmers are still ploughing the.fields deeper and deeper so as to increase their grain output, which endangers the living conditians of those water birds that survive by hunting for leftover grain in the fields, and the black-necked cranes especially are now on the verge of extinction.     

Ancient Pottery： Epitome of Original Culture in Tibet

The exhibition hall of pre-his-toric culture in the TibetMuseum displays exhibitsfrom stoneware of the Pale-olithic Age to bronze andcliff paintings of the early Metal Age,which is a vivid epitome of the develop-ing history of pre-historic human culturein Tibet.Archaeologists have demonstratedthat the distribution of Neolithic Age pot-tery in China covers the whole country,but especially in five major areas: YellowRiver Valley, Yangtze River Valley, south-east China, southwest China and …     

陕西丹凤县巩家湾遗址发掘简报

The Gongjiawan site.about 1200m^2, locates at Chafang township of Danfeng county. According to the stratigraphical deposits and the characteristics of the cuhural relics,Gongjiawan site can be mainly divided into three phases. The first phase is Yangshao Culture. The second is early period of Longshan Culture,which is discovered in the uper reaches of Danjing River for the first time,the discovery fills an important gap in developing alignment of archaeological cultures in this region. The third belongs to the middle--late era of the Western Zhou,which is different from that of the corresponding period of Guanzhong district, while is closed to that of Chu culture of the corresponding period of Hubei Province. The discovery is important for us to explore the distribution of Chu culture and cultural relation between Western Zhou and Chu ,at that lime.     

陶瓷上的龙纹

Dragon is the most popular pattern in decoration art in China the usage of such design spread all over China and could be commonly foun in ceramics from shang zhou dynasties to Ming,Qing dynasties Especially in the ming and qaing dynasties,the dragon as a decoation pattern is always changing which posseses its own styie in sturcture and form,the traditional Chinese bellefs omen are reflected in such pottert as dragon.