Culture & Society

指在歙砚砚石上进行的艺术雕刻。歙砚雕刻始于唐代歙州叶姓猎人发现龙尾山砚石以后，历代砚式风格各异：唐砚多箕形，宋砚多抄手形，均以朴拙务实见长。明清两代渐趋精雕细琢，造型变化丰富多彩，但仍保持着简洁大方的本色，主要有玉堂式和大冠式两大类别。现代以来，除传统几大砚式继续存在，自然就形式和仿古式逐渐成为中高档砚的主流形式。砚雕是绘画、书法和石雕技艺的综汇，要求图案布局得当，整体造型形神兼美，砚铭得体含气韵...

陶砚 陶砚制作始于汉代，后世多有烧制。现今仍存于世的西汉“十二峰陶砚”，奇峰竞拔，形象古朴而生动，当属现存世砚台中的精品。唐代时还烧制了三彩砚台，这在唐代墓中也多有出土。在宋代时陶制砚台的制作品加大，而且更加完美，据史料载，在宋代时曾有一制砚名匠，人称万道人，其所制的陶砚可与当时的端砚、歙砚相媲美，甚至在当时的价钱超过前两者的价钱。曾有一文人买过其制作的一方陶砚，磨研30余年仍然发墨如初，被此...

据国家图书馆有关负责人介绍，他们正着手对宋代胜光法师所译的回鹘文版的《玄奘传》进行研究，未来有望将这个宋代的孤本进行复制，复制将采用这本书原本的材料——新疆维吾尔族桑皮纸。 3月20日，“蓝靛金箔——中国画·桑皮纸绘画作品展”在西城区文化馆举行展览，记者从展览上获悉这一消息。 国家图书馆副馆长张志清介绍，胜光法师所译的回鹘文版的《玄奘传》命运多舛，如今国家图书馆仅藏有原本的一半，是二十世纪三十...

An old Chinese proverb says that the reign of every emperor starts when he dons his new robes. The imperial robes of the last Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) lend legitimacy to this proverb. Clothing was...

A series of 16th-century manuscripts that have been making waves on the Internet look like a Monty Python version of the Renaissance: They show cats outfitted with flaming backpacks, attacking castles...

Brief History Dunhuang, the small town at the edge of the Gobi desert, is located in Gansu Province, China. Dunhuang had become the gateway to the Silk Road during the Han dynasty (205-247BC). The...

The Dacian Draco [draˈko] was the standard ensign of troops of the ancient Eastern European Dacian people, which can be seen in the hands of the soldiers of Decebalus in several scenes depicted on...

As the world becomes more connected, language diversity is plummeting at an unprecedented rate. Forty percent of the world’s 7000 languages at risk of disappearing,  according to estimates by the...

Ang ina ni Rizal ang unang nagturo sa kanya ng pagbasa. Kung sila ay inaabot ng gabi at si Rizal ay pagod na sa pag- aaral ng pagbasa, si Ginang Rizal naman ang bumabasa at ang anak ang nakikinig....

27 August 2014 – Civil society converged on United Nations Headquarters in New York today to make their voices heard regarding the future global development agenda that will point the way forward on...