chinese typical street with old houses
Sunday, 6. May 2007, 05:53:40
the tiger mountain in suzhou
Monday, 16. April 2007, 00:13:05
the frist mountain scenary in SuZhou city.wonderful!Suzhou Fans
Sunday, 18. March 2007, 13:50:34
Suzhou fans have a long history and are famous at home and abroad. The exquisite sandalwood fan, folding fan, silk palace fan, paper fan are all characteristic of arts. The production of sandalwood fan include zigzag shaped steel thread on the two ends of a bamboo bow and the engraving of flowers with it. “Ironing Flowers” refers to the drawing of flowers and characters on the spread sandalwood fan with an electric pen. The drawing is vivid, with clear gradations, has the effect of drawing on paper. “Drawing Flowers” refers to the drawing of women, flowers and birds, mountains and waters on the silk on the upper half of the fan. The picture is colorful and the drawing is fine and delicate. The folding fans of Suzhou are characteristic of being fine and elegant. The frame are mainly made of bamboo carved or painted, and pieces of white bones with elegant flowers. The drawn pictures include flowers and birds, poems and patterns clear and pleasant. Laofan brand of the folding fan is the best. Pictures are fine and beautiful. They are flat, strong and smooth. What's more, they last long.
The silk palace fan is the most famous one among the fans. It spread far and wide since Han dynasty. There are round, hexagon, rectangle ones. Its face is made of silk. Some are made of thin silk or cloth. There are also single level or double level ones. Pictures are drawn on it, matched by teeth, bones, bamboo handles. The ancient style and elegance are obvious. It looks fine and pleasant.
Potted Landscape
Sunday, 18. March 2007, 13:42:40
Stones and stakes are put in little flower pots. Grass and flowers are kept in them. They form natural scenes. That's what you can see everywhere in Suzhou garden. In Humble Administration Garden and Lingering Garden , special lower pot areas are kept for people to enjoy. There are over 1000 pots of stakes, water and stone pots in different postures. They are old, strong, prosperous. These make you enjoy the natural scenes about mountains and trees. Many of them use the treasures left from Ming dynasty. Potted landscapes can be classified into two. One focuses on trees, with mountains and stones, characters and houses. The other focuses on mountains and stones with clear water, pavilions. The former is called stake potted landscape. The latter stone and mountain potted landscape.
Potted landscape of suzhou pay close attention to the postures of stakes and the age, curiosity of the appearances. These stakes are dug out from fields or deep mountains. Then they are cultivated carefully and treated artistically. Some look old and strong, like huge trees. Some only have two or three branches, like old trees in deep mountains. Some hang upside down like the ancient pine trees hanging along the precipitous cliff. Some lay twisted horizontally like dragons flying in the sky.
The expert on potted landscape, Zhou Shoujuan said that potted landscape include 60 percent of nature and 40 percent of art. Among the 40 percent, trimming covers 25%, binding up covers 15%. Only in this way can trees not look too artistic or become bad ones. At the same time, people should also learn from those famous pictures of the past and present.
The flower pots osed are also laid emphasis on. The purple pot from Jingshan, Yixing are often used. Some porcelain or stone ones are also used to.
suzhou Silk Tapestry
Friday, 9. February 2007, 02:41:30
Silk tapestry is a beautiful and traditionally Chinese textile. Silk tapestries have been found in the tombs of the Tang Dynasty emperors in Turpan, illustrating China 's long history and association with this beautiful textile. After the imperial family moved south during the Song Dynasty, this kind of tapestry became more popular around the Yangtze regions and development centered around Suzhou . In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, silk tapestry became a symbol of prestige and there is a famous tapestry of this period now in the Shanghai Museum .
The silk tapestry is commonly used in two ways, for daily use as cushions, table-covers, lamp shades and book-covers or as art work for decoration.
Suzhou Embroidery
Friday, 9. February 2007, 02:31:39
Thread lanes, brocade mills, embroidery flower streets, etc., in the city. That proved the prosperity of suzhou embroidery. Some lived by embroidering. Daughters in rich families were engaged in it as a way of killing time and molding their experiment. That's how “popular embroidery”, “boudoir embroidery” and “palace embroidery” came into being. Suzhou embroidery in Qing dynasty reached its culmination. Suzhou was called the “market of embroidery”, famous both at home and abroad. There were various ways of knitting and they were applied widely. Mountains, rivers, lakes, pavilions, flowers and birds, characters were all embroidered. Suzhou embroidery was largely needed in the palace. Therefore wonderful and magnificent embroidery sprang up.
At the end of Qing dynasty and the beginning of Ming dynasty, Songtao, an expert at embroidery, renovated the traditional way of knitting. Flowers and birds, characters embroidered in new ways, or endowed with new meaning ,were very characteristic. The image of Lina, the queen of Italy absorbed the theory of chiaroscuro. Close attention was paid to the vividness of the images. Such embroidery was called “art embroidery” or “emulation embroidery”. Songtao combined the previous art and his own experience, classified the way of knitting into 18 varieties, as recorded by Zhangsui in a book. Thus the way of knitting was systematized. Her own embroidery won several awards for the country in International Fair.
The pieces of embroidery on characters, animals and flowers, mountains and water are for appreciation. They can also be made into pictures, book marks, a set of hanging scrolls, etc. There are also the varieties of embroidery: single-side embroidery, double-side embroidery of different colors. Double-side embroidery, the specific style of suzhou embroidery can be appreciated from both sides. Pictures look exactly the same and wonderful on both sides. Special ways are used in knitting instead of knotting. There the end of silk threads are invisible. It is knitted in the right angle without piercing the other side. Both sides will present the same excellent effect. The Nangjing Bridge , Xiangjun, the peony, the cat, the goldfish are the masterpieces in double-side embroidery.
At the end of Qing dynasty and the beginning of Ming dynasty, Songtao, an expert at embroidery, renovated the traditional way of knitting. Flowers and birds, characters embroidered in new ways, or endowed with new meaning ,were very characteristic. The image of Lina, the queen of Italy absorbed the theory of chiaroscuro. Close attention was paid to the vividness of the images. Such embroidery was called “art embroidery” or “emulation embroidery”. Songtao combined the previous art and his own experience, classified the way of knitting into 18 varieties, as recorded by Zhangsui in a book. Thus the way of knitting was systematized. Her own embroidery won several awards for the country in International Fair.
The pieces of embroidery on characters, animals and flowers, mountains and water are for appreciation. They can also be made into pictures, book marks, a set of hanging scrolls, etc. There are also the varieties of embroidery: single-side embroidery, double-side embroidery of different colors. Double-side embroidery, the specific style of suzhou embroidery can be appreciated from both sides. Pictures look exactly the same and wonderful on both sides. Special ways are used in knitting instead of knotting. There the end of silk threads are invisible. It is knitted in the right angle without piercing the other side. Both sides will present the same excellent effect. The Nangjing Bridge , Xiangjun, the peony, the cat, the goldfish are the masterpieces in double-side embroidery.
i like this photo best!
Thursday, 21. December 2006, 13:05:18
you can see many information from this photo.this type of house stands for the old style of Chinese people.but even to us who lives today it is very atractable.because it means quiet and wealth.its the spring of the Chinese culture.
The Surging Wave Pavilion(pictures in photoes of canglang pavilion)
Monday, 24. July 2006, 03:15:16
SuZhou China http://www.suzhou.gov.cn
Celebrated for the delights of the wilderness of mountain and forest scenery,the Surging Wave Pavilion is the oldest among the existing classical gardens of Suzhou . The exact location of the Surging Wave Pavilion can be found in the Song Dynasty map of Pingjiang (Suzhou,A.D.1229) inscribed on the stele.The northern Song poet Su Sunqin said in "A Record of the Surging Wave Pavilion","...To the east of the Confucian Temple were earthen hills covered with trees and grass,and a wide expanse of water,quite different from the urban scenes... I was reluctant to leave because I fell in love with this place.So I bought it for 20,000 coins,built a pavilion on the rock projecting over the water on the north and called it the Surging Wave Pavilion."Fan Chenda wrote in "Historical Records of Wu Jun" under the Song Dynasty,"The Surging Wave Pavilion is located to the south of the Confucian Temple ,fronting an area of about 1.6 ac .of water space...During the reign of Qingli( 1044 A .D.) Su Sunqing bought it and built a pavilion by the water,called the Surging Wave Pavilion...The name of the Surging Wave has been known to all far and wide since then." On the whole the present garden of the Surging Wave Pavilion still keeps the style of the Song.It features a range of man-made moutains inside the garden and waterscapes outside.Proceeding past the pure expanse of water over a zigzag bridge of stone and through the entrance,one comes to the garden and catches sight of man-made mountain covered with age-old trees and bamboo,running from east to west. At the foot of the mountains are rocky slopewash.The Surging Wave Pavilion in the shape of a square stands at the top of the mountain and has a parallel couplet from the Song poets on the stone pillars to heighten artistic conception,reading ,"The refreshing breeze and the bright moon are priceless,the nearby water and the distant mountains strike a sentimental note,"Most of the garden buildings,simple and plain,were rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty,carefully arranged around the mountains and connected by a long roofed walkway. A double-corridor built by the canal lies to the north of the garden,unifying waterscapes outside the garden and "mountain scenery" inside in one breath through its latticed windows, one of incredible examples of borrowed scenes in the classical gardens of Suzhou.There're over 100 different latticed windows with impressive designs,possessing extremely high artistic value.
To the south of the mountains is the chief building of the garden,called "the Enlightenment Hall". Other building include the Smelling Prunus Mume Pavilion,the Realm of Yaohua (Yaohua is said to be a kind of jade-like,sweet-smelling flower in the Chinese garden of Eden,which can help prolong the life expectancy of those who behold it.),the Mountain-in-View Tower,the Elegant Bamboo House,the Temple of 500 Sages,the Pure Fragrance House, the Imperial Stele Pavilion,the Pavilion Fronting Water, the Fish Watching Spot, the Water Pavilion of Lotus Fragrance,and the Prunus Mumm Pavilion.
The garden has altogether 20 different building, 22 plate aux and tablets, 23 parallel couplets,153 stelae,and 12 such valuable old trees as gingko ,bilobed,pterocarya stenoptera,celtis sinensis pers,camellia japenical,santalum album,chimonanthus praecox,etc, which fall into 10 catalogues,70 kinds of valuable cymbidium spp and 18 kinds of bambusoideae.
Celebrated for the delights of the wilderness of mountain and forest scenery,the Surging Wave Pavilion is the oldest among the existing classical gardens of Suzhou . The exact location of the Surging Wave Pavilion can be found in the Song Dynasty map of Pingjiang (Suzhou,A.D.1229) inscribed on the stele.The northern Song poet Su Sunqin said in "A Record of the Surging Wave Pavilion","...To the east of the Confucian Temple were earthen hills covered with trees and grass,and a wide expanse of water,quite different from the urban scenes... I was reluctant to leave because I fell in love with this place.So I bought it for 20,000 coins,built a pavilion on the rock projecting over the water on the north and called it the Surging Wave Pavilion."Fan Chenda wrote in "Historical Records of Wu Jun" under the Song Dynasty,"The Surging Wave Pavilion is located to the south of the Confucian Temple ,fronting an area of about 1.6 ac .of water space...During the reign of Qingli( 1044 A .D.) Su Sunqing bought it and built a pavilion by the water,called the Surging Wave Pavilion...The name of the Surging Wave has been known to all far and wide since then." On the whole the present garden of the Surging Wave Pavilion still keeps the style of the Song.It features a range of man-made moutains inside the garden and waterscapes outside.Proceeding past the pure expanse of water over a zigzag bridge of stone and through the entrance,one comes to the garden and catches sight of man-made mountain covered with age-old trees and bamboo,running from east to west. At the foot of the mountains are rocky slopewash.The Surging Wave Pavilion in the shape of a square stands at the top of the mountain and has a parallel couplet from the Song poets on the stone pillars to heighten artistic conception,reading ,"The refreshing breeze and the bright moon are priceless,the nearby water and the distant mountains strike a sentimental note,"Most of the garden buildings,simple and plain,were rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty,carefully arranged around the mountains and connected by a long roofed walkway. A double-corridor built by the canal lies to the north of the garden,unifying waterscapes outside the garden and "mountain scenery" inside in one breath through its latticed windows, one of incredible examples of borrowed scenes in the classical gardens of Suzhou.There're over 100 different latticed windows with impressive designs,possessing extremely high artistic value.
To the south of the mountains is the chief building of the garden,called "the Enlightenment Hall". Other building include the Smelling Prunus Mume Pavilion,the Realm of Yaohua (Yaohua is said to be a kind of jade-like,sweet-smelling flower in the Chinese garden of Eden,which can help prolong the life expectancy of those who behold it.),the Mountain-in-View Tower,the Elegant Bamboo House,the Temple of 500 Sages,the Pure Fragrance House, the Imperial Stele Pavilion,the Pavilion Fronting Water, the Fish Watching Spot, the Water Pavilion of Lotus Fragrance,and the Prunus Mumm Pavilion.
The garden has altogether 20 different building, 22 plate aux and tablets, 23 parallel couplets,153 stelae,and 12 such valuable old trees as gingko ,bilobed,pterocarya stenoptera,celtis sinensis pers,camellia japenical,santalum album,chimonanthus praecox,etc, which fall into 10 catalogues,70 kinds of valuable cymbidium spp and 18 kinds of bambusoideae.
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