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Lingnan (simplified Chinese: 岭南; traditional Chinese: 嶺南; pinyin: lǐng nán; Jyutping: ling5 naam4; lit. 'South of the [Nanling] Mountains'; Vietnamese : Lĩnh Nam ) is a geographic area referring to the lands in the south of the Nanling Mountains .
Lingnan garden consists of several substyles, such as royal gardens, private gardens, and public gardens. A good example of royal Lingnan garden is Guangzhou's Gauyiu Garden [zh; zh-yue] (Jyutping: Gau 2 jiu 6 jyun 4; Traditional Chinese: 九曜園, literally "garden of nine glories"), built by Lau Yan, the first king of the Southern Han dynasty. [4]
The Lingnan School (traditional Chinese: 嶺南畫派; simplified Chinese: 岭南画派; pinyin: Lǐngnán huà pài) was an art movement active in the late Qing dynasty and Republic of China that sought to modernize Chinese painting through borrowing from other artistic traditions.
Overall, the classical Lingnan style, which is the best-known of Lingnan architecture, tends to favor pale colors such as green and white, avoid circular structures, adopt large numbers of relief carvings and sculptures, have many open structures like balconies and verandas, and be built using materials resistant to molds and moisture. The last ...
Lingnan University a public research university located in Tuen Mun, New Territories, Hong Kong. Lingnan University has 3 faculties, 3 Schools, 16 departments, 2 language centres, and 2 units (science and music), [ 8 ] offering 29 degree honours programmes [ 9 ] spanning various disciplines in humanities, business, and social sciences.
Lingnan scholarly school (Jyutping: Ling5 naam4 hok6 paai3; Traditional Chinese: 嶺南學派) is the most prominent of schools of Neo-Confucian thoughts in Lingnan. It was started by a group of Cantonese Confucian scholars in 15th century, led by Chan Bak-sa . [ 3 ]
Lingnan (岭南) is a geographic region in southern China. Lingnan (simplified Chinese: 岭南 ; traditional Chinese: 嶺南 ; pinyin: Lǐngnán unless otherwise noted) may also refer to: Lingnan University (disambiguation)
Penjing being sold in a flowermarket in Futsan, Guangdong.. Lingnan penjing (Jyutping: Ling 5 naam 5 pun 4 ging 2; Traditional Chinese: 嶺南盆景), sometimes called Cantonese penjing (Jyutping: Jyut 6 paai 3 pun 4 ging 2; Traditional Chinese: 粵派盆景), is the style of penjing (called "Pun-ging" in Cantonese) of the Lingnan region - the mainly Cantonese-speaking Southern Chinese ...