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Hanging scrolls provide a vertical format to display art on walls. [3] [6] They are one of the most common types of scrolls for Chinese painting and calligraphy. [10] They are made in many different sizes and proportions. [5] Horizontal hanging scrolls are also a common form. [10] Hanging scrolls are different from the handscrolls.
Diyu (traditional Chinese: 地獄; simplified Chinese: 地狱; pinyin: dìyù; lit. 'earth prison') is the realm of the dead or "hell" in Chinese mythology.It is loosely based on a combination of the Buddhist concept of Naraka, traditional Chinese beliefs about the afterlife, and a variety of popular expansions and reinterpretations of these two traditions.
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The following is a list of supernatural beings in Chinese folklore and fiction originating from traditional folk culture and contemporary literature.. The list includes creatures from ancient classics (such as the Discourses of the States, Classic of Mountains and Seas, and In Search of the Supernatural) literature from the Gods and Demons genre of fiction, (for example, the Journey to the ...
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper. 61.8 x 29.7 cm. In this Chinese name , the family name is Dai . Dai Jin ( simplified Chinese : 戴进 ; traditional Chinese : 戴進 ; pinyin : Dài Jìn ; 1388–1462) was a prominent leader in the early Ming Revival of the Ma-Xia, or too the style of landscape painting of the Southern Song , which came ...
The Diagram of the Universe cannot be construed as a Chinese version of Mani's Book of Pictures, since picture books and hanging scrolls coexisted in both Uyghur and southern Chinese Manichaeism. There is no evidence that the monumental vertical design of East Asian hanging scrolls replaced the traditional small-scale horizontal layout of West ...
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Hell Scroll (地獄草紙, jigokuzōji) is a scroll depicting seven out of the sixteen lesser hells presented in Kisekyō ("Sutra of the World Arising"). Six of the paintings are accompanied by text, which all begin with the phrase "There is yet another hell", following a description of what the sinners depicted did to end up in this particular hell.