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Samurai cinema and Jidai-geki films. Jidai-geki 時代劇 is a genre of film, television, and theatre in Japan. Literally "period dramas", they are most often set during the Edo period of Japanese history, from 1603 to 1868. Some, however, are set much earlier— Portrait of Hell, for example, is set during the late Heian period —and the ...
Wuxia ( 武俠 [ù.ɕjǎ], literally "martial arts and chivalry") is a genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists in ancient China. Although wuxia is traditionally a form of historical fantasy literature, its popularity has caused it to be adapted for such diverse art forms as Chinese opera, manhua, television ...
From ancient representations and literature it is clear that fishing boats were typically small, lacking a mast or sail, and were only used close to the shore. In traditional Chinese history, history begins with three semi-mystical and legendary individuals who taught the Chinese the arts of civilization around 2800–2600 BC: of these Fuxi was ...
The Chinese classics or canonical texts are the works of Chinese literature authored prior to the establishment of the imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC. Prominent examples include the Four Books and Five Classics in the Neo-Confucian tradition, themselves an abridgment of the Thirteen Classics. The Chinese classics used a form of written Chinese ...
The sea is a recurring theme in the Haiku poems of the Japanese Edo period poet Matsuo Bashō (松尾 芭蕉) (1644–1694). The sea plays a major role in Homer 's epic poem the Odyssey, describing the ten-year voyage of the Greek hero Odysseus who struggles to return home across the sea, encountering sea monsters along the way.
Shiji. The Shiji is an official work of Chinese history published in the 1st century BC, and the first entry in the canonical Twenty-Four Histories. Its title is commonly translated as Records of the Grand Historian or The Grand Scribe 's Records. The Shiji was written during the late 2nd and early 1st centuries BC by the historian Sima Qian ...
Four Classic Novels in Chinese opera. Sha Wujing, Tang Sanzang, Sun Wukong, and Zhu Bajie ( Journey to the West) in Shao opera. Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu ( Dream of the Red Chamber) in Yue opera. Zhang Fei, Liu Bei, and Guan Yu ( Romance of the Three Kingdoms) in Sichuan opera. Ma Lin, Lin Chong, Hu Sanniang, and Qin Ming ( Water Margin) in ...
Jin Ping Mei. Jin Ping Mei ( Chinese: 金瓶梅 )—translated into English as The Plum in the Golden Vase or The Golden Lotus —is a Chinese novel of manners composed in vernacular Chinese during the latter half of the 16th century during the late Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Consisting of 100 chapters, it was published under the pseudonym ...