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  2. Mien Shiang - Wikipedia

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    Mien shiang (Chinese: 面 相; pinyin: miànxiàng meaning face (mien) reading (shiang)) is a physiognomic and fortune-telling practice in Chinese culture and traditional Chinese medicine which purports to determine aspects of person's character, personality, and (future) health by analyzing their face according to the five phases ("wu xing").

  3. Physiognomy - Wikipedia

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    Physiognomy (from Greek φύσις (physis) 'nature' and γνώμων (gnomon) 'judge, interpreter') or face reading is the practice of assessing a person's character or personality from their outer appearance—especially the face.

  4. Bian lian - Wikipedia

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    Bian Lian (traditional Chinese: 變臉; simplified Chinese: 变脸; pinyin: Biàn Liǎn; lit. 'Face-Changing') is an ancient Chinese dramatic art that is part of the more general Sichuan opera. Performers wear brightly colored costumes and move to quick, dramatic music.

  5. Zhang Xiaogang - Wikipedia

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    Zhang Xiaogang (simplified Chinese: 张晓刚; traditional Chinese: 張曉剛; pinyin: Zhāng Xiǎogāng; born in 1958) is a contemporary Chinese symbolist and surrealist painter. Paintings in his Bloodline series are predominantly monochromatic, stylized portraits of Chinese people, usually with large, dark-pupiled eyes , posed in a stiff ...

  6. Chinese painting - Wikipedia

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    Chinese painting and calligraphy distinguish themselves from other cultures' arts by emphasis on motion and change with dynamic life. [4] The practice is traditionally first learned by rote, in which the master shows the "right way" to draw items. The apprentice must copy these items strictly and continuously until the movements become instinctive.

  7. List of Chinese symbols, designs, and art motifs - Wikipedia

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    Traditional Chinese visual design elements: their applicability in contemporary Chinese design (Master of Science in Design thesis). Arizona State University. Welch, Patricia Bjaaland (2012). Chinese art : a guide to motifs and visual imagery. Boston, US: Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4629-0689-5. OCLC 893707208. Williams, Charles (2006).

  8. Gongbi - Wikipedia

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    Finches and Bamboo (11th century) by Emperor Huizong of Song by Puxian, a Beile of the Qing dynasty. Gongbi (simplified Chinese: 工笔; traditional Chinese: 工筆; pinyin: gōng bǐ; Wade–Giles: kung-pi) is a careful realist technique in Chinese painting, the opposite of the interpretive and freely expressive xieyi (寫意 'sketching thoughts') style.

  9. Tang dynasty painting - Wikipedia

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    Liu, X., & Zhang, W. (2023). Mining the Value of Chinese and Foreign Art Exchange in Tang Dynasty Ceramics and the Interactive Artistic Influence of AI Digital Painting. Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry, 23(3), 159-170. Doi: 10.5281/zenodo.13832575; Liu, Y. (2023). The Physical and Conceptual Space of the Murals in Chinese Tang ...