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  2. Hanging scroll - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Manichaean Diagram of the Universe - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Arzhang - Wikipedia

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    During the Yuan dynasty and the Ming dynasty (during which the Hongwu Emperor banned Manichaeism in 1370), the Monijiao Manichaeans in southern China became close to the Pure Land Mahayana Buddhists, synthesizing the tradition of didcatic illustration that began with the Arzhang with the formal attributes of the hanging scrolls used in e-toki ...

  5. Diyu - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Dai Jin - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. List of Chinese inventions - Wikipedia

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    Hanging scroll: Hanging scrolls originated in their earliest form from literature and other texts written on bamboo strips and silk banners in ancient China. [265] [266] [267] The earliest hanging scrolls are related to and developed from silk banners in early Chinese history. [265] [266] [268] These banners were long and hung vertically on ...

  8. Cartoon elves and scrolls visualize Chinese military’s goal ...

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    China’s military released an animation on Sunday depicting the journey to reunite two halves of a torn scroll across the Taiwan Strait, a thinly veiled reference to the country’s longstanding ...

  9. Extermination of Evil - Wikipedia

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    The calligrapher is thought to be the same on the five scrolls as on the hell scroll and the demon of punishment, [1] which were produced at roughly the same time. [2] They are thought to have originally been a single handscroll, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] known as the "second edition of the Masuda family hell scroll", that was stored in the Rengeō-in Temple ...