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

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    A list of Chinese symbols, designs, and art motifs, including decorative ornaments, patterns, auspicious symbols, and iconography elements, used in Chinese visual arts, sorted in different theme categories.

  3. Chinese auspicious ornaments in textile and clothing

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    Chinese auspicious ornaments are typically decorations of Chinese cultural origins which are rooted in Confucianism, Taoism, Chinese Buddhism beliefs, in Chinese mythology and cosmology and concepts, as well from Buddhist visual arts and from the natural flora and fauna in China.

  4. Twelve Ornaments - Wikipedia

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    When the Twelve ornaments were used in different amounts, it could denote different social ranks; for example, in 59 AD during the Eastern Han dynasty, [6] it was specified that the 12 ornaments concerning the sun, the moon and the star had to be used for the emperors while 9 ornaments concerning mountains and dragons should be used by the 3 ...

  5. File:Owen Jones - Examples of Chinese Ornament - 1867 - plate ...

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    The “four dragons” (as Jones calls them) do not look like typical dragons in Chinese art. Could these four creatures be some kind of birds , maybe a Phoenix ?! Again, like in his comment on plate LXXIII , Jones calls the Chinese character in the centre a “labyrinth”.

  6. Xiangyun (Auspicious clouds) - Wikipedia

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    Chinese character Qi (气), Spring and Autumn period The clouds physical characteristics (being wispy and vaporous in nature) were associated with the Taoist concept of qi (气; 氣), especially yuanqi, [3]: 133 and the cosmological forces at work; [1] [note 4] i.e. the yuanqi was the origins of the Heavens and Earth, and all things were created from the interaction between the yin and yang.

  7. Ornament (art) - Wikipedia

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    Chinese flask decorated with a dragon, clouds and some waves, an example of Jingdezhen porcelain In a 1941 essay, [ 1 ] the architectural historian Sir John Summerson called it "surface modulation". The earliest decoration and ornament often survives from prehistoric cultures in simple markings on pottery, where decoration in other materials ...

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