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The Yupian is a significant work in the history of Written Chinese. It is the first major extant dictionary in the four centuries since the completion of Shuowen and records thousands of new characters that had been introduced into the language in the interim.
Wucai (五彩, "Five colours", "Wuts'ai" in Wade-Giles) is a style of decorating white Chinese porcelain in a limited range of colours. It normally uses underglaze cobalt blue for the design outline and some parts of the images, and overglaze enamels in red, green, and yellow for the rest of the designs.
Ruancai ('soft colours') was also a term used in the Yongzheng era as the colours used are softer in contrast to the 'hard colours' (硬彩, yingcai) previously used for famille verte or wucai. [13] Fencai is the more modern term used by Chen Liu (陈浏) in the early 20th century and it then replaced yangcai in Chinese usage. [16] [10]
The wucai technique was a similar combination, with underglaze blue used more widely for highlights. [69] Two-colour wares, using underglaze blue and an overglaze colour, usually red, also produced very fine results. A number of different other methods using coloured glazes were tried, often with images lightly incised into the body.
Yupian (玉篇, gyokuhen), first half of vol. 27 [17] unknown Part of a 30 volume Chinese character dictionary; one half of an extant complete volume [nb 7] Tang dynasty, 7th–8th century One scroll, ink on paper, 27.2 cm × 915.0 cm (10.7 in × 360.2 in) Kōzan-ji, Kyoto: Yupian (玉篇, gyokuhen), second half of vol. 27 [17]
Wucai plate, Chinese export porcelain, Kangxi period c. 1680 Painters' workshop at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory in Vienna c. 1830 Porcelain painting in Weimar, Germany in 1989. China painting, or porcelain painting, [a] is the decoration of glazed porcelain objects, such as plates, bowls, vases or statues.
The Wagokuhen or Wagyokuhen (倭玉篇, "Japanese Yupian") was a circa 1489 CE Japanese dictionary of Chinese characters.This early Muromachi period Japanization was based upon the circa 543 CE Chinese Yupian (玉篇 "Jade Chapters"), as available in the 1013 CE Daguang yihui Yupian (大廣益會玉篇; "Enlarged and Expanded Yupian").
The prominent Heian period monk and scholar Kūkai, founder of the Shingon Buddhism, edited his Tenrei banshō meigi around 830–835 CE, and based it upon the (circa 543 CE) Chinese Yupian dictionary. Among the Tang dynasty Chinese books that Kūkai brought back to Japan in 806 CE was an original edition Yupian and a copy of the (121 CE ...