scholarly journals The Role of Contour Line in Painting — an Analysis of Morandi's Still Life Painting

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingru Liu ◽  
Mengqi Jin
Keyword(s):  
Contour Line ◽  
Still Life ◽  
Warring States Period ◽  
Oil Paintings ◽  
Warring States ◽  
Contour Lines ◽  
Cave Paintings ◽  
Changing Times ◽  
Color Composition

In painting, line is one of the basic compositional elements and an important "tool" for artists to express their ideas. The combination of line and color, composition, and shape allows the viewer to feel the author's thoughts, emotions, or distinctive thinking through the picture. Foreign cave paintings, European pre-Renaissance oil paintings and modern paintings, and domestic Dunhuang murals, silk paintings of the Warring States period and cave paintings all show that the contour line has never disappeared despite its different roles in the changing times. Therefore, the artist's generalized expression of contour lines can become a characteristic of the picture that makes the artist stand out.

“When Red Pigeons Gathered on Tang's House”: A Warring States Period Tale of Shamanic Possession and Building Construction set at the turn of the Xia and Shang Dynasties

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
SARAH ALLAN
Keyword(s):  
Spirit Possession ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Warring States Period ◽  
Shang Dynasty ◽  
Warring States

Abstract“When Red Pigeons Gathered on Tang's House” (Chi jiu zhi ji Tang zhi wu 赤之集湯之屋) is a Warring States period bamboo manuscript written in the script of the Chu state. It concerns figures that are well known in historical legend: Tang 湯, the founder of the Shang dynasty; his wife; his minister Yi Yin 伊尹, here called by the title xiaochen 小臣 [minor servitor]; and the last king of the Xia dynasty, here called simply the Xia Lord (xia hou 夏后). These figures have their familiar identities, but the tale recorded in the manuscript is unique and has no apparent political or philosophical import. The protagonist, Xiaochen, is Tang's cook, but he does not play the role of founding minister raised up by a future king. Moreover, he is associated with a nexus of motifs associated with shamans, including spirit possession. He acquires clairvoyance after eating a soup of magic red birds (jiu 鳩, [pigeons] or hu 鵠 [cranes]) intended for Tang. After fleeing from an angry Tang, he is possessed by a spirit-medium raven. He then cures the illness of the Xia Lord by having him move his house and kill the yellow snakes and white rabbits under his bed. One rabbit escapes and the story concludes that this is why parapets are placed on houses, suggesting that the context of the story was the construction of a building. Thus, it may have been similar to a historiola, narrated in a ritual to sanctify houses after the placement of the parapet, thus preventing illness among the inhabitants.

Naming and Cosmology: The Role of Names in the Onto-Generative Process

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Katerina Gajdosova
Keyword(s):  
Warring States Period ◽  
Generative Process ◽  
Warring States ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Generative Approach

Abstract The article takes the excavated cosmological texts as a basis for reinterpreting the relationship between cosmology, epistemology, and action in Warring States period thought, by focusing on the role of names in situatedness and self-actualization of being. It proposes to view the speculative and the practical concerns in terms of a dynamic union of the receptive and the creative within the onto-generative cycle. Building on Chung-ying Cheng’s onto-generative approach and Heidegger’s hermeneutics of Dasein in Sein und Zeit, the article identifies names as the centre (Gadamer’s Mitte) in which the receptive and the creative aspect of being come together.

scholarly journals The art of narrative and the rhetoric of persuasion in the “*Jīn Téng” (Metal Bound Casket) from the Tsinghua collection of manuscripts

2014 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 937-968
Author(s):  
Dirk Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Warring States Period ◽  
Philosophical Discourse ◽  
Warring States ◽  
The Social ◽  
Bamboo Slips ◽  
Social Use ◽  
Circulation Of Knowledge

Abstract This article reconstructs the rhetoric of persuasion in the “Zhōu Wǔwáng yǒu jí” 周武王有疾 (King Wǔ of Zhōu suffered from illness), a text written on fourteen bamboo slips that is part of the Tsinghua collection of manuscripts and presumably dates to the Warring States period (ca. 481–222 BC). The “Zhōu Wǔwáng yǒu jí” has well-known transmitted counterparts in the Shàngshū and the Shǐjì, but in comparison with these texts, it largely omits explicit comment on the role of the Duke of Zhōu 周公 after the death of King Wǔ 武王. By taking this difference seriously and analysing the art of narrative in the text, this article reconstructs the social use of the text in the politico-philosophical discourse of the Warring States period. By drawing on theoretical work by Mieke Bal and Jan Assmann on narratology and memory production, this structural analysis of the “Zhōu Wǔwáng yǒu jí” further enables new insights into the circulation of knowledge, as well as into the production and circulation of texts at the time.

A Dramaturgy of Death: Performing (And Spectating) Filial Piety in Early China

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Thomas Radice
Keyword(s):  
Filial Piety ◽  
Warring States Period ◽  
Death Rituals ◽  
Important Distinction ◽  
Warring States ◽  
Western Han Dynasty ◽  
Performance Events ◽  
Chinese Texts ◽  
Eastern Zhou

Abstract This essay analyzes the early Chinese elite discourse on filial death rituals, arguing that early Chinese texts depict these rituals as performance events. Building on spectacle of xiao sacrifices in the Western Zhou Dynasty, Eastern Zhou authors conceived of filial death rituals as dramaturgical phenomena that underscored not only what needed to be performed, but also how it should be performed, and led to an important distinction between personal dispositions and inherited ritual protocol. This distinction, then, led to concerns about artifice in human behavior, both inside and outside the Ruist (Confucian) tradition. By end of the Warring States Period and in the early Western Han Dynasty, with the embracement of artifice in self-cultivation, the dramatic role of the filial son in death rituals became even more developed and complex, requiring the role of cultivated spectators to be engaged critics who recognized the nuances of cultivated performances.

The Book of the Young Master of Accountancy: An Ancient Chinese Economics Text

2007 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia Milburn
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Warring States Period ◽  
Ancient China ◽  
Economic Cycles ◽  
Warring States ◽  
Price Stabilisation ◽  
Théorie Économique ◽  
Développement Économique

AbstractIn ancient China, economic theory developed from the Warring States period onwards. Many philosophers included economic ideas in their works. A number of important theories were first articulated in an extremely obscure text, the Jinizi, a book was associated with the preunification state of Yue. The Jinizi is the earliest known text to include the concept of economic cycles, and it stresses the role of investment and savings in economic development, and price stabilisation. These ideas subsequently formed the cornerstone of ancient Chinese economic theory. This paper includes the first translation of the Jinizi into English. En Chine ancienne, la théorie économique se développa à partir de la période des Royaumes Combattants. Plusieurs philosophes inclurent des concepts économiques dans leurs travaux. Un nombre de théories importantes furent articulées dans un texte extrêmement obscure, le Jinizi, un livre associé avec l'état de Yue avant l'unification de la Chine. Le Jinizi est le premier texte à avoir inclu le concept des cycles économiques, et il appuie le rôle de l'investissement et de l'épargne dans le développement économique, et de la stabilisation des prix. Ces idées formèrent par la suite le point clé de la théorie économique en Chine ancienne. Cet article comprend la première traduction du Jinizi en Anglais.

scholarly journals Innovation Transfer during the Warring States Period: Considering the Importance of Early China’s Relationship with the Steppes

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-128
Author(s):  
Christine M. Havliček
Keyword(s):  
Past Century ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Warring States Period ◽  
Early China ◽  
Warring States ◽  
History Of ◽  
Second Millennium Bce ◽  
Historical Developments ◽  
The Impact

Abstract This paper focuses on the contact between pre-imperial China and the peoples living on the steppes in her vicinity. For all the obscurity that had been shrouding the steppe inhabitants throughout centuries of historical scholarship, archaeological discoveries during the past century attest to their highly developed culture and economy and, what is more, make obvious that they had been entertaining close relations with the Chinese from as early as the second millennium BCE. Following a line of scholarship which has set out to redefine the role of the steppes in world history on the basis of this new data, this paper aims to demonstrate certain aspects of the important role they played in the history of China. Several very impactful innovations diffused to early China through interactions with the steppes, influencing Chinese history to a major degree. The paper specifically concentrates on a timeframe surrounding the Warring States Period (c. 500- 221 BCE), during which a couple of key innovations can be shown to have been adopted from the steppes. Furthermore, it illustrates the impact of these innovations on historical developments within China, thereby reinforcing the argument that the role of the steppes in Chinese history was one of tremendous importance.

Classical Methods

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward N. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Mao Zedong ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Warring States Period ◽  
Philosophical Literature ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Warring States ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Chinese Military

Abstract The literature of warfare records the insights of past generations into one of the most harrowing and trying elements of the human experience. The classical works from the Warring States period created the base of military thought in China that also influenced much of East Asia. According to Mao Zedong, these ancient texts bore special importance as literature, sources of study, and inspiration for the people of China. This hard-purchased expertise reflected the experiences of the past that present scholars must carefully study, especially as new works of military thought within the Chinese literary base appeared in the twentieth century, penned and spoken by Mao himself. These new texts demonstrated a steady continuity from the earliest Chinese military-philosophical literature. Most notably, these common concepts included a consistent conceptualization about the role of warfare in society, the importance of complementary opposites, capitalizing on strengths and exploiting weaknesses, and adaptability to changing dynamics. The influence of Mao’s writings ensured these precepts continued to exercise an important influence upon the People’s Republic of China, creating the base of military-philosophical literature in the prc.

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