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On our visit to China we hiked all the way up Mt Huangshan (or just 'Huangshan') will do in search of the inspiration for the classic Asian scroll, or the Chinese landscape scroll.
Classically the landscape is the most important of all Asian scroll art. You will have seen what I mean:
Jutting, jagged rocks, precipices, twisted pine trees, and seas of clouds. The mists that shroud the steep-walled valleys, with the tops of mountains rising above the clouds like islands.
We managed to hike all the way up Huang shan, which wasn't bad for a 3 hour hike and carrying a 3 year old. It was really worth it. That was when we felt really inspired to let the world know about the beauty of the landscape that inspired the Asian scroll.
The lines of the classic landscape scroll are refined. Never too much is revealed, nothing too overt is shown. The outline of a pine is hinted at, ghosting through the swirling mists. Much like the very landscape itself.
I could look at Chinese landscape scrolls all day. The conjure up mystical mental views and far away places.
If you ever get to visit Huang Shan, and stand above the 'North Sea' at dawn to see a lonely mountain goat frisking up a sheer cliff face, the clouds tinged orange, you'll understand the Asian scroll and will love it for ever.
What is it about the Asian landscape that has delighted the Chinese for centuries? And equally, captivated Westerns more recently?
For me it is the unknown, the semi-revealed. The landscape that is there, then not there, vanished into the mist again. To stand atop Huang Shan is a mystical, eerie experience, the realm of faeries and spirits.
When you have an Asian scroll in your home and feel frazzled, you can stand in front and recapture that sense of elevation, mystery, standing between the world of reality and the abode of the gods. If that is perspective, then beauty is perspective.
There is another side to Huang Shan. Walking the hillside tracks amidst the throng of Chinese tourists, it is possible to forget for a while exactly where you are. In places of 'great beauty' marked by signs reading the same is a sea of tourists with brightly colored hats, flags and endless tour leaders with megaphones blaring. It can be an easy distraction. But they love it.
Quickly and quietly we scoot ahead. The early mornings mist still rising and swirling all around us. Down a forgotten path to the very edge of a deep precipice. Over looking again the incredible grandeur of the landscape as a hint of warm air brushes our cheeks on its way from deep below in the valley. As a bird some way off in the distance swirls, ducks and dives into the mist as if it were a bird fishing in the swirling sea.
Away from the throng we are transported once more to the mystical world of the Asian scroll and can see why this place more than any other has evoked the spirit of China and the essence of what is captured so elegantly in something as simple as ink on parchment.
This is truly and honestly the inspiration for the beauty that is the Asian scroll.
My name is Alex Perry and I am a Chinese medicine doctor with a strong interest in all things Asia. With a background in visual art and a love of travel I have pursued the beauty of the Asian Scroll for many years. Since my trip to the legendary Huangshan in China I have researched and enjoyed learning about the Asian Scroll and I am very proud to provide this information to you. You can find out more information about the Asian Scroll at the link below.
Discover Traditional Chinese Painting
While visiting China, you will have the opportunity to learn traditional Chinese painting as well as calligraphy. While touring the ancient city of Lijiang, the paradise scenic city of Guilin, or visiting the noted mountain Huangshan, You will find here the most popular thing to buy is scroll of Chinese painting. You will also find it is extremely interesting and intriguing to paint with soft brushes. If you are a Chinese art lover, don't forget to take some of these stuffs back home.
Chinese painting is also called traditional Chinese painting. Just as its name implied, Chinese painting is painted with traditional Chinese painting tools in accordance with Chinese aesthetic standard. Chinese Painting has developed a unique style.
Chinese painting is painted on rice paper or thin silk with brushes, Chinese ink and Chinese painting dye. In terms of topics, Chinese painting can be classified into three branches: human figures; Landscapes; flowers and birds. So the painting of ladies, the painting of mountains and the painting of insects and fish belong to the three branches respectively.
On painting techniques, one is traditional Chinese realistic painting characterized by fine brushwork and close attention to detail, the other is freehand brushwork.
The Legend of Chinese Painting:
In 1949, the earliest work was unearthed from a tomb of the Warring States Period (475-221 B.C). The work was a painting on silk of human figures, dragons and phoenixes. This is the earliest work on silk ever discovered in China, it measures about 30cm long by 20cm wide.
From this and other early paintings on silk, it may be easily seen that the ancients were already familiar with the art of the writing or painting, brush, for the strokes show vigor or elegance whichever was desired. Paintings of this period are strongly religious or mythological in themes.
Paintings on paper appeared much later than those on silk for the simple reason that the invention of silk preceded that of paper by a long historical period.
In 1964, when a tomb dating to the Jin Dynasty (265-420 A.D) was excavated at Astana in Tinpan, Xinjiang, a colored painting on paper was discovered. It shows, on top, the sun, the moon and the Big Dipper and, below, the owner of the tomb sitting cross-legged on a couch and leisurely holding a fan in his hand. A portrayal in vivid lines of the life of a feudal land-owner, measuring 106.5cm long by 47cm high, it is the only known painting on paper of such antiquity in China.
The Classification of Chinese Painting:
Chinese Figure Painting: The style for paintings that illustrates human figures. "Figure" in short, is a major genre in the Chinese Paintings. Chinese Figure Painting is generally divided into Taoist-and-Buddhist Painting, Female Images, Portrait, Genre Painting, and History-story painting, etc. Figure Painting strives for precise and lifelike depiction of the character's personality, both outlook and spirit. In the contemporary age, Figure Painting stresses more on "learn from the nature", assimilates the western techniques, and has made progresses in both modeling and coloring.
Chinese Landscape Painting: regularly features mountains, water or mist which are symbolic. Water and mist donate happiness and good fortune with the mountains represents long life. Some artists who like to include people, animals and homes into the painting are trying to convey a feeling of a fortunate long and happy life with the unison of soul and nature coming together.
Chinese Flower-and- Bird Painting: Flowers and birds, being the leading figures since Neolithic ceramists painted their works, have conveyed the metaphors and images of artists for more than a thousand years. For example, the pine trees represent the uprightness and immortality. Together with the bamboo and prunes, the pine trees are known as the three friends of winter. The orchid, a modest flower, is often used to describe the virtuous artists and scholars. Another much depicted group of flowers are the flowers of the four seasons. They are the peony-standing for the riches and honors; the lotus-coming out of the mire without being smeared and meaning for purity; the chrysanthemum-meaning for elegance, righteousness and longevity; and the prunes-meaning for bravery and the messenger of spring.
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Question about Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim?
Now i know that Skyrim is above Cyrodiil and in Bruma it was snowing, right? I know Skyrim has been described as some ice cold snowy mountain place. Does this mean that all of the landscape will be like Bruma? (snowy mountains.) Because i would really hope not because i much prefer wondering through grassy fields and such than snowy mountains. So yeah, i know most of Skyrim will be snow and mountains but will there be at least some grasslands and places like Colovian highlands? (mountainy, but not snowy; yellow coloured grass.) If it was all snow and mountain that would really piss me off.
I am quite confident that you will be thrilled. Of course, a lot of the story will take place in snowy Skyrim but from all the screenshots that I've seen so far there will be quite a bit of non-snowy places to wander aimfully about in. Google screenshots for Elder Scrolls V and you'll see some entries from Gamespot, IGN, Game Informer, etc. that will raise your hopes considerably.
I, for one, am HIGHLY anticipating this iteration of one of the best games out there!
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