Chinese male ideal

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- Junzi Chinese male ideal
- Chinese scholar Chinese male ideal
  - Scholar-official Chinese scholar
  - Chinese scholar house Chinese scholar

On Wikipedia we only find the term Scholar-official. But the idea of the ancient Chinese scholar is a bit wider as a concept, and even people who were not trying to be officials could thrive to follow certain aspects of the scholar way of life.

Scholar-official (士大夫)

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The "Chinese scholar" is one of the traditional male ideals of Chinese culture.

Particular attributes the ideal Chinese scholar would have include:

mastery of the Four arts, which also implies the Four Treasures of the Study for caligraphy and painting
live in a place that includes
- a Chinese garden

It is in a sense sad (or awesome) that the computer has essentially replaced, or one may argue, enhanced beyong recognition, all of the traditional four arts, to the point that Ciro can't touch anything that is not a computer. Sometimes the old arts live on particularly closely though, e.g. in computer music, computer graphics and computer Go.