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= 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>.


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