The "Chinese scholar" is one of the traditional male ideals of Chinese culture.
Particular attributes the ideal Chinese scholar would have include: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.
- mastery of the Four arts, which also implies the Four Treasures of the Study for caligraphy and painting
- live in a place that includes
Two are riculously well known:
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2024-12-23 +Created 1970-01-01
Big collection of a bunch of ghost stories. 90% of them involve some dude dating a beautiful ghost woman or animal that can shapeshift as a woman.
Organized into 12 chapeters as seen on the Chinese wiki: zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/聊齋志異#章節
The best Chinese traditional instrumental music by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2024-12-23 +Created 1970-01-01
Freshly made douhua is a blessing.
Things to do:
- eat zongzi
Some free online collections:** collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=&fq=online_visual_material%3Atrue&fq=online_media_type%3A%22Images%22&fq=culture%3A%22Chinese%22&fq=object_type%3A%22Paintings%22&view=list&date.slider=300s%2C1800s
- Smithsonian collection at a search for Paintings before 1800. Drill down further by "topic" e.g. "Mountains" or "scholar"
Unclear legality:
- www.ibiblio.org/chinese-music/html/traditional.html has many tracks which appear to be rips from vinyl records due to the scratching sound, and unclear attribution
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