Scholar-official by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
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.
Chinese scholar house by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Video 1.
Confucian Scholar's House by Asian Art Museum (2009)
Source. The only video on YouTube showing the house of a scholar!? It is alas about Korean scholars, but the concept is basically the same.
Chinese traditional music label by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Sitar player by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Tabla player by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Two are riculously well known:
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
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
Erhu by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Figure 1.
A blind erhu street performer playing in Jingzhou, Hubei (2006)
Source. Playing the erhu is a traditional occupation for blind people in China, a notable example being Abing.
Video 2.
The 12 Most Famous Erhu Melodies in China (2021)
Source. TODO transcribe list.
Warring States period by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Figure 1.
Warring States period map c. 260 BC
. Source.
Junzi by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Classic Chinese Novels by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
The best Chinese traditional instrumental music by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Video 1.
High Mountain and Flowing Water performed on the guzheng by Xiang SiHua (2000)
Source.
Video 2.
Suwu herding sheep performed on the erhu by Song Fei (2017)
Source.
Video 3.
Ambush from ten sides performed on the pipa by Jiaju Shen (2017)
Source.
Video 6.
Wang Jin beats Gao Qiu theme music from The Water Margin featuring a suona solo
. Source.
Douhua by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Freshly made douhua is a blessing.
Guqin by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Figure 2.
11th century painting of a guqin recital
. Source.
Figure 3.
Stringless guqin fan painting by Feng Chaoran (1943)
Stolen traight from www.silkqin.com/10ideo.htm on silkqin.com:
Wind in the pines and a babbling brook are nature's melody. A qin was brought along, but there is no need to play it
The The Gateless Barrier vibe and Chinese naturalism is just awesome.
Four Beauties by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Figure 1.
A modern rendition of the four beauties
. Source. TODO we need a decent older one with CC BY-SA, and illustrating their attributes! Wikimedia failed me.
Dragon boat by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Things to do:
Video 1.
Dragon Boat Festival race day in Hong Kong by South China Morning Post (2018)
Source.
Chinese book by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Chinese traditional painting by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Some free online collections:
  • Smithsonian collection at a search for Paintings before 1800. Drill down further by "topic" e.g. "Mountains" or "scholar"
** 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
Unclear legality:
Yi people by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created

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