#chinese art objects

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

Ao Bing's father and aunty. His father is Ao Guang敖广, Longwang of the East Sea, and his aunty is Ao Run敖闰, Longwang of the West Sea. (lóngwang龙王 means sovereign of lóng龙)

Scholars used to use the word loong but its pronunciation is significantly different from the Chinese character "龙". Long is better but still not the same. The aunthentic pronunciation is more like [lɔ:ueng] and it's pinyin is lóng.

Translators use the word dragon merely to facilitate better understanding, but the Chinese "龙" and the Western "dragon" are vastly different, fundamentally distinct, much like two creatures that aren't in the same dimension.

The Chinese 龙lóng is a sacred mythical creature; they are considered holy beings, existing in a dimension above that of mortals. They hold the responsibility of controlling the wind, lightning, thunder, clouds and rain, regulating the weather, and blessing the abundance of crops. The copulation of 龙lóng with nine other creatures gave birth to various divine beasts, each bearing some characteristics of the 龙lóng, but the true 龙lóng is regarded as the purest and most noble of all.

In China, many people claim to have seen lóng, with plenty of folk records both before and after the founding of the People's Republic. In the internet era, there are also many videos of lóng. One of the most famous is footage taken by a college student on her dormitory balcony on a cloudy day, where a lóng appears in the thunderclouds and then turn its head to gaze the girl. Another notable incident is the CCTV live broadcast of the Gaoyou Lake lóng water spout event (interestingly, CCTV later edited the live footage, changing the scene of a real lóng spiraling and disappearing in a flash to show three ridiculous birds that didn’t follow the rules of perspective). These videos can be found on Bilibili if you want to check them out. I think the dormitory and Gaoyou Lake videos are real like they're truely lóng (the dorm one is especially striking because it looks exactly like the watery ink long on ancient Chinese paintings, with an extraordinary and otherworldly vibe, exuding an overwhelming sense of oppression). Other real videos show that lóng can fly at incredibly high speeds, like lightning. Folk culture says lóng can switch between physical and ethereal forms at will, which is why they can move so fast. There are also many fake videos to get clicks online, so one gets to use their own judgment. It’s widely believed that lóng appeared as early as the creation of the world, and they made a pact with the ancestors of Chinese people and have been protecting the 'Celestial Realm and Divine Land of Huaxia'华夏神州 ever since. In the unique Chinese twelve shengxiao生肖 culture, lóng is the only mythical creature—the other eleven are common animals. Some scholars think that when shengxiao was created, many people had actually seen lóng and accepted that they're real, which is why it became one of the twelve shengxiao.

[tarochimochi]

NO PROPER DRAWING FOR FEMSLASH TODAY SORRY BUT GIJINKAS OF THE YURI FROM HFJONE HELLO?? I’ll draw them kissing later

[answithvanzz]

happi lunar mew yuri chat

[tsubakisato]

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

my resolution is to spend more time on my artworks like i did with this one!

~9 hours

[marejadilla]

Sharon Sprung, "The Curious Chinese Boxes", Oil on Panel. American painter based in Brooklyn, New York.

[geraldofallon]

Artistic Movements of the Neath

Mycologenes | Sculpture

“Nature's neathy work is oft-times strange. But admirable.”

[socs-art-references]

Xu Bing, "One", 2018

this is in english! try reading it

[isa-ah]

what's a good channel to learn abt China without the US dualistic exoticism or demonization?

[chadlesbianjasontodd]

set of 18 blue-and-white porcelain dishes in two concentric circles around a center. the outer circle of dishes shows cranes among clouds; the inner, songbirds on flowering branches. the center dish depicts two dragons circling the character "壽" (longevity). the bottom of each dish is marked with the reign period of production. made in jingdezhen. ming dynasty, longqing period, 1567-1572.

[chaos64sprinkles]

Eating at the Chinese Restaurant! Scene 22

Sprinkles: Bark! Come on, that's the second floor, I could quickly fly there, but I need to take the shopping cart too, the problem is that it's too heavy to carry, but luckily there's the Chinese restaurant right there, so I can get some good energy to carry the shopping cart on this staircase that looks like it's moving!

30 minutes later…

Sprinkles: Ahhhhh, it was delicious, now there's this cookie that's lucky by chance, so that means that if I opened this instead of swallowing it all inside, could something good come into my life, let's open it then… ………….hmmm………….hmmmmmmm…………..so moral bro, how am I going understand this old man, better look for a translator to understand everything at once.

15 minutes later…

Sprinkles: I didn't think so, I thought nothing, what is this Chinese word translated into English?

[tarochimochi]

Mmmm losercake...

[lemonfairyd]

Lemon's Beasttober Day 23: Kasa-Obake. i got my antique umbrella a tea set and they seem happy about it. thank god, because finding enrichment for a tsukumogami is a real bitch in an economy that prioritizes convenience and disposability.

[estera-shirin]

Fairy and immortal boy—China, 19th century

This figurine was carved out of coral and was created during the Qing Dynasty.

[sheepishwoolly]

this was originally supposed to be for chinese new year..... yep, i really gotta learn to get into a good work schedule, but in my defense i was instead mostly working on other stuff in between its rather obvious that this picture takes place in china (well, i guess it semi-understandably could be mistaken for japan), but this is actually in a majority muslim city called wujiaqu in the northwest, and this body of water is called the 'Qinggeda Lake'. here is the original screenshot

i find china as a whole very fascinating, i really want to go there one day. ill be very excited when google is allowed to have street view for china in like, never probably, but its cool to think about. at least we have baidu maps i guess

there seems to be hanzi on the house on the back, but i cant see what it looks like so i probably just wrote gibberish on it, if its even readable. i asked chatGPT to type what the sign on the right says (and i am surprised it was able to read something so blurry), so it probably got some stuff wrong there too

also another example of woolly doing something i cant, this time being that ive actually never done a cartwheel before

[art-for-a-reason]

Very cool

chinese jewelry made from low-cost materials (corn husk, garlic husk, regular metal, zircon) by 大平子dapingzi

[socs-art-references]

Xu Bing, "Red Book", 1999

from Xu Bing's Tobacco Project