The Song Dynasty official robes clothing

The Song Dynasty was a dynasty advocating etiquette, therefore the most elaborate costumes. The Song Dynasty emperor costume complex, officials of the clothing is not simple.

The Song Dynasty emperor vestments is big Qiu Qiu Mian, made of black lamb, collar and cuffs with a black silk embellishment; before and behind the rear crown round, higher than the previous round, the surface is black, the lining is red, such as more fabric. Dress for the blue, embroidered with stars and other graphics, as the emperor’s dress, top natural little also not dragon pattern. The crown is the Song Emperor crown head dress, Gao Hekuan is a ruler, which is provided with a Liaodong produced North pearl. The reading service is the emperor’s uniform, unlike the vestments and dress the sacred and solemn, it emphasizes is a convenient and powerful.

The Song Dynasty official robes clothing

The Song Dynasty Song Dynasty official robes clothing

The Song Dynasty official vestments for his crown, crown set with nine Tassels and Prince Zhongshumenxia, Dan’s crown set with seven, four, five’s crown set features. Besides the vestments, officials have the dress dress, officials often are equipped with jade, the prime minister’s dress crown eight tassels, each tassel eight jade, jade to pottery, six senior officials of the Ministry of coronal six jade, jade to pottery, censor level officials crown only four jade, but jade two color. In short, the more the more tassel, jade, that official position is large.

The Song Dynasty official, according to the position, also be different in colour. Seven or eight, nine official robes for the green, five or six officials of the robe is red, more than four products official robes of purple. Fu Tou is the Song Dynasty official headgear, the rattan straw into towel son, external yarn and painting, with flat feet to.

Tibetan Thangka

Tibetan painting has a long history , beautiful screen , colorful , varied , and it is in full bloom in this Thangka Art in a wonderful garden . It embodies the Tibetan people ‘s faith and wisdom, records the history and development of Tibetan civilization , these exquisite works of art is the Tibetan civilization epic , called Tibetan encyclopedia.

Thangka is a Tibetan transliteration, “Don ” is to show you , “card” is to show this place , Thangka refers Caiduan rear suspension mounting religious worship scroll painting . Thangka is a Tibetan religious life indispensable , it is inspired by the Tibetan rock paintings and murals , Tibetan rock art has been for thousands of years of history , murals have a very long history , vast territory over Tibetan areas , traffic inconvenience, but it has a strong Tibetan monk mobility, they flow , we need to worship the Buddha statues and later they will draw on the canvas shows in , this is the Thangka . No later than the seventh century it had already appeared before the early because after Langdama the suppression of Buddhism Thangka , with no trace to be found , in addition to a small number of existing Thangka Song and Yuan Dynasties works, mostly V达赖罗桑嘉measures the collective work , before this, Thangka folk artist dedicated to the temple are scattered works , the equivalent of the Fifth Dalai academy has been established institutions , Tibetan Thangka creation into the specialized creative period , after VII Dalai Lama Kelsang Gyatso , has set up a pull at Baiji agency, greatly promoted the development of Thangka art .
Thangka types

Thangka Tibetan culture as a kind of unique painting art form whose contents to show the religious culture -based, pure religious content Thangka Thangka accounted for about 80 percent of the total number , in addition, it related to the history of Tibetan folk tales , culture, arts and science and technology and many other areas , the content and subject matter has a strong religious overtones .
Tibetan Thangka
Tibetan Thangka Tibetan handicrafts – Doncaster

Thangka art performance under different content can be divided into such categories :

One to Buddha or to religious themes dominated , called co- Don or Jietang , because in the past to implement the theocratic regime Tibetan society , universal religion , and thus religious themes become the mainstream of Thangka art .

Second, the performance of Tibetan medicine , called Man Tang , it is the human anatomy , human anatomy , with the formation of the fetus manifested Thangka art , the famous Tibetan scholar Sanjay Gyatso , the Qing dynasty to draw on human anatomy, the formation of the fetus Thangka , than the West as early as one of the human anatomy , two hundred years.

Third, because generations of Tibetan people living in the world’s highest plateau, here has a special climatic conditions, and therefore they have to belong to their own ethnic Tibetan , Tibetan Thangka art with performance, such as climate change, and changes in sun and moon , Tibet language called Zitang .

Fourth, there is something called Chung Tang , specifically embodied such Gesar Thangka story .

So Thangka is a Tibetan Buddhist religious , scientific, practical and multifaceted folk unity .

According to the materials used in production of Thangka , Thangka and can be divided into two categories , one is made ​​with silk States Tang ; Another is painted with paint for Don , is thangka painting thangka the most widely spread , the most widely used one.

Agate Go

Agate Go

Piece Material: Agate
Piece Specifications: Diameter 2.2cm, thickness 0.8cm
Chess Box Size : 35cm × 17.6cm × 13.5cm Material: Agate Yun Zi a bamboo pot two camphor wood box leather chess set a color : white, black craft : hand polished
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