China: Exploring History & Active History

Exploring History & Active History are two series developed by Andi Stix and Frank Hrbek for Teacher Created Materials. This board offers visuals to supplement the series. To purchase the strategies, go to http://www.teachercreatedmaterials.com. This board presents China and its vast cultural influence worldwide.

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a painting of a mountain with trees on it

Chinese Landscape Painting

Part II. Chinese Calligraphy and Painting. The Chinese artist in painting and calligraphy - and they are virtually one - must constantly practice. There is no room for error - nor even the quivering of the hand - and the artist must move with confidence and mastery.

Part I. Chinese Calligraphy and Painting - created with water soluble ink on silk or highly absorbant paper. Colors are used, but the prized art is usually black and white, with delicate variations and shades of gray. The stroke, once drawn, cannot be recalled or altered. Panda Cherry Blossom, Spiritual Man, Plum Blossom Painting, Simple Oil Painting, Blossom Painting, Oil Painting Pictures, China Culture, Chinese Brush Painting, Plum Flowers

Panda Cherry Blossom

Spiritual Man

Plum Blossom Painting

Simple Oil Painting

Blossom Painting

Oil Painting Pictures

China Culture

Chinese Brush Painting

Plum Flowers

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Part I. Chinese Calligraphy and Painting - created with water soluble ink on silk or highly absorbant paper. Colors are used, but the prized art is usually black and white, with delicate variations and shades of gray. The stroke, once drawn, cannot be recalled or altered.

a drawing of a man wearing a hat and sitting at a table working on something

Teacher Created Materials

Part II. Papermaking. The then porous Chinese paper used for printing absorbed the water-base ink with little pressure; no need for a press. Stone rubbing led to stamping a sheet of paper with an inked block of wood - carved with a Buddhist sutra, picture, or character - by Tang dynasty, it became an established method.

an illustration of people standing around a small structure

Part I. Papermaking process: macerating old rags, reduced to fibers, mixed with water and applied to a mold; experiments with continually increasing variety of raw materials; bark of mulberry tree, rattan, bamboo, rice stalks, wheat stalks; all providing suitable fibers for papermaking.

a statue of a man wearing a headdress and holding a plaque in his hands

Ts'ai Lun - the "Shang Fang Si" - the officer in charge of the Emperor's weapons and instruments, is traditionally credited with having first reported the invention of paper; the date that is often cited in 105 AD.

an image of a carved stone with writing on it and symbols in the shape of letters

Woodblock Printing

Book And Magazine Design

Car Wraps

Vehicle Wraps

Relief Print

Large Format Printing

Lithography

Monoprint

Part III. Woodblocks/Printing. "Rubbings" from texts engraved on stone or other hard surfaces, evolved to the more rapid and efficient process of woodblock printing; text reproduced in reverse, inked, and applied to creating a positive copy. Woodblock printing, widespread, right into the 20th century.

Part II. Printing in China. 700-800 AD, Daoist seals made of wood; 868 AD, printing of the Diamond Sutra; 800-900 AD, experimentation, Buddhist monasteries seals, rubbings, Buddha stamps, stencils, textile prints; 1030 AD, moveable type makes an appearance in China, of wood, porcelain, and copper materials. Ancient Chinese Characters, Middle Kingdom, Great Inventions, Chinese Ancient, Art Ancien, Printing Machine, Ancient China

Ancient Chinese Characters

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Part II. Printing in China. 700-800 AD, Daoist seals made of wood; 868 AD, printing of the Diamond Sutra; 800-900 AD, experimentation, Buddhist monasteries seals, rubbings, Buddha stamps, stencils, textile prints; 1030 AD, moveable type makes an appearance in China, of wood, porcelain, and copper materials.

a metal plaque with an image of a man holding a book and other items on it

Chinese History Ancient China

Ancient Chinese Artifacts

Roman Alphabet

China Forbidden City

Johannes Gutenberg

Qin Chinese Instrument

Ancient Chinese Gunpowder

Song Dynasty

Part I. Printing in China. 100 BC, ink made from lampblack; 175 AD, a standard text of the Classics cut in stone (rubbings soon made); 600-700 AD, inked seals, red cinnabar on paper; 680-750 AD, true block printing, Buddhist scroll printed from woodblocks.

several people are riding camels in front of a snowy mountain range with snow - capped peaks

Part IV. The Silk Road. The great highway of Asia that connected the Far East with distant Europe. Luxuries and necessities were carried in camel trains, between oases, carrying Chinese silks, exotic spices, perfumes, delicately crafted porcelains, and delicious blends of tea.

a painting of people riding horses in the mountains

Exchange through the Silk Road

Part III. The Silk Road. The name was coined in 1877 - "Seidenstrasse" - by Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen, a German explorer and geographer. It wandered along the periphery of the great Taklamakan desert in Xinjiang (central desert area), staying south of the Tian Shan mountains, north of the Kunlun Shan, and threading through openings and passes.

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The Monday Line Walking China’s Silk Road - The UK Progressive

Part II. The Silk Road. The actual number who made a journey over the full length of the Silk Road was always small; in the old days they were mainly missionaries of various religions; but from the 19th century on, included explorers, geographers, archaeologists, and adventurers.

a group of people riding camels through the desert

A Desert Blooms Along China’s Silk Road (Published 2010)

Part I. The Silk Road. It was one of the world's earliest highways; a series of ancient and complex trade routes across Central Asia to Europe. It was not a continuous journey; goods were transported by a series of routes, passing through the hands of many agents, before reaching a final destination.

Part III. Tiananmen Square (Apr. - Jun. 1989) Within a generation the government has retreated from day-to-day management of people's lives; no longer assigns jobs, or requires permission to marry, or restricting travel. Everyone's getting richer, incomes rose exponentially, people are buying apartments, setting up companies, and becoming entrepreneurs.

tanks are lined up in the middle of a parking lot with people standing around them

Part II. Tiananmen Square (Apr. - Jun. 1989) Deng Xiaoping's decisions, in the immediate aftermath of the demonstrations,, have shaped the People's Republic of China as a world power. driving its extraordinary economic transformation, and resonating with a strident nationalism.

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