China: 3000 years of art and literature

Birth and Life

Poet on a Mountaintop / Shen Zhou

Calling to the Recluse / Zuo Si

Scholar with Staff and Brush / Chen Hongshou

On His Baldness / Bo Juyi

Portrait of Artist's Great Grand Uncle Yizhai at Age Eighty-Five / Zude

On Being Sixty / Bo Juyi

Jar with Ten Thousand Variations of "Long Life" Character / Anonymous

Offering for the Cat / Mei Yaochen

Cat, Rock, and Peonies / Anonymous

Calligraphy Practice / Ouyang Xiu

Emperor Kangxi in Informal Dress Holding a Brush / Anonymous court artists

On the Birth of His Son / Su Shi

Children at Play in a Garden / Anonymous

Merchant's Joy / Lu You

Knickknack Peddler / Li Song

Arts of Living / Li Yu

Emperor Yongzheng in Costume / Anonymous court artists

Self-Portrait Inscription / Ren Xiong

Self-Portrait / Ren Xiong

Silent China / Lu Xun

Images of Today / Ding Cong

Moonlit Lotus Pond / Zhu Ziqing

Lotus / Chen Shun

Dog / Ba Jin

boy who sticks out his tongue / Zhang Xiaogang

Nature and Environment

Lotus / Zhang Daqian

Seventh Month / Shijing

Seventh Month / Southern Song dynasty

Zhuangzi / Zhuang Zhou

Fish and Water Grasses / Southern Song dynasty

Viewing the Ocean / Cao Cao

North Sea / Zhou Chen

Cock Fight / Cao Zhi

Tang Dynasty Emperor Minghuang Watching a Cockfight / Li Song

Fulling Cloth for Clothes / Xie Huilian

Court Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk / Emperor Huizong

Viewing the Waterfall at Mount Lu / Li Bo

Gazing at the Waterfall / Anonymous

On Seeing a Horse-Painting By Cao Ba / Du Fu

Nine Horses / Ren Renfa

Night-Shining White / Lu Guimeng

Night-Shining White / Han Gan

Four Untitled Poems / Han Shan

Han Shan and Shi De / Luo Ping

Small Plum Tree in My Mountain Garden / Lin Bu

Poet Lin Bu Wandering in the Moonlight / Du Jin

OX / Ouyang Xiu

Herd-boys with Water Buffaloes under Willow Trees / Anonymous

Black Muzzle / Su Shi

Dog and Bamboo / Emperor Xuanzong

On the Tiered Bluffs and the Misty River Painting / Su Shi

Ranking Ancient Works in a Bamboo Court / Qiu Ying

My Old Trip Through the Yangzi Gorges / Lu You

Clouds and Waves in the Gorge of Wushan / Xie Shichen

Stone on the Hilltop / Lu You

Sculpture in the Form of a Nine-Hole Scholar's Rock / Zhan Wang

Spider-Fighting / Yuan Hongdao

Clouds of Spider Threads / Sun Liang

Epigraph / Lu Xun

Chinese Landscape: Face Painting, Summer / Huang Yan

Love and Family

Summer Afternoon by the Lotus Pond / Anonymous

Returning to My Home / Tao Yuanming

Returning Home / Chen Hongshou

Sent to My Two Little Children / Li Bo

Pillow with Boy and Fungus / Anonymous

Moonlit Night / Du Fu

Drinking in the Moonlight / Ma Yuan

Song of Lasting Pain / Bo Juyi

Yang Guifei Mounting a Horse / Anonymous

Master Dong's Western Chamber Romance / Dong Jieyuan

Romance of the Western Chamber / Min Qiji

Romance of the Western Chamber / Wang Shifu

Amorous Meeting in a Room Interior / Anonymous

Water Margin / Anonymous

Tiger / Muqi

Song of White Linen / Lu Qingzi

Seated Woman / Lin Fengmian

Jinpingmei / Anonymous

Ximen Selects a Lucky Day to Make Mistress Ping his Sixth Wife / Anonymous

Dream of Red Towers / Cao Xueqin

Red Friend / Lan Ying

Snowflake's Delight / Xu Zhimo

Looking for Plum Blossoms in the Snow / Gu Luo

Trifle / Hu Shi

Voice of Heart / Yang Yanping

Spring Silkworms / Mao Dun

Spooling / Wu Jun

Curvaceous Dolls / Li Ang

Duplication, Image 6 / Xing Danwen

Mind and Memory

Immortals Playing Chess / Qiu Ying

Zhuangzi / Zhuang Zhou

Zhuangzi Dreaming of a Butterfly / Lu Zhi

Mengzi / Mencius

Waterfall / Anonymous

Literary Mind Carves Dragons / Liu Xie

Book From the Sky / Xu Bing

Still Night Thoughts / Li Bo

Li Bo / Liang Kai

Song of the Pipa Lute / Bo Juyi

Saying Farewell at Xunyang / Qiu Ying

Rhapsody on Red Cliff / Su Shi

Red Cliff / Li Song

Later Rhapsody on Red Cliff / Su Shi

Illustration to the Second Prose Poem on the Red Cliff / Qiao Zhongchang

Relaxing in the Evening in My Study / Yang Wanli

Whiling Away the Summer / Liu Guandao

Student Huang's Borrowing of Books / Yuan Mei

Emperor Kangxi Reading / Anonymous court artists

Prayer / Wen Yiduo

Resident Alien / Hung Liu

Attachment / Lao She

Viewing the Antiquities at the Studio of Humility / Qi Baishi

Tail / Wang Zengqi

Tadpoles and Crayfish / Luo Ping

Food and Drink

Tea Sipping under Willows / Anonymous

Deer Cry / Shijing

Palace Ladies Tuning the Qin Harp-Zither / Anonymous

Analects / Confucius

Ritual Food Vessel / Anonymous

Orchid Pavilion Poems / Wang Xizhi

Orchid Pavilion Purification Gathering / Sheng Maoye

Begging / Tao Yuanming

Beggers and Street Characters / Zhou Chen

Guest Comes / Du Fu

Elegant Gathering in the Apricot Garden, after / Xie Huan

Inviting Writers to Drink / Meng Jiao

Eating Bamboo Shoots / Bo Juyi

Bamboo and Rocks / Wang Fu

Dipping Water from the River and Simmering Tea / Su Shi

Brewing Tea / Wang Meng

Drawing Water from the Well / Lu You

Right to the Heart of the Matter / Wang Meng

Emperor's Yellow Court Robe / Anonymous court artists

Kitchen God's Wife / Amy Tan

Kitchen God and Kitchen Goddesses / Anonymous

War and Politics

Five Dragons / Chen Rong

Decade of Tong Gong / Shijing

Illustrations from the Book of Songs / Ma Hezhi

Great Declaration / Shujing

Scholar Fu Sheng Transmitting the Book of Documents / Du Jin

Yijing

Daodejing / Laozi

Ceremonial Battle Ax / Anonymous

Art of War / Sun Wu and Sun Bin

Emperor Qianlong in Ceremonial Armor Horseback ̃/ G. Castiglione

Battle / Qu Yuan

Detail of Terra-cotta Soldier Pit / First Emperor's Mausoleum

Song on Enduring the Cold / Cao Cao

Travelers in Snow-covered Mountains / Jing Hao

Peach Blossom Spring / Tao Yuanming

Peach Blossom Spring / Zha Shibiao

Mulan / Anonymous

Mulan Enlists in the Army / Anonymous

Dialogue in the Mountains / Li Bo

Emperor Taizong Arriving at Jiucheng Palace / Anonymous

Romance of the Three Kingdoms / Luo Guanzhong

Emperor Guan / Anonymous

Poetic Inscription / Emperor Qianlong

Chrysanthemum-shaped Porcelain Saucer / Anonymous

Chrysanthemum-shaped Lacquer Saucer / Anonymous

Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art / Mao Zedong

Advance Victoriously While Following Chairman Mao's Revolutionary Line in Literature and the Arts / Anonymous

Religion and Spirituality

Enchanted Dwelling in the Hills / Qiu Ying

Lotus Sutra

Water and Moon Guanyin Bodhisattva / Anonymous

Transformation of Laojun / Anonymous

Transformations of Laojun / Wang Liyong

Heart Sutra

Heart Sutra / Weng Fanggang

Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom / Anonymous

Establishment of the White Horse Temple / Yang Xuanzhi

Luohan Demonstrating the Power of the Buddhist Sutras to Daoists / Zhou Jichang

Traveling Account of Buddhist Pilgrim Monks Huisheng and Song Yun / Yang Xuanzhi

Traveling Monk / Anonymous

Platform Sutra / Huineng

Sixth Patriarch Chopping Bamboo / Liang Kai

Lu Dongbin Hundred-Character Stele / Lu Dongbin

Daoist Immortal Lu Dongbin / Anonymous

Evening Bell from a Mist-Shrouded Temple / Chan Monk Juefan Huihong

Solitary Temple Amid Clearing Peaks / Li Cheng

How Tripitaka Broght Back the Sutras / Anonymous

Nine-Dragon Pool / Mei Qing

Petition Regarding the Three Doctrines / Monks Yongdao, Wuming and Huiri

Masters of the Three Doctrines / Ding Yunpeng

Journey to the West / Wu Cheng'en

Monkey Thrice Beats the White Bone Demon / Zhao Hongben

Dharani Sutra of Five Mudras of the Great Compassionate White-Robed One / Qu Ruji

Five Forms of Guanyin Bodhisattva / Ding Yunpeng

Soul Mountain / Gao Xingjian

La Montage de Reve (Dream Mountain) / Gao Xingjian

Death and Afterlife

Cranes of Longevity / Shen Quan

Daodejing / Laozi

Laozi Riding an Ox / Chen Hongshou

Classic of Filial Piety

Classic of Filial Piety / Li Gonglin

Bian He's Jade / Han Fei

Biographies of Lian Bo and Lin Xiangru / Sima Qian and Ritual Disk with Dragon Motif / Anonymous

On the Death of His Father / Cao Pi

Casing Slab of Tomb Chamber / Anonymous

Daoist Song / Xi Kang

Daoist Deities Paying Court / Anonymous

Monograph on Broad Phenomena / Zhang Hua

Festival of the Peaches of Longevity / Anonymous

Thoughts on the Anniversary of My Wife's Death / Nara Singde

Bannerman / Anonymous

Amid Pale Bloodstains / Lu Xun

Sun Declining Amidst Clouds and Mountains / Li Shizhuo

Death / Wen Yiduo

Binding the Lost Souls: Memory Loss / Zheng Lianjie

Cold Nights / Ba Jin

China Dreams / Wang Jin

Han Bo Chops Wood / Feng Zhi

Slumber / Zeng Shanqing

Autumn Waters / Mo Yan

Portrait of an Elderly Couple / Anonymous

Map of China & Chronology.