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35 Cards in this Set
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Di
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high god
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Qingming
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springtime Clear Brightness Festival, verneration of ancestors
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Yangshao
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culture in early Shaanxi known for earthenware made from coils
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Qin Shi Huangdi
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First Emperor of Qin, had the huge terracotta army in his tomb
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bi
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Jade disks
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cong
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jade long, squared tubes
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fu hao
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wife of Shang kings Wu Ding, her tomb is known for luxury objects like jade
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ding
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bronze tripod vessel
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fang yi
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bronze square vessel
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gong
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bronze animal vessel
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taotie
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common motif on Shang bronze vessels, monster with horns and claws
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jiaguwen
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script on oracle bones
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jinwen
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script on bronze vessels used in ancient burials
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dazhuan
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large seal script, older version
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seal script
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1200 B.C.,Qin period, rounded edges, curved forms, helped to unify china, later used for art and symbolic/formal stuff
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xiaozhuan
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small seal script
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Cai Yong
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Han scholar who copied classical texts (that survived the Qin) onto stone in the Imperial Academy
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Wenda Gu
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Chinese artist who studied carving characters in Xi'an
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lishu
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clerical script, Han, used for records and general documents
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kaishu
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regular script, 200-400 created, standard script
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xin shu
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cursive running script
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caoshu
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cursive draft script
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printing
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developed in the 8th century
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oldest printed picture and text
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Diamond Sutra, long hand scroll
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Wang Xizhi
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Jin, most important calligrapher, Orchid Pavilion Preface
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Wang Xianzhi
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son of Wang Xizhi, important calligrapher
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Wei Shuo, Lady Wei
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elite woman, calligrapher, Wang Xizhi's teacher
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Guan Daosheng
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Yuan period, first woman artist to get famous, landscapes and text, married to another artist Zhao Mengfu (song imperial family, served in the yuan court)
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Zhang Yanyuan
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Tang writer, artist, Lidai minghua ji (Records of Famous Paintings of all the Dynasties)
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Li Bai
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Tang poet
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Fan Kuan
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painter northern song
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Guo Xi
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Song painter, Shanshuixun (Advice on Landscape Painting)
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Su Dongpo
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Song dynasty poet and essayist
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Shen Zhou
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Ming, founded the informal school of landscape painters called the Wu School
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Dai Jin
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dismissed from the Ming court for an infraction, founded the Zhe School of landscape painters
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