The leisure activities of ancient Chinese literati 1

cultivating morality and temperament
growing wisdom expressing one's artistic talent
Chinese calligraphy
Chinese calligraphy is an art based on Chinese characters, showing the emotion and spirit of the author by the structure of the characters, the layout of the paper and the way to use the brush. Benefits: a most relaxing yet highly disciplined exercise for one's physical and spiritual well being.
Chinese Painting
Chinese Painting
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Chinese painting has a long history. It is rooted deeply in the soil of Chinese culture after thousand of years and has become one of the unique cultural treasures.
The features of ancient Chinese Leisure activities
• • • • simple and practical healthy and harmonious economic green
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Drinking Chinese Wine
Wine has a long history of thousands of years in china and plays an important role in the Chinese daily life. Benefits: To highlight the happy and exciting moment Being drunk and into the state of free production was and is an important tip Chinese artists resort to to free their artistic creativity Drinking Game (Jiuling) The drinking games, called “Jiuling” in Chinese, are aids for drinking.
Benefits:
Cultivating their character Moulding sentiment Precipitating oneself blundering heart
Drinking Tea
Tea is a simple beverage, and one that has long been central to the lives of millions of people, originally in the East, and now virtually worldwide. It is said to aid meditation and selfreflection and to induce tranquillity, even perhaps inspiring imagination. Benefits: Helping banish fatigue and frustration Improving your thinking ability Inspiring you with enthusiasm
Playing the GuQin
Calligraphy
Drinking
Playing WeiQi
Drawing
Drinking tea
GuQin
It is a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the zither family with a history of more than 3000 years.
Benefits: Cultivate one's morality relaxing
Green Silk (Lv Qi)
The sunset (Luo Xia)
WeiQi
Weiqi, a game played with black and white pieces on a board of 361 crosses The different names of WeiQi: Zain(坐隐) Hand-talk(手谈) Square-Round(方圆) Black-andWhite(黑白) Philosophy sense of WeiQi: hemispherical dome(天圆地方) yin and yang（阴阳） Benefits: nurturing character
The leisure activities of ancient Chinese literati
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The ancients have unusually enthusiasm for lesiure activities,It is because of the enthusiasm that makes the invention of the play emerge endlessly. Unique romance is commonplace ,moreover many ways of gameplay which is incredible in modern society filled with spare time of the ancestors .
Playing Drinking Games
• • Playing drinking games is a kind of merry-making activities at the banquet and outing ,it was popular in the ancient chinese and has continued ever since. Except for toasting ,motivating atmosphere and adding harmonious friendship,drinking games are also one of the ancient etiquette education mode,so it was prevalent in each dynasty and had a variety of forms.
Chinese Tea Culture Tea: Story of the Leaf is the first documentary of Chinese to explore the tea culture，it has a total of six sets.
Tea: Story of the Leaf