Three Friends of Winter
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The Three Friends of Winter is an art motif that comprises the pine, bamboo, and plum. The Chinese celebrated the pine, bamboo and Chinese flowering plum together, for they observed that unlike many o
The Three Friends of Winter by the painter Zhao Mengjian, Song dynasty
Three Friends and a Hundred Birds by Bian Wenjin, Ming dynasty
Kadomatsu (門松) decorative pillars for Japanese New Year, featuring branches of pine, bamboo and plum
Four Treasures of the Study
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Four Treasures of the Study is an expression used to denote the brush, ink, paper and ink stone used in Chinese calligraphy and spread into other East Asian calligraphic traditions. The name appears t
Three Friends of Winter
…Four Gentlemen of the Year Four Treasures of the Study Trees in Chinese mythology and cultural symbology…
4 trésors du lettre
A highly decorative badger hair brush dating to the Ming Dynasty
An inkstick made in the form of lotus leaves and flowers
A detail from The Treatise on Calligraphy by Sun Guoting (646–691). Ink on Paper.