Carve seals, write calligraphy, read books, translating classical works of China often left aside. Hungarian.
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Reading the letters again in Zhou Lianggong's collection《尺牍新钞》. Would any of you be interested in collected phrases from these that are sometimes profound, often funny, sometimes sad? I'll start the thread with a few from today and let me know if you want more. Maybe a 🧵
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China just founded my dream institution. Maybe if I can make it to Nanjing next year, I can drop by and visit here sometime. This is my dream job too. Just let me mess around with oracle bones for three more decades and you won't hear a peep out of me.
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China just founded my dream institution. Maybe if I can make it to Nanjing next year, I can drop by and visit here sometime. This is my dream job too. Just let me mess around with oracle bones for three more decades and you won't hear a peep out of me.
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Still riding high on the 隶书 wave.
First is from the Zhuangzi: 子非鱼，安知鱼之乐 "You are not a fish, how would you know then the joy of fish?"
Second is from Recorded teachings of Linji: 逢佛杀佛 "If you meet the Buddha, slay the Buddha"
In a mesmerizing valley a mute hermit smiles retweeted
In the mood for some 狂隶书. Hope I formulated this correctly: 昧於他範，惟己是則，終罹滯塞 "Blind to other models, taking only one’s own as the norm, one is ultimately condemned to stagnation.” Standard local attitude to China. Seal is: 喑隱札記 "Miscellanea of the mute hermit"
In the mood for some 狂隶书. Hope I formulated this correctly: 昧於他範，惟己是則，終罹滯塞 "Blind to other models, taking only one’s own as the norm, one is ultimately condemned to stagnation.” Standard local attitude to China. Seal is: 喑隱札記 "Miscellanea of the mute hermit"
Having to deal with literally more than a month of being sent from one office to another for simply wanting to renew my ID, because they keep coming up with new papers for me to submit, I can more than ever support the legalist concept of brutalizing the state officials.
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Found this seal in the《古玺印图典》. It is from the state of Chu 楚国 and the interesting thing about it is that 和 was carved upside down on it. 和众, am I reading this right as "harmonious people"?
This is my first freehand red lettered seal. 喑隐 "mute hermit". Carving a red lettered seal freehand is much more difficult than white lettered seals. You have to think AROUND the lines, not the lines themselves. For me that is much more difficult.
Friends, I need reference materials for a linocut. Anyone have any idea where I can study actual, historical European knight and paladin armor, especially helmets? Search engines aren't much help since they are inundated with either ai (even if you turn it off) or fantasy.
This passage in Brian Lander's book almost triggered another vision in me like the one I had a few days back. Especially the part about sounds. Can you imagine, after the insane ruckus of 2026 city life, the loudest noises being dogs barking and chickens clucking? My heart...
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In a mesmerizing valley a mute hermit smiles retweeted
Often times I want to challenge myself in seal carving. Today the challenge became to create a 徒手 i.e. freehand portrait of Linji Yixuan 临济义玄. Freehand meaning not drawing the image on the stone before carving, simply carving from the get go. Came out looking good, I'd say.
Often times I want to challenge myself in seal carving. Today the challenge became to create a 徒手 i.e. freehand portrait of Linji Yixuan 临济义玄. Freehand meaning not drawing the image on the stone before carving, simply carving from the get go. Came out looking good, I'd say.
Still reading Brian Lander's book on early agriculture and political ecology of neolithic to Qin China. Made me realize something I never did before. Not only that, but it confused me. That being the almost dogged insistence on 山澤之產 "products of mountains and wetlands".
On the other hand this shows something that was argued for from the Guanzi to Marx: it is material reality that conditions thinking, not the other way around. The entire phrase about mountains and wetlands comes from the material reality of those who made the phrase up.
