Types
Art type | Main art | Major category | Start era |
---|---|---|---|
Chinese folk art | Paper cutting | Chinese paper cutting | Eastern Han Dynasty |
Chinese paper folding | Eastern Han Dynasty | ||
Puppetry | Glove puppetry | ||
Chinese shadow theatre | Han Dynasty | ||
Handicraft | Chinese knot | Tang Dynasty | |
Literature | Chinese literature | Chinese classic texts | Spring and Autumn Period |
Chinese poetry | Spring and Autumn Period | ||
Chinese historiography | Spring and Autumn Period | ||
Chinese dictionary | Zhou Dynasty | ||
Visual art | |||
Pottery | Chinese ceramics | Palaeolithic | |
Embroidery | Chinese embroidery | Neolithic | |
Chinese painting | Ming Dynasty painting | Ming Dynasty | |
Tang Dynasty painting | Tang Dynasty | ||
Ink and wash painting | Tang Dynasty | ||
Shan Shui painting | Song Dynasty | ||
Photography | |||
Chinese calligraphy | Oracle bone script | Shang Dynasty | |
Cursive script | Han Dynasty | ||
Drawing Daoist Talismans | Tang Dynasty | ||
Comics | Lianhuanhua | 1880s | |
Manhua | 1880s, termed in 1920s | ||
Film | Cinema of China | 1890s | |
Chinese animation | 1920s | ||
Chinese music | |||
Traditional | Instrumental | Zhou Dynasty | |
Yayue | Western Zhou Dynasty | ||
Modern | National music | 1910s | |
C-pop | 1920s | ||
Chinese rock | 1980s | ||
Performing arts | Variety art | Chinese variety art | Han Dynasty |
Chinese opera | Beijing opera | ||
Kunqu | |||
Cantonese opera | |||
Theatre | Xiangsheng | Ming Dynasty | |
Shuochang narrative | Quyi | Dynastic times, termed in 1940s | |
Dances | Dragon Dance | ||
Lion Dance | |||
Architecture | Landscape architecture | Chinese architecture | |
Gardening | Chinese Garden | Scholar's Garden | Zhou Dynasty |
Bonsai | Penjing |
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