China Guide

Su embroidery is one of the most famous Chinese embroideries.  It is the general name for the embroidered products in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province.  There emerged many embroidery workshops and embroidery markets in the Song Dynasty.  Up to Ming and Qing Dynasties, its embroidery flourished for a time. Su embroidery is famous for its elaborateness

It is one of the traditional silk-knit brocades.  It is named after its color as gorgeous as colorful cloud, for it is made of high quality silk and woven with exquisite skill.  The silk industry consists of two trades: the pattern brocade trade and the unpatterned brocade trade since the end of the Qing Dynasty.  Not until then did the name "cloud

It is a kind of picture enjoying popularity among the people with a large variety.  A few of them are singled out for appreciation, but most are used for different worldly life and protocols, such as the portrait of the Gate God, the portrait of gods, illustration, pictures for packaging and decorating, window flowers, lamp pictures, kites, paper cards,

Jades are extremely hard stones (6.5 to 7.0).  They were shaped and carved using ropes and bamboo with grains of sand.  The piece was coated with sand which was rubbed back and forth with the rope or bamboo to slowly wear away the stone.  A single piece could take months to produce.

Today, modern diamond

蜉蝣之羽、衣裳楚楚。
心之憂矣、於我歸處。

蜉蝣之翼、采采衣服。
心之憂矣、於我歸息。

蜉蝣掘閱、麻衣如雪。
心之憂矣、於我歸說。

The wings of the ephemera ,
Are robes , bright and splendid .
My heart is grieved ; --
Would they but come and abide with me !

The wings of the ephemera ,
Are robes , variously adorned .
My heart is grieved ; --
Would