Title: History of Chinese art - New World Encyclopedia
Headings: History of Chinese art
History of Chinese art
Historical development to 221 B.C.E.
Neolithic pottery
Jade culture
Bronze casting
Early Chinese music
Early Chinese poetry
Chu and Southern culture
Early Imperial China (221 B.C.E.– 220 C.E.)
Qin sculpture
Pottery
TLV Mirrors
Han poetry
Han paper art
Other Han art
Period of Division (220–581)
Influence of Buddhism
Poetry
Calligraphy
The Sui and Tang dynasties (581–960)
Buddhist architecture and sculpture
Golden age of Chinese poetry
Li Po and Du Fu
Late Tang poetry
Painting
Song and Yuan dynasties (960–1368)
Song poetry
Song painting
Yuan drama
Yuan painting
Late imperial China (1368-1911)
Ming poetry
Ming prose
Ming painting
Qing drama
Qing poetry
Early Qing painting
Shanghai School (1850 – 1890)
Qing fiction
New China Art (1912-1949)
Transformation
The Big Three
Comics
Painting
Guohua
Communist art (1950-1980s)
The loss of the Big Three
Painting
Poetry
Redevelopment (Mid-1980s - 1990s)
Contemporary Art
Visual art
Contemporary Chinese art market
The new visual art market
See also
Notes
References
External links
Credits

Content: Tools such as hammer heads, ax heads and knives were made of jade nephrite during the Neolithic period (c. 12,000 – c. 2,000 B.C.E. ). The Liangzhu culture, the last Neolithic jade culture in the Yangtze River delta, lasted for a period of about 1300 years from 3400 - 2250 B.C.E. The jade from this culture is characterized by finely worked, large ritual jades such as Cong cylinders, Bi discs, Yue axes, pendants and decorations in the form of chiseled open-work plaques, plates and representations of small birds, turtles and fish. Liangzhu jade has a white, milky bone-like aspect due to its origin as Tremolite rock and the influence of water-based fluids at the burial sites. Shang Dynasty (Yin) bronze ritual wine vessel, dating to the thirteenth century B.C.E.
Bronze casting
The Bronze Age in China began with the Xia Dynasty (ca. 2100 – 1600 B.C.E. ). Examples from this period have been recovered from ruins of the Erlitou culture, in Shanxi, and include complex but unadorned utilitarian objects. In the following Shang Dynasty (商朝) or Yin Dynasty (殷代) (ca. 1600 - ca. 1100 B.C.E. ), more elaborate objects, including many ritual vessels, were crafted. The Shang are recognized for their bronze casting, noted for its clarity of detail.