Category: Chinese Character & Japanese Kanji Calligraphy Wall Scrolls
ZEN / CHAN Japanese Kanji / Chinese Character Wall Scroll
87.9cm
34½"
19¾"
Approximate Measurements
Painting: 32.1cm x 32.3cm ≈ 12½" x 12¾"
Silk Scroll: 41.4cm x 87.9cm ≈ 16¼" x 34½"
Width at Wooden Knobs: 50.4cm ≈ 19¾"
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Zen / Chan / Meditation
Chinese / Japanese Kanji / old Korean Hanja Calligraphy Wall Scroll
Close up view of the calligraphy artwork mounted to this silk brocade wall scroll
This is the character that is Romanized and pronounced "Zen" in Japanese. This character actually means "meditation" and is often associated with a practice (and sect) of "Meditation Buddhism" or "Zen Buddhism". This character and concept originally came from China, where this character is Romanized and pronounced "Chan".
The form written on this scroll is one of a couple alternates used in China and Japan:
This form can be considered the traditional Chinese and ancient Japanese form. Here's some info about the other ways to write this character...
In modern Japan, it's often written with three dots above the radical on the right:
In China, this character was sometimes written in an alternate or "shorthand" form: This shorthand form is now the official Simplified Chinese version, but this form has existed for over a thousand years.
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This calligraphy was created by Li Dan-Qing of Beijing, China. Materials are xuan paper (known in the west incorrectly as "rice paper") mounted to a silk brocade wall scroll. Painted by hand, and the wall scroll is crafted by hand.
This item was listed or modified
Apr 27th, 2013
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Gary's random little things about China:
Where's my soy sauce?
When you sit down to eat at a restaurant in China, you will almost never see a bottle of soy sauce on the table like you might at a Chinese restaurant in the USA or UK.
In Chinese cooking culture, soy sauce is a seasoning reserved for use in the kitchen.
The fact that soy sauce can be found at Chinese restaurants outside of China probably comes from the confusion between Japanese food and Chinese food.
The most popular Japanese food outside of Japan is sushi, which of course is always served with soy sauce and is the most likely cause of the confusion.
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