Oh yes, I can tell! Squee! All the happiness is contagious!
*beams* Yay! Spreading the happy happy joy joy!! I wish I could invite you to see it all personally, well, I can *invite* you, what I mean to say is that I wish you could *be* here to see it all personally... I'd invite all my best girls ;o> and we'd drink tea and dress pretty and watch firefly (through the blind on the tv in the other room) *giggle*
it's called Qing Ming Shang He Tu if you wish more information...
Do you know what it means?
I found this: Qing Ming Shang He Tu (清明上河圖) meaning the riverside scene at the day of Qingming festival was painted by one of the Song Dynasty's greatest artists, Zhang Zeduan (960 -1127) about 980 years ago. It is a very long hand painted silk handscroll and has been kept in the Palace Museum, Beijing, China. It is on the top list of Chinese art treasures in China and only shown to public every 25 years. The last exhibition of this painting was held in Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, China in early January 2003 and it attracted hundred thousands of visitors. The painting presents the busy life in an ancient Chinese capital city with fine details: a large rainbow bridge, busy streets, shops and restaurants, a river with boats, animals, carriages, trees, hundreds of people doing different things...
Ooooh, girly retro fashions. ;) The sleeves on the second one are certainly impressive. Do you know why they are that big? Status symbol? So impractical, it can only be a rich person who doesn't have to work?
Pretty much. Fashions moved from the straight cut, minimizing of waste patterns to big, wasteful styles that indeed showed off wealth and were simply meant to look pretty. Some stuff got very ostentatious. In the medieval group I play with, we're all supposed to be Ladies and Lords, so the garb is appropriate. And fun to make :oD
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Date: 2006-11-29 03:45 pm (UTC)Oh yes, I can tell! Squee! All the happiness is contagious!
*beams* Yay! Spreading the happy happy joy joy!! I wish I could invite you to see it all personally, well, I can *invite* you, what I mean to say is that I wish you could *be* here to see it all personally... I'd invite all my best girls ;o> and we'd drink tea and dress pretty and watch firefly (through the blind on the tv in the other room) *giggle*
it's called Qing Ming Shang He Tu if you wish more information...
Do you know what it means?
I found this: Qing Ming Shang He Tu (清明上河圖) meaning the riverside scene at the day of Qingming festival was painted by one of the Song Dynasty's greatest artists, Zhang Zeduan (960 -1127) about 980 years ago. It is a very long hand painted silk handscroll and has been kept in the Palace Museum, Beijing, China. It is on the top list of Chinese art treasures in China and only shown to public every 25 years. The last exhibition of this painting was held in Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, China in early January 2003 and it attracted hundred thousands of visitors. The painting presents the busy life in an ancient Chinese capital city with fine details: a large rainbow bridge, busy streets, shops and restaurants, a river with boats, animals, carriages, trees, hundreds of people doing different things...
Ooooh, girly retro fashions. ;) The sleeves on the second one are certainly impressive. Do you know why they are that big? Status symbol? So impractical, it can only be a rich person who doesn't have to work?
Pretty much. Fashions moved from the straight cut, minimizing of waste patterns to big, wasteful styles that indeed showed off wealth and were simply meant to look pretty. Some stuff got very ostentatious. In the medieval group I play with, we're all supposed to be Ladies and Lords, so the garb is appropriate. And fun to make :oD