Brixham Tang (a breakwater, protecting the famous harbour of this Devon port)
#photography #Brixham #Tang #Devon #harbour

With its extraordinary vibrance, this green-glazed jar could have come out of the kiln yesterday, but it is well over a thousand years old. It was made in China in the 8th century.

This type of brightly glazed #ceramic was made for only about fifty years, during the reign of emperor Minghuang – who ruled from 712 to 756 – when the #Tang dynasty was at its height. At the time, the capital city Chang'an (modern Xian) was one of the most populous and cosmopolitan in the world.
@AshmoleanMuseum

Extraordinary Photo of 1,400-Year-Old Ginkgo Tree Shedding Its Leaves

This old ginkgo tree located at Gu Guanyin Buddhist Temple, in Zhongnan Mountain region of #China. The temple was built in #Tang dynasty in 628, with more than 1,400 years history. It’s said this ginkgo tree is planted by Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong himself.

Each year, during late autumn, this 1,400-year-old #Gingko tree sheds its leaves, forming a thick carpet of vibrant yellow around the temple grounds

Source: vintag.es

Delighted to be partnered with flippercleaner.com! Their products with my work have been so popular that they are ordering MORE!

Tropical Fish Art
https://fineartamerica.com/art/tropical+fish+sharon+cummings

OK, people of #Mastodon, help me with this. On the left is powdered #Tang. It makes 15 servings. On the right is a very much smaller container of liquid Tang. It makes 24 servings.

Make it make sense to me.

After a request on the #selfhosted community on Lemmy, I wrote up how I use LUKS, Clevis, and Tang to give me network-bound encryption. This means that I can restart my servers as long as they're on my home network without worrying about having to log in to decrypt the drive, but if someone breaks in and steals my servers and turns them on anywhere else, the data on them is safe. https://i.am.eddmil.es/clevistang/

A new General Knowledge Quiz has just been posted on our website!
https://youknowwhatblog.com/quizzes/general-knowledge-quiz-57/

NEW Deep in Japan podcast "KUKAI THE UNIVERSAL with Professor Steve McCarty" on the life and times of Japan's great saint Kūkai, Esoteric Buddhism, and Zen. I discuss the book in terms of East Asian history, language education, and translation issues including voice. My philosophy is expressed as well, so comments would be much appreciated. Listen at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1903791/13001040
(or find it at Apple, Google, Amazon, Spotify, etc.).

More multimedia at https://japanned.hcommons.org/multimedia
or publications on Japan at https://japanned.hcommons.org/japanology

#podcast #podcasting #Japan #India #China #Asia #Buddhism #religion #religions #philosophy #history #Tang #Nara #Heian #East Asia #AsianReligions #AsianHistory #language #languages #translation #voice #Sanskrit #Chinese #Japanese #JapaneseBuddhism #Zen
@religion @histodons @linguistics @philosophy

Did you know that #toilet paper is (probably) #Chinese?

#Scholar Yan Zhitui (顏之推) was the first to mention it in 589 AD.

He offhandedly remarked that: "Paper on which there are quotations or commentaries from Five Classics or the names of sages, I dare not use for toilet purposes".

A traveler from an #Arabic country confirmed the use in 851 AD.

He was grossed out by the reliance of the Chinese on paper, instead of water.

#Chinese #translation

Sometimes we only have couplets, such as this #fragment, by #Tang #poet Yao He 姚合 (777–843): an entire sweep of landscape painting in ten characters.

天遙來雁小
sky vast arrive goose small
江闊去帆孤
river broad leaving sail lone

VERSION 1

in the vast sky an approaching goose is small
on the broad river a departing sail is lonely

VERSION 2

distant skies stretch on
a wildgoose arriving

so small

mighty waters spread out
a single sail departing

so alone

Post-migration Self #Introduction 2

I am a #professor of #Chinese #literature at the #University of #Toronto and interested in all things #academic #culture and #humanities, especially #literature #translation #narrative and #poetry. My research covers #premodern #China, with a focus on the #Tang dynasty.

The great #historian of the #Chinese #MiddleAges #Tang #唐, Chen Yinke (or -que) #陳寅恪 (1890-1969), spent the last 20 years of his life in #Guangzhou #廣州. Chen, who had lost his eyesight during #middleage, used to take walks on this walkway in shining white concrete leading to his house, as he was still able to distinguish light and dark under the bright #Cantonese sun. I took these photos when I was studying Chinese and #philosophy at Sun Yat-sen University #中山大學 in Guangzhou from 2005 to 2007.