Kao Pan Yu Shi (考槃余事, Desultory Remarks on Furnishing the Abode of the Retired Scholar; also called Art of Refined Living or Pastimes Most Entertaining) is a 1590 compendium on the art of living by Ming dynasty author Tu Long([屠隆).[1][2]
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Desultory Remarks has fifteen treatises:
- Calligraphy and books
- Rubbings
- Paintings
- Paper
- Ink
- Brushes
- Inkstones
- Zithers
- Incense
- Tea
- Potted plants
- Fish and birds
- Mountain studio
- Necessities of life and dress
- Utensils of the studio
Art historian Craig Clunas suggests that the Desultory Remarks is essentially a compendium on the art of living gathered from various other existing sources, such as Gao Lian's Eight Treatises on the Nurturing of Life, (for which Tu Long wrote a preface). Whether or not this is the case, Tu Long's discourses certainly had greater immediate recognition and influence; they were much more widely cited in later collections, and were a primary source for Wen Zhenheng's Treatise of Superfluous Things.[3]
References
edit- ^ CHOY, Maria CHENG, TANG Wai Hung, Eric (May 2, 2018). Essential Terms of Chinese Painting. City University of HK Press. ISBN 9789629371883 – via Google Books.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Arts of Asia". Arts of Asia Publications. May 31, 1997 – via Google Books.
- ^ Clunas is following the argument of Weng Tongwen, see Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China, University of Hawaii Press 2004, ISBN 0-8248-2820-8, pp. 29-30.
- Tu Long, Kao Pan Yu Shi Gold Wall Press 2012 304pp (明 屠隆 考槃余事 金城出版社) ISBN 978-7-5155-0230-4