Qixi Festival in ancient paintings
Updated: 2016-08-09 13:43
(chinadaily.com.cn)
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A detail from the painting Tang Palace Celebrates Qixi Festival. [Photo/Weibo.com] |
We can see lively images on the painting, with some ladies looking up into the sky, some bending low to pray, some busy preparing banquets and some leaning on the rails. The painting is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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A detail from the painting Tang Palace Celebrates Qixi Festival. [Photo/Weibo.com] |
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