Vermilion Seal Chinese civilisation, from Taiwan

Quotes from the Chinese classics

Lines from the Analects, the Tao Te Ching, the Zhuangzi and the Art of War, given with the passage they come from and the chapter you can read it in. Where a famous English version has drifted from the text — or was never in it — the entry says so and shows you what is there instead.

Ink and colour half-length portrait of Confucius in dark robes, hands folded, from a Qing dynasty album of portraits of ancient sages held at the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
Confucius, from Half Portraits of the Great Sage and Virtuous Men of Old 《至聖先賢半身像・孔子》 — Unidentified artist, Qing dynasty album, after earlier models, National Palace Museum, Taipei. Source

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