Concept information
Preferred term
three perfections
Definition
- This concept represents the three forms of art - poetry (shi 诗), calligraphy (shu 书) and painting (hua 画), that every educated official was expected to master in the China’s Empire; their integration is considered the apex of Chinese artistic expression.
Alternative Terms
三绝
Chinese
sanjue
Source
- Sullivan, Michael. 1974. The Three Perfections: Chinese Painting, Poetry and Calligraphy. New York: George Braziller.
Belongs to group
In other languages
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sanjue
Chinese
URI
http://w3id.org/write/thesaurus/three_perfections
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