Bulletin, Issues 70-71The Museum, 1998 - China |
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Like Zhu Xi and other early Neo - Confucians , Sima Guang did not approve of the use of portraits in funeral ceremonies , especially not women portraits painted posthumously . The questions of why and how the ancestral portraits ...
Like Zhu Xi and other early Neo - Confucians , Sima Guang did not approve of the use of portraits in funeral ceremonies , especially not women portraits painted posthumously . The questions of why and how the ancestral portraits ...
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Apart from the cremation of the body according to the Buddhist tradition , the funeral rites were substantially the same as in the common funerals . 32 During the Tang and the Song dynasties the Chinese religious traditions Daoism ...
Apart from the cremation of the body according to the Buddhist tradition , the funeral rites were substantially the same as in the common funerals . 32 During the Tang and the Song dynasties the Chinese religious traditions Daoism ...
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This may well explain why so many Chinese preferred to have their funeral portrait painted almost immediately after their death , as in this case the most faithful likeness could be obtained .
This may well explain why so many Chinese preferred to have their funeral portrait painted almost immediately after their death , as in this case the most faithful likeness could be obtained .
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