https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1 daily 0.75 2026-03-12 https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/printing-at-puzhong-temple monthly 0.5 2026-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/d0fd5415-0c7b-4513-8509-1898321ca3bf/Screenshot+2026-03-12+at+16.09.47.png Blog - Printing at Puzhong Temple - Make it stand out Puzhong with its guardian horses – able to spy trouble at a distance and rush back with a report https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/24913314-d0ab-4807-b13f-3d3273183b8a/Screenshot+2026-03-12+at+16.14.39.png Blog - Printing at Puzhong Temple - Make it stand out Jimm and Victor preparing the blocks for printing. The four boxes contain temple seals for stamping talismans (the long thin blocks in the foreground) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/f4cd4e3c-f5c5-499e-92bd-c44338d37945/Puzhong+Gong+1%E2%80%9312.JPG Blog - Printing at Puzhong Temple - Make it stand out 12 of 28 divination texts from the temple. As I understand it, Puzhong has 28 demons under its control. Those seeking advice from them can ask a medium, who will shake numbered divination sticks in a bamboo pot until one falls out. The stick’s number corresponds to one of these texts, written in obscure language which needs to be interpreted in light of the original question asked. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/a97ae46b-1f0b-4814-9593-e38eaa1963e1/Screenshot+2026-03-12+at+16.26.28.png Blog - Printing at Puzhong Temple - Make it stand out Caretaker Andy Yeo with miniature sword used to draw blood from a medium to mix with ink used for printing talismans. He says nowadays they prefer using a piece of broken porcelain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/f936c143-f84c-46e4-a5ce-72ecd6305d6c/Screenshot+2026-03-12+at+16.29.17.png Blog - Printing at Puzhong Temple - Make it stand out 一超庵佛祖 Buddha of Yichao Temple - Pu’an https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/11a9e1ee-1759-41d6-9707-9c74bb78f9b7/Screenshot+2026-03-12+at+16.30.50.png Blog - Printing at Puzhong Temple - Make it stand out 邱府王爷 Prince of Qiu. Little known about him, even at his home temple in Fujian https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/the-miao-martial-arts-of-wu-daheng- monthly 0.5 2026-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/386ee73a-f6e2-4c8b-b543-f8031d152523/Screenshot+2026-03-09+at+14.05.05.png Blog - The Miao Martial Arts of Wu Daheng 吴大衡苗族武術 - Make it stand out Wu Daheng with his Buffalo King Knives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/cdefea20-29c5-4f1b-92c1-8daf073f2a70/Screenshot+2026-03-09+at+13.58.18.png Blog - The Miao Martial Arts of Wu Daheng 吴大衡苗族武術 - Make it stand out Wanshui Primary School martial arts display team at Kaili Stadium. The short boy leading them on the right was pretty good. Miao women dancers in embroidery and silver tiaras in the background, alongside Xiasi hunting dog https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/ebe178e1-362a-4dde-a7be-adcf7c95e099/Screenshot+2026-03-09+at+14.02.55.png Blog - The Miao Martial Arts of Wu Daheng 吴大衡苗族武術 - Make it stand out Wanshui blacksmith shop – mostly farm tools nowadays https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/6b7c481f-89d4-47fb-9a88-5ebbc8a0c427/Screenshot+2026-03-09+at+14.04.45.png Blog - The Miao Martial Arts of Wu Daheng 吴大衡苗族武術 - Make it stand out Niuwang dao – Buffalo King Knives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/b46eb9e3-f6e6-41c9-ba5b-6f6fd28ef1fd/Screenshot+2026-03-09+at+14.05.25.png Blog - The Miao Martial Arts of Wu Daheng 吴大衡苗族武術 - Make it stand out Even an old broom can be a weapon… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/595e69db-5a5b-40a0-9a99-4d8cf00ef9a2/Screenshot+2026-03-09+at+14.09.00.png Blog - The Miao Martial Arts of Wu Daheng 吴大衡苗族武術 - Make it stand out Chiyou shrine with statue. Above is a bull’s skull with the character 王 , “king”; extra spikes along the horns represent Chiyou and the Miao clans which followed him https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/shen-shu-and-yu-lei- monthly 0.5 2026-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/5eaae0e1-9837-476d-bcfa-b7fb9fbb8508/Screenshot+2026-02-27+at+17.15.33.png Blog - Shen Shu and Yu Lei 神荼郁壘 - Make it stand out Shen Shu, not Qin Qiong – though both have calm, pale faces in contrast with their fierce, red-faced partner door gods https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/bronze-drums-and-tigers monthly 0.5 2026-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/847b7019-4ee5-4777-bb54-49fd14288411/00+Uncle+Jiu+Tiger+Killed+Him+There.jpg Blog - Bronze Drums and Tigers - Make it stand out Uncle Jiu pointing out where the terrace used to be, Jidao Shang https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/7ba6fceb-f041-48c9-8554-20e613ce7d6e/01+Wooden+drum+and+village+Drum+Master.JPG Blog - Bronze Drums and Tigers - Make it stand out Drum master and his son (on drum), Qingjiang village, Guizhou https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/e9fec5d4-292d-4abc-a6db-409dfc21035a/Screenshot+2026-02-07+at+12.30.49.png Blog - Bronze Drums and Tigers - Make it stand out Bronze drums https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/94879f0b-5929-4902-8b85-e31d32f638a9/03+Zuo+River+rock+painting+drum+and+dancers.jpg Blog - Bronze Drums and Tigers - Make it stand out Rock art showing figures dancing around a drum, Zuo river, Guangxi – barely 100km from the Vietnam border https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/747bca7d-fa8a-4645-908d-72e2e44c1357/Screenshot+2026-02-07+at+12.34.52.png Blog - Bronze Drums and Tigers - Make it stand out Shaman Sheng Vang Ti (right) with village drums, Jidao Xia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/623c93b7-88c7-436e-b307-7bfcec2b8f2a/05+Mesny%27s+Drum+1885+copy.jpg Blog - Bronze Drums and Tigers - Make it stand out Mesny’s drum in the Weltmuseum, Vienna, Austria https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/c782e52e-1cd3-48bf-8193-2a9650e225f3/Screenshot+2026-02-07+at+12.37.58.png Blog - Bronze Drums and Tigers - Make it stand out Bronze drum tympanum showing central sun, concentric ring patterns and frog figurines, Wuhou Ci (Zhuge Liang’s Temple), Chengdu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/f82a88df-557f-4c0e-9f4d-7cbce82cc940/07+Paper+Children.JPG Blog - Bronze Drums and Tigers - Make it stand out Papercuts of children, Welcoming the Dragon festival, Xiao Kaitun village, Guizhou https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/chinese-domino-cards monthly 0.5 2026-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/daa68c77-eeaf-42dc-834f-49ad5f56587c/DSCF1589.JPG Blog - Chinese Domino Cards - Make it stand out Deck of 46 cards – 25 illustrated (including four wild cards), 21 plain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/428be252-feb5-4735-a0bb-d80d32dd1ee1/Screenshot+2026-01-22+at+15.34.22.png Blog - Chinese Domino Cards - Make it stand out Madiao or money deck from a German book on the origins of playing cards, 1794. Cards in the upper row show strings of cash coins and a silver ingot; the illustrated middle row cards are valued in tens of thousands of cash; with low-value unstrung coins on the bottom row https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/a84b7ffe-0393-4de4-92f4-6d673035dd07/02+Identifiable+deities.jpeg Blog - Chinese Domino Cards - Make it stand out From left: Twin Deities of Harmony, Liu Hai and toad, Shou Lao, possibly Kongming (with fan), Archer Zhang and Kui Xing https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/five-tigers-from-vietnam monthly 0.5 2026-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/11d932ed-9d9e-4fc1-a87a-6cbac84368e8/Five+Tigers+1.jpeg Blog - Five Tigers From Vietnam - Make it stand out Five Tigers: Black, Red, White, Green and Yellow, 1980s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/1dd62765-e1eb-4bd0-bc7d-a9d81a67ae06/Screenshot+2026-01-20+at+08.56.59.png Blog - Five Tigers From Vietnam - Make it stand out 1d stamp from Northern Vietnam, 1971 – a separate state until it unified with the south in 1975. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/02f25ce8-4287-4d81-9e6f-8424601e027d/Shiny+whiskers.jpg Blog - Five Tigers From Vietnam - Make it stand out Splendid silver whiskers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/e21cd649-71cb-4cbc-82ab-670a6235f829/Screenshot+2026-01-20+at+08.59.48.png Blog - Five Tigers From Vietnam - Make it stand out Woodblock for printing small version of the Five Tigers, with compass points marked (北,南,東,西) https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/an-elephant-at-the-yichengyong-print-workshop monthly 0.5 2025-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/236a2814-616b-4ee8-ba39-4b283f4354a2/Screenshot+2025-09-19+at+11.38.07.png Blog - An elephant at the Yichengyong Print Workshop 一頭大象在義成永畫店 - Make it stand out 新春大喜: “Great New Year Celebrations” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/0e91e942-e80f-4c25-8c6a-fad1d0d49b92/Screenshot+2025-09-19+at+11.41.02.png Blog - An elephant at the Yichengyong Print Workshop 一頭大象在義成永畫店 - Make it stand out Photo from National Geographic Magazine, November 1934, showing a pair of large Tianjin-style door god prints, possibly by the Yichengyong workshop https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/2775f878-f240-4de2-8853-c86d40eab274/DSCF0879.JPG Blog - An elephant at the Yichengyong Print Workshop 一頭大象在義成永畫店 - Make it stand out Calendar and pearl-chasing dragons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/81e234af-2763-4775-b482-89f0a66c3044/Screenshot+2025-09-19+at+11.45.28.png Blog - An elephant at the Yichengyong Print Workshop 一頭大象在義成永畫店 - Make it stand out Herdboy and Spring Ox https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/915f6c9d-e69b-48b0-a193-8e517e97a650/Screenshot+2025-09-19+at+11.47.43.png Blog - An elephant at the Yichengyong Print Workshop 一頭大象在義成永畫店 - Make it stand out Mahout with goad astride the elephant’s back. Yichengyong signature lower left https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/03645471-6f8f-4411-af65-903ea2a2ea08/Tianjin+Fengxiang+Combo.png Blog - An elephant at the Yichengyong Print Workshop 一頭大象在義成永畫店 - Make it stand out Other elephant prints. The more complex version of mine, also from Tianjin, includes a banner with the idiom 萬象更新, “Countless Natural Phenomena Renewed” (a pun on 象, which can mean both “phenomena” or “elephant”), implying a fresh start for the new year. The other is from Fengxiang in Shaanxi, another noted woodblock printing centre https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/the-chinese-at-kolkata monthly 0.5 2025-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/5d134fd5-9fd0-4785-b4ca-0bdafb556cfb/1.png Blog - The Chinese at Kolkata - Make it stand out Mud-map of Kolkata’s Chinatown, with a few guildhalls marked https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/9b1886f1-6158-463c-9c2e-c4b94c21ff7d/3.png Blog - The Chinese at Kolkata - Make it stand out Lap cheong sausage-maker and Chinese beauty parlour for ladies only https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/0a2157ab-29d2-44cc-8520-033adc29c1dc/2.png Blog - The Chinese at Kolkata - Make it stand out Sea Ip Guildhall entrance, plus interior shrine upstairs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/4bd05f3c-e0b8-49c8-8db6-7c0969674221/4.png Blog - The Chinese at Kolkata - Make it stand out Four other guildhalls: Toong On, Yixing, Chooney Thong and Sea Voi https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/magistrate-bao-and-the-bandwagon-pulps-of-shanghai monthly 0.5 2025-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/8d591a97-312e-4910-927a-656034425dea/Sanxia+Wuyi.png Blog - Magistrate Bao and the Bandwagon Pulps of Shanghai - Make it stand out Episodes from “Three Heroes and Five Gallants”, Wuqiang, Hebei. Magistrate Bao appears twice in the right-hand panel, wearing a black robe trimmed in green https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/58a84020-3999-45d5-852a-18f35490663c/Nat+Geo+Mag+June+1927.png Blog - Magistrate Bao and the Bandwagon Pulps of Shanghai - Make it stand out Lithographic engravers at the Commercial Press, Shanghai. From “New China and the Printed Page”, National Geographic Magazine, June 1927 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/e9db3223-e1a2-43fc-87b1-8636be4186d8/%E7%87%9F%E5%85%B5%E4%B8%8D%E6%B3%95+Soldiers+Breaking+the+Law.jpg Blog - Magistrate Bao and the Bandwagon Pulps of Shanghai - Make it stand out “Soldiers Breaking the Law”. News story from Dianshizhai, date unknown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/ecadd38e-fc0a-48f1-bdc6-47807c87aa91/Case%2C+Volumes%2C+Title.png Blog - Magistrate Bao and the Bandwagon Pulps of Shanghai - Make it stand out Two-colour box cover, “Five Swordsmen and Eighteen Gallants; in Big Chinese Characters”. Six volumes with a handwritten inscription inside the case, 購在台山城, 民家書局 1930; “Purchased at Minjia Bookstore, Taishan City, 1930”. First volume title page, “Beautifully Illustrated Prequel to Five Swordsmen and Eighteen Gallants” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/a7840983-7544-43ef-a65e-4e3e85c0653c/Screenshot+2025-09-09+at+14.55.03.png Blog - Magistrate Bao and the Bandwagon Pulps of Shanghai - Make it stand out Opening text and a few of the cast: The “Iron Headed Monk”, Lei Yiming and Zhan Shiming https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/mianzhus-woodblock-prints- monthly 0.5 2025-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/ffdd4242-15ad-45ba-afc7-796ae364fae4/covered+bridge.jpg Blog - Mianzhu’s Woodblock Prints 綿竹木版年畫 - Make it stand out The Victorian traveller Isabella Bird visited Mianzhu in the 1890s and described “a beautiful modern bridge over a branch of the Fou, of six stone arches, a fine roof, iron balustrades, and a central roofed tower”. The Jiying Bridge (积英桥) dates to 1881, part of a wider programme of flood-proofing infrastructure instigated by Sichuanese governor Ding Baozhen. Because of subsidence along the river bank two extra arches were added in the 1990s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/d48b3d6f-4012-4814-98c2-895fd0f397a9/early+20c+military+and+civil+gods.png Blog - Mianzhu’s Woodblock Prints 綿竹木版年畫 - Make it stand out Two early 20C prints of a military door god with a mace, and civil door god holding a smoking incense burner. Printed on heavy, locally-made paper, and loosely hand-painted (with gold stenciling) over a faint woodblock-printed outline. From their expressions, the artist had a sense of humour https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/9412c41e-eec7-4b4f-9410-cc435804cdcd/overpainting.JPG Blog - Mianzhu’s Woodblock Prints 綿竹木版年畫 - Make it stand out Colouring in outlines at Xiaode Woodblock Printing Village (孝德镇年画村), south of Mianzhu. My feeling is that a good deal of spontaneity has been lost from the process by a studious reproduction of approved old designs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/b97b4e14-91d6-42a0-b569-a51caa44b9be/qin+qiong+yuchi+gong.png Blog - Mianzhu’s Woodblock Prints 綿竹木版年畫 - Make it stand out Qin Qiong (better known at Mianzhu as Qin Shubao) and Yuchi Gong, Tang dynasty generals who in folklore scared off demons which had been plaguing the emperor with nightmares. They appear China-wide as door gods, offering a useful comparison of local design styles. Prints c1980s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/65f420cb-5523-4ed8-a10c-ac6af201034d/white+cockatoo.png Blog - Mianzhu’s Woodblock Prints 綿竹木版年畫 - Make it stand out Mei Lun on left, Pan Ge at right. Prints c1980s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/7472b761-9b70-4b2f-9272-4e7250bdb550/naughty+monkeys.png Blog - Mianzhu’s Woodblock Prints 綿竹木版年畫 - Make it stand out Never play cards with a bunch of monkeys. 1920s print on display at the Mianzhu Woodblock Print Museum (绵竹年画博物馆). https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/miao-hill-climbing-festival- monthly 0.5 2025-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/76641f8c-b4e6-478a-a7d6-d40f7ec7b458/Screenshot+2025-07-21+at+13.41.34.png Blog - Miao Hill-Climbing Festival 苗族爬山节 - Make it stand out Climbing the hill https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/78581c78-466d-47b9-a02c-9e313a5da192/DSCF0303.JPG Blog - Miao Hill-Climbing Festival 苗族爬山节 - Make it stand out Stalls. Lots of local honey and dog meat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/2c68c745-2fc8-4879-82c7-0e96bdb302a2/Screenshot+2025-07-21+at+13.44.35.png Blog - Miao Hill-Climbing Festival 苗族爬山节 - Make it stand out Young bulls, not really that keen to fight – the older ones can really hammer each other. They cost a lot of money so, though injuries do happen, usually the owners rush in to separate them if things get too serious. The small-horned one won. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/fe54e9a9-42f4-411d-b23e-f214811274f3/486106577_10161636739717411_3195775131055663779_n.jpg Blog - Miao Hill-Climbing Festival 苗族爬山节 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/the-tomb-of-marshal-jiu- monthly 0.5 2025-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/24cf1eb6-d185-4025-a6a8-ad9fd262de57/IMG_20250325_104404_HDR+copy.jpg Blog - The Tomb of Marshal Jiu 久元帅墓 - Make it stand out A busy day in Xiaowengbie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/b443c0ac-b560-41dc-b48f-9523f5d1e66c/Screenshot+2025-07-15+at+16.27.13.png Blog - The Tomb of Marshal Jiu 久元帅墓 - Make it stand out Tombstone from the 1980s https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/wuyapo-1872-final-campaign-of-the-miao-war-nbsp monthly 0.5 2025-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/aa746fc1-2ad4-4fb6-a396-7ca179a966a4/Screenshot+2025-07-11+at+14.15.49.png Blog - Wuyapo 1872: Final Campaign of the Miao War  烏鴉坡戰役 - Make it stand out The oath-taking hamlet of Pingshui 平水. Historically the village was called Shuiniu Zhai, 水牛寨, Water Buffalo Stockade, or Zhang Meini in Hmong, transliterated into Chinese as 掌麻你. Many places and people related to the Miao Uprising have a confusing range of aliases; for example Jin Dawu was also known as Li Kaiyuan 李開元, Jin Gangxiang 金剛相 and Jin Gan’gan 金幹幹 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/fb8ee77c-2bdc-4196-95ba-ef7ed3f59b6b/IMG_5640.JPG Blog - Wuyapo 1872: Final Campaign of the Miao War  烏鴉坡戰役 - Make it stand out Lower slope of the mountains in 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/20c474a2-9f24-4e81-9ae6-8eed9c6a840b/Screenshot+2025-07-11+at+14.20.41.png Blog - Wuyapo 1872: Final Campaign of the Miao War  烏鴉坡戰役 - Make it stand out Niujiaopo summit from Wuyapo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/b96d5650-d2fb-4386-ac10-e6c95c99be84/Screenshot+2025-07-11+at+14.28.08.png Blog - Wuyapo 1872: Final Campaign of the Miao War  烏鴉坡戰役 - Make it stand out “Mesny, (1842-1919): a weapons expert from Jersey, Britain. In March 1872, he advised the Qing army on the use of modern firearms in warfare.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/5e69366c-c53e-459d-ab9a-bb5e37467f01/Langde+Yang+Daliu%27s+house.JPG Blog - Wuyapo 1872: Final Campaign of the Miao War  烏鴉坡戰役 - Make it stand out Yang Daliu’s house at Langde Shang village (郎德上). Following the collapse of Miao resistance in 1872 all of Yang’s family were killed and Langde – today a pretty collection of cobbles and wooden houses – was razed to the ground; only 13 people are said to have survived https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/15dece1c-922f-4a9c-bd47-a6d0962ebe5d/IMG_20250325_113057_HDR.jpg Blog - Wuyapo 1872: Final Campaign of the Miao War  烏鴉坡戰役 - Make it stand out Inside Baishui Dong https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/di-qing-finds-a-wife- monthly 0.5 2025-06-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/c27aa46b-e8e0-4934-8689-7b85ae33f6d5/2025CN024+copy.JPG Blog - Di Qing Finds a Wife 狄青招親 - Make it stand out Printed outline with overpainting beautifully done. Print about 130cm wide; blocks this large were made from several planks joined together at the back https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/4e4795fa-769d-435e-bea9-1490e0ee50d3/Screenshot+2025-06-26+at+09.41.17.png Blog - Di Qing Finds a Wife 狄青招親 - Make it stand out “Di Qing: Five Tigers Conquer the Southwest”. Continuation of the Di Qing saga by an unknown author, published at Shanghai in 1931 https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/yellow-tiger-zhang-xianzhong-in-sichuan monthly 0.5 2025-06-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/1de93e4b-3668-4201-879a-c001297f5def/Zhang+Xianzhong+shrine.jpg Blog - Yellow Tiger Zhang Xianzhong in Sichuan - Make it stand out Ancestral shrine to Zhang Xianzhong at Qiqushan Temple https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/80a2b7d2-b24c-4e89-a4f6-fc53c4bac7b9/City+Walls+Mongols+2+copy.JPG Blog - Yellow Tiger Zhang Xianzhong in Sichuan - Make it stand out Chongqing city walls under siege https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/e5e0ed54-ed0f-4f42-8bd4-ab2c47d35c84/IMG_20250319_092532_HDR.jpg Blog - Yellow Tiger Zhang Xianzhong in Sichuan - Make it stand out Qiqushan Grand Temple https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/23c57a47-63b1-4d8b-8e6f-3b2238817648/Chinese+Museums+Association+Exhibition+Exchange+Platform.png Blog - Yellow Tiger Zhang Xianzhong in Sichuan - Make it stand out Gold seal presented to Zhang Xianzhong by fellow rebel Li Zicheng and recovered from the Min river in 2017; appropriate that it has a yellow tiger as a handle. Photo from Chinese Museums Association Exhibition Exchange Platform https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/bai-woodblocks-from-yunnan monthly 0.5 2025-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/150275d0-aea4-4263-9fc4-b3c3f72bc9e0/IMG_20250314_101421_HDR.jpg Blog - Bai Woodblocks from Yunnan - Make it stand out Zhima sold as single sheets or bound together on sticks like flags. Included in each bundle are Wenchang, Patron of Literature (文昌); pairs in pink and green asking for increasing profits, wealth and sons (利市仙官 and 抬财童子); the gods of roads and bridges (桥路二神) and mountains and places (山神土地); and wishes for a peaceful year (四季平安). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/c80c5555-c178-4b37-8c79-cfcf8390349b/50b+Hehe+Erxian+copy.jpg Blog - Bai Woodblocks from Yunnan - Make it stand out Zhima of the twin deities of harmony pasted up inside a bus, presumably so passengers don’t haggle over their fare or pick fights with each other https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/b445e603-c62b-4fbd-9000-1f90a455bd10/Dali+Red+Wealth.jpg Blog - Bai Woodblocks from Yunnan - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/5ec75633-80b0-4691-8345-d0430d3c773d/2025CN003+copy.jpg Blog - Bai Woodblocks from Yunnan - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/0dd1fc58-43a0-4494-90cd-72da35c99818/Screenshot+2025-04-24+at+14.35.30.png Blog - Bai Woodblocks from Yunnan - Make it stand out The two loyal bodyguards shown here as officials wearing brown and green robes. One wife sits inbetween them, the other is obscured by the near pillar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/ed1830cc-e7a9-47a4-b4c0-52a77f92ac75/Dali+Xuanwu+a.jpg Blog - Bai Woodblocks from Yunnan - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/fed47668-7d2f-45a4-9bd7-11a769cb770b/Dali+Xuanwu+b.jpg Blog - Bai Woodblocks from Yunnan - Make it stand out Three zhima designs on the back of the Zhenwu block, possibly test prints (if the intent was to cut them into this side of the block and use it for printing too – a common way to save on costs – the prints should have been pasted on face down). The left-hand one is to protect cattle; the other two nameplates can’t be read and the designs are too general to guess the deities shown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/d2cdbbfc-207e-464d-a92f-aabe1bac2ed8/2025CN002+copy.jpg Blog - Bai Woodblocks from Yunnan - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/ecb82a5e-c652-426f-b99f-b23fec2a5bba/Heshun+Zhao+Gongming.jpg Blog - Bai Woodblocks from Yunnan - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/e4e36c77-3ec4-4cb4-88d6-df1fe6d91d4a/IMG_7985+copy.JPG Blog - Bai Woodblocks from Yunnan - Make it stand out Statue of a mule train at Tengchong, just a few kilometres from Heshun https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/zhu-bajies-temple-at-xizhuang- monthly 0.5 2025-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/c34fd5c5-2cba-46c9-b11e-aaabcaca5886/Screenshot+2025-04-22+at+16.49.28.png Blog - Zhu Bajie’s Temple at Xizhuang 保山西庄豬八戒寺 - Make it stand out Pigsy as Zhu Bajie, with his Nine-Pronged Muck Rake. Photos either side show an older statue destroyed around 1970 during the Cultural Revolution https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/5bce83e6-c781-455e-8791-4f90c0c05b2d/2025CN001.jpg Blog - Zhu Bajie’s Temple at Xizhuang 保山西庄豬八戒寺 - Make it stand out Pigsy and his trusty rake. Print only sold at the temple https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/ede7dee0-ae25-4530-b1b5-e8eeb659fe02/IMG_20250314_101915_HDR+copy.jpg Blog - Zhu Bajie’s Temple at Xizhuang 保山西庄豬八戒寺 - Make it stand out Front of Reclining Buddha Cave, where Pigsy grew up. The cave itself is set into the short cliff at the back https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/5d7d551b-d4a2-4636-a99f-a7556d18aee8/DSCF0061+copy.JPG Blog - Zhu Bajie’s Temple at Xizhuang 保山西庄豬八戒寺 - Make it stand out “Bajie Temple”. The gatepost couplets in gold on black read “Journey to the West says that myths come from folklore; Wu Cheng’en wrote that Bajie originated in Xizhuang” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/0c6a845a-89cc-40ec-aceb-11a077b3721f/Screenshot+2025-04-22+at+16.52.48.png Blog - Zhu Bajie’s Temple at Xizhuang 保山西庄豬八戒寺 - Make it stand out Bus stop opposite the temple. Pigsy, Monkey, and two otherwise unknown characters waiting for the number #23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/7fd1a58b-0006-43be-9c31-1ece51062404/Screenshot+2025-04-22+at+17.04.42.png Blog - Zhu Bajie’s Temple at Xizhuang 保山西庄豬八戒寺 - Make it stand out Shrine to the heavenly Altar Cleaner https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/kunmings-golden-temple- monthly 0.5 2025-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/b3227880-7a9d-428b-8759-8194a82a6ffb/DSCF0037+copy.JPG Blog - Kunming’s Golden Temple 昆明金殿 - Make it stand out The entire temple – I guess “pavilion” might be more accurate – is built of bronze. The tree just poking its branches into view on the left is also said to date back to the seventeenth century https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/7cc39bd0-c2ff-49c1-afff-9b2e8ba44b4b/Screenshot+2025-04-21+at+14.01.03.png Blog - Kunming’s Golden Temple 昆明金殿 - Make it stand out Zhenwu, the True Warrior, Emperor of the North (北帝) and Emperor of the Dark Heavens (玄天上帝; black is symbolically associated with north). The red board reads something like “Benevolence and Justice”. Again, everything in view is made of bronze https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/28ecd80c-591b-4849-85b8-3ce35597fe2f/Screenshot+2025-04-21+at+14.17.28.png Blog - Kunming’s Golden Temple 昆明金殿 - Make it stand out What are claimed to be Wu Sangui’s weapons on display, along with nineteenth-century photo giving an idea of their size https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/fulfilling-a-vow-at-liangshan- monthly 0.5 2025-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/9667098b-11ae-4444-bcfc-93d7a21497a7/Xiang+Shan.JPG Blog - Fulfilling a Vow at Xiangshan 香山還願 - Make it stand out Reads right to left, but the scenes from the story are out of sequence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/cb802aa4-799b-42d7-9e24-6e1e536a4165/Screenshot+2024-05-17+at+08.38.47.png Blog - Fulfilling a Vow at Xiangshan 香山還願 - Make it stand out Despite the smiles – coming to burn down the temple https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/088f621e-52a3-4ae5-87e2-08c968e5cbc2/Screenshot+2024-05-17+at+08.38.38.png Blog - Fulfilling a Vow at Xiangshan 香山還願 - Make it stand out Miaoshan donates her eyes and hands to her father’s envoy, as a martial deity looks on https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/8d0476c2-2a5c-4f14-8508-db4436b09bd5/Screenshot+2024-05-17+at+08.38.32.png Blog - Fulfilling a Vow at Xiangshan 香山還願 - Make it stand out Miaoshan falls in the wilderness, as she flees her father’s wrath https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/93c5810d-dd86-4123-acbc-4a6ed62f7688/Screenshot+2024-05-17+at+08.38.23.png Blog - Fulfilling a Vow at Xiangshan 香山還願 - Make it stand out King Zhuang and his wife worship the deified, multi-limbed Miaoshan https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/examples-of-confucian-filial-virtue- monthly 0.5 2025-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/19cc0237-7c84-4741-9d5f-f74f00143eec/TCE1.JPG Blog - Examples of Confucian Filial Virtue 二十四孝 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/26833411-9c25-405b-92ec-e8a1e4402f8b/TCE2.JPG Blog - Examples of Confucian Filial Virtue 二十四孝 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/a585d18a-675c-408d-a9ae-4d4b65399067/TCE3.JPG Blog - Examples of Confucian Filial Virtue 二十四孝 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/the-lijiang-poltergeist monthly 0.5 2025-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/c42d3ec1-5916-44b4-a866-06e0957ecc50/On+Jinlong+bridge.jpg Blog - The Lijiang Poltergeist - Make it stand out Jiang Zonghan’s bridge over the Yangzi at Ziling village. The cause of hauntings… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/d2e8e8ca-79d8-4c65-a66a-5aed92fbaaaf/Bridge+nameboard+and+Jiang+photo.JPG Blog - The Lijiang Poltergeist - Make it stand out Board reading “Golden Dragon Bridge” and a photo of Jiang Zonghan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/9c4b2f8f-ea0b-4ab1-a362-893ca329ce6e/Bridge+chains.JPG Blog - The Lijiang Poltergeist - Make it stand out Bridgehead with support chains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/a66a5c3d-27c7-4b05-a213-1fa8e1a9d968/Discarded+chains+at+the+bridge.JPG Blog - The Lijiang Poltergeist - Make it stand out Discarded chains from an earlier incarnation in vegetation near the bridge https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/general-yue-fei- monthly 0.5 2025-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/28710b50-3e30-455e-bb4f-dcb6edc834e2/BJ+%E7%B2%BE%E5%BF%A0%E6%AD%A6%E7%A9%86%E5%B2%B3%E5%85%83%E5%B8%A5.JPG Blog - General Yue Fei 精忠武穆岳元帥 - Make it stand out Print of Yue Fei, Beijing, 19C https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/7f3d9b5f-f858-43df-b94e-ec0f8c800ce2/IMG_0093.JPG Blog - General Yue Fei 精忠武穆岳元帥 - Make it stand out Kneeling iron figures of Qin Hui, his wife and cronies in front of the Yue Fei temple at Zhuxian Zhen, Henan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/475a5e18-31d0-4b89-a7cb-e86878a8eca8/WQYF.jpg Blog - General Yue Fei 精忠武穆岳元帥 - Make it stand out Episodes from the life of Yue Fei by the Yixingcheng Print Studio, Wuqiang (武強義興成畫店) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/1ab1bc63-a7de-4b0b-b0df-3f2382628498/ZXZJLS.JPG Blog - General Yue Fei 精忠武穆岳元帥 - Make it stand out Yue Fei winning over the ferocious bandit Yang Zaixing at Nine Dragons Mountain. Print from Zhuxian Zhen, Henan, where Yue Fei campaigned in 1140 https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/a-complete-picture-of-nanjings-porcelain-pagoda- monthly 0.5 2025-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/0b6afd23-6404-4aab-8838-e0da1f86cb56/Both+Prints.jpg Blog - A Complete Picture of Nanjing’s Porcelain Pagoda 江南報恩寺琉璃寶塔全圖 - Make it stand out Two nineteenth-century woodblock prints of the Porcelain Pagoda, now mounted as scrolls https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/7935059a-b78b-4744-95fd-42812f874d5c/1623+%E9%87%91%E9%99%B5%E5%9B%BE%E5%92%8F.jpg Blog - A Complete Picture of Nanjing’s Porcelain Pagoda 江南報恩寺琉璃寶塔全圖 - Make it stand out Early print of Bao’en Temple and the pagoda (with only six stories showing) from 金陵图咏, 1623 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/fd10ee72-d98b-4854-bbf7-fcb9b069cb7e/1665+Niuehof.jpg Blog - A Complete Picture of Nanjing’s Porcelain Pagoda 江南報恩寺琉璃寶塔全圖 - Make it stand out Engraving from a French edition of Niuehof’s book - with all nine stories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/f3eb1bd5-b1ee-4fca-9a70-5fc91f115849/1850s+Nanjing+Under+Siege+from+Taipings.jpg Blog - A Complete Picture of Nanjing’s Porcelain Pagoda 江南報恩寺琉璃寶塔全圖 - Make it stand out Map showing Nanjing under siege from the Taipings, with Bao’en Temple and Pagoda on their hill outside the south gate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/5dfa6c95-6250-4840-8b04-6be223c2a6f6/Welcome+1871+Stereo+Photo+of+Cupola.jpg Blog - A Complete Picture of Nanjing’s Porcelain Pagoda 江南報恩寺琉璃寶塔全圖 - Make it stand out Stereograph of the Porcelain Pagoda’s bronze bowl and rubble, taken by China photographer John Thomson in 1871. City walls in the background. https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/the-jinling-machinery-manufacturing-bureau- monthly 0.5 2025-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/563ff20a-7920-443e-8e7d-3f6f8cb53f59/%E9%87%91%E9%99%B5%E6%9C%BA%E5%99%A8%E8%A3%BD%E9%80%A0%E7%B8%BD%E5%B1%80+Jinling+Arsenal.JPG Blog - The Jinling Machinery Manufacturing Bureau 金陵机器制造局 - Make it stand out A receipt, late nineteenth century, reading 金陵机器製造總局 拾 月 初五 日封 (Jinling Machinery Manufacturing Bureau; Fifth day of the tenth lunar month) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/e9589aaa-33f5-4a21-ae18-4e069a744230/IMG_20241212_141047_HDR.jpg Blog - The Jinling Machinery Manufacturing Bureau 金陵机器制造局 - Make it stand out Nanjing Arsenal c1872 with some of its products. Photo by John Thomson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/8746ba6b-69c2-4986-b1fe-85a04b3bf75a/IMG_20241212_141022_HDR.jpg Blog - The Jinling Machinery Manufacturing Bureau 金陵机器制造局 - Make it stand out Inside the Arsenal c1872. Machinery for manufacturing “many hundreds of tons of guns and ammunition”. Photo by John Thomson https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/death-of-a-consul monthly 0.5 2025-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/b85e2f73-6424-4f87-8f30-f18ee0576937/IMG_7992.JPG Blog - Death of a Consul - Make it stand out Tengyue c1910 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/1a92ac00-4464-4093-9193-dde50fccf553/IMG_8047.JPG Blog - Death of a Consul - Make it stand out Laifeng Shan cemetery 2018 - both Litton’s and Forrest’s graves lost https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/qinglang-miao-drum-festival-nbsp monthly 0.5 2024-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/d81543a4-9314-4ba8-8b9a-d7dc1f4dc6ae/IMG_5649.JPG Blog - Qinglang’s Miao Drum Festival:  情郎苗族寨木鼓节 - Make it stand out Qinglang village’s wooden drum, with buffalo-hide tympanum. Note the essential wine flask hanging on the strap… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/502d553d-ba1c-430a-ad5d-3c0549b01bb7/IMG_5664.JPG Blog - Qinglang’s Miao Drum Festival:  情郎苗族寨木鼓节 - Make it stand out Qinglang’s bullring on festival day. Village just out of view top right https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/c7840144-cc87-4d2e-92d5-6b612e721af7/IMG_5666.JPG Blog - Qinglang’s Miao Drum Festival:  情郎苗族寨木鼓节 - Make it stand out Bullfight in progress. Things end when one of the bulls runs off; the first time I have ever seen the spectators protected by barriers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/d0e356af-239c-4d3a-afc2-6ae8acde9182/IMG_5689.JPG Blog - Qinglang’s Miao Drum Festival:  情郎苗族寨木鼓节 - Make it stand out Spectators watching the action below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/1ef9cf29-5014-4341-a2c4-18f829f2c0a2/IMG_5682.JPG Blog - Qinglang’s Miao Drum Festival:  情郎苗族寨木鼓节 - Make it stand out Drum master and his son. Both working on their hangovers. https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/the-gods-of-cattle-and-horses- monthly 0.5 2024-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/7d8ddd11-e695-4905-ac98-53b6f7f173c4/%E9%A6%AC%E7%8E%8B%E7%89%9B%E7%8E%8B%E7%A5%9E%E4%BD%8D.jpg Blog - The Gods of Cattle and Horses: 馬王神位 牛王神位 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/d8cc6676-dbfa-42c9-8927-c4bcea7f4d26/Screenshot+2024-09-20+at+16.36.51.jpg Blog - The Gods of Cattle and Horses: 馬王神位 牛王神位 - Make it stand out 高山民藝藏: Mountain Folkcraft Collection https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/kitchen-god-print-for-the-xinhai-year- monthly 0.5 2024-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/37aa4622-4007-4186-9172-80386a81b66a/%E5%AE%A3%E7%B5%B1%E4%B8%89%E5%B9%B4%E6%AD%B2%E6%AC%A1%E8%BE%9B%E4%BA%A5-Xuantong-Third-Year-1911-scaled.jpg Blog - Kitchen God Print for the Xinhai Year 宣統三年歲次辛亥 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/fde5a3d3-21b5-40f9-ab84-d0339238ffaa/Puyi-the-last-emperor-in-1911-1.jpg Blog - Kitchen God Print for the Xinhai Year 宣統三年歲次辛亥 - Make it stand out Puyi, the Xuantong emperor, in 1911 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/d80c7a88-b0eb-466b-a105-16ee282b78a4/YuanShikaiPresidente1915.jpg Blog - Kitchen God Print for the Xinhai Year 宣統三年歲次辛亥 - Make it stand out Yuan Shikai https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/75571752-a954-4c21-8cb0-770f874509d4/Screenshot-2024-06-30-at-13.40.18.png Blog - Kitchen God Print for the Xinhai Year 宣統三年歲次辛亥 - Make it stand out Calendar with extra, small month vertically at centre of second row: 閏六月小 https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/xiao-ma-wu-in-spinning-cotton- monthly 0.5 2024-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/b15658ca-3fa8-4d72-a4f8-502d75b3a40a/%E5%B0%8F%E9%A6%AC%E4%BA%94%E7%B4%A1%E7%B6%BF%E8%8A%B1-scaled.jpg Blog - Xiao Ma Wu in “Spinning Cotton” 小馬五紡綿花 - Make it stand out “Xiao Ma Wu in Spinning Cotton” by the Dai Lianzeng studio. After 1909, when Xiao Ma Wu became famous in the role https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/7926780d-5f21-4c6a-bbaa-414997e4915b/Possible-photo-of-Xiao-Ma-Wu-2.png Blog - Xiao Ma Wu in “Spinning Cotton” 小馬五紡綿花 - Make it stand out Photo of Xiao Ma Wu in the role of Madame Wang. Date unknown https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/six-prints-from-taohuawu-studios monthly 0.5 2024-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/ad9fd06e-0a6e-4d59-a467-78a6d50050a7/%E8%B1%AB%E5%9C%92%E6%8A%8A%E6%88%B2%E5%9C%96-Acrobats-scaled.jpg Blog - Six Prints from Taohuawu Studios - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/3f9c5a03-c21e-43e1-a0e8-9214ee7cc433/Original-Acrobats.jpg Blog - Six Prints from Taohuawu Studios - Make it stand out Original edition from c1890 naming Wu Youru as artist (left of the title) and Wenyi Studio at Shangyang as publisher (vertically along lower right side) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/6789065c-c23e-4f57-b4ef-19a807e6084a/IMG_20240525_130921_HDR-scaled.jpg Blog - Six Prints from Taohuawu Studios - Make it stand out Similar illustration of performers in a park, from Dianshizhai, 1884. I don’t know whether Wu Yourou was the artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/966dd656-539f-477c-b6be-f3558c04fa15/%E8%BF%B7%E4%BA%BA%E9%A4%A8%E6%8D%89%E6%8B%BF%E4%B9%9D%E8%8A%B1%E5%A8%98-Jiuhua-at-Charming-Hall-scaled.jpg Blog - Six Prints from Taohuawu Studios - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/b8d4026b-d36e-49a8-9a6c-91e01acadea3/%E9%8A%80%E5%9D%91%E6%B4%9E%E4%B8%83%E6%93%92%E5%AD%9F%E7%8D%B2-Meng-Huo-Captured-scaled.jpg Blog - Six Prints from Taohuawu Studios - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/e2cbad26-2562-4bbf-8fb8-ab07f2a7253e/%E9%9A%8B%E7%85%AC%E5%B8%9D%E4%B8%8B%E6%B1%9F%E5%8D%97-Emperor-Yang-of-Sui-scaled.jpg Blog - Six Prints from Taohuawu Studios - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/6ed94492-70e9-4187-9b24-df5f022386f8/%E6%96%B0%E5%BD%A9%E6%98%AD%E5%90%9B%E8%B7%91%E9%A6%AC-Zhaojun-Horses-scaled.jpg Blog - Six Prints from Taohuawu Studios - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/b5cde07c-c52b-495a-84d7-01a64b2397e9/%E8%98%87%E5%B7%9E%E9%90%B5%E8%B7%AF%E7%81%AB%E8%BC%AA%E8%BB%8A%E5%85%AC%E5%8F%B8%E9%96%8B%E5%BE%80%E5%90%B3%E6%B7%9E-Suzhou-Railway-scaled.jpg Blog - Six Prints from Taohuawu Studios - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/4a405f0f-d0e1-4343-b660-b5e65e4e33ae/Original-Railway.png Blog - Six Prints from Taohuawu Studios - Make it stand out The original 1876 version – identical except for the title “The Shanghai Steam Railway Company Heading to Wusong” https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/the-mianzhu-woodblock-rubbing-mystery monthly 0.5 2025-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/b672af2c-77ce-4fc7-b3c6-73611a9382b0/Screenshot+2025-04-30+at+11.58.17.png Blog - The Mianzhu Woodblock Rubbing Mystery - Make it stand out On the left (永鎮家宅) is a typically ugly, fierce image of Zhong Kui with bat and sword; the qin (Chinese zither) slung across his back reflects his cultured achievements. On the right (趙公鎮宅) is Zhao Gongming and his tiger protecting a clutch of chicks; this is based on a nineteenth-century painting in the Mianzhu woodblock museum. The Chinese characters 鎮(家)宅 identify the two rubbings as protective talismans for the home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/a15eb392-f07f-46fb-8a3b-5b20837b1918/2025CN025+copy.jpg Blog - The Mianzhu Woodblock Rubbing Mystery - Make it stand out One Hundred Old Men, or One Hundred Immortals, 百壽圖/百仙圖. Six out of a set of eight; from the left, numbers 2 & 3 are missing. Signed by the nineteenth-century artist Meng Shikang (孟世康), about whom almost nothing is known. All these rubbings show age-related damage to the original blocks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/f8cd5c4a-b5ea-4ceb-a39c-b2c4c1ca3eb0/Screenshot+2025-04-30+at+11.59.05.png Blog - The Mianzhu Woodblock Rubbing Mystery - Make it stand out On the left “Long-lived as Heaven, with Plentiful Emoluments” (壽天百祿). “Deer” in Chinese sounds similar to the word for an official’s salary, hence is a stand-in for wealth and position; the peach represents longevity; and the pomegranate the boy is holding represents abundant offspring. On the right, “A Prosperous Promotion” (得祿榮陞). Again, the deer across the rear servant’s shoulders is wordplay for “Official’s Salary”, while the books hanging from the carrypole reflect deep learning. “On horseback” coloquially means “coming quickly”. Both blocks marked 綿邑雲鶴齋發, ”Published by the Yunhe Studio, Mianyi”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/d53eeca0-3560-47e3-9a52-043fd43765b8/IMG_20250327_102705_HDR.jpg Blog - The Mianzhu Woodblock Rubbing Mystery - Make it stand out At the Beilin Museum, Xi’an. First stage of making a rubbing: overlaying the stone tablet with a paper layer. The artist is using a fine brush to press the damp paper into all the engraved areas. The fan is to dry out the paper once this tamping process is complete. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/b1452f99-e479-46ab-bd23-64486c6ad6e6/Screenshot+2025-04-30+at+12.01.02.png Blog - The Mianzhu Woodblock Rubbing Mystery - Make it stand out Modern rubbing block in the Mianzhu New Year Print Museum. Although it does show some chisel marks, I suspect that the block has been cut largely by laser. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/0dfc614f-2148-47b9-80a5-d1558f756b5d/embossing-scaled.jpg Blog - The Mianzhu Woodblock Rubbing Mystery - Make it stand out Frankenstein flash to capture how the paper has been embossed by the rubbing process https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/three-kings-temple-festival-at-heli- monthly 0.5 2024-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/db10646a-0bd8-4b66-97f6-b450bb6ddfa8/IMG_9873.JPG Blog - Three Kings Temple festival at Heli 和理三王宮 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/905cccfc-a482-4231-8639-ba91fc370203/IMG_9750-1-scaled.jpg Blog - Three Kings Temple festival at Heli 和理三王宮 - Make it stand out Lion dancers (and Monkey King) getting ready to welcome the kings. Getting crowded https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/430ded00-3f51-4b97-b3b2-fd3b2ce7d863/Three-Kings-Temple-theatre-stage-scaled.jpg Blog - Three Kings Temple festival at Heli 和理三王宮 - Make it stand out Stage over the main entrance, first constructed in 1844. The British explorer William Mesny visited in 1879 and found the temple inhabited by “a company of play actors and a few scholars” who he was surprised to find well-educated, despite their ragged clothing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/37147b48-762e-456a-97f3-2456817e9fbd/IMG_0978-scaled.jpg Blog - Three Kings Temple festival at Heli 和理三王宮 - Make it stand out “Restrictions Tablet” of 1794, where local communities asserted ownership of the Heli area and forbade outsiders from using their land, especially for burials. With a hill behind the temple and a small stream in front, Sanwang Gong has excellent fengshui for graves, and so many people were coming here to bury their dead that farmland was becoming encroached https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/7f1c180e-ee8c-4623-9f0e-67e403c49a8f/Thre-Kings-Temple-main-hall-scaled.jpg Blog - Three Kings Temple festival at Heli 和理三王宮 - Make it stand out Elders in silk robes and pork-pie hats; a big honour for the children chosen to play the “generals” either side of the entrance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/1cb5561a-dae2-4df3-8b82-1cf8176e40a2/Three-Kings-Temple-sacrificial-pig-scaled.jpg Blog - Three Kings Temple festival at Heli 和理三王宮 - Make it stand out Festive pink sacrificial pig. Note the chap at the back taking a picture of big-nose foreigner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/1b4158fc-093c-4510-b4f3-6486165cf6fc/Three-Kings-Temple-King-in-sedan-chair-scaled.jpg Blog - Three Kings Temple festival at Heli 和理三王宮 - Make it stand out One of the kings in his sedan chair, ready to tour around the hamlet. Heavy work for the six carriers – the statue is solid wood, as is that throne – who are dressed in traditional indigo-dyed clothing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/cc5c51a8-84ec-4bef-bcc0-4359b5ac5230/Three-Kings-Temple-actors-at-shrine-scaled.jpg Blog - Three Kings Temple festival at Heli 和理三王宮 - Make it stand out Empty shrine and young students as the Three Kings and thier wives, getting ready to follow the statues as they are carried out of the temple around the fields. Again, a big honour to be chosen for these roles https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/wu-caizhen-of-foshan- monthly 0.5 2024-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/96d4864f-53e8-453c-85d2-addefee46f3e/Foshan-Wu-Caizhen-Zhao-Gongming-scaled.jpg Blog - Wu Caizhen of Foshan 佛山伍彩珍 - Make it stand out Zhao Gongming (趙公明) on his tiger, holding a gold ingot and his magical sword breaker, which fires out explosive “sea-smoothing” pearls. In the sixteenth-century novel Creation of the Gods, Zhao is a general from Mount Emei in Sichuan province, who fights for the corrupt and crumbling Shang dynasty. After being killed by the Daoist Jiang Ziya, he is deified by the newly-founded Zhou dyansty as the military god of wealth, responsible for the steady accumulation of riches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/2f6cff26-6c54-44e9-9332-021a75046d6e/Cai-Bo-Xing-Jun-%E8%B4%A2%E5%B8%9B%E6%98%9F%E5%90%9B-scaled.jpg Blog - Wu Caizhen of Foshan 佛山伍彩珍 - Make it stand out Cai Bo Xing Jun (财帛星君) the Stellar Deity of Wealth and Silk responsible for great profits in business. He holds a court official’s hu tablet, while his right-hand attendant carries a bowl full of gold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/515376b6-3685-4cc4-a2c9-f50f75c88792/Sun-Wukong-scaled.jpeg Blog - Wu Caizhen of Foshan 佛山伍彩珍 - Make it stand out Clawed toes, staring eyes and a magic staff: formerly known as “Monkey Awakened to Vacuity” and “Great Sage Equal of Heaven”, this is Monkey in his “Victorious Fighting Buddha” incarnation (note the halo). The peaches reference his immortality, and the havoc he once caused at the Heavenly Peach Banquet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/11d5dcdb-9abe-479d-a9c0-092b2b8b2162/Fu-De-Ci-%E7%A6%8F%E5%BE%B7%E7%A5%A0-scaled.jpg Blog - Wu Caizhen of Foshan 佛山伍彩珍 - Make it stand out Fu De, another name for deities of place aka Earth gods. He holds a gold ingot, bringing wealth to those living within his care. The sign 福德祠 reads “Ancestral Temple of Fu De” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/d8165a12-dc41-4eea-a944-394d6949aff6/Guan-Yu-scaled.jpeg Blog - Wu Caizhen of Foshan 佛山伍彩珍 - Make it stand out Third-century general Guan Yu as the incarnation of Martial Righteousness, flanked by his son (on the right with Guan Yu’s seal of office in its bag) and arms bearer (with Guan’s halberd, Green Dragon) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/7470ae2f-22bb-4a4f-b5f6-a6bcba55cb2f/Guanyin-%E8%A7%80%E9%9F%B3-scaled.jpg Blog - Wu Caizhen of Foshan 佛山伍彩珍 - Make it stand out Guanyin (觀音) Bodhisattva of Compassion, derived from the Hindu deity Avalokiteshvara, with her filial parrot and child acolytes Longnü and Shancai. She holds a vase labelled “peace”, and scatters the world-calming water inside with her williow wand. Longnü at left holds a basin of gold, suggesting that here Guanyin also acts a wealth deity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/8ccbfa1b-8b02-4af7-957e-4e4d95932cd4/Bei-Di-Xuanwu-Zhou-Yuan-Shuai-scaled.jpg Blog - Wu Caizhen of Foshan 佛山伍彩珍 - Make it stand out Xuanwu (aka Zhenwu or Bei Di). He has the Thirty-Six Generals under his command, but which two are holding his seven-star flag and seal here is open to debate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/8ee4c242-4401-453f-b82e-1ad02dbbdc10/Huaguang-%E8%8F%AF%E5%85%89%E5%A4%A7%E5%B8%9D-scaled.jpg Blog - Wu Caizhen of Foshan 佛山伍彩珍 - Make it stand out Huaguang (華光大帝), a complicated character, reincarnated many times as different deities. Identifiable partly through his third eye, in one existence he serves as a fire god – hence the gourd, which contains incendiary crows – while in another he carries a transformational golden pyramid, which he later lost in a battle with the fire-wheel-riding Third Prince Nezha https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/5bf3c07e-ee6a-4493-ba81-d5fb18bee164/Immortal-Archer-Zhang-scaled.jpg Blog - Wu Caizhen of Foshan 佛山伍彩珍 - Make it stand out Zhang the Immortal, firing a pellet from his bow towards the Heavenly Hound, which eats male foetuses in the womb. 送子, “firing pellets”, can also translate as “sending sons”; 弹, a pellet bow, sounds like 誕, birth; the children round his feet carry gold (wealth), a book (scholar), and what might be a pomegranate flower (fecundity); the qilin heralds the birth of a sage: altogether, wishing for many intelligent sons who prosper in the public service. I’ve seen a mirror image of this print, suggesting they were sold in pairs to go either side of the bedroom door of newly-weds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/38af224e-94b3-436f-a566-3a8b3818338a/Tai-Shang-Lao-Jun-%E5%A4%AA%E4%B8%8A%E8%80%81%E5%90%9B-scaled.jpg Blog - Wu Caizhen of Foshan 佛山伍彩珍 - Make it stand out Tai Shang Lao Jun (太上老君) One of the Three Purities of Daoism, an incarnation of Laozi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/3fd24f41-beab-46af-9c7a-fe36596b1f5a/Lu%CC%88-Dongbin-scaled.jpg Blog - Wu Caizhen of Foshan 佛山伍彩珍 - Make it stand out Lü Dongbin, Daoist Immortal and demon-suppressor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/3f5b5210-f80d-4ab5-a641-a504bd21009c/Tian-Hou-Yuan-Jun-%E5%A4%A9%E5%90%8E%E5%85%83%E5%90%9B-scaled.jpg Blog - Wu Caizhen of Foshan 佛山伍彩珍 - Make it stand out Tian Hou Yuan Jun (天后元君) Southern China’s patron deity of seafarers, also known as Mazu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/aea532b0-0f4d-46a6-bc4b-e6d04ac00075/Wang-Lao-Xian-Shi-%E7%8E%8B%E8%80%81%E4%BB%99%E5%B8%AB-scaled.jpg Blog - Wu Caizhen of Foshan 佛山伍彩珍 - Make it stand out Wang Lao Xian Shi (王老仙師) Folk deity associated with several Daoist cults, who can also represent Confucianism when appearing with Monkey (Buddhism) and Laozi (Daoism). Here, the gourd and sword suggests he’s acting as a Daoist medic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/ad636e01-63d4-404c-9008-773da942694d/Ziwei-Dadi-%E7%B4%AB%E5%BE%AE%E5%A4%A7%E5%B8%9D-scaled.jpg Blog - Wu Caizhen of Foshan 佛山伍彩珍 - Make it stand out Ziwei Dadi (紫微大帝) Emperor of the North Pole Star, as a youth. The tiger, yin-yang bagua tablet and sword are symbols of his power over demons and bad fortune https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/two-door-gods-from-fengxiang monthly 0.5 2025-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/50f576e9-4a62-4eb2-8574-60357b2fe8e3/Screenshot-2023-11-12-at-16.28.55.png Blog - Two Door Gods from Fengxiang - Make it stand out Pale-faced Qin Qiong aka Shubao (d.638 AD), and fiercely-bearded Yuchi Gong, aka Jingde (585-658 AD) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/0590a9bf-af33-4204-aea4-e4f9990f42f9/Screenshot+2025-08-28+at+16.35.08.png Blog - Two Door Gods from Fengxiang - Make it stand out Printing table with central slot, pink ink, and palm-fibre rubbing pads https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/dc6452e9-f159-4b9d-b53b-35e4a74943d7/Screenshot+2025-08-28+at+16.26.44.png Blog - Two Door Gods from Fengxiang - Make it stand out Tai Wei holding the top half of the Qin Qiong print block. The ring bottom right is a sort of copyright mark https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/c2e4d6cb-05ea-4810-a9d3-4900c8d11211/Three+deity+prints.png Blog - Two Door Gods from Fengxiang - Make it stand out Three deity prints: Laozi (left) and Zhang Daoling with his tiger (centre), both using Five Thunder magic to defeat four “poisons” (snake, scorpion, toad, insect), with possibly Zhang Daoling again at right, master of the Dragon-Tiger Altar (Dragon-Tiger Mountain in Jiangxi province is the centre for his cult). Alternatively it could be Zhao Gongming, the military god of wealth https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/a-demon-suppressing-charm monthly 0.5 2024-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/7076a609-7367-47b2-bb61-49cd101850f6/s-l1600.jpg Blog - A Demon-Suppressing Charm - Make it stand out Peony pattern at the top, grass pattern around the sides, talisman in centre and fine text – hard to see here – either side https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/d913a5a0-9fa5-4878-b356-3d7757aee188/Chunyang-Gong-scaled.jpg Blog - A Demon-Suppressing Charm - Make it stand out Iron lion guarding the entrance to Chunyang temple https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/da5698e4-1d6d-4fe4-9d0f-8e0b0ddb6016/1929-40-217-imls2012-scaled.jpg Blog - A Demon-Suppressing Charm - Make it stand out Painting of Lü Dongbin in the Philadelphia Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/807831cf-243d-42f7-b40d-58864c8c206b/nimg.ws_.126.jpg Blog - A Demon-Suppressing Charm - Make it stand out The original stone tablet. 126.5cm tall, apparently https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/b73b82e8-3b45-40e3-863f-02d5999453fe/tFRyG-scaled.jpeg Blog - A Demon-Suppressing Charm - Make it stand out Thick quilted rubbing paper embossed by the tamping/tapping process https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/9f1b1a4b-02e0-4dd0-b4f6-4a3a5bad5e6a/s-l960-6-1.jpg Blog - A Demon-Suppressing Charm - Make it stand out Thick ink making the finer-carved characters difficult to read https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/8fe918b7-ba72-4c39-b481-b5c16b51b511/Water-Margin-Removing-Fu-Ming.jpg Blog - A Demon-Suppressing Charm - Make it stand out Removing a demon-suppressing tablet and letting the spirits escape – illustration from a Ming copy of the Water Margin https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/suppression-of-the-taiping-rebels- monthly 0.5 2024-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/28420c6a-d827-4d71-8cfe-5fcc4db9c099/Original-Print-Extermination-of-the-Taiping-Rebels.png Blog - Suppression of the Taiping Rebels: 剿滅粵匪圖 - Make it stand out Suppression (or “extermination”) of the Yue Bandits (or “Taiping Rebels”) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/083b8a1a-823a-45db-9e5d-8ad37b78e3fb/ILN-07-01-1854-Print-scaled.jpg Blog - Suppression of the Taiping Rebels: 剿滅粵匪圖 - Make it stand out Version in The Illustrated London News. Nice job; even most of the Chinese is legible https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/daoists-and-tigers-zhang-daoling-at-shangqing-palace monthly 0.5 2024-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/e40feb0c-d90e-473c-adb8-9fe6ec6aa33c/IMG_5665-scaled.jpg Blog - Daoists and Tigers: Zhang Daoling at Shangqing Palace - Make it stand out “Commander Hong Recklessly Releases the Spirits” by Miguel Covarrubias, from the illustrated All Men Are Brothers, Pearl Buck’s translation of The Water Margin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/52bfc933-6cd3-4b0e-a561-f319840ad75e/Longhu-Shan-Gazetteer.png Blog - Daoists and Tigers: Zhang Daoling at Shangqing Palace - Make it stand out Longhu Shan Gazetteer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/d97e0a91-d8a2-4805-a59c-f04dacde2ba5/Daoist-Temples-at-Longhu-Shan-scaled.jpg Blog - Daoists and Tigers: Zhang Daoling at Shangqing Palace - Make it stand out Daoist temples at Longhu Shan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/6afab59c-3c1f-4d95-9f2c-e400ffd0f7e9/Zhang-Daoling-colour-balanced-copy-scaled.jpg Blog - Daoists and Tigers: Zhang Daoling at Shangqing Palace - Make it stand out 1927 print of Zhang Daoling and tiger suppressing the Five Poisons, issued in the name of Shangqing Palace. The design might reflect the story of his being enlightened by the long-haried mystic Liu Gen, who revealed the “Method of the Tiger Spirit” to Zhang https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/d6443517-04fd-413f-b837-4bd3a9d02c46/Zhang-Daoling-on-Tiger-scaled.jpg Blog - Daoists and Tigers: Zhang Daoling at Shangqing Palace - Make it stand out 1930 version of the print: no mention of Shangqing Palace https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/applying-clan-law-to-demons-zhou-han-and-griffith-john monthly 0.5 2024-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/0efbeff8-e152-4225-a32d-5abeb31051dd/%E6%97%8F%E8%A6%8F%E6%B2%BB%E9%AC%BC%E5%9C%96-scaled.jpg Blog - Applying Clan Law to Demons: Zhou Han and Griffith John - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/1dc1d9d7-8ef6-479c-b71c-6977da645c3a/Screenshot-2023-02-15-at-13.45.31.png Blog - Applying Clan Law to Demons: Zhou Han and Griffith John - Make it stand out Griffith John, 1880s https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/a-warriors-phoenixes monthly 0.5 2024-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/025031ba-8489-4307-adbb-4878be644455/Screenshot-2022-12-22-at-10.12.43.png Blog - A Warrior’s Phoenixes - Make it stand out A beautiful rubbing, about 90 x 180cm. It’s unmounted, so the quilted paper is still deeply embossed from being pressed into the stonework during the rubbing process https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/8eedff22-0369-4d3d-b0f0-d8281aad2d1b/Bai-Di-Cheng-sign-scaled.jpg Blog - A Warrior’s Phoenixes - Make it stand out Baidi Cheng moulding (actually it says Baidi Miao, Baidi temple), with well and dragons, above entrance gate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/3b68c74d-35da-4260-8827-2bc17df9e30b/Bao-Chao-photo-Miscellany-4-scaled.jpeg Blog - A Warrior’s Phoenixes - Make it stand out The only photo I could find anywhere of Bao Chao, from Mesny’s Chinese Miscellany, volume IV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/5c42a747-d868-42f1-a808-9b7c20cb93c1/Qutang-with-boat-9-scaled.jpg Blog - A Warrior’s Phoenixes - Make it stand out Qutang Gorge, the narrowest and shortest of the Three Gorges, just downstream from Baidi Cheng and Fengjie town. The sharp summit on the left is Wu Shan, Witch Mountain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/a1f32ab0-4dad-452a-9b09-0decec56efda/s-l1600.png Blog - A Warrior’s Phoenixes - Make it stand out Nice solid calligraphy https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/he-he-harmony monthly 0.5 2024-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/bbdbcb84-c208-4693-8c21-59f0c6c28edf/0-Hanshan-and-Shide-scaled.jpg Blog - He He Harmony - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/34b940f5-3e63-483c-8c76-a750d1f05e3b/00-Luo-Ping-Hanshan-Shide.jpg Blog - He He Harmony - Make it stand out Original painting by Luo Ping, now in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/20895484-a674-475e-bfb1-3da1a87708c0/Hanshan-hair-scaled.jpg Blog - He He Harmony - Make it stand out What, me worry? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/e38c7cee-be22-4165-814f-3095a442d06e/%E5%A7%91%E8%98%87%E5%AF%92%E5%B1%B1%E5%AF%BA%E8%97%8F%E7%A2%91.jpg Blog - He He Harmony - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/tribute-elephants-at-the-qing-court monthly 0.5 2024-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/e5175e27-2bbb-40fe-8c78-7397e866da82/Elephant.jpeg Blog - Tribute Elephants at the Qing Court - Make it stand out Captive elephant at the Qing court, from an encyclopedic Japanese work about the history of Beijing, 唐土名胜图会 (1805) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/73518e86-965e-433d-a326-f37bc4668d61/Washing-Elephants-in-Beijing-c1870-1.png Blog - Tribute Elephants at the Qing Court - Make it stand out Washing elephants in the moat just south of the Beijing city walls, from a nineteenth-century painting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/2574a7ce-fd20-4aab-a557-9ef18513d2ee/Elephant-Embassy.jpeg Blog - Tribute Elephants at the Qing Court - Make it stand out Elephants on the move across China https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/b3059c79-f96e-4c9c-ab8a-bbebcce9606e/Zhusheng-Bridge-and-Kuixing-Pavilion-scaled.jpg Blog - Tribute Elephants at the Qing Court - Make it stand out Ming-dynasty Zhusheng Bridge at Zhenyuan, which the elephants might have crossed in 1875. Wang Bing’ao inscribed his couplets on a pillar inside the Kuixing Pavilion on top, which he had built by to inspire students (Kuixing is the patron deity of scholarship; elephants are also associated with wisdom in Buddhism) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/f20e6140-5629-4a7e-ae9d-a335a6bbe21b/Xuanwumen-Ivory-Hutong-and-Elephant-House.png Blog - Tribute Elephants at the Qing Court - Make it stand out Xuanwumen was a gate in southwestern Beijing. Flanking the gate tower are “Ivory Alley” on the right, and “Elephant Stables” on the left https://www.davidleffman.com/blog-1-1/dryden-phelps-and-the-omei-illustrated-guide-book- monthly 0.5 2024-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/09a2de91-6cb3-4691-9113-ca01c01a3fef/Fuhu-Si.jpg Blog - Dryden Phelps and the Omei Illustrated Guide Book 峨山圖志 - Make it stand out Entrance to Fuhu Si, “Crouching Tiger Temple”, set amongst huge gingko trees https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/afa5e8b8-5a1a-4495-936a-f0934be69cc1/Baoguo-corridor-1-scaled.jpg Blog - Dryden Phelps and the Omei Illustrated Guide Book 峨山圖志 - Make it stand out Nineteenth-century temple’s traditional beam and plasterwork construction. Modern renovations tend to use concrete, which is fire-resistant but quickly gets covered in mildew https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/02fc620a-8b7b-46e8-8fa3-c930251cb0f7/mules-on-path-scaled.jpg Blog - Dryden Phelps and the Omei Illustrated Guide Book 峨山圖志 - Make it stand out Mule train on one of the easier stretches of steps https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/f04d0460-5372-4ba9-829f-936060f40a65/Screenshot-2022-07-28-at-15.52.34.png Blog - Dryden Phelps and the Omei Illustrated Guide Book 峨山圖志 - Make it stand out Cover of 峨山圖志, A New Edition of the Omei Illustrated Guide, 1936 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/c8f5f1c8-678f-4ea8-a506-fb3efce8d570/20131209_2.jpg Blog - Dryden Phelps and the Omei Illustrated Guide Book 峨山圖志 - Make it stand out Team translation of Jesus as Teacher. From left to right: Dryden Phelps, Constance Walmsley, Leslie Earl Willmott, Peggy Phelps, Lewis Walmsley and Katharine Willmott. Katharine Willmott later collaborated with Phelps on Pilgrimage in Poetry to Mount Omei; while Lewis Walmsley donated a set of woodblock prints of Chinese deities to the Royal Ontario Museum, which I wrote about in Paper Horses. Note Phelps’ straw sandals, still an essential part of the hike up Emei in winter, when they grip the icy upper paths securely. Photo by permission of Cory Willmott https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/c1a2e51d-5978-47c3-9a9a-3df20ea5d59f/Path-copy.jpg Blog - Dryden Phelps and the Omei Illustrated Guide Book 峨山圖志 - Make it stand out Upper paths in fog https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/f80947a4-f4b0-4725-a36c-4f0662ccc069/Fuhu-Si-from-tushuo.png Blog - Dryden Phelps and the Omei Illustrated Guide Book 峨山圖志 - Make it stand out Temple complex amongst forest and peaks, from the Mount Emei Illustrated Handbook, 1891 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/612523f8-a26f-416e-941b-1defd3ca04c6/panoramic-view-scaled.jpg Blog - Dryden Phelps and the Omei Illustrated Guide Book 峨山圖志 - Make it stand out A Panoramic View of Emei, from A New Edition of the Omei Illustrated Guide. Emei town is bottom right, showing the gateway at the start of the path. Yu Zidan copied the original woodblocks very faithfully; it’s sometimes hard to tell the difference at a glance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/1b309739-4770-4afe-8804-b02c8d7c042d/Baoguo-monk-and-bell-scaled.jpg Blog - Dryden Phelps and the Omei Illustrated Guide Book 峨山圖志 - Make it stand out Baoguo’s temple bell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/c5312a02-4f75-4c53-b4e9-e840f57324a1/Fuhu-Si-bell-2.jpg Blog - Dryden Phelps and the Omei Illustrated Guide Book 峨山圖志 - Make it stand out 3m-tall bronze pagoda covered in figurines and the text of the Lotus Sutra, sacred to Puxian. The major figures are Gautama in the centre, flanked by Puxian on his elephant, and Wenshu on his blue lion. Currently housed at Fuhu Temple, near Baoguo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/3282eb10-c59f-4530-97cd-a5fe4af5f710/Wannian-Puxian-Elephant.jpg Blog - Dryden Phelps and the Omei Illustrated Guide Book 峨山圖志 - Make it stand out Song dynasty bronze sculpture of Puxian riding his elephant. Visitors in the nineteenth century reported parts of the trunk, tusks and legs had almost worn through from pilgrims rubbing the statue for good luck. Last time I visited the security fence had been moved further back so that it was impossible to touch the elephant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/f2d0bb96-fc0c-4332-9743-d247cf7b96cd/summit-area-scaled.jpg Blog - Dryden Phelps and the Omei Illustrated Guide Book 峨山圖志 - Make it stand out Temples crowding the summit area, from A New Edition of the Omei Illustrated Guide https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/768b51f8-bf42-451f-885b-33512e3321ff/Scan.jpeg Blog - Dryden Phelps and the Omei Illustrated Guide Book 峨山圖志 - Make it stand out Mummified body of a monk, from one of the summit temples. Photo taken 1906–1909, from Old China in Historic Photographs, by Ernst Boerschmann https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/e1558851-4c45-48fa-b10e-951ff7392273/Tan-painting-of-buddhas-halo-and-suicide.jpg Blog - Dryden Phelps and the Omei Illustrated Guide Book 峨山圖志 - Make it stand out Buddha’s Halo appearing in the clouds below the summit temples – note the figure apparently jumping over the edge in his eagerness to touch the apparition. The drop is 1500m, nearly half the height of the mountain. Painting by Tan Zhongyue, but not part of his work for the original Mount Emei Illustrated Handbook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/678e05a5-b768-49c2-8f05-0fc5321755a9/huazang.jpg Blog - Dryden Phelps and the Omei Illustrated Guide Book 峨山圖志 - Make it stand out Huazang temple in the fog, c.1998. It has been considerably rebuilt since then https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/c7ac78fb-d249-4ba3-a7dd-9584fa2ca4a5/Modern-map-1990-scaled.jpeg Blog - Dryden Phelps and the Omei Illustrated Guide Book 峨山圖志 - Make it stand out Tourist map of the mountain from 1990, showing about 30 temples still functioning https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66bf9e881c31560afe8194e9/745b63b2-54a2-40aa-a146-628afdeeef9d/Panda-heldby-Dryden.jpg Blog - Dryden Phelps and the Omei Illustrated Guide Book 峨山圖志 - Make it stand out Dryden Phelps with baby panda. According to Cory Willmott, whose grandparents worked with Phelps, “Missionaries played a crucial role in capturing and transferring pandas to North American and European zoos. 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