Chinese literature pictures

Chinese fireworks or paper fireworks

Also known by the French terms fr>feux pyriques or fr>feux arabesques

Is a type of optical toy box that displays pictures with twinkling light effects.The pictures are partly printed or painted and partly perforated into plates that are made of paper

Parchment or cardboard.Different plates can be placed in the front of the box

One by one.A wheel with a spiraling pattern on coloured transparent paper is made to rotate between a light source and the picture plates

Causing the light to flicker and move in different colours through the perforations in the plates.

Cranes are an important motif in Chinese mythology.There are various myths involving cranes

And in Chinese mythology cranes are generally symbolically connected with the idea of longevity.In China

The crane mythology is associated with the divine bird worship in the animal totemism; cranes have a spiritual meaning where they are a form of divine bird which travels between heaven and man's world.Cranes regularly appear in Chinese arts such as :

1. Paintings
2. Tapestry

And decorative arts; they are also often depicted carrying the souls of the deceased to heaven.The crane is the second most important bird after the fenghuang

The symbol of the empress

This is a list of the earliest films produced and released before 1930 during the Qing dynasty and Republican China

Ordered by year of release.