Memories of China Matted
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$40.00
This double matted print is designed to fit any 11 inch by 14 inch standard frame easily available at your local framing or crafts store. Perfect for your smaller spaces that need artwork. The top mat is white and the bottom mat is black.
Cai Wenji, beautiful daughter of noted historian, musician and poet, Cai Yong, lived during the late Han period. She followed in her father's footsteps, even mastering the playing of the guqin, the Chinese zither. In 195 AD, amid the turmoil of the weakening Han dynasty, she was kidnapped by the marauding Xiongnu and held for ransom. For twelve years she languished in barbarian territory and bore the Xiongnu chieftain two sons. Yet she never stopped yearning for her beloved China. Finally, in 207 A.D., the warlord Cao Cao became prime minister of China. He was a great friend of the late Cai Yong, and negotiated the ransom and release of Wenji, but she had to leave her sons behind.
Upon her return, she found that her late father's works on the history of the Eastern Han dynasty had been lost due to the ravages of war. From memory, she compiled four hundred volumes of her father's writings, producing the Dongguan Hanji, the most comprehensive history of the Han dynasty to date.
Cai Wenji, beautiful daughter of noted historian, musician and poet, Cai Yong, lived during the late Han period. She followed in her father's footsteps, even mastering the playing of the guqin, the Chinese zither. In 195 AD, amid the turmoil of the weakening Han dynasty, she was kidnapped by the marauding Xiongnu and held for ransom. For twelve years she languished in barbarian territory and bore the Xiongnu chieftain two sons. Yet she never stopped yearning for her beloved China. Finally, in 207 A.D., the warlord Cao Cao became prime minister of China. He was a great friend of the late Cai Yong, and negotiated the ransom and release of Wenji, but she had to leave her sons behind.
Upon her return, she found that her late father's works on the history of the Eastern Han dynasty had been lost due to the ravages of war. From memory, she compiled four hundred volumes of her father's writings, producing the Dongguan Hanji, the most comprehensive history of the Han dynasty to date.