適讀人群 ：學生

Approaching Chinese Painting

《中國美術：體驗華夏視魂》選取的素材與專業美術知識互補融合，更側重對中國美術文明成果和文化的鋻賞、反思。通過該教材的學習，幫助熱衷於美術、繪畫等的學習者們初步實現應用英語講述和傳播中國美術輝煌歷程的目標，體現大學英語 “工具性、人文性和專業性”的特點。

顧曰國，博士後，曾師從許國璋教授，現任中國社會科學院語言研究所研究員，當代語言學研究室主任，並在北京外國語大學兼職至今，主要研究領域包括語用學，話語分析，語料庫語言學，修辭學和英語教育。張舍茹，北京印刷學院教授、碩士生導師、外語部主任，兼任全國外語信息化教學研究會常務副理事長，近年來，先後主持和參與***項目、北京市社科重點項目等共16項。

Acknowledgement
Note from the authors
General Introduction
Pre-Course Activity
Unit 1 Approaching Chinese Painting
Unit 2 Bird and Flower Painting
Unit 3 Drawing Birds and Flowers in the Heart-Mind
Unit 4 Figure Painting
Unit 5 Religious Painting
Unit 6 Landscape Painting
Unit 7 Dunhuang Painting
Unit 8 Motifs， Symbols， and Meaning
正文引用文獻

《中國美術-體驗華夏視魂》：
Hello， welcome to Public Lecture 5！
This lectureis somewhat special.It is， as the title of the lecture shows，about supreme beings， symbols and hidden meanings found in religiouspainting.In normal painting， meanings are often made transparent.Forinstance， in realistic painting， such as court painting， the meaning is what isvisibly shown.The meaning of a realistic depiction of a lotus flower meanslotus flower.In subjective realism （i.e.， xieyi寫意）， on the other hand， thereis， apart from the looking—like meaning， an extra meaning， the painter's ownmeaning， being conveyed through painting.In religious painting， in contrast，there are special meanings of a religious nature.I shall use "symbolic orhidden meanings"to talk about these special meanings.
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