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March 8, 2014
Table of Contents
1 Introduction
2 Qin
3 Qi
4 Shu
5 Hua
Four Arts of the Chinese Scholar

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The Four Arts of the Chinese Scholar, otherwise known as siyi, is a term used to describe four main requirements of the Chinese scholar gentleman. They are qin (Guqin), qi (the game of Go), shu (calligraphy) and hua (painting).




Qin refers to the musical instrument of the literati, the Guqin. Although it exclusively meant this instrument in ancient times, it has now come to mean all musical instruments, but essentially it refers to guqin only considering the context.




Qi refers to what everyone calls, Go (board game)|Go, a board game. Go is the Japanese pronounciation of " " which is the old Chinese character for it. The character currently used mainly covers a wide range of board games.




Shu refers to Chinese calligraphy.




Hua refers to Chinese painting.


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