Chinese Hand Scrolls

I researched chinese hand scroll and how they are formed. The difference between a chinese handscroll and a hanging scroll is that hanging scroll has usually one huge signal painting and is hung up with 2 dowels and shown horizontally. The Chinese handscroll is usually one dowel and a very small dowel for the person to pull the scroll out and is usually one huge painting. For the hanging scroll there is two dowels same on each end and when it is hung up the bottom dowel supports the scroll by its weight and straightening the scroll out. What the differences is that hand scroll usually has a painting and tell a story visually, with the hanging scroll is an painting shown visually without telling a story.

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Bibliography

• http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/chhs/hd_chhs.htm

• https://news.artnet.com/art-world/an-introduction-to-the-chinese-handscroll-30455

• http://www.npm.gov.tw/english/exhbition/ehan0101/ehan0101.htm

• https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/vrc/find-images/chinese-handscroll-paintings/

• https://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/painting/4ptgtech.htm

• http://www.thehistoryblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Admonitions-Scroll-GCI.jpg

• http://www.huangshantour.com/english/river.htm

• http://www.bmimages.com/preview.asp?image=00031341001&imagex=70&searchnum=0002

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