This image is provided by the National Palace Museum of Korea, in collaboration with the Korea Heritage Service and Incheon ...

Xu Qian, 33, holds a pair of brushes in her right hand — one with pigment and the other with water — as she carefully paints peony flowers in the Chinese realist style known as gongbi.

The peony is widely seen as China's national flower. In Chinese culture, the flower is considered to be a symbol of good fortune and prosperity. In Juye county, East China's Shandong Province ...

Oh, for Cyril Birch’s translation. Still, this is “The Peony Pavilion,” and there are few if any other works of art this great that are also this rarely encountered.

Luoyang explores culture related to peony flowersA tourist in traditional Chinese attire enjoys peony flowers at the China National Flower Garden in Luoyang, central China's Henan Province, April ...