Arts10 min
The Three Friends of Winter: Pine, Plum, Bamboo
Pine, bamboo, plum: the 歲寒三友, Three Friends of Winter, haunt Chinese art. Song origins, Confucian symbolism, and their spread across the Sinosphere.
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