A recurring motif in Chinese art and literature.

Album leaf from “Shi quan tuce” 十犬圖冊 by anonymous 18th-century court artist(s) Picture credit: The Palace Museum, Beijing...

Du Fu the gardener...

From Scots to classical Chinese...

On a delightful snowfall greeting the year of the rabbit.

A back translation exercise.

A political comment written in the stars.

黃佐《湛子宅夜宴和呂子仲木邊爐詩》 “At a night banquet in Master Zhan’s mansion, in response to the hot pot poem by Master Lü, [courtesy name] Zhongmu” by...

On a sad loss in countryside life...To commemorate the two guineafowls that we lost overnight.

Depiction of a Chinese fooball game.

An eleventh-century anecdote about cooking with the head.

More on animals in the countryside...

For my new silkie neighbour.

An ephemeral pleasure of the tenth month.

On a lunar eclipse in the fourteenth century.

For the season of loquat flowers.

To compensate myself for the partial solar eclipse that eluded me on 25 Oct 2022...

Tips for what to do with chestnuts from the Ming Dynasty.

Tips for storing chestnuts from the Ming Dynasty.

The night sky at the time of Han Yu's birth.