Talk:Four Arts of the Chinese Scholar

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[edit] Davou Essay

how do ppl feel about this essay? It can possibly replace the article, but i think its either or. Also, Davou, dont write comments or signatures in the article. --1698 00:36, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question about the title of this article

Actually, I am not satisfied with the current title of this article: "Four Arts of the Chinese Scholar". This term is very hard to be found on the Internet. Is there any formal translation for these "four arts" in English? Is it really for "Scholar"? Sholar or Scholars? "The"? Anyway, the "Arts" and "Scholar" should not be capatilized here according to the rule of wiki. I like to know your opinions. Thanks. --Neo-Jay 23:51, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

definately hard to get a good title, but i think title case is fitting, which is used in many other articles of the similar topics... like Four Great Classical Novels --1698 06:43, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 'Qi'

Some one added a link to Go_(board_game) at the top, so I linked the other 3 arts for consistency. I'm not sure if the links I picked were necessarily the most relevant.
I changed parts of the 'qi' section also: Xiangqi is not "less popular" than weiqi, although it is considered low class, compared to the cultivated gentlemens' game of weiqi. I'm pretty sure (but not 100% sure) that the scoring method described was not widely used. Sometimes go players are contentious about the finer details, and I didn't mean to assert anything about that either way. Rather, I tried to edit it with the four arts in general in mind. This section seems to have a lot of technical information about the game in proportion to information about how it reflects the ideal refined scholar, why it was regarded as highly as calligraphy, etc.
It would be really cool if some one more knowledgable than myself would contribute to this section. --Haikon 19:38, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

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