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The Outstanding Experts'Explanation: Knowledge on cultural relics has been published by Shandong Education Press, which consists of six volumes: Bronze Ware, Jade Ware, Ceramic, Painting, Calligraphy and Craft. Each volume includes approx. 100,000 characters, illustrated with 200 color drawings. The series of books is all based on academic achievements of top-ranking experts in cultural relics, giving a detailed introduction to the time, excavated site, shape and structure, function, artistic characteristics and values of each cultural relic. The series has the following characteristics:

I Content arrangement accords with the dynasty alternation, showing the historicalroute of cultural relics' development

Based on dynasty alternation, each volume of this series is divided into several subjects according to its specific content. For example, in the "About Jade" of the "Jade Ware Volume", jade is classified into over thirty varieties, such as "semi-annular jade pendant", "flat circular jade with a hole centrally", "hollow jade with rectangular sides", "jade tablet", "cut jade tablet", "tiger-shaped jade", "Dushan Jade Sea" and "'King Yu Tamed the Flood' Jade Mountain". This chapter also introduces each variety in accordance with their dynasty order. Take "jade cup" as an example. This series sorts out the jade cup in different dynasties in a clear manner, including the existing earliest "peach-shaped jade cup in a royal tomb of the Warring States period" excavated in Jin Village, "jade stem cup" excavated from a tomb of the Qin Dynasty, "white jade stem cup" of the Three Kingdoms Period excavated in Luoyang City of Henan, jade cups of various forms in the Tang Dynasty and jade cups of great varieties in the Ming Dynasty. Therein, it highlights the peerless "horn-shaped jade cup" excavated from the Tomb of the Nanyue King in the Western Han Dynasty.

II Inspiring readers' retrospection of times while they are appreciating cultural relics

The political and economic development of an era ruust influence its cultural and artistic development as well as change people's life style and aesthetic psychology. Appreciating cultural relics can set people thinking and recalling the culture and sprit of that age. As we all know, people had a higher requirement on teapot's quality because the way of tea making changed from boiling cake tea into brewing loose tea in the Ming Dynasty". Through practice people found that "zisha can make tea fully give offits flavor, so it is most suitable for making tea ware". Besides, "zisha ware is of classic color, presenting sort of quiet and restrained temperament", tallying with literati's aesthetic taste very much (see "Zisha Ware of Literati Temperament" in "Ceramic Volume" for all quotation herein). Therefore, zisha teapot emerges in response. Masters making zisha teapot such as Xiang Shengsi, Shi Dabin and Chen Mansheng stepped on the arena of history.

III Language is easy to understand and content is accurate and scientific

As a public reading, this series explicates superfine cultural relics with vivacious language. The explanation on professional knowledge is simple, interesting and easy-to-understand. Tips like "mini-dictionary" and "experts' explanation" are attached in key parts so as to solve readers' doubts and supplement professional knowledge.