Handmad Lot of 12 New Bamboo Leaf Bookmark BB4 Start Price USD 19.99 Current Price USD 19.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price USD 29.99 Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, November 15, 2008 End Time Saturday, November 22, 2008 Location Tibet See more about 'Handmad Lot of 12 New Bamboo Leaf Bookmark BB4' Description qloldsheep Store One sideOther sideSize: 4 x 17 Cm / bookmark     The Bamboo plant has long been used as food, decoration, and construction material in most of Asia. In China, it is regarded as a symbol of longevity and is often cultivated for ornamental purposes, such as the creation of these bamboo leaf bookmarks.     Each Bamboo leaf bookmark is constructed from a whole piece of leaf sealed and preserved along with a decorative backing printed with Chinese or Buddhist philosophical passages in Calligraphy form.     The special Bamboo leaves used in these bookmarks were painstakingly hand picked for their height and width from the forests of East Asia. The harvesting of these leaves is perfectly timed to catch them at their fullest bloom but before they begin to wither.     The face of these bookmarks feature traditional Chinese Artwork of a style thats been around for thousands of years. Unlike European art, Chinese art focuses on form and modeling that captures emotion or atmosphere, expressing the rhythm of life. On the front of each bookmark there is a small poem or introduction written in Calligraphy, another art form practiced in China for thousands of years.      These characters drawn on the bookmarks come from a very famous ancient novel written by Tsao Hsueh-chin and Kao Hgo in Ching Dynasty in China. 红楼梦, sometimes translated as The Dream of the Red Chamber, the great classical Chinese novel written in the mid-eighteenth century during the reign of Emperor Chien-lung of the Ching Dynasty, has been widely popular throughout the last two hundred years and more. The four great houses of Chia, Shih, Wang and Hsueh described in this novel were typical basic political units of feudal society. Such families were linked with the court above and the local officials below to form a network of control with the feudal autocratic state power as its centre. The book depicts the inevitable doom of these families, riven as they are by fierce struggles among themselves and in society, focusing on the tragic love between Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu and also provides a panorama of the lives of people of various levels in the degenerating empire. It is the only one novel so brilliantly integrated with these that readers are fascinated and moved by it. With superb artistry the author presents a panoramic genre-painting, a whole gallery of highly individual yet typical characters. Through detailed descriptions of their daily life he succeeds in depicting their different idiosyncrasies, thoughts and feelings. In the use of dialogue too he shows outstanding skill, putting such distinctive speech into each character's mouth that the reader feels as if he can see and hear the speaker. The Ching Dynasty (1644-1911) was the last feudal dynasty in China. The Chien-lung era (1736-95) was the turning point towards the decline of the Ching Dynasty. Crisis-riven feudalism was already on its last legs. The whole fabric of Chinese feudal society was tottering on the verge of final collapse. This was the period in which Tsao Hsueh-chin the author of A Dream of Red Mansions lived. Tsao Hsueh-chin died in the twenty-eighth year of Chien-lung (1763). Payment designation:       Only paypal. Paypal is the fastest way to receive merchandise Shipment:       1: Registered Air: (Normal arrival within 15-20 business days)        Shipping cost :   Free  !!!     We ship the item form Tibet China within 48 hours after the payment cleared, but the international freight is rather unstable, the shipment usually takes 15-20 business days. Powered by eBay Turbo Lister The free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items. Place a Bid!