If you’re looking for ancient Chinese secrets, you’re in the right place. This is where you’ll find them. The secrets are in the ceramics. You can learn one right now.
Just look at these pictures. Just look. Don’t think! Don’t let your mind cover up what your eyes see:
From the Neolithic to the Qing Dynasty, you just glimpsed humanity’s longest-running story in one series of pictures. If you looked without thinking, and still thought you saw something: You did! In Chinese, that’s called 开门见山 or 開門見山 or in English “Opening a door and seeing a mountain.” It’s the ultimate skill in learning to appreciate and date and understand Chinese ceramics, and the most difficult to acquire. And you’ve already begun to understand it!