Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Birds, Bats and Butterflies of Chinese Textiles
The Honolulu Academy of Arts present art work featuring the felicitous messages found in Chinese folklore and mythology, often based on Confucian, Taoist or Buddhist canons and beliefs.
When:
September 27, 2012 12:00am to January 20, 2013 12:00am
Where
Birds, Bats and Butterflies of Chinese Textiles looks at the felicitous messages found in Chinese folklore and mythology, often based on Confucian, Taoist or Buddhist canons and beliefs. Chinese textile designs illustrating these messages often favor motifs with double meanings or verbal puns that result in intricate, colorful, and inter-related designs that reflect a strong sense of cultural tradition.
Birds symbolize the literary refinement of the scholars with the ability to fly towards heaven. One of the Twelve Imperial Symbols is a three-legged bird in a red circle representing the sun. Bats are understood to represent luck. The word “bat” in Chinese sounds identical to the word for “good fortune.” A bat brandishing a swastika on a ribbon is a visual rebus depicting “10,000 blessings.” Butterflies imply long life, beauty, and elegance. A pair symbolizes love, specifically young love, or an undying bond between lovers, and embroidered on garments strengthens the energy of love. A reliance on the heavens, principals of duality, harmony of nature and a universe reflecting a cosmic balance are reoccurring themes.
Phone Number:
808-532-8700
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