Mongols In China

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The influences of the Chinese culture comes with the new rulership of the Mongols, especially the new excitement about the new style of painting they have never encountered before. Local artists soon learned the new style of painting from China, with the thin contour of the figures with the recognizable feature of physic, facial characteristics, and landscape elements combined. The final product of such confrontation from the east and west art creates a hybrid category that has the identifiable nomadic traditions of the Mongols; the Islamic cultural elements the illustrated from the delicate style of the Chinese paintings. To be more specific of how the manuscript would look like just as same as the above the description, "The Funeral of Isfandiyar,"Abu'I

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