Huai

Examples of Huai in the following topics:

• Individualist Painting under the Qing Dynasty

  • Reminiscences of Qin-Huai is one of Shitao's unique paintings.
  • A monk stands placidly on a boat that floats along the Qin-Huai river, staring up in admiration at the stone giant.
  • Like many of the paintings from the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, Shitao's Reminiscences of Qin-Huai deals with man's place in nature.

• The Southern Song Era

  • Jin forces halted at the Yangtze River, but staged continual raids south of the river until a later boundary was fixed at the Huai River further north.
  • With the border fixed at the Huai, the Song government promoted an immigration policy of repopulating and resettling territories north of the Yangtze River, since vast tracts of vacant land between the Yangtze and the Huai were open for landless peasants found in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Fujian provinces of the south.
  • Though weakened and pushed south beyond the Huai River, the Southern Song found new ways to bolster its strong economy and defend itself against the Jin dynasty.

• The Mythical Period

  • The Yellow River and the Huai and Yangtze Rivers, created fertile land, ripe for experimentation with agriculture.

• Rise of the Ming Dynasty

  • Zhu was a born into a desperately poor tenant farmer family in Zhongli Village in the Huai River plain, which is in present-day Fengyang, Anhui Province.
  • When he was sixteen, the Huai River broke its banks and flooded the lands where his family lived.

• The Role of Foreign Trade

  • The Ming saw the rise of several merchant clans such as the Huai and Jin, who disposed of large amounts of wealth.