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The first Chinese dynasty (traditionally dated 2205?-1766? ). No historical documents or archaeological evidence has been found to corroborate the legends about this dynasty. Xi Xia Xia dynasty Xia Gui
To scare; to frighten
[shEE ä] China's first, possibly mythical, kingdom; no archeological sites have been connected to it; ruled by Yu (p 62)
Chinese for Shrimp

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Xia Gui
or Hsia Kuei flourished 1195-1224, Qiantang, Zhejiang province, China Chinese master of landscape painting. Xia served in the Imperial Painting Academy, and most sources agree that he followed the stylistic tradition of an earlier landscapist in the academy, Li Tang. Xia and his contemporary, Ma Yuan, were the most influential members of the academy, and a school of painting inspired by them came to be known as the Ma-Xia school. Most of Xia's surviving works are album leaves painted on silk. A typical work by him is exquisitely calculated and perfectly balanced, conveying with great precision a scene glimpsed through haze, sharply focused at a few points but obscured at others. Chinese writers spoke of his use of a "split brush" (i.e., the brush tip divided so as to make two or more strokes at once) in painting tree foliage and of his freehand drawing "without employing a ruler." While his influence was considerable, it was only in modern times that he came to be recognized as one of the leading masters of Chinese landscape painting and one of art's great interpreters of nature
Xia dynasty
or Hsia dynasty ( 2070- 1600 BC) Quasi-legendary first dynasty of China, preceding the Shang. In Chinese histories it is said to have been founded by Yu and to have had 17 rulers. Archaeological sites in Henan and Shanxi provinces in northeastern and eastern China have been tentatively identified with Xia culture. See also Erlitou culture
Xi Xia
or Hsi Hsia Kingdom of Tangut tribes that was established in the 11th century and flourished through the early 13th. Founded by Li Yuanhao, who named it after the ancient Chinese state of Xia, it existed in an uneasy truce with China's Southern Song dynasty and the Liao dynasty of the Inner Asian Khitan tribes until it was conquered by Genghis Khan