Kao Pan Yu Shi


Kao Pan Yu Shi is a 1590 compendium on the art of living by Ming dynasty author Tu Long.
Desultory Remarks has fifteen treatises:
  1. Calligraphy and books
  2. Rubbings
  3. Paintings
  4. Paper
  5. Ink
  6. Brushes
  7. Inkstones
  8. Zithers
  9. Incense
  10. Tea
  11. Potted plants
  12. Fish and birds
  13. Mountain studio
  14. Necessities of life and dress
  15. Utensils of the studio
Art historian Craig Clunas suggests that the Desultory Remarks is essentially a compendium on the art of living gathered from various other existing sources, such as Gao Lian's Eight Treatises on the Nurturing of Life,. Whether or not this is the case, Tu Long's discourses certainly had greater immediate recognition and influence; they were much more widely cited in later collections, and were a primary source for Wen Zhenheng's Treatise of Superfluous Things.