Kao Pan Yu Shi

Kao Pan Yu Shi (考槃余事, Desultory Remarks on Furnishing the Abode of the Retired Scholar; also called Art of Refined Living or Pastimes Most Entertaining) is a 1590 compendium on the art of living by Ming dynasty author Tu Long([屠隆).^[1][2]

Kao Pan Yu Shi
Chinese	考槃余事
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin kǎo pán yú shì IPA [kʰàʊ pʰǎn y̌ ʂî]

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, (for which Tu Long wrote a preface). 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.^[3]

References

1. CHOY, Maria CHENG, TANG Wai Hung, Eric (May 2, 2018). Essential Terms of Chinese Painting. City University of HK Press. ISBN 9789629371883 – via Google Books.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. "Arts of Asia". Arts of Asia Publications. May 31, 1997 – via Google Books.
3. Clunas is following the argument of Weng Tongwen, see Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China, University of Hawaii Press 2004, ISBN 0-8248-2820-8, pp. 29-30.

• Tu Long, Kao Pan Yu Shi Gold Wall Press 2012 304pp (明 屠隆 考槃余事 金城出版社) ISBN 978-7-5155-0230-4