title: “DEPEND ON HEAVEN FOR FOOD”: A WELL-KNOWN PROVERB IN LITERATURE, ILLUSTRATIONS AND COMMENTS
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metadata.value: Vinogradova, Tatiana
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metadata.value: 2024-03-04T18:12:51Z
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metadata.value: 2024-03-04T18:12:51Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/9785288063770.16
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/45047
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metadata.value: “Depend on Heaven for food” (kao tian chi fan, 靠天吃飯) is a well-known Chinese
  proverb. The presumed author of this expression was Wen Kang (文康), his novel
  Legend of Heroes and Heroines (儿女英雄傳) Ernü Yingxiong Zhuan first published in late
  1870s became very popular. The expression “depend on Heaven for food” is from the
  33rd chapter of the novel. Yet, the image under the title Picture Depend on Heaven for
  Food (kao tian chi fan tu, 靠天吃飯圖) appeared earlier than novel: two stone steles dated
  1813 with the same picture, but different commentary text. In the academician Vasyli
  M. Alekseev’s collection of Chinese popular prints nianhua there are several engravings
  on this subject, the explanations for which are in the notebooks of the Chinese xiansheng
  mentors V. M. Alekseev to his collections of folk art (St. Petersburg Branch of the
  Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, fund 820, inv. 1, files 473, 479a). And finally
  we can compare xiansheng comments to (kao tian chi fan tu, 靠天吃飯圖) with the essay
  on the same subject by Lu Xun in his Qie Jie Ting Essay Collection (雜文集: 且介亭雜文二
  集, 1935).
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: St. Petersburg University Studies in Social Sciences & Humanities;Volume 5
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Chinese popular prints
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: proverbs
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: folk art
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: academician Vasily M. Alekseev
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Lu Xun
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: “DEPEND ON HEAVEN FOR FOOD”: A WELL-KNOWN PROVERB IN LITERATURE, ILLUSTRATIONS AND COMMENTS
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metadata.value: Article
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