Which emperor could possibly restrain the "Eastern Heretic," Huang Yaoshi and "Western Venom," Ouyang Feng, as well as a host of other strange-looking fellows from the same era?

Song Huizong was the Chinese emperor with the best taste of them all.

Song Huizong had greater ambitions with his self-created font, "Slender Gold."

Song Huizong assigned very challenging subjects to his painters.

Song Huizong had an uncanny way of making the invisible visible.

The complexity underlying the simplicity of Song Huizong's art is especially evident in the Ru porcelain of his time.

We may not be able to live as extravagantly as the emperors before us, but we can still afford to live life with a bit of elegance.

Yao Chien is a famous lyricist in the Chinese music industry. This interview talks about his other hidden identity as a collector.

Collecting is hard. One must know how to pick out the classics that will last in order to be called a real "collector".

Sometimes you might need to give up what you love but then you can cherish it in another way.

Your collection can be anything that is meaningful to you.

The joy of collecting comes from when someone can resonate with you through his/her work.

Cherish everything that you encountered, because you might never see it again.

If something is meant to be, then what is yours is yours.

Art helps one to understand how other people feel.

Art comes in different forms, shapes, sizes and mediums. In this case, driftwood becomes a beautiful form of art.

The beauty of driftwood is its unexpected outcomes.

The wood's color also has a great effect on its art.

Finding something that one truly loves brings happiness to one's life.

In the eye of one photographer, everyone should have a self-portrait, which could portray a colorful stage in his or her life or his or her life as a whole.

Everyone has has his or her own story and the purpose of each portrait is to represent it.

A good portrait of a person must contain his or her soul.

This video explains the arduous process that Zheng Banqiao had to go through to become a county level official.

Zheng Banqiao faces the reality that becoming an official wasn't at all what he expected. His colleagues don't consider the plight of the people the way he does, and upon being ousted from officialdom, he criticizes his former colleagues.