Tong Yegeng (17 results)

Mixed Media Product. Condition: New.

UNK. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New. pp. 256.

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Condition: New. pp. 256.

Condition: New. pp. 256.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorTong Yegeng (1828-1899), who also went by his sobriquet of Recluse in a Minor Mountain, was a 19th century Chinese scholar-official. Later on in his life, he immersed himself in the study of Chinese calligraph.

Book & Merchandise. Condition: new. Book & Merchandise. The tangram has a very long history. In the Qing Dynasty, there was a puzzle game whose idea derived from the Banquet Table Diagrams (Yanji Tu) of the Song Dynasty and Butterfly Table Diagrams (Dieji Tu) of the Ming Dynasty, capturing the wisdom of the ancients. From literati to businessmen, even the royal family, they all fell in love with this brain game, also known as the "Fifteen-Piece Tangram Puzzle."As the name suggests, the fifteen-piece tangram puzzle consists of fifteen pieces. They are different from the regular seven-piece tangram puzzle in terms of shapes and number of pieces. The regular seven-piece tangram puzzle is made up of five triangles, one square, and one parallelogram. The fifteen-piece tangram puzzle is also dissected from a square but composed of more shapes: four triangles, two trapezoids, one parallelogram, two L-shapes, two semi-circles, and four arch-shapes. A wider range of shapes and pieces allows more flexibility and creates more vivid configurations such as animals, birds, flowers, fruits, figures, objects, or even landscapes. Every single puzzle in this book is full of imagination, supplemented with poems and phrases, which can both be a feast to the eye and delightful experience for your mind.Did you have a difficult time to start in the beginning? Don't worry! The first chapter in this book illustrates various geometries that can be formed by the fifteen pieces. After learning the basics, you can then go into the advanced chapters to get the key to all the puzzles. If you still can't solve them after racking your brain, don't feel too bad as we have answers for all of them. These magical pieces can certainly create a limitless world! This beautiful tangram kit includes the original fifteen-piece set along with a beautifully illustrated instruction guide. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Book & Merchandise. Condition: new. Book & Merchandise. The tangram has a very long history. In the Qing Dynasty, there was a puzzle game whose idea derived from the Banquet Table Diagrams (Yanji Tu) of the Song Dynasty and Butterfly Table Diagrams (Dieji Tu) of the Ming Dynasty, capturing the wisdom of the ancients. From literati to businessmen, even the royal family, they all fell in love with this brain game, also known as the "Fifteen-Piece Tangram Puzzle."As the name suggests, the fifteen-piece tangram puzzle consists of fifteen pieces. They are different from the regular seven-piece tangram puzzle in terms of shapes and number of pieces. The regular seven-piece tangram puzzle is made up of five triangles, one square, and one parallelogram. The fifteen-piece tangram puzzle is also dissected from a square but composed of more shapes: four triangles, two trapezoids, one parallelogram, two L-shapes, two semi-circles, and four arch-shapes. A wider range of shapes and pieces allows more flexibility and creates more vivid configurations such as animals, birds, flowers, fruits, figures, objects, or even landscapes. Every single puzzle in this book is full of imagination, supplemented with poems and phrases, which can both be a feast to the eye and delightful experience for your mind.Did you have a difficult time to start in the beginning? Don't worry! The first chapter in this book illustrates various geometries that can be formed by the fifteen pieces. After learning the basics, you can then go into the advanced chapters to get the key to all the puzzles. If you still can't solve them after racking your brain, don't feel too bad as we have answers for all of them. These magical pieces can certainly create a limitless world! This beautiful tangram kit includes the original fifteen-piece set along with a beautifully illustrated instruction guide. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Approx. 10.5" x 5". Traditional Chinese double-leaved thread binding, in two sections, contained within wooden boards with ties. Woodblock-printed on mulberry paper, extensively illustrated with woodcut diagrams. Some foxing and staining, mainly confined to the beginning and end of each volume, but otherwise in good overall order. A treatise of two chapters in two volumes on a Chinese puzzle-game using fifteen pieces. The 15-piece puzzle is a development of the more familiar 7-piece tangram, known in Chinese as Qi qiao ban [Ch'i-ch'iao pan, Seven-Board of Cunning], the individual pieces in the extended puzzle being more varied in shape, some with curved edges. Tong Yegeng (1828--1899), a native of Shanghai, invented the 15-piece tangram in 1862 along the lines of the traditional 7-piece version, and his five children made various shapes with it. It was made into a book and published in Hangzhou in 1878. "The two volumes contain a large number of pictures made up from the fifteen pieces. Some are straightforward outlines of single objects, while others are complete pictures, very much in the traditional style of Chinese painting, and with a typically Chinese choice of subject-matter -- a pavilion in the moonlight, a man asleep in a drifting boat, and so on. As is typical in Chinese paintings, an appropriate poetic quotation is written in one corner of the picture. Unlike the diagrams in the Chinese tangram books of the early nineteenth century, the illustrations in these two volumes are carefully and pleasingly drawn." [Ronald C. Read, Tangrams: 330 Puzzles. Dover, 1965, p. 81].

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 234. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1890 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Volume 1-2 Language: CHI Pages: 234 Volume 1-2.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 514. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1878 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Volume 1-3 Language: CHI Pages: 514 Volume 1-3.