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During the Ming Period (1368–1644), traditional values and conservative thinking produced generations of court painters, but artistic exploration was also supported outside the court.
The Qing Period (1644–1912) produced outstanding artists and artistic techniques, despite increasing conservatism. Schools of painting emerged, based on locations such as Yangzhou and Nanjing.
With the emergence of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 came an entirely new aesthetic, dictated by the government and based on the art of the Soviet Union. Later artists, however, have embraced contemporary and abstract artistic ideals of the West.
Superstitions allotted the black death to the Devil.
According to superstitious people, the Black Death was caused by the Devil himself. The Black Death, also known as the Black Plague, refers to a series of pandemic diseases which took the lives of almost 200 million people in Eurasia over the years from 1347 to 1351. The actual cause of the plague was the lack of hygiene, helped by the outbreak of <em>Yersinia pestis</em>, bacteria carried by rats, rather than Satan himself, as was commonly believed.
