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Etymology
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Proper noun

 * 1) the Four arts which were the four main academic and artistic talents required of the aristocratic ancient Chinese scholar-gentleman, namely qin (the guqin, a stringed instrument, ), qi (the strategy game of Go, ), shu (Chinese calligraphy, ) (in the Vietnamese tradition, usually replaced by shi (poetry, )) and hua (Chinese painting, )