A marble statue of a Kore (520-510 BC), one of the most beautiful and well-preserved sculptures of the Acropolis. [Photo provided to China Daily]

The two masterpieces are the bronze pan of Zi Zhong Jiang which dates back to the 7th century BC (Early Spring and Autumn Period), and the hand scroll painting Traveling along the Clear River created by artist Wu Hong in the 17th century.

"We have brought to the Acropolis museum two pieces of exhibits that is a bronze pan and a hand scroll of Chinese painting that represent the ancient Chinese art. We are going to paint a landscape and I will show you the calligraphy of Chinese in ancient times, the clerical script of Chinese," Yuan said.

He presented major script types of Chinese calligraphy, one of the trademarks of Chinese culture.

"I am surprised when I am writing, some of the visitors know so much about Chinese culture and they can tell what I am writing. It is amazing," he said.

For his part, Yan improvised in his painting with free hand skill and ink-wash just as the literati painters did, with various subjects such as colored landscape and flowers.

"I have performed similar paintings just like we have here exhibited on display in the museum. I depicted yesterday a landscape of China and I will paint another landscape in north China. They have similarities, but you can see the differences between the landscapes from the north and south. I used special techniques to depict different kind of rocks in the landscape," Yan explained.