The DV Era:For College Students,It''''s the stuff of Dreams

The rapid development of digital media is bringing revolutionary changes to the way people make movies. Self-produced short movies by ordinary people are no longer rare in Chinese society. Recently, a digital video (DV) craze has swept universities across the country. A lot of people use DV to snapshot significant moments in their lives. But groups of college students in China are using DV to express their innermost feelings about campus life in modern China. Quite a number of DV short movies made by young college students have become popular at nearly all university campuses here, such as "A Night Talk in Tsinghua University", "Our Golden Time" in Xi'an Jiaotong University and "The Place Where Our Dreams Begin" in Zhejiang University of Technology. Ignoring the comments from movie critics outside the campus, these students continue to make films to fulfill their dreams.     

Review and Impression：Chinese Movies

The year of 2005 marked the centennial anniversary of Chinese film.Over the past century,film has changed people＇s ways of life,influenced their ideas and concepts and expanded their sphere of imagination.As a celebrated American critic said.film is the most typical art form of the time which has an integrated feature in both technology and society.Therefore,it takes an important responsibility to develop,restore and upgrade people＇s ability to feel and experience. The year of 2005 has passed and to review Chinese movies in the past year will fring us a delightful memory.     

Miao Villages in the Leigong Mountain

Miao people is a trans-boundary ethnic group with long history, mainly distributed in Asian countries including China, Vietnam, Lao,Thailand and Cambodia. Some Miao people dwell in USA, France and Guyana. China is the birthplace of Miao people and the Leigong Mountain in southwest China＇s Guizhou Province is the largest habitat of Miao ethnic group. In ancient times, ancestors of Miao people left their homeland to escape wars and found shelters in the Leigong Mountain.     

MIAO PEOPLE CELEBRATES NEW YEAR BY OFFERING SACRIFICE TO TREES

Miao people is an ethnic group with a long history and mainly dwell in Asian countries like China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia. China is the birthplace of Miao ethnic group. They originally dwelled in north China but later moved to the depth of mountains in southwest China in order to escape wars. Today Miao people are mostly distributed in mountainous areas in Hunan,     

Ding Family Mansion： A Masterpiece of Hakka Architecture

The Hakka are a subgroup of the Han Chinese people. Their ancestors are said to have migrated from central China due to famines and wars and settled in Fujian, Jiangxi and Canton in southern China. Several hundred years ago, Hakka settlers in southern China again migrated overseas to various continents around the globe.     

SUNKEN ANCIENT SHIP SALVAGED

Editor＇s words：Over the sweep of history,Chinese people have paid heavy price in their struggles with the ocean.A large number of sunken ships are evidence that testifies to the history of South China Sea as an important maritime passage linking the mainland to the outside world since the Song Dynesty dating back to more than 1000 years.In 1987 the discovery of the sunken Song-Dynasty ship＂South China Sea No.1＂in the border area between Yangjiang and Taishan counties in Guangdong Province is the landmark event for China＇s underwater archeologists.20 years from then on,surveys and excavations done to this ancient ship have witnessed the development of Chinese underwater archeology.With decades of efforts by experts from various fields,the sunken ship was eventually salvaged out of water in 2007 and will be housed in the newly-built Maritime Silk Road Museum in Guangdong...     

Architecture of Buyi Ethnic Group

Buyi ethnic group, one of the most populous ethnic minorities dwelling in southwest China, evolves from Yue people in the remote past and has long lived on paddy rice farming. As they are mostly distributed in mountainous areas, many houses of Buyi people are made of rock slates. However, over the sweep of history, Buyi people have developed a variety of forms of residence besides slate-made dwellings, such as those made of thatch or rammed earth or those on stilts. Their houses are built at riverside, in mountains, caves or in the fort-like manner. And walls of their houses are made of stone, wood, earth or bamboo.[第一段]     

Flowery Flour Buns （Huamo）

Shanxi, located in the Loess Plateau of North China, is one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization. Over the sweep of history, local people used their wisdom and creativity to make flower-shaped steamed buns in various designs. Today, dough figurines in Dingxiang and flowery flour buns in Jinnan have been inscribed on China＇s national list for the protection of intangible cultural heritage.     

2004： An Epitome of Chinese Film Over the 20th century

2004 was a special year for Chines emovies. In this year, various types of movies were produced and shown to welcome the 100th anniversary of China‘s movie industry which will come in 2005. These new productions provided us an opportunity to review and recall the history of Chinese movies in the past 100 years.     

Alibaba Buys Stake in China Vision

Jack Ma said, ＂I have a great passion for the cultural industry, including movies and TV programs, because movies and TV programs has influenced my generation, and are to influence more in the future. I am concerned that during China＇s rapid growth, without the healthy de- velopment of the cultural industry, China will become the nouveau riche, wealthy but vulgar. Meanwhile, many intellectuals are reluctant to resort to commercial approaches. If they distain businesspersons and commercial approaches, they are unrealistic and unequipped with the means to grow. Therefore the country may face a gloomy future.＂     

Gate God Portraits of Wenzhou

Han people in China have a tradition of pasting gate god portraits. On the eve of Chinese New Year people living in the north paste new gate god portraits and Spring Festival couplets. But in Wenzhou, a coastal city in southern Zhejiang Province, people only paste Spring Festival couplets. Gate god portraits are only painted in temples and ancestral halls. Painters paint portraits directly on gates, which are more than four meters tall each and look valiant. Local people believe that only by doing so can they ward off evils and ghosts and safeguard peace of their families and communities.     

China''''s First Dong Ethnic Eco-Museum

Deep in the mountain ranges in southeast of Guizhou Province, there is a small village of Dong ethnic group named Tang'an. It is where China's first Dong ethnic eco-museum, co-founded by China and Norway, is located. For most people, museums usually mean grand buildings where exhibits are displayed for appreciation or memory. What they show to visitors are living states that are separated from their practitioners or no longer exist in realities. But in eco-museums, culturally valuable elem…     

Leisure Sports Industry： Once Neglected, Now Booming

For China, a nation that has never held a global sports meet on the scale of the Olympic Games, the full-fledged Olympic economy still seems like a beautiful dream waiting to happen. Every walk of life is hoping to develop itself through the 2008 Olympic Games, which will be held in Beijing. Yet in spite of all the commercial frenzy surrounding the Games, the Chinese people haven‘t forgotten that sports are also leisure activities, which are a way to boost overall health. Thus, a new economic push point is emerging in China in the form of leisure sports.     

Guizhou： a Natural Museum on Ethnic Traditions

Dong people, an ethnic minority group dwelling in southeast China, are talented for singing and dancing.The area they dwell in is thus hailed as the ＂sea of songs＂ and ＂natural museum on ethnic culture＂. Dong people often sing songs in drum towers in their villages as a way of recreation. The songs they sing, called ＂Grand Songs of Dong People＂ are multi-part folk songs without accompaniment.     

Tibet： a Holy Land at the Roof of the Earth （Part Ⅲ）

The exhibition ＂The Holy Land of Tibet＂ was held in Taipei Palace Museum from July 1 to September 19. Tibet, an autonomous region of China known as the Roof of the Earth ： enjoys rich and time-honored Buddhist traditions. For instance, a popular legend about the origin of the Tibetan people is widespread,that the Goddess of Mercy incarnated herself into Macaque and married with Rakasasa and their offspring were ancestors of theTibetan ethnic group. Religious concepts and image styles of Tibetan Buddhism are drastically different from Buddhism of inland China.That is why inland Chinese feel unfamiliar with Tibetan Buddhism.     

Folk Songs in China

THE folk song in China is an art form created by working people through the ages to express therr feeling and emotions. In China,as elsewhere,such songsare a repository of the folk wisdomof the nation.Origins of China’s FolkSongsIn primitive society our ances-tors created in their struggle againstnature.In the Xia Dynasty(21st-16th centuries B.C.),Slaves used     

Communicating through the Eyes,Feelings and Emotions...

When I started working on my ＂Chinese interiors＂ photography proiect in June 2004, about a vear after finishing my ＂Cuban Interiors＂ project, I believed that I could take the same approach in China as in Cuba - photographing people inside their homes, meeting them,getting to know them, positioning them as I, the photographer, saw them inside their homes. And most importantly, speak with these people in their language and blend into their lives for a short period of time.     

Getting to Know China： Appreciation of 100 Chinese Characters

Getting to Know China： Appreciation of 100 Chinese Characters is one of the book series ＂Meet China＂ produced by the Ministry of Culture of China in 2013. The book selects 100 Chinese characters that represent Chinese culture to some extent. Targeted at foreign readers most of whom are unfamiliar with Chinese characters, the book elaborates on the meanings of Chinese characters and their cultural connotation concisely and to the point.     

Chinese Culture Blossoms in France——A Review of the Opening Evets of China Cultural Year in France

It was getting cold and leaves falling in Paris in November. But the opening of China Cultural Year has brought springtime warmth to Paris people, With more and more cultural events opening as scheduled, Paris people are showing growing zeal in splendid and profound Chinese culture.     

Painting and Calligraphy on Folded Fans

<正>The Chinese are the first people to use fans.The history of fans can date back more than 4000 years in China.Artists and elite scholars of past dynasties cre...