An Expesition to the "Wind Devil Castle"

Several years ago there was a frenzy of expeditions to the west,especially tothe areas like Kekexili in Qinghai, the north Tibet plateau, and the Taklamakan desert. Today, however, Wuerhe in the     

TEMPLES OF MATSU IN GUIZHOU

Matsu, or the Goddess of Sea is widely worshipped in coastal areas of China and temples are built in these areas to enshrine statues of Matsu or Heavenly Queen. But it is quite interesting that there are quite a few Matsu temples in the inland province of Guizhou. Among these temples, the Heavenly Queen temple in Zhenyuan County is the largest, best-preserved and finest-built one and proclaimed as a site under the province-level protection.     

Grand Theatres： Easy to Build,but Hard to Operate

Building theatres has become a trend in China. According to statistics trom the publicchannel, the theatre construction is now spreading from the first-tier cities to the second and third-tier cities, with ever increasing investment volume and land areas. It is estimated that in the next 3-s years, there will be about 10 theatres completed and delivered for operation every years. However, how to operate the newly built theatres is a key issue, among which, the management and provision of contents are major challenges.     

THEVALUEBEYONDTHE VALUABLES--A glinpse of master Painter Qi Baishi

If there is any miracle in the modern fine affs history of China, you can＇t point anyone but him. His name is Qi Baishi who lived through 1864 to 1957 and was a benchmark of Chinesefine arts and a great man of his time. He used to be a carpenter, but because of his persistence on the exploration of art, he climbed onto the peak of Chinese fine arts and eventually became a world renowned Chinese painting master.     

The Memory of a Cenerdtion:Movie Review of Deacock

The setting of the film Peacock is the small town of Heyang, home of the Gao family. The Gaos are not wealthy, but there is no lack of love and warmth among them. The parents are hardworking, honest people. Weihong, the daughter, loves art and is full of dreams, but often feels depressed about her failure to join the military. Both her career and her marriage are unsuccessful. The elder son, Weiguo, has a slight mental disorder and is his parents' pet, but is often bullied by people outside the family. He also suffers setbacks in finding his ideal mate and has to settle on a less-than-perfect love to marry. The younger son, Weiqiang, is a sensitive, gloomy lad who is silent but self-adoring. He drops out of middle school and marries a divorced actress. Heyang, though a fictional place, is based     

The Empire of Women： Not a Fairytale

In China there are small matriarchal societies which survived for thousands of years and whose culture is unknown by the majority of our modern world.One of them is the ancient cuiture of the Mosuo, an ethnic minority group living in the provinces of Yunnan and Sichuan, areas referred to in old Chinese historical records as ＂the empire of women＂. After reading about this culture, Mathilde Heijne, a Berlin-based artist, started thinking about an art proiect that would locus on their social structures and began planning a trip to Lake Lugu - the home of the Mosuo.     

A Color Documentary Film The Hutong and Courtyard Houses of Beijing

in Beijing, besides the splendid Forbidden City, there are also Hutong and siheyuan featuring the typical flavor of thi5 ancient capital. Siheyuan - a com-pound with traditional Chinese houses of gray bricks and tiles built a round a courtyard - used to be the civil residence in Beijing. Hutong is the narrow alleyway that connects Siheyuan. Through over 900 years of development from Yuan, Ming to Qing dynasty, more than 2,000 varied Hutong with different length and width scattered among the courtyards. The naming of Hutong, styling of the decorated     

THE MYSTERY OF SANXINGDUI CULTURE

Stories about Sanxingdui Culture published in the magazine before have caught readers' great interest. So far there are three major viewpoints about the origin of this mysterious culture. Some experts note that unearthed artifacts in Sanxingdui were legacies of the ancient Shu Kingdom and have nothing to do with foreign cultures. But since no written records have been left about this culture existing more than three thousand years ago, those who support this hypothesis have to resort to a smattering of clues in ancient documents of ensuing periods as well as legendary stories. A rivaling opinion argues that this culture has some relation with the ancient civilizations of Western Asia, Central Asia as well as Aegean Sea. It is believed that Ancient Egyptians already knew how to produce bronzes in the period between 3 800 and 3 500 BC and it is quite possible that the technology was imported to China in some way. In recent years, however, some scholars, based on extensive studies, assert that Sanxingdui is a result of cultural exchange and assimilation. They hold that some tribe lost its way during the great migration of the ancient India-Iran tribes and misled itself to Sanxingdui. The tribe settled there and developed a culture that blends elements from both ancient central China and ancient India-Iran areas.     

CELEBRITIES＇ FORMER RESIDENCES IN BEIJING

As a historical capital city ill dynastic China, Beijing is famous for many celebrities＇ .former residences which have been considered major attractions to tourists. Statistics indicate that there are so far 310 recognized former residences of celebrities in the city - Cao Xueqin, the author of the classical novel ＂A Dream of the Red Chamber＂, Guo Muoruo, a great writer and poet of modern China, and Shao Piaoping, a famous journalist in the early 20th century, to name a few.[第一段]     

THE MYSTERY OF SANXINGOUI CULTURE

Stories about Sanxingdui Culture published in the magazine before have caught readers＇ great interest. So far there are three major viewpoints about the origin of this mysterious culture. Some experts note that unearthed artifacts in Sanxingdui were legacies of the ancient Shu Kingdom and have nothing to do with foreign cultures. But since no written records have been left about this culture existing more than three thousand years ago, those who support this hypothesis have to resort to a smattering of clues in ancient documents of ensuing periods as well as legendary stories. A rivaling opinion argues that this culture has some relation with the ancient civilizations of Western Asia, Central Asia as well as Aegean Sea. It is believed that Ancient Egyptians already knew how to produce bronzes in the period between 3 800 and 3 500 BC and it is quite possible that the technology was imported to China in some way. In recent years, however, some scholars, based on extensive studies, assert that Sanxingdui is a result of cultural exchange and assimilation. They hold that some tribe lost its way during the great migration of the ancient India-lran tribes and misled itself to Sanxingdui. The tribe settled there and developed a culture that blends elements from both ancient central China and ancient India-lran areas.[第一段]     

Wenxi Huamo:Intangible Cultural Heritage Created by Mothers

The very ordinary steamed buns have become exquisite craftwork in Shanxi province, a once very rich province in China, and it is passed on from generation to generation. In many northern cities, there is a custom of steaming flowery buns, also known as huamo, a kind of steamed bun of different patterns. There is a saying that if there is huamo, there will be an event; and if there is an event     

Ancient Chinese Instrument Sheng and Yu

Among ancient Chinese music instruments, sheng and yu are both wind instruments consisting essentially of vertical tubes. They were different only in form-Yu is bigger and longer than sheng. Yu gradually evolved to appear very similar looking to sheng and thus few modern people have ever heard of yu. But records of yu can be found in many ancient documents. For instance, the Chinese idiom “be there just to make up the number““ comes from a Warring-State Period story about a yu ensemble.     

City TextureHutong and Siheyuan in Beijing （Ⅱ）

People will always complain about the dreary air, clouds of dust and few changes of life in Beijing when they are about to leave the city after living there for a couple of years. However, all of these people will miss the city and hope to go back there after living in other places for a year or so, with a wave of strong nostalgia coming over them.Yu Dafu     

City Texture Hutong and Siheyuan in Beijing （Ⅰ）

People will always complain about the dreary air, clouds of dust and few changes of life in Beijing when they are about to leave the city after living there for a couple of years. However, all of these people will miss the city and hope to go back there after living in other places for a year or so, with a wave of strong nostalgia coming over them.     

A School on Roof

March 23, Wednesday, Wuhan. It was a raining and cloudy day. One month passed but still more than 20 students had yet registered in Lingzhi Elementary School in Jianghan District, Wuhan, capital city of central Hubei Province. Zhu Zhongfan habitually looked out to the stairway of the building. “Whenever a new semester begins, a dozen of students will not come. They either go back to their hometowns or transfer to other school or even drop out.” Zhu, 49 years old, is the headmaster of the school. He began teaching at 19 and founded this school in 1999. Currently, there are 406 registered students, most of which are children of migrant workers from the countryside. As it is extremely hard to find a cheap place for school, Zhu had to locate his school on the roof of a vegetable fair building. Everyday, student‘s reciting of textbooks mixes with shouting of vendors, orchestrating unique symphonic melodies.     

Costa rica international arts festival highlights chinese culture

The Republic of Costa Rica is a country. situated in the southern part of Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the east-southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east. Costa Rica means a rich and fertile coast in the Spanish language. In fact, it is one of the leading economies in Central America.     

Architecture through Movies

Architectures appear in almost all movies, at least those with human activities. Even in the movie Robinson Crusoe featuring an oceanic adventure in a desert island, the hero set up a shelter to keep himself away from wind and rain. Many directors highlight architectures in their movies and Zhang Yimou is a celebrated representative. In Raise the Red Lantern, the renowned Chinese director set the story in the Qiao Family Compound, a typical Chinese-style courtyard compound in Shanxi Prov…     

Yuanmingyuan： Garden of Perfect Brightness

Yuanmingyuan, known in China as the garden of perfect brightness, is located in the western suburb of Beijing where there is rich water resources and green mountains and hills. During the reign of Qing Emperor Kangxi [1661-1722], the Everlasting Spring Garden was built on ruins of a Ming Dynasty garden and completed in 1690. The garden served as a summer palace where the emperor escaped the summer heat and handled court affairs.     

Shaoxing East Lake： A Miniature Landscape

The East Lake is situated five kilometers to the east of the historic city of Shaoxing. With a wonderful combination of a hill, grottoes and stone bridges, it might pass for a miniature landscape. On a par with the West Lake in Hangzhou and the South Lake in Jiaxing, it is one of the three most famous lakes in southeast Zhejiang Province. Although it is quite small, its delicacy and elegance rank it among the best resorts in Shaoxing.     

Famen Temple： Past and Present

＂Bodhi is actually not in the form of tree while a bright mirror is not a material object. Since there is nothing physical in the world, how can they catch the dust？＂ This poem, written by senior monk Hui Neng in the early Tang Dynasty [618 - 907], revealed the profundity of Buddhism and helped facilitate social evolution of the time.