Chinese Classic Music

China Cultural Year,a grand one-year cultural exchange event,will be launched in France in the coming October.At the opening ceremony,China Central Traditional Music Ensemble will make its debut in parls.     

Chinese Lacquer Art

Over the sweep of Chinese longstanding history,numerous treasures and heritages have been left over,among which the lacquer art is a brilliant one.China is the earliest country in the world using natural lacquer,In the early 1970s,archeologists unearthed a red lacquer wood bowl in an excavation in the     

Chinese Encyclopedia Published

CHINA formally an-nounced that all 74 vol-umes of the Chinese En-cyclopedia were published by Oc-tober 1993 after 15 years of re-search.President Jiang Zeminand Premier Li Peng conveyedtheir congratulations on the com-pletion of this major work andreceived all the editors In a pri-vate audience.President Jiangsaid,“The Chinese Encyclopedia in-cludes both the ancient and mod-ern,both Chinese and foreignscholarship.It embodies thegreat Chinese tradition”     

Twentieth Century Chinese Music

THE Society for the Promo-tion of Chinese Cult-ure re-cently listed a number of20th century Chinese musical com-positions it considers to be master-pieces.These consist of 124 piecescreated over a span of 87 years,fromthe song“Yellow River,”written in1905,to Flute Concerto in 1991.Theyinclude vocal music in the form ofsolo,chorus and opera,and instru-mental music in the form of solos,ensembles,concertos,symphoniesand dance.The oldest musician wasShen Xingong,born in 1870;andthe youngest is Tan Dun,born in1957.The difference between theirages is,again,87 years.The worksrepresenting five generations in Chi-na’s modern and contempoary mus-ical history mark different stages inChina’s musical creation in this cen-tury.     

Chinese Fengshui and Architecture

In 1996, Southeast University opened courses on architecture and fengshui and the textbook Basics of the Book of Change compiled by Prof. Li Shicheng from the Physics Department of the university was widely received. In big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, it has been a public secret today that geomancers are invited to practice geomancy when a real estate development project is launched, a new shop is opened, or someone rents or buys an apartment. From September 9 to 11, 2…     

Appreciating Ancient Chinese Poetry

LU You ws a native of Shan-yin in Yuezhou(now inShaoxing,Zhejian Prov-ince).Born at the time of destruc-tion of the Northern Song Dynasty,he was a successfUl candidate in thehighest imperial examinations andonce served as a local official inZhenjiang and Longxing.Becausehe was nurtured in the spirit ofpatriotism when he was young,he     

＂Time for Chinese＂ Held in Benin＇s Chinese Culture Center

On July 11, a Chinese language proficiencydevelopment event, entitled ＂Time for Chinese＂, was held in China Culture Center in Benin. It was the 7th session of this cultural event, aiming to showcase results that Benin＇s Chinese language Learners had achieved in the center＇s training programs, Some 80 persons attended the event.     

Chinese Film and Cannes Festival

Cannes Film Festival has drawn worldwide attention for its unparalleled international impact. And film professionals of the world can hardly resist the attraction of Golden Palm prize. This article reviews the ten landmark events in the historical relationship between Chinese film and Cannes Festival. 1956: Chinese film's relationship with Cannes Festival can date back to 1956. Although new China had yet to establish diplomatic relations with France, it dispatched a film delegation led by…     

Spanish Singing Touches Chinese Hearts

At the invitation of the Chinese Ministry of Culture, the Madrid Chorus from Spain premiered in Beijing‘s Tianqiao Theatre last October, adding a new dimension to the growing China-Spain cultural exchange.     

Chinese Arts Shine in Pyongyang

The annual nine-day ＂Spring of April＂ International Friendship North Korea from April 10 to 18,with the theme of ＂pcace,friendship,exchange and cooperation＂.The Chinese delegation consisting of performers from the southeast province of Jiangsu won extensive praises and applauses with their outstanding performance.     

Chinese Sculpture as Public Art

Chinese arts have undergone tremendous changes thanks to the fast-growing modernization and urbanization process in China. One of the monumental changes is the emergence of “public art”, most notably, urban sculpture. This art is increasingly related to modern urban planning, architecture, and community building.     

Chinese Local Operas Fascinate Parisians

The Second Chinese Theatre Festival took place in the winter of 2005 in Paris, France. The event, organized by China Cultural Center in Paris, has seen six local opera troupes from Hebei, Jiangsu, Jilin, Fujian and Guangdong provinces, showing to Parisians scores of traditional programs of Chinese operas. Chinese theatric art is not novel to French people. Over past decades in the history of modern China, Chinese opera masters, in particular, Peking opera singers, visited Paris many times and made traditional Chinese opera known to French people. For example, when visiting Paris half the century ago, master Cheng Yanqiu gave lectures on Peking opera, the first Chinese opera genre that was introduced to French people.     

The Portland Classical Chinese Garden

The Portland Classical Chinese Garden, or called ＂Lan Su Yuan＂ in Chinese, was located in the downtown area of Portland,USA, It used to be China Town, but now has become the city＇s famous tourist site, The garden offers busy city dwellers not only an ideal retreat away from tense working life and annoying traffic buzzing, but also a completely different landscape and culture from the east. That is why a tour to ＂Lan Su Yuan＂ is viewed as the easiest and best way to experience Chinese culture,     

Chinese Does Not Only Belong to China： the First World Chinese Conference

With China＇s growing economy and its more extensive exchange with the world in trade, culture and education, more and more people in the world are learning Chinese. It is in this context that the first World Chinese Conference, with the theme of “Chinese Development in the Context of Cultural Diversity”, opened on July 20 in Beijing, attracting some 600 participants from the globe.     

Teach Chinese Calligraphy in USA

＂After completing the Chinese calligraphy course, I have fallen love with this unique art. I have learned not only skills to use brushes, but also oriental philosophy and culture. Chinese calligraphy has made me understand better differences and similarities between eastern and western arts. Chinese calligraphy - its brushwork and structure, individual and whole, dry and wet, big and small, fast and slow, positive and negative, all are filled with philosophic mystery and human wisdom and show movement of human life, which can never be experienced in western fine arts. Chinese calligraphy has opened a door for me. Learning it will make me benefit in my whole life.＂     

Chinese Lacquer Art （III）

The Chinese lacquer techniques in the Three Kingdoms Period： rhinoceros skin lacquer and inlayed golden line
The lacquerwares made during the Three Kingdoms Period are rarely unearthed. In 1984, 60 pieces of lacquerware were unearthed in a tomb of the Three Kingdoms Period in Ma＇anshan of Anhui Province. The lacquerwares which contain plates, cups, pots, spoons, rulers and so on show the highest art of lacquer-making of that time, and prove that the lacquer techniques in the Three Kingdoms Period gained its own progress on the basis of the achievement in the Han Dynasty. In the Three Kingdoms Period, the noble people were enthusiastic in the lacquerware, which is proved by the ＂lacquer plate about the life of the noble＂.     

Chinese Lacquer Art （I）

Lacquer, a natural substance obtained from the lacquer tree, is widely used as the environmentally friendly paint, adhesive,forming agent, pigment and dye. As China is home to the world＇s most and best lacquer trees, the lacquer art has been developing in China uninterruptedly for over 8,000 years.