F1ower Pleasure Garden:A Restaurant Featuring Chinese Flower Culture

Last spring I was invited by one ofmy friends to design for a newoutlet of the restaurant chain FlowerPleasure Garden(hua jia yi yuan). Flower Pleasure Garden is arestaurant featuring innovated Beijingflavor dishes. Its first two outlets arecourtyard-style structures.Therefore,the style of this new outlet should keepup with them and give prominence toBeijing traditions and culture.     

＂Tailored Culture＂： a Solution to Supply- Demand Contradiction

Governments at various levels promote cultural development at the grassroots by planning and launching cultural projects. But it has remained a problem .for these cultural projects to effectively meet cultural demand of the general public. Therefore, we need to design tailored cultural projects as a solution to solve the contradiction between supply and demand.     

＂My Dream Comes True ＂

＂I have two more dreams fulfilled than others,＂ said Madam Sun Danwei, president of Wuyutai Tea Co., Ltd., ＂One is Wuyutai managed to offer tea service in the Olympic Village and the other is t myself, as a representative of Wuyutai, was selected as an Olympic torch bearer!＂     

＂Happy Chinese New Year＂ Tours to Thailand

Spring Festival is the most important traditional holiday for the Chinese nation. ＂Happy Chinese New Year＂ is a brand for cultural exchanges with foreign countries initiated by the Ministry of Culture. This film introduces celebrations of Chinese New Year in Thailand in 2013 and presents the joyous and auspicious Chinese Spring Festival and the colorful Chinese culture from the eyes of government officials from two countries,     

Design is Omnipresent in our Life

It is true that design influences every facet of our life, Today, designis no longer a novelty for Chinese people. Maybe many of us cannot define what design means to our life, but it is having ubiquitous Impact on our ways of life and the environment are becoming the focus of people‘s     

The ＂February 8th Festival＂ of Yi People

＂The February 8th Festival＂, also called the ＂Miku Worship Festival＂, is the traditional ancestor worship festival for the Yi nationality in Dali, Yunnan Province. The ancestor worship, singings, and banquet are the major content of this festival. The Bi village is a family village composed of Yi nationalities in the Bi family, which is located halfway up a hill and surrounded by mountains. With 68 households and 314 villagers, the village has a history of more than 500 years. According to their founding legend, their ancestors used to live in the Diancang Mountains.     

China—France Culture Year Features Wealth of Events

China and France have for centuries enjoyed friendly relations in the fields of politics, trade and culture. The China-France Culture Year, beginning this October, as the largest Sino-foreign event since the founding of New China, is expected to spark a new round of exchanges between the two cultures.After two years of planning, the China Culture Year is to be inaugurated in France soon this September. With the theme of "Ancient China, Colorful China, Modern China", the event aims to offer a comprehensive view of the     

A Mysterious Blue Box：＂Water Cube＂ for Beijing Olympics

The National Aquatics Center, or more popularly known as ＂Water Cube＂, stands on the opposite of ＂Bird＇s Nest＂ in the Olympic Green. This miraculous building features a mysterious transparent blue appearance and an innovative structure, perfectly mixing architectural concepts and cutting-edge technologies. Based on the traditions of Chinese culture and architectural design, Water Cube stands out in a simplistic and streamlined form, creating a harmonious co-existence with Bird＇s Nest while distinguishing itself from the grandeur of the latter. The building＇s design is inspired by the traditional concept of Chinese philosophy, ＂integral unity and harmony between the round heaven and the square earth＂, which are respectively represented by Bird＇s Nest and Water Cube. While meeting functional needs for international competitions, this square blue box is considered an outstanding example integrating traditional culture with modern functional facilities.     

When ＂Korean Fad＂ bumps into ＂Chinese Wind＂--Cultural Counsellor of Chinese Embassy to South Korea talks about Sino-Korea Cultural Exchange

Shi Ruilin, the Culture Counsellor of Chinese Embassy to South Korea received an interviewby a reporter trom News Agency. He said, ＂ln recent years, when the South Korean popular culture is prevailing in China, the Chinese elements are also finding its way in South Korea. The two nations are going towards a brighter future of frequent Sino-Korea cultural exchanges＂ .     

＂City of Museums＂： a New Brand for Qujiang,Xi＇an

Modern museums are striving to keep pace with the rapidly evolving modern art and the changing needs of audience. Accordingly, the concept of museum has developed and trans- formed. Imagine the future of Xi＇an as a city of museums. It will be a city immersed in a profound artistic atmo- sphere, embracing broader space for exchanges, exhibiting higher educa- tional value, thus truly demonstrating the cultural background required for an international city. This is exactly what we have been hoping for a city＇s cultural inheritance.     

Chinese Folk Painting on Blue-and-White Porcelain

Painting on blue-and-white porcelain dates back to more than 700 years. Chinese elite painting is known for freehand brushwork,simplistic design and open-minded spirit, which are also characteristics of porcelain painting. In traditional Chinese painting, every brushwork is a design unit forming an integral whole while featuring independent aesthetic values. For porcelain painting, the painter uses the Chinese calligraphic brush to draw on the water-absorptive body before the porcelain is glazed.     

Promote Urban Traditions through Architecture：An Interview with Master Architect Zhanq Jinqiu

Zhang Jinqiu, a celebrated woman architect in contemporary China, is known for her successful designs blending tradition and modernity. With a large number of modern creations featuring distinctive traditional styles designed for the ancient city of Xi＇an as well as many other historical cities in China, Zhang has contributed to diversity of urban planning concepts and made valuable explorations on cultural dimensions of architectural design.     

Wuyutai Launches ＂Green 100 Action＂

＂Tea quality control is implemented in every stage and every process of our tea making and our test standards are even more rigid than those issued by the state,＂ said Sun Danwei, President of Wuyutai, a century-old tea brand name in Beijing. At the launching ceremony of ＂Green 100 Action＂ taking place in the end of last year, representatives from 140 chain shops signed ＂Green Alliance Contract＂ at Wuyutai＇s flagship shop, pledging to guarantee all the tea products Wuyutai sells are 100% up to the national standard. While food safety accidents happened time and again in China, Wuyutai, as a time-honored enterprise, demonstrates a strong sense of responsibility for the society.[第一段]     

Transformation and Progress of Culture

Cultural development generally relies on two important factors. One is the in- ternal factor based on living needs. In order to meet various needs for life, human beings make creations and inventions with various methods, which drives the devel- opment of culture. The other is the external factor based on environmental changes, which prompts human beings to take new approaches. From a historical perspective, the two Factors have interacted with each other.     

Pang Zhu：An Accomplished Artist

Pang Zhu, or named Shan Zhu, born in Changchun, Jilin Province in 1945, is currently member of the Artists Association of Sichuan Province, executive council member of the Photographers Association of Chengdu City and professor with the department of art and design of Chengdu University of Science and Engineering. With the degrees in painting, photography, and advertising and decoration, Pang has dedicated himself to art education and painting for forty years or so. As a retired professor, he now offers advice on graduation design and thesis defense and organizes academic workshops in CUSE.     

Flower Pleasure Garden：Chinese Flower Culture

Last spring I was invited by one of my friends to design for a new Pleasure Garden (hua jLa yi yuan).     

An Oil Lamp that Lights up the Past and the Future Chen Lvsheng Art Museum Celebrates ItS Grand Opening

On September 22, 2013, Chen Lvsheng Art Museum was opened in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, China.Chen Lvsheng Art Museum is named after Chen Lvsheng, a famous art historian, painter and photographer.The main building of the museum provides approximately 2,000 m2 for use, including two exhibition halls and a studio.The museum staged two special exhibitions to celebrate its completion：＂The Exhibition of Chen Lvsheng＇s Paintings and Collection＂ and ＂Oil Lamps Depicted by Famous Artists＂.     

＂The Colors of Water＂： Miao Xiaolong＇s Modem Dance Concert

In China＇s dancing arena today where most dancers pursue hasty success, it is truly rare to prepare a dance concert for as long as seven years. And more amazingly,the whole production is planned and presented by merely one person who choreographs and directs the dance concert, designs all costumes, stage settings and lighting as well as dances its leading part. But Miao Xiaolong made it. Several months ago, this young talented teacher at the dancing department of the Music School of Shanghai Normal University presented his dance concert ＂The Colors of Water＂ in Shanghai.     

ZEYA TRADITIONAL PAPERMAKING

As we all know, China is world renowned for its developed papermaking technology through a 2000-year long history. The modern industry of papermaking is highly automated and a variety of paper products is manufactured. Paper made by hands are seldom seen anywhere. But in Zeya town, Ohai District of Wenzhou city, Zhejiang province, paper used to offer sacrifice to Deity is still kept as preserved traditional industry. In the long immigration history, Nanping people moved to Zeya when Nanping was well known as one of the papermaking hometowns; the name is then kept unchanging when people went to Zeya for surviving the turmoil days.[第一段]