Archive for the ‘China culture’ Category
Monday, June 9th, 2008
Greening China after the Olympic Games (Photo credit: John Huet/IOC)
As Beijing prepares to host the Olympic Games in August, the city's commitment to staging a "Green" Olympics is coming under increasingly close scrutiny. China's capital, through the Beijing Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG), has undertaken a programme of ...
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Opening ceremony sample ticket of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
After taking on an imperial robe and sitting on an imperial chair, Basil Bernstein asked his Chinese friend to take a picture of him at a temple fair. "My wife said I am very handsome when wearing the imperial robe," said Bernstein, a free-lance American photographer, at a Spring Festival temple ...
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
A list of 10 well-wishing text messages have been selected as the best of all for the forth coming Spring Festival, and the top runner is an item featuring pig, and five-member mascots of the Beijing Olympic Games. The 10-day selection campaign, launched and organized by a host of mass media ...
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Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
About Beijing Opera
Beijing opera or Peking opera is a kind of Chinese opera which arose in the mid-19th century and was extremely popular in the Qing Dynasty court. It is widely regarded as one of the cultural treasures of China.
Beijing and Tianjin are respected as the base cities of Peking ...
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Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
About Chinese Characters
A Chinese character is a logogram used in writing Chinese, Japanese, sometimes Korean, and formerly Vietnamese. A complete writing system in Chinese characters appeared in China 3200 years ago during the Shang dynasty, making it what is believed to be the oldest “surviving” writing system. However, as the ...
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Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
The Traditional Chinese holidays have been part of Chinese tradition for thousands of years;
they are an essential part of Chinese culture. Many holidays are associated with Chinese mythology and folklore tales, but more realistically, they probably originated from ancient farmer rituals for celebrating harvests or prayer offerings.The most important ...
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