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Cir – Lesson 544
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Although there are still two days before the Dragon Boat Festival, Shanghai residents have already started preparing for the important day. Reed leaves, glutinous rice and sachets have become popular at markets. At the gate of Yuyuan Garden branch of Tonghanchuntang traditional Chinese medicine store, the line of ...5 days ago -
Cir – Lesson 543
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Visitors view a piece of wood-carving during the 2006 Hangzhou International Folk Handicrafts Exhibition opened on Sunday in Hangzhou, capital of east China’s Zhejiang Province, May 28, 2006. (Source: xinhuanet.com)6 days ago -
Cir – Lesson 541
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BEIJING, May 30 — A 103-year-old grandmother surnamed Xie eats zongzi, or glutinous rice dumpling, at the Yantian Social Welfare Center in Shenzhen City yesterday as a soldier from the frontier inspection force in the district looks on. Soldiers took food including zongzi, milk, oranges and apples to the elderly ...1 week ago -
Cir – Lesson 540
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BEIJING, May 30 — A 1960 oil painting by China-born Chu Teh-Chun led a Hong Kong auction of Asian modern art by Christie’s International Plc that fetched a total of HK$353 million (US$45.5 million), double the amount expected. “Village de pluie rouge, Maison de nuage blanc No. 53″ by Paris-based Chu ...1 week ago -
Cir – Lesson 539
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Does William Shakespeare have many fans in China? The answer is yes, according to the top management of international auction house Sotheby’s. Sotheby’s reportedly brought from London the most important book in English literature: “The First Folio” of Shakespeare’s plays. This was presented in the ...1 week ago -
Cir – Lesson 538
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BEIJING, May 29 — Although there are still two days before the Dragon Boat Festival, Shanghai residents have already started preparing for the important day. Reed leaves, glutinous rice and sachets have become popular at markets. At the gate of Yuyuan Garden branch of Tonghanchuntang traditional Chinese ...1 week ago -
Benefits of Learning Chinese
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The good reasons to learn Chinese are growing all the time. Learning Mandarin Chinese is the way to go, unless family or travel reasons make another version of Chinese necessary. Many believe Chinese to be a very difficult language to master, and with thousands of symbols to grasp and understand, written Chinese is ...1 week ago -
Cir – Lesson 537
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Archaeologists have developed a clear image of a 2,000-year-old imperial garden found in south China’s Guangdong Province by studying more than 100,000 seeds found in an ancient well at the relic site. Various kinds of vegetation, including banyans and waxberries, were planted more than 2,000 ...1 week ago -
Cir – Lesson 536
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China’s Minister of Culture Sun Jiazheng said here Thursday that China attaches importance to collection and protection of cultural relics including those relating to Cultural Revolution. At a press conference of the Information Office of the State Council, Sun said lots of data and documents relating ...1 week ago -
Cir – Lesson 535
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China has set up a database in an effort to reclaim lost cultural relic treasures abroad, said Shan Jixiang, Director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage on Thursday. “The Chinese government is making its utmost to reclaim and collect the precious cultural relics lost overseas,” he told a ...2 weeks ago -
Cir – Lesson 534
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Minister of Culture Sun Jiazheng has called for new protective measures to prevent celebrations of traditional Chinese festivals dying out. “However, we need to draw more attention from people in all walks of life by including traditional festivals in school textbooks, improving publicity and encouraging ...2 weeks ago -
Cir – Lesson 533
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BEIJING, May 25 (Xinhua) — The Chinese government has established an national “Cultural Heritage Day” to be celebrated annually on the second Saturday of June, Culture Minister Sun Jiazheng said here Thursday. Sun said the first “Cultural Heritage Day” would fall on June 10, with the theme ...2 weeks ago -
Cir – Lesson 532
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Sun Jiazheng, Minister of Culture, briefs the press on China’s protection on cultural heritage and the first Cultural Heritage Day on May 25, 2006. (Xinhua Photo) Minister calls for protection of traditional Chinese festivals BEIJING, May 25 (Xinhua) — Minister of Culture Sun ...2 weeks ago -
Cir – Lesson 531
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BEIJING, May 26 (Xinhuanet) — What is lost must be found, and brought back. China, which has suffered one of the biggest losses of cultural relics in history, yesterday reiterated its pledge to reclaim the artefacts. “The Chinese Government attaches great importance to reclaiming the treasures lost ...2 weeks ago -
Cir – Lesson 530
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A senior Chinese official on Friday called for using advanced tech and hi-tech to protect ancient books which record 5,000 history of Chinese nation. Some treasures such as the only existing copy and reliable texts of ancients books should be well preserved by means of advanced tech and hi-tech, said Li ...2 weeks ago -
Cir – Lesson 529
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HONG KONG, May 30 (Xinhua) — A rare underglaze copper-red Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) vase was sold at a price of 78.52 million HK dollars (10.13 million U.S. dollars) on Tuesday in Hong Kong, setting a world auction record for any Ming porcelain. ”He’s bought the vase at the right price, making a ...2 weeks ago -
Cir – Lesson 528
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BEIJING, May 18 – Since January, a number of posters along Beijing’s major streets featuring the portrait of Michelangelo’s David and a Chinese terracotta warrior have become familiar to people. On each poster David says “ni hao” while the terracotta warrior answers “ciao.” The Year of Italy in ...3 weeks ago -
Cir – Lesson 527（2）
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He said Venezuela hopes to conduct cooperation with China in such areas as movie, TV, broadcasting, drama and acrobatics. He will also visit some local musical instrument making industries, and plans to introduce more China-making musical instruments to Venezuela. Minister of Culture and Fine Arts of Cambodia ...3 weeks ago -
Cir – Lesson 526（1）
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The Second China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industry Fair (ICIF) is held at the Shenzhen Exhibition Center in Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong Province, May 18, 2006. (Xinhua Photo) SHENZHEN, May 21 (Xinhua) — The fast development of China’s cultural industry brings ...3 weeks ago -
Cir – Lesson 525
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BEIJING, May 22 (Xinhua) — China’s Ministry of Education warned Monday that there are now less than one percent of the five million professional Chinese-as-a-second-language teachers that are expected to be needed over the next five years. The number of foreigners learning Chinese around the world is ...3 weeks ago
