Unforgettable Moments at The Portman Ritz-Carlton,Shanghai

<正>A Ritz-Carlton wedding is considered the ultimate bridal bliss.The Portman Ritz-Carlton,Shanghai presented one of the most impressive bridal events of 2015,"50 Shades of White Wedding Show-Create Unforgettable Moments at The Portman Ritz-Carlton,Shanghai,"from 1 p.m.to 3p.m.,on August 30.It unveiled the trendiest wedding colors for2015:off-white colors,fragrant and fresh flow-     

Should Same-Sex Marriage Be Legalized ?

Homosexuality has a long history in human civilization,and the population of gay people in China is not negligible. On January 30,a special wedding in Beijing provoked a firestorm of debate on the legalization of gay and lesbian marriage.The cause of all this controversy is that the couple who committed themselves to each other in a public wedding ceremony were two males. Official estimates released for the first time     

LETTERS

I am unimpressed by the news in the Focus column of November 2007： ＂Average RMB 120,000 Wedding Price Tag.＂ There is no denying that the wedding industry contributes much to GDP But from a different angle, weddings are nothing but extravagance and waste. In our country, there is an extreme disparity between the rich and poor.     

Gao Family Mansion

The Gao Family Mansion, built 400 years ago, is a well-preserved Ming Dynasty residence and proud winner of the 2002 UNESCO Asia-Pacific cultural heritage preservation award. As the Gao family held official gov-ernment positions for generations, the formidable Empress Dowager Cixi     

Family Reunion Feast

These photos were photographed in Buchou Town, Yamou Town, Paiwu Town, Huaheng County, Western Hunan. ＂Family Reunion Feast＂ is an ancient wedding custom of the Miao people, unchanged even today. The procedure goes roughly like this： First, the engagement： whether or not the union is arranged by a matchmaker, the couple will ask the Badai （the shaman of the Miao people） to select an auspicious date for the engagement.     

My Engagement with the Prairie：Attending an Ewenki Wedding

What luck! In July 2013 on the Inner Mongolia prairie, I attended an Ewenki wedding with its traditional bride-escorting caravan. The last time I saw this type of ceremony was decades ago. It had been raining for several days but the sky cleared on July 25 for a wedding day in bright sunshine. The azure sky, the green prairie, the white yurt, the throng in their decorative finery made a vivid atmosphere for a happy ceremony.     

The Promised Land for Summer Wedding

<正>Standing in front of the magnificent Ballroom of Beijing Marriott Hotel City Wall,the Ming Dynasty City Wall seems to be easily touched,which could provide a promised land through ancient and modern for your dream summer wedding.The sprawling banquet areas spread more than 2,300 square meters,which includes one ballroom and 12 function rooms suiting guests’individual needs for wedding.The marble step between     

WEEKLY WATCH

OPINION Making Educated Decisions According to a recent survey by Horizon Research Consultancy Group,40 percent of the surveyed people believe the returns of ed- ucation are unsatisfactory,given high tuition fees,while only 16 percent of the respondents think education is worth the tuition fees. In 2006,a report issued by the Horizon Group indicated that education spending was the primary reason for household deficit spending.Today,the situation seems worse: The higher education background people have,the less they believe they have spent valuable money on their education.What nurtures this pessimism?     

LETTERS

Irecently read your article .entitled ＂Coupling and Unoupling Chinese Style＂ with great interest. Though the events mentioned in the article weren＇t part of my life, I know them to be true. My parents told me that they had bowed to a portrait of Chairman Mao at their wedding, a must for any wedding process of the time. The gifts they received were mostly wash basins and thermal flasks, several of which remained unused till I was a teenager.     

Rock Me Baby

Multi-media rock musical Amber catches China's nihilistic rock' n' roll generation with its pants down. AFTER making love, Xiao You is plagued with guilt. The pleasure she felt with Gao Yuan had nothing to do with the heart of her dead boyfriend that has been transplanted into the rakish Gao Yuan. But when Xiao You ditches womanizer Gao on his birthday, he sleeps with lo-     

Deadly Lesson

<正>The MERS virus surge in South Korea raises treatment questions and dredges up bad memories of SARS A South Korean couple’s wedding photo caused quite a stir across the country’s social networking sites.The picture,which shows the couple posing with family and friends,is distinctive in that everyone is wearing white surgical masks.     

塔吉克族婚俗（英文）

正Tajik marriage customs include a grand wedding ceremony,colorful bridal dresses,special food and music with many distinct ethnic features.Marriage ritual has an important,positive impact on Tajik society because it entails the duties and rights of the marriage partners and their children to come.The obligations of a Tajik marriage are for one’s entire lifetime.The geography of the high plateau,4000m above     

Finding a New Friend

For seniors undergoing new changes due to age, the Internet can be just what the doctor ordered As a financial director in a private company in Shanghai, Gao Shengyi had a busy career. Now, after retiring, life is busier still.The 68-year-old volunteers to teach other retirees how to crack the mystery of smartphones and apps and when she is not teachi ng or volunteering she is traveling. She has been to 50 countries, sharing photos and posts on her travels on social media. In short, Gao exemplifies how the older generations too are embracing the Internet and new technology to get more out of life.     

SOCIETY

正Just Married!Couples dance at a group wedding ceremony held at the gymnasium of Zhejiang University in Hangzhou,capital of east China’s Zhejiang Province,on May 6.A total of 121 couples,all of whom are alumni of the university,attended the mass group wedding.Circuit Court Cases The six circuit courts of the Supreme     

A Revolution in Marriage Lines——New Marriage Registration Rules Make Marriage and divorce Easier

PUBLICATION of the new Regulations on Marriage Registration signaled a mass postponement of weddingsplanned for October 1, the conventional wedding season. Last September, usually the busiest month for mar-     

The Delegation of the Austrian Association for Promotion of Friendship and Cultural Relations with China Visits China

The Delegation of the Aus-trian Association for Promo-tion of Friendship and CulturalRelations with China(AAPFCRC) headed by Ms.Elisabeth Gehrer, council mem-ber of the AAPFCRC and min-ister of education and arts, paid     

From Need to Want

Gao Yuning finds it hard to explain to his students who were born in the 1990s and beyond why Chinese people used to "buy" products with food stamps. "My young Chinese students may have heard from their parents about what life was like in that period, but for my students from the West, they have no idea at all," Gao told Beijing Review. "The use of food stamps was based on a shortage economy." Gao, in his late 30s, received his PhD in economics from the University of Cambridge in 2011 and currently works for Beijing-based Tsinghua University as anassociate professor.     

Not one less——Directed by Zhang Yimou, China, 1999,106 min.

In her village, she was the teacher... In the city, she discovered how much she still had to learn. At the Shuiquan Primary School,Teacher Gao has to be away from schoolfor a month to take care of his mother. Themayor of the village finds a substituteteacher, Wei Minzhi, to take over Gao'sclass. Seeing that Wei Minzhi is only thir-teen years old. Gao protests to the mayorthat such a young girl will not be able toteach students, who are of her own age oronly slightly younger. The mayor rep…     

The Power of Love

Zhou Xin's wedding was delayed for two years because of an 8.0-magnitude earthquake that killed nearly 70,000 people in Wenchuan, southwest China's Sichuan Province on May 12, 2008. Zhou was then a 25-year-old military officer serving in his hometown of Shigu in Shifang City—60 km from the epicenter—and had just registered his marriage on May 7, setting the wedding banquet for the end of the year.     

An Interview With Ms.Kerstin Leitner,Resident Representative of the UNDP to China

Following is an interview given by Ms. Kerstin Leitner, Resident Co-ordinator of the United Nations System's Operational Activities for Development, and Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to China.