A Modern Merger

Lai Xin a college student in Jiangxi Province,now rarely visits relatives and friends with her parents during the Spring Festival.Instead,having glamorous shots taken at a studio has become one of her new ways to spend the most important festival of the year.She starts losing weight a month prior to the holiday so she can look better in the photos.Most of them feature a red background,as the color symbolizes good luck for the Chinese.She puts the framed photos by her bed for the coming year.Lai also has other special rituals for the festival,such as creating emojis of herself wearing red scarves or carrying red lanterns.     

Simple Weight-reducing Methods

Light Sports: Experts at the Sports Medicine Research Center of US Washington Univer- sity in St. Louis have discovered that “light sports,” such as walking, jogging, gardening, climbing stairs, and mountaineering, are good for the health. For those condemned to desk work, frequently stretching and straightening the back is also bene?cial. Color Slimming: Paying attention to the colors of food can also reduce weight. Orange, red and golden yellow colored foods stimulate the appetite, a…     

Hospitable Oroqen Ethnic Group

Oroqen, a brave and strong ethnic group in north of China, once lived in stretches of unbroken chain virgin forest in ancient time, now mainly dwell on in Oroqen Autonomous County in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and some cities, such as Heihe, Jiayin, in China's northeast he ilongjiang Province. The population of Oroqen people numbers about more than 6,000. The rich and beautiful earth gives birth to a more and more developing ethnic group. In the past, Oroqen mainly live on hunting, they spread all over the primeval forests in Xing'anling Mountain Ridges which stretch for thousands of kilometers, no matter men or women are good at riding a horse and hunting. A horse is a good friend and accompanier, it can do great favour in their daily life. A hunting dog is also a good assistant in hunting beasts. A girl will not only to learn housework, but also can be a good hunter in her growing days. But now farming is the main way, because hunting had been forbidden for many years, the former hunters had dev     

Red Wine Over China

The color red dominates Chinese life and now growing interest in red wine maintains that trend and ushers in a new fashionable addition to local culture There was a time when trying to find a good red wine in China was a difficult affair. But as with all the rapid changes in this advancing country, that is no longer the case. The nectar of the gods is today an integral part of China's trendy social world. In lounges,     

绘画式辅助学习在少儿英语中的重要性(英文)

English has been taken seriously in more and more countries including China.English should be stressed from the childhood.Children’s English learning is very important.And a good learning method can get twice the result with half the effort.Thus,finding a good method is important in children’s English learning.This thesis aims to testify the drawing-assisted learning is helpful for the children’s English learning by expounding the relationship between the drawing-assisted learning and the balance development,creativity,imagination and memory and its application in children’s English learning.     

Lap of Luxury

Imagine the chemistry that occurs when big brands embrace Chinese elements.Like for in stance,a Burberry scarf with the Chinese character fu emblazoned on it in vivid red to denote good fortune.Or when a well-heeled woman takes out her Estee Lauder compact to powder her nose and the case glitters with the pig drawn on it with Swarovski crystals,a special edition launched during the Chinese New Year of the Pig.     

Everything Old Is New Again: Classical Chinese Furniture

INFLUENCED by policies suppressing the real estate market, overall sales of Chinese furniture declined in 2011. However, market demand for classical Chinese furniture, especially that made of "red wood," a category consisting five rare hardwood species, has seen robust growth. The average price for classical furniture has risen by 50 to 60 percent since last year, and prices for those of scented rosewood, red sandalwood and Dalbergia, the most sought-after "red wood," have increased as much as fourfold. Yang Bo, general manager of Yuanhengli Classical Furniture Company who has been in the business for 13 years, said this year he has witnessed the biggest cost jumps in "red wood" furniture in his entire career.     

Crisis for One and All

Chinese are born philosophers, mainly because they speak a langue rich in dialectic wisdom. This is evident in the present buzzword ＂crisis.＂ The Chinese character for crisis is weiji： wei meaning danger andji meaning opportunity. When a tough situation arises, as it has now with the financial crisis, the Chinese can generally see both its bad and good aspects.     

MARKET WATCH

TO THE POINT:The Chinese stock market turned sluggish in October and November,causing many individual investors to lose out.The QDII scheme diverted some of the investments out of the domestic stock market,while fund companies also saw their fund values decrease significantly.The fiscal watch- dog barked at fund management companies to con- trol their risks and forbade them from participating in speculative operations.The good news for foreign investors is that they can invest in futures companies, but at the same time they are being discouraged from investing in residential building projects. Altogether 662 Chinese and foreign financial institu- tions were punished for their role in money-launder- ing activities.     

Farmers' Self-decision Right in New Countryside Construction——An interview with Lu Xueyi,a specialist on rural issues

EDITOR'S NOTE: In October 2005, the central government of China put forward the historical task of constructing a socialist new countryside. Since then, China has adopted many practical and effective measures for the construction of a socialist new countryside. This year farmers had a good harvest of grains, incomes for fanners have continued to increase and execution of social programs in the countryside has accelerated. It can be said that construction of a new socialist countryside has had a good beginning. How to evaluate the current state of affairs relating to the building of a new countryside? How to respect and safeguard farmers' human rights in constructing a new countryside? What issues should be paid attention to in the protection of farmer's rights and interests? Lu Xueyi, a specialist on "san nong"-related issues ("san nong" refers to agriculture, the countryside and peasantry), addresses these questions in a recent interview.     

Sci-tech Info

Fuwa Robots Welcome Olympic Visitors to Beijing
Passengers arriving at Beijing＇s Capital International Airport for the Olympic Games in August were welcomed by talking robots resembling the five Fuwa mascots. Fuwa robots can speak 12 languages and can hold simple conversations in both Chinese and English. They can even tell stories and jokes to waiting passengers, and people can check for Olympic information using touch screens.     

Giving an Old Qipao A Second Life

I don't know exactly when my love affair with qipaos,or cheongsams,started.I just know that when I saw Zhao Wei(Vicki Zhao)and her costars wearing qipaos in Romance in the Rain TV series,which is set in Shanghai in the 1930s,I was smitten.Whereas Chinese ladies like to wear qipaos for special events,e.g.red ones for weddings,I wear them more frequently,both for parties and sometimes even in the office.     

Progress in China's Human Rights Cause in 2003

Foreword The year 2003 was an important and unusual year for China's development. It was also a year of great, landmark significance for progress in human rights in the country. In 2003, the Chinese Government did a good job in tackling the sudden outbreak of SARS and curbing its spread, as well as in tackling frequent natural disasters. Persisting in taking economic construction as its central task, and striving for     

Socializing Online

"Ident you a red Porsche today. You can establish a Porsche motorcade and launch a car race now!" "I har-vested a lot of tomatoes on my farm"... Currently, such dialogues are often heard among white-collar workers in dries. However,rnost are not rich enough to buy a Porsche as a gift for a friend, and most do not actually have a farm. These virtual activities all happen on the social networking site KaixinO01, com.     

Guizhou Rising

LUO Yongguai liked his old home, but it was the leaking roof that finally got to him. Luo is 35, single, and for years resided with his mother in a rundown earthen house in Wuxing Village, Yina Town, Weining Yi-Hui-Miao Autonomous County in Guizhou Province’s Bijie City. Two generations in Luo’s family had lived in the house for a total of over 60 years, but recently Luo decided to move into one of Bijie’s new residential housing projects. In his new house, Luo can finally get a good night’s sleep without being woken     

Whiskey a Go Go——Whiskey sales are up in China, as distillers court a young market.

THE packagers of good whisky take pride in its age. Any really good scotch will havebeen a ged for aminimum of ten years. China‘s growing prosperity has taught many locals to distinguish between a good and middling bottle of whiskey. French-based Pernod Ricard, the number one foreign wine and spirit producer in China, is counting onsales in urban China, where whiskey drinking is catching on fast, to boost company turnover.     

Beautiful Life

WAWA is a makeup artist working in the wonderful world of fashion. She can repaint a model's face faster than a Formula 1 team can change four wheels in a pit stop. Originally from Harbin, Wawa has been living in Beijing for five years. She showed a talent for fashion from an early age and delighted in daubing her face with makeup and parading around in her mother's dresses and high heels     

I Will Show You Some Colors

WORDS for colors often have social and cultural implica- tions. In France blue is reserved for the king, but travel abroad to other cultures and this is not the case. We have an expression in French "I am turning black," an equivalence of "seeing red" in English. In Japan inexperience is described as having a "blue butt"     

MARKET WATCH

TO THE POINT:China's economic figures for February indicated serious inflationary pressure with the consumer price index(CPI) surging 8.7 percent and the producer price index(PPI)jumping 6.6 percent,year on year.Though many repeatedly believed that prices would go down in the future,the fact that consumer goods continued to rise amid various countermeasures can no longer be ignored.The good news for the international market was that China's trade surplus shrank over 60 percent in February year on year,a reward for the government's efforts to rein in exports.In addition,China is determined to produce steel conglomerates to lift the country's competence in the international market. By LIU YUNYUN     

Local Legislation Giving Single Women Birth Right Caught in Debate

Chen Yifan, who is resolved to be single for life, has never expected that at 45, she can realize her dream of producing a baby for herself without having to get married—and legally. The woman is quite successful in her career as manager of a private company in Changchun City, Jilin Province, northeast China. Her personal life, however, is not. She fell in love with a classmate back in the early 1980s, and was heart-broken when the young man left her. Since then, the woman has found that no man in this world is good enough to be her husband. Though single, she wants to have a child of her own. "I'll be burning with envy whenever I see a