Change Is a Must

The days are numbered for China's"golden weeks"as traditional festivals seem set to take their placeThe arrival of China's new holiday system will see an end to the country's May Day golden week and the addition of three traditional festivals,the Tomb-Sweeping Day, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, as public holidays. The change has been a hot topic of discussion in recent months,with people asking why it was done and whether other festivals might be added to the country's national holidays. With these questions in mind,Beijing Review interviewed Li Hanqiu,a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and former Director of the Publicity Department of the China Peasants and Workers' Democratic Party,who participated in the process of developing the new holiday system.     

Harvest Moon At Lakeview Place

The Mid-Autumn Festival is an important traditional Chinese festival. Although many families usually celebrate the festival at home in the traditional way, this year, thousands of families had their celebration at Lakeview Place enjoying the lake and full moon.     

Kathmandu Tale

Beijing Review: Could you please tell us about the Nepal Pavilion at the World Expo? Tanka Prasad Karki: The Nepalese people are proudly showcasing their traditional architecture at the Shanghai World Expo 2010.The theme of the Nepal Pavilion at the Expo is "Tales of Kathmandu City."The architecture represents the city and its unique designs of houses and temples.Temples of different religious sects exist side by side in Kathmandu,showcasing our harmonious society.     

TRADITION FOR THE NEXT GENERATION

正Various ways of originality popularize Chinese traditional opera with younger generations Jiang Li's fondest childhood memory brims with images of The Legend of the White Snake. The classic TV series based on a Chinese folktale is in fact the same age as Jiang, having premiered in 1992. The traditional tale tells the story of a female white snake spirit who dreams of transforming into a goddess by doing good deeds and ends up falling in love with a human. Nevertheless, demons and humans are not supposed to develop such relationships, so their connection from the start faces many a challenge.     

Lit With Tradition

The Lantern Festival falls on the 15 th day of the first month in the traditional Chinese calendar—or February 15 this year.Marking the end of the Chinese New Year celebrations,the day fades into the first full moon of the year.People started celebrating Lantern Festival more than 2,000 years ago.The date marked a romantic occasion in ancient times,offering an opportunity for unmarried men and women to venture outside their households and meet their potential future spouse.     

Year of monkey Chinese up for celebration

ASIA is a home to diverse cultures where various ethnic groups with different languages, cultures and lifestyles mingle in harmony. These diverse cultures have been sources of creation while being a guardian of a priceless legacy of historical and traditional assets.VarietyAs so, every country has vivid culture and observes them in their own way. The traditional festive-activities and the way a country observes them form the culture of a country. A country's rich and     

Are TCM Courses Suitable For Pupils?

<正>The education authorities in east China’s Zhejiang Province have released a set of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)textbooks for elementary school students,the first of their kind on the Chinese mainland,and now require elementary schools to teach TCM knowledge to pupils in a bid to enhance younger generations’awareness of traditional ways of living and keeping fit.     

在这里，近距离感受“同心共筑中国梦” 记全国少数民族参观团受邀参观70周年大型成就展（英文）

正On a warm autumn day,the Beijing gallery welcomed hundreds of ethnic minority guests in their traditional garments,as these minority group members had been invited to a special viewing of the"Great Journey and Splendid Achievements."The exhibit honored of the 70th anniversary of the founding of     

Handmade Silver Drnaments

These photos were photographed in Wudou Village, Huahenyamou County, Western Hunan, 2012. The most popular traditional ornaments of Miao people are silver, and there is a multiplicity of types, catering for every part of the body, from head to toe： there are ornaments for head, neck, shoulder, chest, waist, feet and hands. Each accessory comes in many styles, which are exquisitely designed by Miao silversmiths drawing inspiration from the life and work of their people. The silver ornaments are the perfect blend of taste and esthetic sensibility, reflecting the cultural values and the esthetic preferences of the Miao people.     

Heroes of Our Times

The course of China’s modern history,revolution and nation building has been indelibly impressed by the selfless contributions of Party members.The following "hall of fame" highlights a few names from that huge galaxy.From disparate backgrounds and in varied occupations,their common denominator is the desire to work for the greater good of the country and its people,and to do all in their capacity to achieve this goal.To reflect on their stories is also to remind us that what qualifies them for inclusion is intimately bound up with the values and conditions of the various periods in which they lived.     

Western Holiday Warms Country Hearts

TOUGH Valentine＇s Day was first embraced by college students and the middle class in China, it is now finding its way into rural areas. Country dwellers have become better connected with the outside world through the televisions and computers that are increasingly common in their homes, or more directly through their working experience in cities. The holiday calls for the blatant celebration of love, a custom not found in traditional Chinese culture, and this gives the generally shy and conservative Chinese farmers the chance to express affection in public for the people they privately adore.     

HERITAGE REVIVAL

正Visitors attend a thangka exhibition in Lhasa,capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region,on April 27.The exhibition,featuring some 170 works of three masters and their disciples,aimed to promote the preservation of this traditional Tibetan art form.Thangkas are painted with mineral and organic pigments on cotton and silk canvases.They depict     

Spring Festival in China''''s Cities

It is the most important thing for Chinese people to celebrate their traditional Spring Festival (traditional Chinese New Year) yearly. The festival originated from two legends or explanations. One was about a monster named Nian (year). The monster would like to eat man and cattle on the soth day of the 12th lunar month, every year, and simultaneously all the people would feel uneasy in a horrible atmosphere with great disorder everywhere. Thus the people set off firecrackers to     

生活在新疆的达斡尔族(英文)

正The Daur nationality,with a total population of 120,000,is one of the least-populous"minzu"in China.Most Daur live in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and in Heilongjiang Province,and only few are in Xinjiang and Liaoning Province.They have their own language,called Altaic Mongolian,and use the Latin alphabet for their writing,although they are generally proficient in Chinese language and writing nowadays.In the     

Handle with Care

THE Chinese people are justly proud of their food, martial arts and traditional medicine, regarding them as China's national treasure. Millions overseas enjoy Chinese cuisine, and also practice Chinese martial arts for physical fitness as well as selfdefense. But as far as traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is concerned, many have heard of it, but few put it to the test. The Huang Di Internal Canon written in the second century BC is to the Chinese what Hippocrates     

Danzhai,a Beauty Born of Culture and Nature

The Golden Pheasant Dance originated in Danzhai County, Guizhou Province. With their ingenuity and wisdom, the local Miao people here have striven against nature, creatively developing and maintaining a splendid traditional cultural heritage, including the Golden Pheasant Dance. Everybody in this area, male or female, old or young, is a good dancer. On the occasions of house-building or joyous festivals particularly, the lusheng reed pipe music starts up, people line up in a circle and start dancing, creating a scene of merriment and liveliness.     

Hong Kong Ten Years After —— Days in the Lives of Hong Kong Inhabitants

The parting phrase, "Manzou," means walk slowly, in the sense of mind how you go. It is frequently heard on China's mainland, where locals indeed proceed in leisurely fashion on foot. But it is plainly inappropriate in Hong Kong. The region's rapid rhythm of life, emphasized by the marching air emitted at each intersection as pedestrians surge across, demands haste of its inhabitants. Oddly enough, the "number eleven bus" is a main mode of transport in this contemporary cosmopolis. The majority of MTR passengers, adults and children alike, are shod in smart sports shoes suitable for maintaining a brisk gait. It is believed possible to distinguish a native of Hong Kong from a visitor by their walking pace. As we observed Hong Kong's fleet-footed inhabitants making their way purposefully along the city's crowded thoroughfares, we wondered about their thoughts since the return of Hong Kong to the motherland, and about the impact it had made on their lives.     

Resounding Music Within the High Walls

The No. 4 Prison in Yunnan Province is resounded with beautiful music every day, striking the note of the care about the cultural life among the inmates inside the high walls. The prison organized the orchestra in October 1999. Despite the tight pocket of the prison, it spent nearly 20,000 yuan buying electronic organs, guitars, drums, violins, saxophones and trumpets and later to the orchestra were added such Chinese musical instruments as Sheng, Gu Zheng, Piba and clarinet. Now the orchestra boasts 53 pieces of musical instruments in 22 categories. The members of the orchestra have increased from the original 23 to 29. The name of the orchestra "Concern" signifies that the prison needs the understanding and support from the society and prison inmate needs social care and assistance in their correction. At the beginning, few of the members knew anything about music. The prison     

The Battle Against the Novel Coronavirus Requires All Layers of Society

The outbreak of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus(2019-nCoV)came at a special time of the year in China,during the Spring Festival,the most important traditional holiday for Chinese.In order to curb the spread of the virus,the Chinese Government and all of Chinese society have mobilized,with the government making overall arrangements for staff and resource distribution,doctors and nurses fighting the outbreak round the clock,and the public being cooperative and helpful.In the time since the outbreak was made public,many people have expressed their views and hopes from different perspectives.     

Peacock Dance

CHINESE folk dance is a microcosm of the country’s rich culture.The Peacock dance of the Dai ethnic group is one of the most traditional folk dances in China.The presence of the Dai was first recorded in Han books in the f irst century.This ethnic group is mainly found in Yunnan in southwest China,the province known as the "land of eternal spring." It has its own language,calendar and medical science.Though being in a border area,the Dai people have always maintained contact with the heartland economy and culture.