A Traditional Chinese Wedding

DAVID is a British man who came to work as a teacher in Beijing.There he met a girl called Miss Wang, and romance soon blos-somed between the two. They decided to get married, so they firstwent through the marriage registration procedures required by Chi-nese law. That was the easy part. When it came to the ceremonyitself, the young Briton found that he had much to learn about the Chinese way,as each detail of a traditional Chinese wedding symbolizes some cultural or philo-sophical elemen…     

Song Hai''''s World of Landscapes

IN current Chinese art circles,Song Hai is regarded as an artistwith a mastery of traditional Chinese techniques as well as asense of innovation.He began to study Chinese landscapepainting in the 1970s under the instruction of several notedartists.For over two decades he worked tirelessly towards acquir—     

A Magnificent Man and His Flying Machines

ZHANG Dousan was a Guangdong farmer who had little or no know ledge about aviation when he began his mission to build a light air-craft. However, he immersed himself in books on the subject, and slowly began to figure out how an aircraft functions. He combed the markets of Guangdong look- ing for necessary materials, but failedto procure them. Undaunted, he set out for Beijing, where a factory owner was so moved by the farmer's sincerity and devotion to his self appointed task that he agree…     

A Cultural Microcosm

<正>A master painter tells his story of drawing mini-worlds inside snuff bottles Liu Shouben began painting snuff bottles almost 60 years ago,when he came across the handicraft as a 17-year-old in1960.Since then,Liu has dedicated himself to mastering the art of decorating the insides of snuff bottles."Generaly,it would take three years for an apprentice to learn this handicraft,but I was capable of doing the work after one year of     

LETTERS

The topic of＂dreams＂ reminds me of a text by the late Chinese writer Shi Tiesheng who was paralyzed when he was 21, in whichhe elaborated on his devotion to sports. He loved track and field the most, more than writing, and his favorite star was Carl Lewis whom, with a strong body and super speed, he regarded as the luckiest man on earth. Shi once thought that he would do anything to have Lewis＇ physique and vigor in another life, if there were one. But observ- ing the athlete＇s rise and fall after a doping scandal, he gained fresh understanding of success, happiness and life in general. He said his dream was to have a healthy body, a beautiful soul and life wisdom. While acknowledging that many think one should not be too greedy or ambitious, Shi＇s overriding belief was that everyone has the right to dream big, and to look forward to the best in the world.     

The Way to Healty

The daily exercise routine is catching on with more people, both young and old It has been five years since 63-year-old Shen Yuxi began to do his morning exercise in Beijing's Purple Bamboo Park. He arrives early each morning, jogs for a few minutes, then does some shadowboxing. Sometimes he brings a Chinese chess set and plays with his friends who are also doing their morning exercises in the park. "I first came here to exercise because I     

Old Soles

正Beijing shoe brand Neiliansheng keeps cultural heritage running Amid the rhythmic tap-dance of production inside Neiliansheng's factory in Xicheng District of Beijing,He Kaiying,a master of Neiliansheng cloth shoes,was teaching an apprentice to draw the outline of a sole.The 56-year-old senior shoemaker guides three young apprentices,passing on traditional shoemaking skills that have been in place since the company's     

A Tea-Making Heritage

<正>With morning dew still sparkling on the leaf tips of tea plants,Zhang Yuehua,a tea farmer who lives deep in the countryside in southwest China,leaves his home,a century-old dwelling built by his forebears,to pick tea leaves.Picking and making tea keeps him busy every spring season.The 58-year-old grew up in a tea-planting family in Mengding Mountain of Sichuan Province.At the age of 12,he began to learn traditional tea-making skills from his father.The skills have been passed down in his family for five generations.Zhang has devoted himself to     

人间自有真情在——评影片《暖春》的主题

The most exciting is the rela-tion between Xiao Hua and Grandpa, who adopted her be-cause of the simple and natural feeling. But since he found her try-ing to learn writing on the ground, he began to climb up the mountain to cut osier and weave baskets to earn money for her study without considering about his own heavy burden of life existing already. The very simple action had moved the audiences deeply again and a-gain. Though they were living a very poor and simple life, they loved each ot…     

Art and Money：Selling Out in Xiaozhou

XIAOZHOU Village on the southern outskirts of Guangzhou is a place of boundless opportunity - at least for Liu Jiusheng and Xie Guozheng. Liu opened his guqin （ancient zither） workshop in the village in 2007. He loves the guqin and is a skilled player. Once he bought an old one and disassembled it, finding its construction not as complicated as he had imagined. At that moment, he was struck by the impulse to make his own zithers of superb quality, and hired 26-year-old carpenter Xie to help him realize the dream.     

Singer of The Epic of Janggar

Fifty-three-year-old Fu Bada lives in the Bortala Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang.Both his father and grandfather are household names as Janggarperformers,known by locals as Janggarchi.Since he was little,Bada has had one dream:to bring The Epic of Janggarto a wider audience.He began teaching the epic when he was young.As he grew famous,more and more people learned to sing Janggarfrom him.In 2006,the State Council listed The Epic of Janggaras part of the National Intangible Cultural Heritage.In 2012,Fu Bada was named the first     

扎根基层书写公正的人民法官邓兴

On the bank of the Nujiang River,a Communist Party member has been working as a judge for over a decade.His painstaking effort has added gleam to the image of the Party and the authority of law.He is Deng Xing,vicepresident of Fugong People’s Court.On the first day Deng Xing began to work in the court back in April 1999,he was determined to be a good judge in a down-to-earth way.In his years＂on the bench,＂     

Parental Love Cures Net Addiction

I missed hanging around with my schoolmates, but there was noth- ing I could do to tear myself away from the computer. I thought of nothing but on-line gaming, even in my dreams.” That’s the story of a 17-year-old ex-Internet addict named Zhao Cheng. Zhao, who comes from a single-parent family and was a capable student before he became capitivated by Internet games two years ago. Shortly afterwards, his exam scores began to plummet, and he eventually dropped out of school. He conf ined hi…     

No Child’s Play

All-out efforts needed to shield minors from gaming disorder As a doctor in a psychiatric hospital in north Beijing,Liu Huaqing has witnessed how Internet addiction shatters the life of children and their families.One of his patients at the Beijing HuiLongGuan Hospital was a 12-year-old boy who had not been to school since November 2020.Instead,he stayed at home,glued to his smartphone for more than15 hours a day,playing games and watching short videos.He often went to bed at 3 or 4 a.m.and stopped following the most basic daily hygiene routine such as brushing his teeth or taking a shower.     

The World Bank＇s New Chief Economist Takes on Poverty

PROFESSOR Justin Lin Yifu is nothing if not a patriot. ＂The main reason I returned to China was because I wanted to make a contribution to the economic development and economic transition of China,＂ the World Bank＇s new chief economist once famously said while delivering a talk at the Marshall Lectures at Cambridge University in 2007. Lin was trying to explain why he left Yale in the late 1980s after spending time there as a senior research fellow, and the implication was that he could well have chosen to stay on in the West, as so many of his fellow Chinese graduate students were then doing,     

A Devotee of Science

THE Modern Physics Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is situated at the foot of Gaolan Mountain in Lanzhou, capital of China's northwest Gansu Province, and 45-year-old Zhan Wenlong is the director. Zhan developed his interest in physics in his youth. He was enrolled by the Physics Department of Lanzhou University in 1977, beginning to realize his dream of becoming a scientist. Graduating from university in 1982, he began work at the Modern Physics Institute. Living condit…     

Why Did a Prodigy Fail to Live up to Expectations?

正Some 13 years ago,Wei Yongkang was flunked out of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)because he was unable to complete his master’s degree at the prestigious institution within the stipulated three years.He was expected to complete a successive postgraduate and doctorate program at the CAS after being accepted at 17.Wei had been called a prodigy because he knew 1,000 Chinese characters when he was just 2 years old.He entered a prestigious senior high school at 12.His     

Tibet:14 Years of Brilliant, Extraor Achievements——An interview with Raidi, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress

Tremendous changes have takenplace in Tibet under the state policy of reform andopening up to the outside world, especially over thepast 14 years since the Fourth Plenary Session of the13th Central Committee of the Chinese CommunistParty. Unprecedented are the development of the localeconomy, and so are the changes in the outlook ofcities and countryside in the region, and life of ethnicTibetan has kept improving.Raidi, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee ofthe National People's Congress (NPC), is a mostqualified eyewitness to these changes. He was born intoa serf's family before the Democratic Reform in thelate 1950s, and had worked on various leading posts inTibet before he was elected to NPC, China's highestlegislature. In July 1990, Jiang Zemin, then generalsecretary of the CPC Central Committee, cited Raidi asan example when speaking on the question of humanrights during an inspection tour of Lhasa. Said he,"What do human rights mean? Comrade Raidi, aformer serf, now works as the second most se     

The Story of Xuer

Xuer, or "snow," lived in the world for six years. She was daughter of my wife and my best friend. Her father died of lymphoma six monthsbefore she was born, and I became her stepfather a month after her birth. We so named her because she was bom on a day when a sudden heavy snow hit Beijing. I promised my friend before his death to take good care of his wife, whom I loved secretly since I was in high school, and their unborn baby. But the happy days of the three of us lasted less than a yea…