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Beijing, Museum to Past, Host to Present and Gateway to Future
The Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremoney is an epic show that introduces the Chinese civilisation to the world. It is a great story told by great contemporary Chinese film director Zhang Yimou, and the following are some images of the show:
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Footprints of history
More than a thousand years ago during the highly intellectually-oriented Song Dyansty (960-1276), Chinese invented fireworkds to celebrate happy occasions. On 8 August 2008, the feast of light was dispalyed in the most spectacular way ever seen before, started by illustrating 29 giant footprints in the night sky representing each of the modern Olympics. The shining foorprints marched with the sound of thunder along the central axis from the Front Gate via the Fobbiden City to arrive at the Olympic Stadium, the Bird's Nest. |
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Welcome friends from afar
For thousands of years, Chinese beat drums to echo the paulse of the cosmos as a way to achieve a harmonious relationship between people and the world around. At 8pm of 8 August 2008, drums were once again pounded by 2008 men when a tuneful and soulful voice chanted aloud verses to welcome the visitors from afar and to express an ancient Chinese wish for the world to share the same dream: all humanily is one family. |
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Confucian's three thousand disciples
The Chinese writing is the voice and the soul of the Chinese civilisatoin which in the beginning weighted heavily as the books were produced by bounding the written bamboo slips together with strips.
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When an ancient Chinese scholar traveled with his books, imagine ...
During the heavy weighted bamboo book period, the cultural heavyweights, from Confucian, Lao Tzu to Sun Tzu and munerous other towering figures, wrote extensively on bamboos, which helped to pass down Chinese cultural heritage from one generatoin to another until this very day. |
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Ink painting
When paper invented, also by the intensely scholarly people of Song Dynasty, Chinese culture, in particular the literature and arts, flurished. |
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Abstracted painting
While the Western painting tradition largely focuses on portraying the visual splenders of the material world that is tangible and external, Chinese-style arts of painting and calligraphy are executed in a more subtle and abstracted manner, striving to articulate intangible concenps and internal feelings. |
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Landscape painting
This is a Chinese landscape painting recreated in a grand scale on the floor of the Beijing Olympic Studium |
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Portrait painting
This is a Chinese portrait painting recreated in a grand scale on the floor of the Beijing Olympic Studium |
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typographic printing
Again, it is during the brilliant Song Dynasty, typographic printing was invented by a Chinese named Bi Sheng. The invention stands as another milestone in the development of the Chinese civilisation - since then, books became easily accessble for ordinary Chinese people. |
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Harmony - the essence of Chinese culture
A human matrix representing a typographic printing machine dispays a Chinese character "å??", meaning harmony, which is the high aspiration and core concept of Chinese civilisation.
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I'll Be Watching the Opening Show
On a day leading up to the Beijing Olympics, a Chinese doctor named Xia Xiandou (å?̃‹ring;??æ??) in Sichuan Province visited Buddhist temple Soul Spring Monastery (ç?micro;æ³?aring;¯º) and videotaped a Guanyin statue in a payering hall. When he reviewed the video later, to his great shock, he noticed that the Bodhisattva's eyes keep blinking. With the help of his son, a college student, the doctor converted and burned video files into DVD discs and forwarded to relevant authorities for examination. So far no one is able to come up with a plausible explanation.
A Brief Introduction of Art of War (4)
A battlfield that is a matter of life or death to the survival of your campaign or your troop is a crutial ground, on which you must fight to your last breath.
BBC - A Nobel Piece Prize Candidate
Many folks working in British media industry seem to carry a proud feeling of nationalism for the reasons that the United Queendom is such a great empire that it never traded slavery in Africa, never waged drug wars on China, never took an inch of foreign soil as its colony, never blocked locals from walking freely on their own land, never sent an army to Iraq, never et cetera and et cetera and et cetera. But one thing some U.K. media folks do love to do, that is to protect our Mother Earth by using recycled materials. Take BBC, a photo image of Chinese police working on computers can be used and resued and resused and resued and resued as a current photo shot for four different stories on five separate occassions during eight long years.
A Brief Introduction of Art of War (3)
What is the art of war? Do not reply on the likelihood that your enemy may not come, but on your readiness to intercept them; Do not depend on the chance that your enemy may not attack, but on your preparation to make your position unassailable. This is the art of war.
An Unassailable Chinese Structure
When the dust resettled onto the ground and the world brightened again, to the destroyers' great shock and the audience's immense awe, they found the bridge is still standing there, straight.
A Brief Introduction of Art of War (2)
To fight and conquer can not be defined as supreme success; the real victory is to win without fighting. Thus the first choise of offensive operation should be to foil your enemy's plans; the next best is to break your enemy's unity; the next in order is to destory your enemy's force; as to invade and occupy your enemy's land should be used as the last resort.
A Brief Introduction of Art of War (1)
When planning your strategy, you should take five basic factors into account:
The univsersal condition - the justice of the mission;
the cellestial conditione - the time;
the terrestrial condition - the location;
the human condition - the leadership;
the technic condition - the methods, discipline and weapons.
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A History Lesson
Father: Now you tell me, why you failed your history subject again!
Son: 'cause the teacher kept asking me the things that happened long before I was born. How was I suppose to know?
Baby: Oops China, I didn't realise you're 5,000-year old. I thought the world didn't exist before I was born last year.
"Take it baby, this is yours."
"You sure, wow, so delicious" (mouthwatering...)
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"Hi world, I'm a torchbearer!"
The East meets the West |
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