Tonight Is a Night
with a Perfect Full Moon
月是今夜明
An illustration
of ancient Moon Day night party
Tonight
the celestial golden mirror of the middle
autumn unites the land in a reflective
glow, as it is a night with a
perfect full moon.
According
to the Daoist
theory,
what happens on earth is a reflection of
what happens in heaven. It is believed
that the Great Yin the moon governs
people’s emotional responses, as
opposed to the Great Yang the sun that is
in charge of people’s physical aspects,
therefore when the moon resumes the
fullest shape of the year, people – at
least Chinese people - are in the mood
for a reunion gathering. And that is what
Chinese have been doing for thousands of
years: have a family dinner, complete
with
moon cakes, then take a tour to
lantern-decorated streets and gardens,
participating in lantern riddle games or
poetry contests. As well as – which is
a modern addition - watch moon party
shows on TV.
Butterfly Exhibition or
Butterfly
Execution?
Chinese
are known for being a hard working and
diligent people. But some times some
Chinese are just working a bit too hard,
which becomes rather destructive, for
instance when they keep decorating lawns
and streets with empty bottles and
plastic bags, volunteering loud talking
shows in public spaces. But those acts
pale greatly in comparison to what some
of the Chinese visitors did at a
butterfly exhibition in Jinan, Shandong
Province, because in that case the
consequence was deadly. When the show
started, there were 10,000 lively
butterflies, two days later, 8,000 dead,
apparently in the busy hands of the
visitors.
The
exhibition site was virtually transformed
into an execution site. No wonder the
traumatized show organisors declaimed
that the butterfly party was over. Well,
at lease for one day.
Graffiti
not Allowed, Unless You’re Li Bai
Power to
Power-Hungry
Shanghai
During a
test run on Thursday, hydraulic power
generated by the Three Gorges Dam was
transmitted to power-hungry Shanghai, the
economic powerhouse of China.
6000-Year Old
Building Sites Discovered
Chinese
archaeologists discovered a large group
of building sites in Shaanxi province,
and said it proved that as earlier as
6000 years ago people had already begun
to leave their cave-dwelling and build
houses above ground.
Remains of the house
pointed at by the red arrow
(Source of
origina photo: xinhuanet)
7000-Year
Old Articles Unearthed
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