Confucian’s
Portrait
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September
28, 2006, is to be observed as
the 2,557th birth
anniversary of Confucian, and the
followers of the Confucius
teachings at home and from abroad
will once again congregate at his
home town Qufu county, in
Shangdong Province, for a public
memorial service. On
Friday, the Qufu-based China
Confucius Foundation published
the so-called "standard
portrait of Confucian" that
is said will be the official
representation of the sage.
The
statue is made of bronze and
measured 2.557 metres tall to
commemorate his 2557 birthday. It
features a square face, a broad
nose, a wide mouth, thick
eyebrows and long beards, and is
in classic Chinese costume of
flowing gown. The creation of the
image is said to be largely based
on a portrait by Tang artist Wu
Daozi (吴道子).
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of Han Chinese Custome
Shanghai
Private School Sues Government
Sex Topics
in China
Rolling
advertisements on the back of bus seats
in Guangzhou are reportedly full of jokes
containing sexual references. As children
are puzzled and curious, and parents
horrified and angry, many people think
the ads are rather entertaining and
amusing. While in Chongqing city, a
hospital has 20 ancient sex images on its
official website, some viewers complain
and protest, but many others support the
hospital’s decision of not to take the
pics down.
Before
China came under the rule of the
Manchurians (1648 – 1911) who were
obsessed with rigid and empty rituals
than anything else, it was a society
amazingly open to virtually everything,
and sex was just seen as a normal part of
life. Confucian himself once said,
"Eating and sex, the primary
cravings of man" ((饮食男女，人之大欲存焉). But the
classic Chinese culture was mummified and
distorted in Manchurian’s Qing dynasty,
then smashed and mocked by the Western
culture and ideologies, first extreme
right capitalism, then extreme left
Marxism, and then confusingly mixed right
and left.
Now as
China begins to rediscover its classic
past, open attitude regarding sex seems
to be one of the first things, if not THE
first thing, to be revived, with a modern
twist – the glorified label of
"sex education".
Sex Pics
Hookers
in Old Beijing
A
War between Hookers and Residents in
Beijing
A
Naked Professor
A Renewed Summer Palace
After
more than two months of maintenance work,
three major sightseeing spots in the
Summer Palace in Beijing were reportedly
reopened yesterday to the public.
The trio
are often associated with three most
commonly used blessing characters in
Chinese: the Terrace of Fragrance (佛香阁) represents Fortune (福), the Hall of
Rolling Clouds (排云殿) stands for Wealth
(禄), and the Long
Corridor (长廊) symbolises
Longevity (寿).
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