Mysterious ancient China

2/09/2009

Southern Song Dynasty costumes (NanSongFuShi)

Song of the garment fabric, silk mainly pay attention to the varieties have brocade, silk flower, yarn, Luo, silk, etc.. Song Shu brocade Chengdu's most famous, have combined the geometric patterns of the eight patterns ride halo, six ride halo, such as disk blanket. 

 Geometric filling of sunflower flower clusters four golden eagles, big nest Ma playing blankets, snow blankets the road, such as dual-nest. 

 Artifacts of the world theme music (lanterns Kam is the text of Yanbo in Chengdu for flattering Injong Zhang Goodfriend and creation). 
 People wish to topics such as male flowers. Subjects wearing flower sticks really wear red flower phoenix, real red large flowers peacock, green, etc. Seocho Yunhe. Flower themes wishful peonies, hibiscus, lotus weight really red cherries, red water Ringo and so true. 

 Animals themes lions, Tianma, goldfish, Xiang-luan, etc.. 

 Geometric Moire patterns, Qushui, paper, FANG Sheng, corrugated, such as. 

 Song Dynasty costumes bird patterns by sketching the impact of art, design patterns tend to realism, composition closely. 

 Song patterns of the Tang Dynasty style and story, and the impact of the Ming and Qing Dynasties is very obvious, in terms of subject matter to the modeling approach, almost all formed a kind of program.

2/08/2009

Lantern Festiva (YuanXiaoJie)

The first lunar month on the 15th, is China's traditional Lantern Festival. 

 The Lunar New Year is in January, said the ancients night as "night" and on the 15th is also the year the first full moon night, it said fifteenth day for the Lantern Festival. 

 Also known as the small New Year,or the Festival of Lights, after the Spring Festival, the first major festival. 

   Lantern Festival, also known as "Spring Festival." Shangyuan, containing the new year the first full moon nights mean. 

 Spring Festival Origin, "the age of Miscellanies" documented that this is the same old rut of Taoism stereotypes. Taoism had fifteenth day of the year known as Spring Festival, July 15 for the Ghost Festival, October 15 for the Lower Proterozoic section, collectively known as "the three." 

 The important end of the Han Dynasty Taoist factionsRoad worship God for the days of government, to officials, water officials said the days of official blessing, and official pardon, water officials predicament and ternary with three officers, said Officer Shangyuan days the first month Health on the 15th, July 15th Mesoproterozoic to Officer of Health, Ha Yuen water Health Officer October 15. In this way, the first month on the 15th was known as the Lantern Festival. 

 Southern Song Wu, who had lived in the "Dream Beam recorded" said: "New Year Festival on the 15this Shangyuan day official blessing of Chen." Said the official blessed days, and official pardon, but the real driving force for the Lantern Festival is a popular because it is in a new point in time, people take full advantage of this special period of time to express the aspirations of their own lives.

2/07/2009

Silk Road(SiChouZhiLu)

Silk Road, or Silk Road. Refers to the Western Han Dynasty (BC 202 years - the Year 9 years), the ambassador to the Western Regions by Zhang Qian opened to Chang'an (now Xi'an) as a starting point, via Gansu and Xinjiang, to Central Asia, West Asia, and linking the countries of the Mediterranean land channel (this road is also known as the "Northwest Silk Road" to distinguish between the other two in future the word "Silk Road" the name of the traffic routes). Because by this route in the West of goods shipped to the silk products, the greatest impact, it was this name (and we have a lot of silk in China are shipped). The basic trend is scheduled to the Han Dynasty, including the South, Middle, North Road, Route 3. 


   Silk Road is the history of the Trans-Eurasia trade lines, and promote the Europe, Asia and Africa countries and China's friendly exchanges. China is the hometown of silk, through this route in the trade, China's export of silk goods to the most representative. The second half of the 19th century, the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen would this land transport route known as the "Silk Road", after Chinese and foreign historians are in favor of this that are still in use.

Chang An Avenue (ChangAnJie)

Chang An Avenue is an east-west axis of Beijing, the East from Jianguomen, west Fuxingmen, Tiananmen Square is located in the mid-point of the north side of Chang'an Avenue, Tiananmen Square is located in the mid-point of the south side of Chang An Avenue, Chang An Avenue, also known as "Shenzhou No. First Street. " 

   Chang An Avenue, its name taken from the Tang era of big capital --- "Safe", with long-term stability of meaning. 

   Chang'an Avenue built in the Ming Dynasty Yongle four to eighteen years (1406-1420), and the Imperial City at the same time the construction is the overall planning of Beijing in the Ming Dynasty built an important part of one. East-west parallel to the direction of Chang An Avenue, eight kilometers north-south and vertical and horizontal long axis御道, in Tiananmen Square just before the intersection into a vertical accuracy of the "ten" font center latitude and longitude coordinates, and thereby constitute a ride south of Beijing, China streets the overall layout. 

   After the demise of the Qing Dynasty, with the walls in the east and west sides of the Jianguomen and Fuxingmen In二十九年(1940) was open. Founding of New China, street outreach was 50-100 m wide, east-west extension of Chang'an Avenue Line east Tongzhou, West arrived in Shijingshan, with a total length of 50 km, has the name Barry长街.

The Tian'anmen Rostrum (TianAnMen)

Tiananmen Gate is located in People's Republic of China Beijing, the capital of the northern end of Tiananmen Square, Dongcheng, Xicheng, Chongwen, Xuanwu four regions of the cut-off point, facing the Chang'an Avenue. 

 The opposite is as well as the Monument to People's Heroes in Tiananmen Square, Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, Great Hall of the People, the National Museum of China. Ancient China, one of the most magnificent tower. 

 To outstanding architectural art and special political status as the world attention. 

 October 1, 1949, where Chairman Mao Zedong solemnly declared: "People's Republic of China was established." 

 And personally raised the first Five-Star Red Flag. 

 Tiananmen patterns appear in the People's Republic of China National Emblem of. 

 Become a symbol of People's Republic of China.
Qing Qing nobility into the Central Plains, the rule in order to achieve its long-term purpose, with the exception of the use of other measures, also the name of the gate a big fuss over. 

 At that time, one after another as a result of the struggle against anti-feudal nobles threaten the rule of the Qing Dynasty, Qing Dynasty rulers with particular emphasis on "security" and "and" strategy, in order to achieve the rule of the Qing Dynasty's "long-term stability." 

   Such as the Forbidden City in the Qing Dynasty "imperial extremely Temple," "extremely Dian", "built a very Dian" renamed "Hall of Supreme Harmony", "and Hall", "Paul and the Temple", that is, take a smooth meaning palace . 

 "Chengtian door," renamed "Tiananmen Square", we can cover the "Chengtian Qiyun" naming wishes, also included in the "bringing peace to the country, prime minister" thinking. 

 There are Imperial's "to安门", "East安门", "Xian door" three door, have highlighted a "security" in order to show an inside and outside.

2/05/2009

Forbidden City (ZiJinChen)


Forbidden City is China's Ming and Qing dynasties the emperor's palace 24. The third Ming emperor Zhu Di in the acquisition, we have decided to move the capital Beijing, the Forbidden City began to build palaces, to the Ming Yongle eighteen years (in 1420) completed. 

 In accordance with the doctrine of the ancient Chinese astrology, Ziwei Sadakazu (that is, the North Star) is located in transit, the UN is the Emperor of Heaven, Heaven counterpart, is the emperor's residence, also known as the Forbidden City.


China Great Wall

Great Wall 

   Ancient China Great Wall is a miracle created by the working people. Since the beginning of theQin Dynasty, built the Great Wall has been a major project. According to records, the emperor used to build the Great Wall nearly a million workers, representing the country's population of 1 / 20! At that time, there is no machinery, all have to rely on human labor, and the working environment is high mountains,  Can imagine, not a lot of people hard labor, is unable to complete this enormous project.
"Because of the topography, with the risk system forced" to build the Great Wall is an important experience, when the emperor is no doubt that it has been down, Sima Qian writes it "Historical Records" of. 

 Every subsequent dynasty built the Great Wall are carried out in accordance with this principle. 

 Those who pass both the construction of customs rights and wrongs of the city to choose between two mountain gorges, or turning point of the river, or Pingchuan contacts must pass through, so both strategically located and difficult to control, but also to save human and material, to achieve "Yi Ren Dang Guan Wan Fu Mo Kai"effect. Or construction of the castle is also the choice of beacon towers in the "place to look around." 

 As for building a wall, but also full use of terrain, such as such as Pass, Badaling Great Wall is built along the mountain's back, and some sections from the lateral walls looked very precarious, and have great the inside is flat, to close " easily defensible "effect. 

 In Liaoning, the territory of the Ming Dynasty Great Wall liaotungensis town there is a hill called dangerous walls, blast cliff wall, is to take advantage of steep cliff, the precipice little about the Great Wall has become. 

 There are some places take full advantage of Cliffs cliffs, rivers and lakes as a natural barrier, it can be said to be representing. Great Wall, as a great project and become a valuable heritage of the Chinese nation.
A miracle in human history 

   Construction of the Great Wall for duration, amount of works, construction of the arduous, rich historical and cultural connotations, there is the world's other ancient works can hardly be compared to it. China's modern democratic revolution, the great pioneer Sun Yat-sen's Comments Great Wall said: "China's most famous works, the Great Wall also. ... ... Works great, ancient without their horses for one of the wonders of the world alone." 

 Former U.S. President Richard Nixon during a visit to the Great Wall Ding said: "Only a great nation, can come to such a great building the Great Wall." Therefore, the Great Wall as a miracle in human history, in 1987 the "World Heritage", well-deserved. 

   Such a huge project, not only in China is in the world, is unique, so in a few years ago with the Roman Colosseum, the Leaning Tower of Pisa as the Middle Ages, such as one of Seven Wonders of the World.
Great Wall"Meng Jang Nv"cry 

   When the Qin Dynasty, a kind-hearted beautiful woman, named"Meng Jang Nv". One day, she was their own yard to do the housework, suddenly discovereda person under the possession, threatened  was about to scream, I saw that person again and again Baishou, pleaded: "Do not shout Do not shout, Save the me! My name is FAN Xi-liang, is to flee. "At that time the original of the First Qin Emperor in order to build the Great Wall, are arresting people everywhere to do labor, have been starved to death, exhausted the number of people who do not know!"Meng Jang Nv"save the FAN Xi-liang down Tatsu book to see him to know the rationale,on him love, and FAN Xi-liang"Meng Jang Nv"love. They were children to be affiliated, with the consent of the parents agree on marriage preparation. 

   Get married that day, Meng decorated, guests Mantang, one scene of jubilation., drink wedding people have gradually scattered, and the bride and groom going into the bridal chamber, suddenly only hear the chicken to fly like dogs, then break into teams to one of the officers and men, chained one lock, FAN Xi-liang mechanically captured the Great Wall to work.the happy event turned into a vain, anger"Meng Jang Nv"Cross, day and night thinking of her husband. She would like to: I sit at home with their anxious, not as good as their own to the Great Wall to find him. Of! Do so!"Meng Jang Nv"immediately pack to pack up and hit the road. 

   Along the way, I do not know how experienced the wind rain and snow, the number of dangerous mountain trek evil water,"Meng Jang Nv"did not shout a sound bitter, do not have a tear drop, and finally, with indomitable perseverance, his deep love for her husband She arrived at the Great Wall. At this time of the Great Wall is a site composed of a very, very long, along the walls, and a"Meng Jang Nv"site to find a site to come, but always see her husband's sight. Finally, her courage, going to a team of workers Shanggong asked: "Are you here to have a FAN Xi-liang it?" Workers said: "There are so many individuals, the new.""Meng Jang Nv"1, Do not Titus happy! she hastened to ask: "Where is it him?" workers said: "is dead, corpses have been filled in the foot of the city!" 

   Suddenly heard the sad news, I really like a bolt from the blue in general, feel perplexed about the immediate"Meng Jang Nv"black one, a heart-rending, and burst into tears. A full three days and nights crying, crying, even the heaven and earth are moved. More and more dreary days, the wind more and more fierce, just listen to "Raining Cats and" A, a section of the Great Wall was to cry down, it is exposed FAN Xi-liang's body, tears trickling"Meng Jang Nv"him in the bloody face . She finally met the husband of his beloved, but he never see her, because he has been brutal to kill the Qin Shi Huang.


By the Chinese to write the English blog

Have long wanted to write a blog in English. But because of their own English skills will not do so without delay began to write. 

Intend in the future as little as possible to write text, multiple pictures and music. With pictures and music to express my thoughts. Everyone said not all the music and aesthetic is no national boundaries it? 

 Read the blog a lot of English abroad, the majority of writing is concerned about their family life. The entire blog is filled with the warmth of family, all family picnic out of the picture to play. I am very envious of. 

 Busy working day, so I can not and the family reunion more fun to write about only through his blog to ease work pressure. 

 My blog content is driven mainly introduce the Chinese culture, for example: the Forbidden City, Great Wall ......