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Archive for June 19th, 2008
Beijing Olympic – Xidan Commercial Street
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Xidan Commercial Street
Introduction:
Xidan Street is one of the most famous traditional commercial areas in Beijing, filled with department stores, food and beverage shops, entertainment and banking sectors. It is in a golden commercial area in Beijing.
In Xidan Commercial Area, there are many shopping malls, such as Xidan Market, Xidan Shopping Center, Xidan Scitech Shopping City and Zhongyou Department Store, and some long-established shops such as Guixiangcun food shop, Wanli shoes shop, Yuanchanghou tea house, etc. besides, there are Beijing Book Building, and Xidan Cultural Square, the largest venue for a variety of cultural events.
The central area of the commercial street is the recreation square. Xidan Cultural Square is the largest venue for cultural entertainment along Chang’an Street, congested of underground restaurants, markets, cinema, bowling alley, swimming pool, rock-climbing club and the largest mirror palace in the country.
Main commodities: general merchandises, clothes and ornaments
Location: It is located at the geometric center of Beijing. It starts from Xuanwumen in the south to Xinjiekouhuokou in the north. The length of the core section is 880 meters, and the total length is 5.4 kilometers. The street runs through Xidan city-level commercial center and two district-level commercial centers of Xisi and Xinjiekou.
Address: Xicheng District, Beijing
(Source: en.beijing2008.cn)
Children Chinese – Early China (Xia Dynasty)
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Daily Life in Very Early China
Chinese civilization started around 10,000 BCE, when a group called the Yangshao (yahng show) settled near the Huang He River. Archaeologists have uncovered many Yangshao villages in northern China. In one village, they found the remains of farmhouses, built partly underground, with plaster floors, and roofs held up with wooden posts.
About 3,000 BCE, another farming group appeared, the Lungshan people. The Lungshan were very advanced for their time. They harvested silk, and used it to weave fine fabrics. They used the potters wheel. They baked strong bricks in ovens, and used them to build their homes. They worked together on flood control and irrigation projects. They had great engineering skills. Legend has it that their “Great Engineer”, Yu, founded the Xia (sometimes called the Hsia) Dynasty in about 2,000 BCE.
There are no written records. Our knowledge of their life comes from ruins of their town, ancient stories and legends. This story tells us quite a bit about ancient life in Xia times.
Ancient Story: On a warm spring day, in Xia times, some children went out in the fields to play. In those days, if you had a problem you went to see the local wise woman. In this village, the wise woman’s name was Loawnu.
Alarmed at what they saw in the fields, the children ran up the hill to Loawnu’s house. “Loawnu,” they shouted. “The sky is falling down!” Loawnu smiled at the children. “Don’t be worried. Find all the pieces of sky that have fallen, and bring them to me. I’ll sew them together again in time for the festival.”
The spring festival was nearing. This was a time when the young people gathered from many villages to meet one another and to find husbands and wives. The children’s village had been honored this year as the meeting village. It would be a horrible time for the sky to fall down. The village would be disgraced!
Off the children ran to pick up the pieces. But some were missing! “Loawnu!” cried the children, as they tore up the hill, breathing heavily. Loawnu only smiled.
The next day, the children ran outside and looked up. The sky looked as it always looked on a warm spring day, clean and fresh and blue. They were so happy.
That night, they were amazed! The sky had always been dark at night. That night, it was filled with light! Loawnu had patched the missing pieces of sky with bright twinkling light! How beautiful! How clever! We shall have the happiest spring festival in all the land! How lucky we are to know Loawnu! All the village agreed.
(Source: ancienthistory.mrdonn.org)
