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Archive for June 27th, 2008
Children Chinese – Tang Dynasty (2)
Friday, June 27th, 2008The Arts: The T’ang Empire is famous for its brilliant stories, literature, dancing, music, and art.
Talented dancers and singers came from India and Korea to study singing and dancing in China. A special room was set aside in the imperial palace for training.
Huge orchestras, with as many as 700 instruments, performed at the imperial court. Tea drinking and tea ceremonies became all the rage. Craftsmen worked with iron, bronze, copper, gold, silver, and other metals.
Scroll painting became very popular. Painting, like everything else, blossomed in the T’ang Dynasty. Brushes were used to make thick lines and filled in color. Sculpture, especially Buddhist sculpture (statues of Buddha) were extremely popular. Pottery was painted with representations of musicians, maidservants, soldiers, domestic and miraculous animals, minor deities, and signs of the zodiac.
Bird Concerts: Then, as now, if you asked about, you’d find a Bird Concert somewhere nearby, a place where bird lovers collected once each week in the early morning, with their feathered friends. While their owners sipped a morning beverage, their songbirds would put on an impromptu concert, enjoyed by all who gathered to listen.
Capital city: Ch’ang-an, the capital city, was a rather big town of over one million people! The city was designed like a checkerboard, with broad wide streets, and side streets, and city blocks. There were 110 blocks, each like its own village, with a marketplace and temples. Throughout the city, residents and visitors could enjoy tea shops, cake shops, gem dealers, pawnbrokers, street acrobats and storytellers, colorful banners, lots of bazaars. It was a lively place.
A word about audiences: In ancient China, and still true today much of the time, everyone attended art performances. Being a social occasion as much as a theatrical performance, people would wander in and out as the mood took them, chit-chat or gossip softly, and bring their two year olds.
(Source: ancienthistory.mrdonn.org)
Beijing Olympic – Guide dogs given all-clear for public venues (1)
Friday, June 27th, 2008Dalian Guide Dog Training Base staff demonstrate the use of guide dogs in the city’s downtown in December. (Photo credit: China Daily)
BEIJING, April 25 — Guide dogs for the blind will be allowed into public places such as subway stations and buses starting July, under a new law amendment passed yesterday.
Lawmakers said the change, in the amendment to the Law on the Protection of Disabled Persons, aims to better protect the rights and interests of the blind in the run-up to the Beijing 2008 Paralympics in September, during which many athletes will bring their canine helpers to the capital.
Currently, ownership of large dogs in Beijing is restricted and large dogs are barred from public places. Since guide dogs are said to be a new phenomenon in the country, no exceptions were made.
This has caused inconvenience to a number of blind people. Ping Yali, the country’s first Paralympic champion, complained to the media last year that her guide dog “Lucky”, a golden retriever, was always barred from public places.
Explaining the law amendment to the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), Minister of Civil Affairs Li Xueju said it was necessary to make a change to allow the guide dogs into public places as many other countries do.
“In bidding for the hosting of the 2008 Olympic Games, our country has also made a commitment to foreign athletes for them to bring guide dogs to China,” he said.
(Source: en.beijing2008.cn)
