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Archive for July 3rd, 2008
Beijing Olympic – Vietnam to ensure successful Olympic torch relay
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008HANOI, April 24 (Xinhua) — Vietnam is making all efforts to organize the Olympic torch relay in its southern Ho Chi Minh City late this month, making an active contribution to the success of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, Vietnamese top leaders said here Thursday.
Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nong Duc Manh and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung made the statements when meeting with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in Hanoi capital.
The friendly and cooperative ties between Vietnam and China, both of which have gained considerable achievements during their reform process and socialism construction, will be broadened and deepened in the future, the two top Vietnamese leaders stated.
Manh said the bilateral relations under the guidance of the principles of long-term stability, future orientation, good neighborly friendship and all-round cooperation should be brought to a new height, making their traditional friendship and comprehensive cooperation everlasting.
Dung said Vietnam and China, sharing rivers and mountains and having culture and ideal similarities, should jointly foster economic and trade cooperation, and exchange in all spheres, bringing about prosperity and happiness to the two peoples.
Yang said China and Vietnam, which have had frequent and fine contact, exchange and cooperation at different levels, localities and sectors, including economy, trade, party construction and border issues, should further develop their ties under the guidance of the principles, for the basic benefits of the two countries, meeting the common aspirations of the two peoples.
Yang, who arrived in Hanoi on April 23, held talks with Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem on regional and international issues of mutual concern on the same day.
Chinese Culture – Celadon and White Porcelain in Tang Dynasty
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Porcelain making in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) showed more prominent progress, as demonstrated by the emergence of some famous kilns with distinctive characteristics, and the appearance of two major schools known as white in the north and blue in the south. The technique of creating color glaze in this period far outdid that of previous dynasties, with new achievements.
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| A celadon jar from the Yue Kiln |
During this period, porcelain wares with blue glaze, multi-colored glaze and blended glazes emerged. Since the emergence of the primitive porcelain in the Shang Dynasty (17th-11th century BC), the light green celadon had been the mainstream of all glazed porcelains. The glassy translucent glaze became purer and more verdant after more than 2,000 years of development. In the Tang Dynasty (618-907), celadon from the Yue Kiln in east China’s Zhejiang Province was characterized by simple but refined shapes, jade-like glaze, solid substance and a distinctive style.
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| A white-glazed porcelain bowl from the Xing Kiln |
White-glazed porcelains emerged around the sixth century. In the initial period, white glaze was not that pure and took on a grayish color. It was not until the Tang Dynasty that the Xing Kiln produced porcelain as white as silver and snow, which could really contend with celadon. In the period, celadon from the Yue Kiln in the south, and white porcelain from the Xing Kiln in the north were famous for their high quality.
The emergence of white porcelain injected a new vigor into Chinese porcelain craft, and was a milestone in the development history of porcelain in China. If there were no the foundation laid by white porcelain of the Xing Kiln, there would be no blue and white porcelain, the under-glaze red porcelain, the polychrome porcelain or the Famille rose porcelain that were popular in the later dynasties.
（Source: chinaculture.org）
