Archive for January 12th, 2010

Chinese Character – Story I Have a Sister

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Introduction:

Everyone has his or her likes and dislikes. What do you like? In this episode, you’ll be able to learn some little secrets about our friends John, Cindy and David. You will also be able to listen to a Chinese folk song.

Download List:

1.readstory.swf (1.62 MB)

(Source: chineseculture.about.com)

Chinese Culture – China’s Cartoon(6)

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Feng Zikai (1898 – 1975, China)

After graduating from college, Feng Zikai studied music and art in Japan before returning to China in 1922 to teach in East China’s Shanghai Municipality. Later he worked as an editor at the Kaiming Press. It was at this time that his paintings and cartoons began to be published. Feng Zikai was considered the founder of modern cartoons in China after his Zi Kai Man Hua was published in 1924.

Hu Sheng Hua Ji was created between 1927 and 1973, during his fifty-year-long career as an artist. Long after his death in 1975, Feng’s essays and cartoons are still popular with the Chinese public.
Source: chinaculture.org

China Travel – Jingyue Lake

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Located in the southeast of Changchun City, the capital of Jilin Province, the Jingyue Lake, praised as the Green Pearl, has always enjoyed the reputation of being the twin-lake with the Sun-Moon Lake in Taiwan. It has been specified as a national-level scenic spot by the State Council and a national forest park by the Ministry of Forestry. It has also become a provincial resort of Jilin. The scenery of the Jingyue Lake changes with seasons. It is a perfect place to go for a walk in spring, prevent sunstroke in summer, view red leaves in autumn, and go skating in winter.

The Jingyue Lake Scenic Area is divided into four scenic spots, namely mountains on the north, forests on the south, Moon Lake and village on the east. Mountain villages set off the lake. With vast stretch of forests and wild flowers on the lakeside, it is abundant in medicinal plants and has 82 kinds of vertebrate animals and more than 60 species of birds.

The Jingyue Lake also has the largest artificial forestry center in China, with 8,000-hectare area covered with artificial forest of 50 years old. Up to now, it has developed into a multi-layer and multi-structural forestry center with various species.

(Source: chinaculture.org)