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Our three friends decide to go shopping one day while at the language camp. Sometimes, going shopping can be quite fun too. Check out what happens to our three friends at the store.
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Xu Bochu: Of course, it is impossible for the specialty of art, as a “newcomer”, to contend with the powerful specialties of construction, machinery and electric engineering. However, I have been trying my best to make art accepted, approved, combined with, and infiltrated by other different subjects.
On the very next day after I came back to China, I started charging myself with the task of designing the interior decoration of the special train for Chinese vice-premiers who were to participate in the ceremony of the hand-over of Hong Kong in 1997. My design was favorably adopted and chosen from dozens of designs nationwide. In 1997, I took charge of the exterior and interior designs of the experimental MST-2 (Magnetic Suspension Train), and in the meantime, the MST on the experimental track in Qingcheng Mountain. Both of them were exhibited in Beijing as “The National Outstanding Construction Achievements”. In addition, I was responsible for the sculpture and environment designs for the “Monument Garden of Nan-kun Railway” for the Ministry of Railway in 1999, and the interior design of the 270m High-speed Passenger Train for the Ministry of Railway in 2000. Besides that, I managed to finish numerous planning and designs in Chengdu, Kunming and other cities in southwest China.
The purpose of all of my efforts is to pursue the approval of art as a subject in the university and integrate art with engineering. “Science and art are like the two sides of a coin.” I agree with it fully.
During “The Cultural Revolution”, Xu Bochu used to be a carpenter, blacksmith and stonemason when he settled in the remote mountainous countryside in Sichuan. Although affected by the concepts of the Western art, yet his artworks still strongly reflect and effectively express his own personal identity of culture as a native of Chinese.
（Source: chinaculture.org）
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Covering a circumference of 400 kilometers, the Chaohu Lake is located in the middle of Anhui Province. It has a shape of a bird’s nest, hence the name Chaohu Lake(Nest Lake). The Chaohu Lake is the fifth largest freshwater lake in China, and reputed as the Oriental Geneva for its location in the Golden Triangle of Anhui.
The Chaohu Lake is famous for its landscape. The Gushan Island and the Laoshan Island, like two jewels, are embedded into the middle of the lake. The Gushan Island covers an area of 0.86 square kilometers and has entertainment places and resort villages. Touring on the island, one feels like stepping into a fairyland. Three hot springs surround the lake, namely Bantang Spring, Fragrant Spring, and Tangchi Spring. Moreover, along the lakeside are also four national forestry parks, also known as four emeralds, namely Taihu Hill, Jilong Hill, Yefu Hill, and Tianjing Hill. Besides, great attractions of the Chaohu Lake also include five water-eroded caves, namely Xianren Cave, Ziwei Cave, Wangqiao Cave, Huayang Cave, and Boshan Cave.
Many sights spread round the Chaohu Lake, such as the Ziwei Cave and the Wangqiao Cave, which are famous for uncanny workmanship of the carved figures of Buddha, and Xianren Cave, which has various enchanting stalactites. With beautiful scenery, the Chaohu Lake has become the key tourism development zone and sanatorium of Anhui Province
(Source: chinaculture.org)
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