蚕[cán]
国标码:B2CF 部首:虫 笔画:10 笔顺:1134251214
silkworm
例句与用法：
- 蚕茧是由昆虫制造的一种由丝组成的外包层。
A cocoon is a kind of silk covering made by an insect.
- 这些蚕的吐丝量很大。
The silkworms are producing well.
(Source: dict.cn)
Archive for March 12th, 2010
Beijing Olympic – Mascagni’s Concert of A Classic Opera Rustic Chivalry
Friday, March 12th, 2010Presenter: China National Opera House
Tenor: Wang Feng
Soprano: Liu Hongling
Venue: National Centre for the Performing Arts-Concert Hall
Dates: March 13, 2009 19:30
Price: VIP 500 400 300 200 100 RMB
Programme Introduction
Rustic Chivalry is a one-act opera by Pietro Mascagni, who recomposed it from a short story by Giovanni Verga. It was first successfully performed in 1890 at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Italy. The story of Rustic Chivalry happens in the village of Sicily. Turiddu, a young soldier, falls in love first with a village girl Santuzza, whom he deserts later and has an affair with Lola, wife of Alfio, a village teamster. Out of jealousy, Santuzza discloses Lola’s disloyalty to Alfio. Later, Turiddu dies of the duel with Alfio. The story of the one-act opera is short with concise plots, coordinative music and lyric. Despite the brief music of the play, the personality and image of each character in the opera are vividly portrayed along with well demonstrating their rich and complicated emotional and inner worlds. The opera consists of 13 parts:
1. Prelude and Sicilian Folk Songs
2. Chorus of the Villagers
3. Scene of Santuzza and Lucia
4. Song of the Village Teamster
5. Scene of a Tavern and Easter Hymn
6. Santuzza’s Romanza, “Mum, Now You Shall Know”
7. Scene of Santuzza and Turiddu
8. The Love of Lola
9. The Duo of Turiddu and Santuzza
10. Duo: Alfio and Santuzza
11. Intermezzo
12. A Drinking Song
13. Finale
Yu Feng
Not only a famous conductor but also the artistic director of China National Opera House, Yu Feng is the professor of Central Conservatory of Music, Chair of the Conducting Department, Artistic Director of Shenzhen Orchestra, and Vice President and Secretary General of China Conducting Association. Graduated from the Conducting Department of Central Conservatory of Music, Yu Feng got his Master’s degree under the supervision of Professor Xu Xin and Professor Zheng Xiaoying. In 1991, Yu Feng achieved first prize in both the National Conducting Selection Contest and the International Young Conductors’ Competition in Portugal. The local media called him as “Master of China”, “Victory of Orient” and “Talented Conductor”, etc. As a famous conductor, he is invited to collaborate with many great orchestras. In China, he has a long-term contract with China Philharmonic Orchestra and led the Orchestra to participate in such important performances as the Chinese Art Festival.
China National Opera House Symphony Orchestra
China National Opera House Symphony Orchestra is one of the most renowned art troupes in China affiliated with China National Opera House. By performing some world famous operas like La traviata, Madama Butterfly and Marco Polo, it is active on the world opera stage. In addition, the orchestra also plays the music by some prestigious musicians such as Beethoven, Debussy, and Shostakovich and has worked with brilliant artists like David Oistrakh and Luciano Pavarotti. As the winner of many awards in both national and international competitions, it maintains a high level in international artistic communications and wins a widespread fame for China National Opera House and provides continuous support for its development.
China National Opera House Chorus
Affiliated with China National Opera House, China National Opera House Chorus, in spite of presenting the works of Palestrina and Sergei Prokofiev, it is also engaged in giving opera performances such as La traviata, Madama Butterfly and The Tales of Hoffmann, as well as Chinese operas Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang and Heroine Liu Hulan, which have won the Chorus high acclaim.
(Source: ebeijing.gov.cn)
Cir – Lesson 625
Friday, March 12th, 2010XI’NING, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) — Yang Xubing, 29, a middle school maths teacher, dressed in his best suit, receives an award for China’s top 10 bloggers on education at a five-star hotel in Beijing.
“This is one of my best moments,” Yang says. His blogger articles have reached millions of Chinese, but, ironically, not his own students.
“The Internet cafes in town, from which minors are banned by law, are my students’ only access to the Internet. But only undisciplined boys go there to play online games.”
His school lies in poverty-stricken Baokang county, central Hubei Province.
The rural countryside is home to 57 percent of China’s population, but has only 12 percent of its Internet users, according to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC).
Many families have just bought their first TV sets, and haven’t yet considered a computer and broadband, Yang says.
Yang ensures that his students watch the China Central Television (CCTV) main news bulletin at 7 p.m. everyday, which he says is “the only way to keep the class in pace with the world.”
Ping’an County, in western Qinghai Province, has a population of 120,000, of whom only 4,145 are Internet users, according the county’s publicity department.
“China has been investing heavily in education in rural areas and built computer rooms for some key township primary schools. But very few computers are really linked to the Internet,” says He Jinbang, director of the office of the county education bureau.
“Less than 1 percent of students have computers at home,” says Qi Yingchang, principal of Shagou Township Hui Ethnic Primary School, the only primary school equipped with a computer room in Ping’an County.
“The computer room was set up in 2005 in a distance education project with 30 computers sharing 1-megabite bandwidth,” Qi says. In China, urban families usually have more than 10-megabite bandwidth at home.
“This is the best we have here. At least the teachers can get online to gather information to prepare their classes.”
We give computer lessons to third graders and above, but only on very basic knowledge and practices because of the limited Internet access, says Li Xia who teaches computer class in the school.
“The Internet is a good way for children in rural areas to connect with the outside world,” says Yang Qishan, head of teaching of Beizhuang Mingde Primary School in Wushi Town, in Qinghai’s Tu Autonomous County of Huzhu.
Yang Qishan’s school was also given a computer room in the national distance education project. Although the computers are not linked to the Internet, the third graders can have one computer class a week.
“The Internet can help the children explore and understand by themselves things that they’ve never seen, things that are almost impossible to teach in traditional classes,” Yang Qishan says.
Yang Zhanxia, 16, is about to attend high school, but she has never surfed the Internet.
“Some of my classmates have got online before. They say it’s very interesting,” Yang Zhanxia says.
“Those who had surfed the Internet know more and talk more,” Yang Zhanxia says. “I don’t understand many of the things they talk about.”
Ma Xiang, 15, is lucky to get online at a relative’s home.
“I chat, read news and play online games on the Internet. Once, I even did maths exercises online,” Ma says. “I really want to have a computer at home.”
“I heard about the Internet on TV,” says Xiong Haiyue, a fifth grader at the school.
Asked what’s the Internet for, she lowers her voice: “It makes people bad.”
Hu Qiheng, president of the Internet Society of China, predicted that the number of Internet users in rural areas will grow more rapid than in urban areas in the years to come. “Internet will see its next stage of rapid development in rural China, combining the bounty resources and huge market there.”
“I hope Internet can contribute more to promoting the development of rural areas and narrowing the yawning wealth gap,” Hu said.
(Source: xinhuanet.com)
