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Research reveals clues to jade mystery
2024-01-16
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A jade turtle from the Lingjiatan site is on show at the Palace Museum in Beijing on Feb 2, 2022.Recent archaeological research has busted a myth about unique pieces of jade that are among the most enigmatic artifacts of the Hongshan culture.These ancient treasures, made of local greenish neph...
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'A snake wanting to swallow an elephant' can never be content
2023-11-03
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Chinese people usually use two common idioms to describe a man’s insatiable desires.One of them isrenxin buzu shetunxiang, or literally, “a man’s heart is never content, just like a snake wanting to swallow an elephant.”人心不足蛇吞象 rén xīn bù zú shé tūn xiàngThere is abundant fol...
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Misfortune may be a blessing in disguise. Who's to say?
2023-10-27
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Around 400 BC, Lao Tzu, a top philosopher of ancient China, said in “Tao Te Ching:” “Good fortune has its roots in disaster, and disaster lurks in good fortune. Who knows how to separate the two since there is no clear dividing line between them.”Lao Tzu’s concept of luck and fortune probably c...
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Lighting lamps and double standards, three fires and cracking the whip
2023-10-20
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There are more than a dozen popular Chinese proverbs involving the word "fire," and interestingly, two of them link fires with officials.One of the proverbs sayszhixu zhouguan fanghuo, buxu baixing diandeng, or literally "only allow the prefectural official to set fires, but don...
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Golden 'God of Wealth' gets customers
2023-09-28
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A shopping guide dresses up as the golden God of Wealth to attract customers on the Wangfujing business street in Beijing in late November....
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Cantonese Opera film examines dynasty intrigue
2023-08-30
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A scene inPrince Rui and Concubine Zhuang.[Photo provided to China Daily]An ambitious and powerful regent of the last feudal dynasty, Dorgon has once again become the inspiration for artistic works, with his relationship with Bumbutai, a concubine of his deceased brother, being retold in...
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Brain Garden exhibition shows roots of creativity
2023-07-18
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An exhibition held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, presents a captivating showcase of more than 3,000 works created by 2,500 fresh graduates from the China Academy of Art. CHINA DAILYYouth and the future are key themes in celebration of talent, Li Yingxue reports.The garden represents a treasured co...
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The Maiden Who Loved A Fish
2023-07-11
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Therewas once among the Marshpees, a small tribe who have their hunting-grounds on the shores of the Great Lake, near the Cape of Storms, a woman whose name was Awashanks. She was rather silly and very idle. For days together she would sit doing nothing. Then she was so ugly and ill-shaped tha...
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Pandora’s Box
2023-07-06
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Long,long ago, when this old world was in its tender infancy, there was a child, named Epimetheus, who never had either father or mother; and, that he might not be lonely, another child, fatherless and motherless like himself, was sent from a far country to live with him, and be his playfellow...
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