The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides a year into 24 solar terms. The Spring Equinox(春分), as the fourth term of the year starts on March 20
The Spring Equinox signals the equal
Standing an egg upright is a popular game across the country during the Spring Equinox. It is an old custom that
The Spring Equinox is
The approaching of a new year is always exciting. The Little New Year,
Worshiping Kitchen God is the most important activity in
Other activities during the festival
When you set foot in Nanhan village, Hebei Province, you will be amazed at what you see. An ancient stone gate first greets your eyes
Nanhan has a long history of producing
The village has stepped up support for local craftsmen and carried out education for villagers, so more people can commit
The world’s biggest kite, shaped like a dragon and
The highlight of this year’s edition was the “Chinese Giant Dragon”, four meters in
According to Zhang, the giant dragon kite, using traditional Chinese techniques, “
This year’s festival features a record 1,628 kites in
5 . Sometimes it’s hard to let go. For many British people, that can apply to institutions and objects that represent their country’s past-age-old castles, splendid homes… and red phone boxes.
Beaten first by the march of technology and lately by the terrible weather in junkyards (废品场), the phone boxes representative of an age are now making something of a comeback. Adapted in imaginative ways, many have reappeared on city streets and village greens housing tiny cafes, cellphone repair shops or even defibrillator machines (除颤器).
The original iron boxes with the round roofs first appeared in 1926. They were designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect of the Battersea Power Station in London. After becoming an important part of many British streets, the phone boxes began disappearing in the 1980s, with the rise of the mobile phone sending most of them away to the junkyards.
About that time, Tony Inglis’ engineering and transport company got the job to remove phone boxes from the streets and sell them out. But Inglis ended up buying hundreds of them himself, with the idea of repairing and selling them. He said that he had heard the calls to preserve the boxes and had seen how some of them were listed as historic buildings.
As Inglis and, later other businessmen, got to work, repurposed phone boxes began reappearing in cities and villages as people found new uses for them. Today, they are once again a familiar sight, playing roles that are often just as important for the community as their original purpose.
In rural areas, where ambulances can take a relatively long time to arrive, the phone boxes have taken on a lifesaving role. Local organizations can adopt them for l pound, and install defibrillators to help in emergencies.
Others also looked at the phone boxes and saw business opportunities. LoveFone, a company that advocates repairing cellphones rather than abandoning them, opened a mini workshop in a London phone box in 2016.
The tiny shops made economic sense, according to Robert Kerr, a founder of LoveFone. He said that one of the boxes generated around $13,500 in revenue a month and cost only about $400 to rent.
Inglis said phone boxes called to mind an age when things were built to last. “I like what they are to people, and I enjoy bringing things back,” he said.
1. The phone boxes are making a comeback ______.| A．to form a beautiful sight of the city |
| B．to improve telecommunications services |
| C．to remind people of a historical period |
| D．to meet the requirement of green economy |
| A．They were not well-designed. | B．They provided bad services. |
| C．They had too short a history. | D．They lost to new technologies. |
| A．their new appearance and lower prices | B．the push of the local organizations |
| C．their changed roles and functions | D．the big funding of the businessmen |
Classical Chinese poetry is traditional Chinese poetry
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Decorated with Chinese-style red lanterns, the pavilion (展馆) of translated Chinese books saw a big turnout of book lovers at the 54th edition of Cairo International Book Fair, the largest book fair in Egypt.
The pavilion
A high school student,
The Chinese pavilion participates in the fair with many rich book titles that increase every year in a very successful effort to bring the
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A Traditional Chinese Culture Week
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Shennongjia is a household name in China because it’s the home of the legendary “wild man”. Its folk tale spans the generations.
Between 1976 and 1981, the Chinese Academy of Sciences organized three large scale
Nowadays, Shennongjia’s attraction is not merely about “wild man”. Its appeal
The “wild man” legend has been passed on for generations by word-of- mouth. In 2016, the legend of "wild man" in Shennongjia
An intangible cultural heritage area in Guangzhou, the capital of south China’s Guangdong Province, opened this year, showing the life and norms of ancient Chinese people from a cultural perspective.
This is the second intangible cultural heritage block in Guangzhou.
On the opening day, a concert
