The 9th day of the 9th lunar month is the traditional Chongyang Festival, or Double Ninth Festival. It usually falls in October in the Gregorian calendar. In an ancient and mysterious book Yi Jing, or The Book of Changes, number "6" was ...
Artist Li Qing has spent a lot of time exploring mysterious sites on the Silk Road and putting the magnificent landscapes onto rice paper with ink and water. His recent show at the Art Museum of the China National Academy of Painting ...
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Geneva--This fall, the largest cushion-shaped fancy vivid blue diamond ever to appear at auction will go up on the block at Sotheby’s, with a chance of setting a new auction record. The 12.03-carat diamond, named the “Blue ...
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Aoluguya, a stage play about the life and culture of the Ewenki nationality, kicked off at the Hulun Buir Grand Theater recently. In the show, Shaman dance appeared on the stage for the first time, offering people a glimpse of the ancient ...
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Lema showcased their furniture collection at the Milan International Furniture Fair 2015, furniture and furnishing accessories designed by famous names in the international design sector, in addition to emerging designers, that underscore ...
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Barcodes look mysterious. And every now and then an urban myth grows and develops about one or other of their numbers and/or stripes. The most enduring is that barcodes hold insider information about a product’s country of origin. ...
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A mother’s “personal grudge” against China’s haze issues gave birth to the trending environmental documentary 'China's Haze: Under the Dome.’ The country’s serious air pollution became very personal for ...
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In 1939, a bronze ding which is an ancient cooking vessel with two loop handles and three or four legs, was unearthed in Anyang, Henan Province. This four-legged ding known as the Simuwu Rectangle Ding was so big and heavy that it could not ...
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The Nexus 6 may have been destined to tout a fingerprint scanner, the Android source code has revealed. ArsTechnica dig some digging through the Android Open Source Project code for the Nexus 6, and discovered a commit removing ...
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The Nexus 6 has launched in the UK, and now giffgaff has become the latest network provider to offer the Android Lollipop loving device. With the 6-inch handset having been released through O2 earlier today, December 4, giffgaff has now ...
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The Nexus 6 started landing in public hands just last month…or did it? The latest chatter on the web is that the Nexus 6 we’ve all had pushed upon us isn’t the original handset Google had hoped for. According to ...
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Are you redecorating your home -- or just looking to buy a few fun accessories? Give some careful thought to the colors you choose. According to both Western color psychology and Chinese feng shui, every color has a personality and a ...
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Walter White and Jesse Pinkman masks topped the list. Mask company Mask-arade has revealed that its two best-selling products of Q3 2014 were Breaking Bad masks. The show’s protagonist Walter White, and his former student turned ...
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In Chinese minds, the moon is associated with gentleness and brightness, expressing the beautiful yearnings of the Chinese. On the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar, the moon is full and it is time to mark the Moon Festival, ...
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Event is returning to Clapham's The Jam Tree on September 18th. Board Game Club’s fourth event is heading back behind the bookcase of Clapham's The Jam Tree in September. The fourth event will take place on September 18th, ...
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