The Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination and Fudan University will organize a “Shanghai World Expo Music Festival” in July involving more than 30 prestigious universities and colleges from across the world, officials said Sunday.
The participating universities and colleges include big names such as Yale University, Harvard University, Oxford University, Imperial College, Peking University and Vienna University.
The second day we went to Tianyi Pavilion Museum. We went there by bus and it took us about twenty minutes. Tianyi Pavilion Museum is not only the most ancient private library in China, but also the most ancient one that is still existing in Asia. Thousands of valuable books have been preserved in Tianyi Pavilion Museum. The pattern is like the garden of Suzhou. It was so quiet in it. There is an exhibition of the mah-jongg. It shows the history of the mah-jongg. We could see some kinds of mah-jongg. Some are made in China, some are made in Japan and some are made in USA. All of those are so precious. We were surprised.
From May 10 to May 25, 2010, the 9th China Art Festival will commence in Guangzhou of South China’s Guangdong Province.
There will be more than 100 art shows and 23 major exhibitions presented during the art festival. Art shows will be staged in a total of 29 venues in Guangdong Province, including cities of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Foshan and Zhongshan. The construction of Guangzhou Opera House (designed by Pritzker-Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid) has also been completed.
A number of fine overseas shows will also be staged, including Italian opera Turandot, and shows from Poland, Germany and South Korea. Art and cultural exhibitions will showcase a number of fine art masterpieces in history as well as in recent years.
In order to save energy and avoid waste, Guangdong Provincial Tourism Bureau recently issued a notice, which stipulates that, starting April 1, 2010, star-rating hotels in Guangdong stop sending free disposable toiletries to guest rooms, and toiletries are only supplied upon request by guests.
The disposable toiletries involved in this policy include toothbrush, toothpaste, slippers, combs, shampoo, body wash, soap and shower cap.
World Expo 2010 Shanghai will be held in 31 days. Everyone is expecting it. A lot of Expo Souvenirs have come onto the market. I think the admission is the thing people pay close attention to. There are several kinds of admission. Some special ones are sold out. It’s so pity. Because there are many people want to go to expo site.
The day before yesterday I saw the admissions that were bought by my colleague Ruby for her clients. She was planning to post them. So I took a picture immediately as a remembrance. The size of the admission is like the name card and it has a cover. There is some information on the cover such as map and the price of all kinds of admissions.
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The Lantern Festival (also called Yuan Xiao Festival) is on the 15th day of the first Chinese lunar month. According to the custom, people start to prepare for the celebration of Lantern Festival to be held on the 14th day of the first Chinese lunar month. Two of the most important things are lanterns and sweet dumplings (called Yuanxiao in Chinese).
“Yuan” literally means first, while “Xiao” refers to night. The Lantern Festival is the first time when we see the full moon in the lunar year. It is traditional festival for family reunion. And the lanterns in various sizes are hung in the trees or somewhere. Besides, the lanterns owners write riddles on a piece of paper and post them on the lanterns in ancient time. If someone knows the solution to riddles, they can pull the paper out and go to the owners to check the answer. If they are right, they can get some small gifts.
According to Kyodo News, Air China will terminate the Chongqing to Central Japan International Airport (Centrair) route from March 28, 2010, and it will launch a new route from Chengdu to Centrair on the same day.
This new route will be operated daily with a stopover in Shanghai; it is expected to attract more business travelers and tourists.
Following last year’s total solar eclipse on July 22, 2009, the longest this century, the longest annular solar eclipse this millennia will be witnessed in China on January 15. The maximum magnitude annular eclipse (95%) will be visible in Yunnan, Sichuan, Chongqing, Hubei, Henan and Shandong during a period from about 16:40 to 17:05 local time, while other regions will be able to witness a lesser eclipse, lasting from about 15:00 to 18:00 local time.
According to astronomers, the annular solar eclipse is calculated to be the longest one in the next one thousand years, as an eclipse lasting longer than this one won’t occur until 3043. Astronomers said in a statement that the maximum duration for the annular solar eclipse will be 11 minutes and 8 seconds, beginning at 07:06:33 UT over the Indian Ocean.
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