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Monday, March 25, 2013

Horrific And Vivid Life-size Papercrafts In The Funeral Of Empress Dowager Cixi In 1908

 Those are on-site pictures of the funeral of Empress Dowager Cixi.


 Vivid papercrafts of man who were supposed to serve the Empress Dowager Cixi after her death.


 By comparison between the man and those papercrafts, you may tell the real size of them








 Do not doubt your eyes. The pavilion and the ship were paper-made. The caption at the bottom of this picture means Memorial Ceremony Held For Cixi



 Some real people in the funeral





Dalai Lama in his sedan to attend the funeral






Sunday, March 24, 2013

A Typical Day Of A Chinese Boy From A Poverty-stricken Village


Zhao Bosheng, an eight-year-old primary school pupil, is an outgoing boy and a big fan of a Chinese Kungfu cartoon Twelve Chinese Zodiac Signs. He loves it because of the dream being a Kungfu star.


Leaving school for home, he feels hungry. A normal sesame seed cake serves him well before doing his homework 


His older sister, a high-school student, always assists him on his homework.


Being impatient, he erases his already-done homework for rectification, after several times being corrected by his sister



The lead of the pencil, though just sharpened, is broken again. For fear he may cut his fingers, his mother is sharpening the pencil for him.


He is mimicing his mother's motions of sharpening a pencil


Life is hard by manufacturing honeycomb briquette.The three Children of Zhao Xiaowei, Zhao Bosheng's father, are his impetus to carry on.


Homework done, he excitedly runs to his mother to get her signature on his homework per his teacher's instruction


His mother is too busy to sign, which makes him almost cry


Children are children. No sooner does he cast grievance into oblivion than he plays with his puppy from his hometown.


To him, the tractor of his family is none other than a toy.


He, among all his siblings, is the most active one.


He admires kungfu characters in cartoons


Mother's work done, he is showing off his newly-learned kungfu gestures to her.














Friday, March 22, 2013

Hilarious Primary School Pupils' Compositions



1. A nephew of one of my friends was asked to make up a sentence with the word brand new. The sentence he made up was “ A brand new human vegetable is born.

2. A classmate of mine and I hung out together cycling. The valve core of his bike acted up.So I replaced it with mine. We circled home cheerfully.

3. Dear military soldiers crawled wriggling like greenish worms

4.At the first time we were demanded to keep diary by our teacher, a girl from my class wrote down My grandma was washing clothes. I thought she may be tired squatting. So I fetched a stool and knocked her down.

5.When I was a schoolchild, one fashionable subject of compositions was helpful people and good deeds. Stumbling on money someone lost on a road always dominated our compositions. One of us, to exaggerate his merit, wrote he tumbled upon one hundred million yuan and every sheet of them was ten yuan. The whole bunch equaled a Chinese language textbook in thickness. Our Chinese language teacher spoke out his composition.

6. Our teacher requested all our compositions consisted of more than 200 characters. A classmate wrote “ Today, my mum asked me to shop for groceries. I asked the vendor how much half kilogram was. He answered that 5 cents. I said So cheap, so cheap,so cheap .” After counting the characters, it fell short of several characters. So he added several so cheap” to the end.

7. A composition of one of my classmates read Guo Qiang ( another classmate of mine) sat on his stool, part of his underpants sticking out of his trousers. His huge bottom resembled a pumpkin in earth. Our teacher spoke out his composition acclaiming the vivid image in his composition. After class, he was beaten up by Guo Qiang

8. At a pitch dark night, tadpoles were busking in the sun.

9. Diaries: 
      The first day: I went to my mums working place today. What a fun I had today.
      The second day: I went to my mums working place yesterday. What a fun I had yesterday.
      The third day: I went to my mums working place the day before yesterday. What a fun I had the day before yesterday

10. Wild geese fly in the sky baaing; Round moon resembles a bow.

11. I went into a department store. What a dramatic improvement we have made in our lives. Look at that old peasant jogging with a refrigerator in his left hand and a TV in his right hand.

12. When I was in fifth grade, my teacher had certain demand of the amount of characters. So one of my diary read “ Today I played chess with my friend. I won the first round. He won the second round. I won the third round. ... What a funny day.

13.Our teacher asked us to write a composition being titled My Desk mate. One of my classmates wrote down “ My desk mate's hair was shiny black as if being licked by a cow. Even a fly may strain its wrist when falls on her hair.

14.My teacher, to correct our homework, often faints in our classroom! Her spirit always inspires us!

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

A Beauty's Traditional Chinese Wedding



  
At the first day of 2010, in a small mountain village, Shanxi province, with the sun shining on the Loess Plateau, a rustic marriage lured a large amount of shutterbugs within and without Shanxi province. People in Shanxi province, an ancient land and the origin of Chinese agriculture civilization, have created a splendid culture during thousands of years.




The bride was not allowed to see the stone mill and the stone roll of her family, so they were covered by red paper.

First Step. Wear the wedding makeup


The bride’s face was unhairing with a red string, which was called “open face” or “strand face”



After the process of unhairing, a boiled egg with its shell shed would be rolled on her face to make her skin more smooth and tender



Women in the village tend to hold a sheet of red paper within lips to color their lips instead of lipstick.



Second Step. Escort the bride to the groom’s home



Different villages choose different people to hold up the bride into the sedan. In this village, the bride’s big brother took the role for they believed this would make the life easier for the bride







The bride strode a  brazier and a saddle in accordance with traditional wedding custom, suggesting that their life would be booming and safe.



The groom leaded the bride around a blazing bunch of hay, which was called “prosperous hay”, three times wishing the family would also be prosperous.

Third Step. Perform the formal wedding ceremony


After entering into the groom’s home, the groom and the bride were going to perform rituals of the traditional wedding ceremony, which was called “ bai tang” or “bai tian di”. Usually, an altar is set in front of the room for the newly-wed couple, on which are memorial tablets for the sky, earth, emperor, ancestors and teacher. The bride and the groom kneel three times with their heads touching the ground three times in each kneeling. The three kneeling are to the sky and earth, the ancestors, and the parents. Then the couple kneel to each other, the groom in the west and the bride in the east.




The bride served tea to her father-in-law saying auspicious words and received  a red envelope containing money from her father-in-law. Then the bride did the same thing with her mother-in-law.

Fourth Step. Enter the room for the new couple