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On 6 November 2009 Obama gave a speech in Shanghai During the speech, TV and newspaper cameras showed a girl wearing a black dress sitting close behind his lecturn an earlier photo shows that before the talk started she wore a red jacket, under which was the black dress whose collars protruded Not a big deal right? [...]

Nuo 傩 was an ancient ceremony held in the palace on New Year Eve to expel demons from the royal premises.  A procession led by a stout man with military bearings wearing a bear skin on his back and a four-eyed mask on his face, would tour through the palace chanting rhymes to persuade evil [...]

The economic opening up of China also provided room for a certain level of artistic freedom, and authors have gradually taken advantage of it; one early genus was recounting of cultural revolution experiences e.g. blog.bcchinese.net/bcblog/archive/2004/01/18/212.aspx www.boxun.com/hero/zhangyihe which however generated only a limited amount of interest among today’s readers, busily occupied by ecoomic and career issues; a second [...]

A vertical eye on the forehead is the familiar characteristic of the Hindu god Siva, which has a Chinese version Yang Jian 杨戬, also known as Second Son God 二郎神，presumably because he is the younger brother of some more important divine. Like Siva, Yang Kan is skilled in wielding his weapon  Yang Jian appears to [...]

The composite Fuxi Nuwa diagram, with one holding the compass and other the square, symbolizing round-heaven-square earth, was common in the Han dynasty, leaving numerous wall paintings and brick carvings for later discovery – a small number of silk paintings survived decay; in Xinjiang, however, the dry weather helped a large number of Tang era silk [...]

Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (狄仁杰之通天帝国), a new film by famous Hong Kong director Tsui Hark (徐克) featuring the Tang Dynasty legendary detective Dee Renjie will become another hit on the Chinese film market. Chen Chusheng (陈楚生), winner of 2007 Superboy Contest, interpreted its promotional songs with quite a touching voice. Drumbeats and ballad-style melody are very catching.

Cui Yongyuan (崔永元), one of China’s (few) most “nostalgic and upright” TV gurus, shot a 32-episode documentary named “My WWII” after interviewing 3500 ordinary people in 8 years, but found it hard to sell.

Archaeologists have found a small number of musical instruments from the Neolithic Hongshan era a clarinet or recorder made from an animal leg bone; it can actually be played we have also seen bone/jade flutes for comparison, some bone flutes of roughly the same antiquity from Henan  there was even a jade whistle, whose polish still looks [...]