Maja Tvrdy knew her Olympic journey wouldn't end up with a medal, but she looked forward to bringing home something really unique.
The 24-year-old Slovenian badminton player, after crashing out of the second-round singles of a sport with overwhelming Asian dominance on Aug. 10, found what she was looking for in a corner of the Athletes' Village, named the "Chinese Learning Area."
The best-known piece of Suona (suǒ nà 唢呐) is One Hundred Birds Serenade the Phoenix (bǎi niǎo cháo fèng 百鸟朝凤), which is especially popular in Shandong (shān dōng shěng 山东省), Anhui (ān huī shěng 安徽省), Henan (hé nán shěng 河南省) and Hebei (hé běi shěng 河北省) provinces. After a spirited introduction, the orchestra settles down to a fixed accompaniment mode. With this background, the Suona section plays a vigorous, piping tune in imitation of the chirping of birds in flight. The closeness of the mimicry expresses the people's love for nature and the intense scrutiny of ordinary life by folk artists, as well as their virtuosity in performance. Such beautiful and auspicious tunes help to account for the popularity of this instrument.
The neighbourhood committee (jū wěi hùi 居委会) is a grassroot mass organization in China. In Chinese residential areas both in cities and towns, there are neighbourhood committees.
With the help of local governments, the neighbourhood committees take care of almost every aspect of the residents'life such as birth control, security and hygiene.And the neighbourhood
Chinese rock (yáo gǔn 摇滚) is often and inaccurately described as a style of music which combines Chinese musical instruments with techniques of Western-style rock and roll. But the essential nature of rock and roll music is that of attitude and lifestyle, which sees no borders or ethnic identity; therefore, "Chinese rock music" is in simplest terms, Chinese music with modern orchestration
Zhao Benshan 赵本山 (Zhào Běnshān) born in 1958 is a Chinese skit and sitcom actor, and recently turned director and producer of “farmer TV series.” Recently, he unexpectedly joined China Football (Soccer) League’s Liaoning Club as its chairman, unveiling a new chapter of his life.
In the 1960s, what exerted the greatest impact on Chinese marriage standard was the extreme leftism (zuǒ qīng 左倾) arising in the political movement. From 1961, family background became a very important factor to decide whether one could be employed by enterprises or government offices, recruited to serve in the army, admitted into a high school or college, or promoted to a higher position. It went to such an extreme that family background and political identity ridiculously became what had to be taken into account before young people loved someone.