Gansu

Dun Huang is a city in the Gansu Province of western China, and was one of the key cities on the “Silk Road”, the main trade route between China and the rest of Asia and Europe. Dun Huang is famous for many things, including its caves, which are a famous example of Buddhist art. Silk Road style dance, also known as “Dun Huang Dance”, was inspired by the art inside of those famous caves. The origin of Ballet dance can be traced to the 15th century Italian Renaissance courts, and later developed…

miles long (Waldron). The Great Wall is no doubt the largest manmade creation in the world. According to Waldron, the wall passes 156 countries in ten cities or provinces including Liaoning, Hebei, Tianjin, Beijing, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Gansu and Qinghai. The wall contains 723 beacon towers, 7,062 lookout towers, 3,357 wall platforms and 1,026 other ruins…

My style model is in the genre of travel writing. The overall text is a combination of short sentences which are linked together with various cohesive techniques. The text is an individual's journey, in present tense, through the Beijing desert and the events which happen during the exploration. I have reflected this in “Burnt Happiness” by recalling about my travels through Madeira and the emotions that occur from the rich to poor side of the Island. My writing is similar to Ma Jian in many…

is trustable that the number of tourists can increase after constructing the high-speed rail. For example, not only the citizens who live near Hong Kong, including Guangzhou and Guangxi citizens, but also those who live far away, such as Xinjiang, Gansu, Inner Mongolia and even Tibet citizens can tour in Hong Kong because it can build a close transportation system with less accessible regions. It leads to growing the sources of…

Turkana Boy and Lucy: “Lucy” is the name of a australopith skeleton that dates between 3.9- 3.0 million years ago. The skeleton was discovered in Ethiopia by Donald Johanson in 1974 and Lucy’s skeleton revealed that australopiths were good bipedalists sparking a search for more evidence on the origins of humans. Turkana Boy had a similar impact as the most complete early human skeleton ever found. His skeleton was found in Kenya by Kamoya Kimeu in 1984. Monsoons: For india, monsoons are vital as…

China’s ethnic composition is much homogeneous with 91.9% of population being Han peoples, other ethnicities are Hui, Mongols, Zhuang, Miao, Tibetans and Uyghurs. Some ethnic groups are more distinguishable due to physical appearances and relatively low intermarriage rates. They have intermarried with Han Chinese, and have similar appearances. They are less distinguishable from Han people, especially a growing number of ethnic minorities are fluent at a native level in Mandarin Chinese. In…

The Warring States lasted from 481 to 221 BC. These states became a part of the Zhao dynasty within the Yellow River Valley. In 223-221 BC that the forces of the of Qin under Qin Shi-Huangdi won over the states created the Qin Empire which become know as modern day China which encompassed the former seven warring states and the northern part of Korea. It was at this point also that the nation-state of China was born. The Chinese cultural core consists of two key component parts: the…

For many decades, the Giant Panda taxonomic classification was being debated since the animal shared both characteristics with bears and raccoons. However, molecular studies suggest that Giant Pandas belong in the bear family. The Giant Panda belongs in the Urisdae, although they have a different early history from the main Ursine stock. The closets relative that the Giant Panda has in the family is the Spectacled Bear of South America. Although, the Red Panda has yet to be classified in which…

The Mid-autumn Festival is an important holiday for Chinese people and I would like to discuss the meal on the Mid-autumn Festival in my family. The festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese lunar calendar. Traditionally, the meal is used to celebrate harvest because many crops, such as corn, sweet potatoes, rice, beans, and peanut, are harvested in autumn. Today, more and more people do not plant crops and the meal is gradually becoming a get-together meal for…

Coming across an invention that meets three criteria to be truly innovative which are creative, cheap, and efficient is extremely rare. It is an engineering tragedy to see a feat such as this go unnoticed or overlooked and underutilized throughout the course of history. Until just recently, in a dire attempt to cease greenhouse gas emissions, the wind turbine is being reinvented and reestablished as a major competitor to most forms of fuels we use today. With its low cost, small size, and high…