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The Stage and Props of Peking Opera

In an early period, Peking Opera was staged on an interesting stage. The front of the stage extends forward, with three sides facing the audience. The other side is the backstage. An embroidered curtain hangs across the backstage, and on…

Liaoning Provincial Museum

Address: Liaoning Province, Shenyang City, Heping District, Shiwei Road,#26 The Liaoning Provincial Museum is located in Heping District of Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. The area of the Museum grounds and buildings totals 110,000 square meters. The heart of the Museum…

Nanjing Museum

Address: Jiangsu Province, Nanjing City, Zhongshan East Road, #321 The Nanjing Museum is located inside the Zhongshan Gate of Nanjing City. Its predecessor was known as the Central Museum Preparatory Location. The complex of buildings represents an amalgamation of east…

Lu Xun (Zhou Shuren)

Translation: “For all of ignorant people of a nation, even if their body is somehow strong, somehow grand, even then they can only make meaningless displays [of this “strength”]. [As for] the multitude of constituents and observers, however many may…

The Book of Poetry

The Book ot Poetry is the first anthology of Chinese poems. It compiled 305 The-Book-of-Poetry poems written over a period of 500 years spanning from the beginning of Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period. The Book of…