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The City is the imperial palace in Beijing whose construction was ordered by Yongle, the third Ming emperor, and conducted between 1407 and 1420. This palace, on a scale unmatched - it covers an area of 720,000 sq ft - is part of the palace oldest and best preserved in China. The most common name is "Forbidden City", which comes from the fact that access was forbidden to the people at the time of the great Chinese emperors. As the residence of the latter, it became a symbol of prohibition.

Since the beginning of the fifteenth century, the heart of Beijing is around the Forbidden City, also known as the Imperial Palace of Ming and desQing. It is the largest architectural complex in China: a city within the city. It covers 720,000 square meters and has 9999 rooms and 50 acres of gardens. If tradition is limited to 9999 pieces, because only their gods had the right to build a palace with 10 000 pieces. The number 10 000 symbolically represents "a countable infinity" in China. Thus, men have tried to approach as close as possible to their ideal of perfection. The construction of the Forbidden City has lasted 14 years and over a million workers have worked there. Between 1420 et1911, a total of 24 emperors have lived. It's called the Forbidden City because it was reserved for the emperor, his family and people who worked for him. Before 1924, when it was opened to the public, no one else was allowed to it approaching or even watch it.

architecture divided the Forbidden City in two parts: the outer courtyard and patio. The Outer Court, where the ruler received his ministers and chaired the major ceremonies, houses the hall of Supreme Harmony (Taihe), the hall of Harmony (Zhonghe) and the Hall of Preserving Harmony (Baohe) and the main side buildings, including the Hall of Literary Glory (Wenhua) and the Hall of Military Prowess (Wuying). The courtyard includes especially the Palace of Heavenly Purity (Qianqing), the room Union (Jiaotai) and the Palace of Earthly Tranquillity (Kunning), which are respectively surrounded by the six East Palace and Palace Six West. The courtyard served as a workroom to the emperor and the imperial family apartments and concubines. Nowadays, it became a museum that preserves the imperial treasures of ancient Chinese civilization. The Forbidden City is one of the most visited sites in China. The Forbidden City has been completely revamped. It was listed as World Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 1987. It is also the largest collection of buildings wood in the world.

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classical Chinese painting has emerged after the development of Chinese calligraphy on rice paper, it is almost entirely outcome.

The landscape painting is the kind most "noble" of classical Chinese painting, and it hatched designs micro and macro-cosmic universe in Chinese. It is not figurative art from the model, but the precipitate of the mood of the painter, who goes to work, not without having first visited the mountain depicted.

In the case of landscape painting - "mountain and water" in Chinese, the harmony of yin and yang elements, the game consistencies atmospheric, geological formations, textures rendered in black and white, are premised ownership expressionist nature very different from Western aesthetics.

The Confucian conception of the world is also reflected in paintings of landscapes or figures or manmade appear very small, situated in a cosmological complete.

Only paintings with the subject of plants, animals or humans openly introduce color into the painting, the theme of the literati in meditation or in a meeting or of the saint, are specific themes of these paintings. Some artists specialize in a particular theme: paint horses, bamboo or even shrimp.
Only later as poems or epitaphs were added directly on the paintings, especially landscapes.

During the first quarter of the century more precisely since the establishment of a republic in China in 1911 some young painters have studied the art of Western painting abroad to revitalize their culture in search of new ideas. Back in China, they have combined their newly acquired knowledge with materials and traditional Chinese techniques. From here begins the modernization of Chinese painting.

In 1949, the People's Republic of China was founded. The artists have produced works glorifying then entering a new era, the revival of the country and the future of the people. Many artists, trained at the school tradition, began to travel to enrich their art while painting scenes of everyday life. Zao Wou-Ki, very young, around the age of twenty years, while completing his studies at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Hangzhou, was attracted and influenced by Western painting and modern JOIN France.

T'ang Haywen moved to France the same year he adopted a more faithful to the spirit of tradition if not in form since he was, after a period of assimilation techniques West, return to the exclusive practice of the ink to infuse it with new form, abstract and radically modern. Discovered by the younger generations, through major retrospective in Mainland China in recent years, Zao Wou-Ki is the artist who brought from outside the modern Western abstract in Chinese art of the second half of the twentieth century. More

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The Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China is a set of Chinese military fortifications built, destroyed and rebuilt several times and many places between the fifth century BC. BC and the sixteenth century to mark and defend the northern border of China.

Popularly, it refers to as the "Great Wall" Part built during the Ming Dynasty who share Strait Shanhai on the banks of the Yalu River in the east to get to Jiayuguan in the west. The length of the wall varies according to sources. According to a 1990 report, the total length of the walls would be 6700 km. Due to its length, the Great Wall is called in Chinese "The long wall of ten thousand li, the li is a unit of length and ten thousand Chinese symbolizing infinity. This nickname, however, can be taken in its literal sense as an approximation, which 6 700 km 13 400 lbs. On average, the Great Wall is 6 to 7 m in height and 4-5 m wide.

The Great Wall is the largest architectural structure built by humans in terms of length, area and mass. Since 1987 she is listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

is ready for the Great Wall the reputation of being the largest cemetery in the world. About 10 million workers died during construction. They were not buried in the wall itself but in its immediate vicinity.

During the Cultural Revolution, Red Guards and the rebels were attacking the monuments and places of worship: more bricks of the Great Wall of China were removed to build the barns ... these damages were repaired by Following in part by the Chinese government.

July 7 2007 the wall has been designated as one of the seven new wonders of the world by a non-official and commercial (New Open World Foundation).

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Chinese New Year

The New Chinese New Year is the first day of the first month of Chinese calendar (Feb. 7, 2008 this year). This is the beginning of the spring festival that takes place over two weeks and ends with the lantern festival.

The Chinese calendar is a lunisolar calendar, the date of Chinese New Year varies from one year to another, but always falls between January 21 and February 20. This, like all beginnings of Chinese lunar months, the first day of a new moon.

The New Year is celebrated officially in China (he is entitled to seven days off) as well as in some Asian countries where the influence of Chinese culture is important, particularly in Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam .

The "transition year" occurs in the night of the last day of the twelfth month. The word for year is considered the origin of the monster Nian who had formerly prowling around villages one night a year, forcing residents to ensure packing and until his departure in the morning. The main celebrations include a Christmas Eve dishes including auspicious names, followed by a night vigil, a guarantee of longevity.
New Year's meal was often held in the homes of family elders. In areas with traditional lifestyle, because of the patrilocal custom, it is the paternal family.

red envelopes containing money are offered. Traditionally, they were distributed by the elders to children and unmarried youth, and principally the symbolic value of luck throughout the new year. During the solemn distributions by seniors, the person who will receive the envelope address their vow or "auspicious words" The most common is "congratulations, and made fortunes.

Children are allowed that evening to burst firecrackers or burning of flares, until the string of firecrackers that each home had to turn to the arrival of the first day of the year . A custom

old wants to go to bed as late as possible this evening, because that would be a guarantee of longevity, it is called up custody of the Year. " TV helps greatly to achieve this goal, but a game (mahjong for example!) Is often chosen, especially since for some it is good to try his luck during the New Year's night in some areas, games Money usually banned were exceptionally allowed during the spring festival.

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Peking Opera

Peking Opera back to the late 18th century. It is a synthesis of music, dance, art and acrobatics. Both influenced by interpretation, any premium in China. Two categories of parts coexist: one called "civilized part, focuses on singing and dialogue, the other known as" martial room, "is marked by the struggle and somersault . In addition, some pieces fall into the category of the mixture of both.

The actors speak the Beijing dialect, but a few words that are pronounced own opera. Interpretation techniques include Chang (vocals), Nian (dialogue), Zuo (game) and Da (martial art).

The art of game consists of choreographed movements of body and hand gestures. As a martial art, it consists essentially of the somersault and acrobatics.

The music of Peking opera is the style sheet and hollow. " The rhythm of the melody is graceful and pleasing to the ear. The melody, divided into "Xipi" and "Erhuang" includes several tempos: the director, the original, slow, fast and discontinuous. The game takes place in accompaniment of stringed instruments, percussion and wind instruments, such as Jinghu (Chinese violin two strings with a high register), Yueqin (moon-shaped guitar), sanxian (three-stringed instrument plucked), suona (wind instrument like the oboe), horn, flute, drum, cymbal and large and small gongs.

The traditional make-up, near the mask, and elaborate costumes allow an informed public to identify the characters without hesitation.

The repertoire of Beijing Opera includes literary works, whose song is the main interest, and war epics, prevail in which dance and acrobatics. Comedies, tragedies, jokes or satires, all derive their argument Buddhist and Taoist legends, folk tales and classic literature.

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