China Cultural Chronicles January 17, 2013
- Afire water...!
- Harmonized!
- Meteoritic spherules decorated on an ancient Chinese stone disk ( 璧read as: Be ) 3-1
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The tinny little spherules might have been meteoritic spherules. They can attract magnet. Ancient Chinese people might have collected them at the site of meteor fall and had them pasted on this stone "Bi" for the purpose of worshipping heavenly gods.
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- Visit science experience hall for free in Heilongjiang Museum
A working staff helps a girl measure her height at the science experience hall for youths in the Heilongjiang Museum in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Jan. 15, 2013. As winter holiday begins in Harbin, children can visit the hall for free and take part in scientific lectures held by the museum. [Xinhua/Wang Song]
- Snake-like lanterns lit up in Singapore
- Lamb dressed as mutton by the bridge
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下载安装Flash播放器Kaorou Ji is next to Shichahai Lake's much-storied Yinding Bridge. Provided to China Daily
If a restaurant has more than 100 years of history, it must have done something right.
Kaorou Ji, also known as Ji's Grilled Lamb Restaurant, is near Shichahai Lake's famed Yinding Bridge and dates back to 1848, when the lake had a pier that connected to Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.
The restaurant's founder was a Beijing Muslim named Ji Decai. He owned one of many grilled lamb stands alongside Shichahai Lake. His lamb was so good that his grandson was able to purchase a building and establish a restaurant, in 1927.
Lu Jianwei, the manager of Kaorou Ji, says the restaurant has been in the same place since then and on the third floor a room replicates the look of an old grill stand 100 years ago - a circular stove covered with an iron plate in the middle of a round table, with benches on four sides.
Customers put food on the bench and use a pair of 80 cm long chopsticks to stir and grill slices of lamb on the iron grill, heated with peach or apple wood.
The grilled lamb slices are first dipped in sauce before being put on the grill. When they are ready they are stirred in a mixture of shallots and coriander.
A chef shows customers how to grill, after which they are on their own. There are eight kinds of prepared grilled lamb: rare, well done, crispy, slightly burnt, sweet, salty, spicy, or with an egg in the center.
Although an introduction at the restaurant says the first written record of grilled lamb was in the Northern Wei Dynasty (AD 386-534), manager Lu says the tradition of eating lamb in Beijing began with the establishment of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).
Manchu people, traditionally from Inner Mongolia, loved to eat grilled beef and lamb; while lamb figures a lot in the diet of Beijing's Muslim population, which poured into Beijing at the end of the Qing Dynasty.
The restaurant has just one room where people can eat around an old grill, but it comes with a view of the nearby hutong, Bell Tower and Drum Tower.
A connecting room offers more options for hearty eating. These include popular Muslim lamb dishes such as tasimi, sweet flavored fried lamb slices, sour tasting fried lamb with egg and bamboo shoot, and mashed green bean curd fried with diced lamb.
While the old way of lamb eating is more "country style", the restaurant also offers a more refined grilled lamb with coriander, served in a beautiful cloisonne pot heated from below.
A helping of lamb good for four people costs 92 yuan ($15), 168, or 198 yuan depending on the quality of the lamb.
Lu says when it snowed, Qing Dynasty emperors would have their houses warmed and eat grilled lamb. That is now all available at Kaorou Ji, plus a good view of the lake.
The restaurant's lamb grilling technique was recognized as a national level intangible cultural heritage in 2008.
- Rongpo Gonchen, Tibet 2012
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Rongpo Gonchen, the principal monastery of Rongpo Gyakhar (Rongwo ,Tongren), lies in the southern part of town. The original buildings were constructed in 1301 and developed by the Sakyapa master Samten Rinchen, whose grandfather had been an emissary of Drogon Chogyel Phakpa. Later it was reconstituted as a Gelukpa monastery by Shar Kalden Gyatso (1607-1677). The complex currently has nine temples and around 400 monks;headed by the important incarnate lamas of Rongpo. The pricipal tulku, the Eighth Rongpo Kyabgon, is now in his early 20s. The previous incumbent passed away in 1978. There are 35 branch monasteries, most of them in Repkong county, and these are often associated with the other lamas affiliated to the mother monastery: Alak Re Yerchung, Alak Kutso, Alak Rongwo, Aalak Tson-de, and so on. The main north-south road runs betweenthe monastery and a small cliff below which is the old village, complete with Chinese temple and mosque, on the banks of the river Gu-chu. At its high point Rongpo Gonchen had four major colleges, including a meditation hermitage called Drubdra Nechok Tashikyil. The others were the dialectical college known as Dratsang Tosam Namgyeling, which was founded by Shar Kalden Gyatso in 1630; the tantric college known as Gyudra Sangchen Chokyi Bangzo, which was founded by the Second Shartsang Ngawang Trinle Gyatso (1678-1739); and the Kalacakra college known as Dudra Sangak Dargyeling, which was founded in 1773 by the Third Shartsang Gendun Trinle Rabgye (1740-1794).
www.footprinttravelguides.com/c/2848/tibet/&Action=pr... - Rongpo Gonchen, Tibet 2012
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Rongpo Gonchen, the principal monastery of Rongpo Gyakhar (Rongwo ,Tongren), lies in the southern part of town. The original buildings were constructed in 1301 and developed by the Sakyapa master Samten Rinchen, whose grandfather had been an emissary of Drogon Chogyel Phakpa. Later it was reconstituted as a Gelukpa monastery by Shar Kalden Gyatso (1607-1677). The complex currently has nine temples and around 400 monks;headed by the important incarnate lamas of Rongpo. The pricipal tulku, the Eighth Rongpo Kyabgon, is now in his early 20s. The previous incumbent passed away in 1978. There are 35 branch monasteries, most of them in Repkong county, and these are often associated with the other lamas affiliated to the mother monastery: Alak Re Yerchung, Alak Kutso, Alak Rongwo, Aalak Tson-de, and so on. The main north-south road runs betweenthe monastery and a small cliff below which is the old village, complete with Chinese temple and mosque, on the banks of the river Gu-chu. At its high point Rongpo Gonchen had four major colleges, including a meditation hermitage called Drubdra Nechok Tashikyil. The others were the dialectical college known as Dratsang Tosam Namgyeling, which was founded by Shar Kalden Gyatso in 1630; the tantric college known as Gyudra Sangchen Chokyi Bangzo, which was founded by the Second Shartsang Ngawang Trinle Gyatso (1678-1739); and the Kalacakra college known as Dudra Sangak Dargyeling, which was founded in 1773 by the Third Shartsang Gendun Trinle Rabgye (1740-1794).
www.footprinttravelguides.com/c/2848/tibet/&Action=pr... - Rongpo Gonchen, Tibet 2012
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Rongpo Gonchen, the principal monastery of Rongpo Gyakhar (Rongwo ,Tongren), lies in the southern part of town. The original buildings were constructed in 1301 and developed by the Sakyapa master Samten Rinchen, whose grandfather had been an emissary of Drogon Chogyel Phakpa. Later it was reconstituted as a Gelukpa monastery by Shar Kalden Gyatso (1607-1677). The complex currently has nine temples and around 400 monks;headed by the important incarnate lamas of Rongpo. The pricipal tulku, the Eighth Rongpo Kyabgon, is now in his early 20s. The previous incumbent passed away in 1978. There are 35 branch monasteries, most of them in Repkong county, and these are often associated with the other lamas affiliated to the mother monastery: Alak Re Yerchung, Alak Kutso, Alak Rongwo, Aalak Tson-de, and so on. The main north-south road runs betweenthe monastery and a small cliff below which is the old village, complete with Chinese temple and mosque, on the banks of the river Gu-chu. At its high point Rongpo Gonchen had four major colleges, including a meditation hermitage called Drubdra Nechok Tashikyil. The others were the dialectical college known as Dratsang Tosam Namgyeling, which was founded by Shar Kalden Gyatso in 1630; the tantric college known as Gyudra Sangchen Chokyi Bangzo, which was founded by the Second Shartsang Ngawang Trinle Gyatso (1678-1739); and the Kalacakra college known as Dudra Sangak Dargyeling, which was founded in 1773 by the Third Shartsang Gendun Trinle Rabgye (1740-1794).
www.footprinttravelguides.com/c/2848/tibet/&Action=pr... - 大紅袍雞血石 母子牛紐 昌化石 老雞血石 Old Chicken Blood Stone carving
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昌化大紅袍 雞血石 因為近年人工合成造假染色等等因素，加上精品外流，國內識者不多。綜合各家說法，重量要對且均勻，才不會是合成或混合甚至加金屬內心等原料，也要溫度對，散熱快，經得起火焰燒，這件都通過了。原藏家對石雕牛情有獨鍾，同時釋出 壽山石及玉雕牛等。此件作品原創性強，具明代風格。印文忠孝軍為金朝末年各族勇士聯合對抗蒙古軍的故事。是否有特殊意義，只有想像了。
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