China Cultural Chronicles March 2, 2013
- Sanya- Lollipop Beach
- 泰平有象(peace)-太平有象
- 哈尔滨
- Moyogi
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Size: 15"x 6"x.5"
This Copper Wall Sculpture is made from 3 sheets of 26g gauge copper that was carefully cut by hand to form the 3 tiers of leafy mass. Their color is a olive green and is sealed to prevent any further tarnishing. These tiers are soldered onto a 20g copper trunk that was sawed by hand and finished with a combination of a heat patina (the red) and a black patina. The trunk is mounted to a black a custom plexi-glass base that was made from 2 layers of carefully sawn plexiglass sheets that has a cavity inwhich the coppes is embedded in epoxy resin mixed with brown grout and shell pieces.
Design
The trunk and branches of this Bonsai is an informal upright style, or "Moyogi", In Japanese this term is defined as a Bonsai that incorporate visible curves, but the apex of the informal upright is always located directly above the trunk's entry into the soil line. - Forever Unforbidden
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Frozen in time, the Forbidden City is forever open to the public as a national museum in China. The former imperial palace has a unique character in the winter. Despite the choking air in Beijing, this is one of the must go places in China.
Captured with Sigma DP2s. - Picturesque! Trip planner: four-day trip to S China
Youyang county. [Photo/People's Daily Online]
Setting out from downtown Chongqing, our first two stands are Longtan town in Youyang county and Hong An Old Town, both of which are rich in tourism resources. The latter is known as the "Border Town" by famous Chinese writer Shen Congwen.
With brilliant history and culture, Chongqing has served as the economic center of the upstream Yangtze basin. People's Liberation Monument, located in the center of the city used to be the highest building in the area, but is now surrounded and dwarfed by numerous shopping centers. Besides the historical sites of the city and surrounding area such as Wuxi county, noted as a major tourism area of Chongqing.
- Annual lantern parade held in S China's village
Residents attend an annual lantern parade in Nanshaxiang Village of Shantou, south China's Guangdong Province, Feb. 28, 2013. Participants of the festivity hold lanterns bearing their family names as they proceed through the village. They believe the village's lantern parade, which has existed for centuries, could bring good harvest and fortune. [Xinhua/Xu Ming]
- Lugu Lake, where the fairies live
Located in the mountainous ranges between Yunnan and Sichuan provinces about 200 kilometers from Lijiang, Lugu Lake is like a shimmering pearl inlaid in the hills of the northwest plateau in Yunnan. Many ethnic communities, such as the Yi, Tibetan and the matriarchal Mosuo, live around the lake. The path around the lake is popular among backpacking hikers. [China.org.cn]
- Shadow of a cloud, Tibet 2012
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Landscape of Sangchu county, as its name suggests, occupies the grasslands around the upper reaches of the Sang chu river The county capital is located at Labrang. The largest monastery in Amdo "Labrang Tashikyil Gompa". The winter here is severe, with temperatures falling to -20 , but in the short spring season the hillsides bloom, and summer is very pleasant despite the rain. Autumn is cool and clear.
Area: 8.562 sq km.
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