Fourth, fifth.... day in Peking

Chang Cheng

Third day in Peking

Peking Opera

Second day in Peking

First day in Peking

Ant at the Airport

AABBBIIII VEGAS!

Do You Speak Chinglish?

No? Never mind...Me either....but I will....till then....SMILE! :D

Chinas Außenpolitik

Cloisonné

Beijing is the cradle of cloisonne technique. Cloisonné is an ancient technique for decorating metalwork objects.  
(Compartments: cloisons in French)

When doing the cloisonne, firstly, use the red coppery to make the body, secondly, stick the pattern on the bronze body by oblate and thin brass wires, then fill the inlay pattern by enamel glaze material in different colors, the last procedure is the firing over and over, polishing and gilding.

 

Short glimpse in Chinese history

Today I have studied Chinese History, which is very interesting... The most impressing fact for me was that the Chinese were centuries ahead of us:

For example the Chinese industrial revolution started in the 11th century whereas in Europe it started in the 18th. Furthermore the first Chinese encyclopaedia appeared when Jesus was in his twenties. Diderot and d’Alembert needed thousandsevenhundred years to catch up.

Well let’s consider the most beautiful facts of Chinese History in a nutshell:

 

500                                    First porcelain
690-705                              Wu Zetian first empress (Tang-Dynasty)
705                                    Li Bai Poet was born
750                                    Tang-Silver
1101-1125                          Huizong emperor 
1154                                  First Paper money
1250                                  A Mongol Chevalier 
1400                                  Jade, Porcelain, Silk,Tea (Ming-Dynasty)

(that’s not the end of course but I’d like to end with the Ming Dynasty – my favourite dynasty)

Dynasty-Overview

There are a lot more actually but  these ones you gonna remember for sure...

Han                                      206 BC – 220 AC

Tang                                     618      -907

Song                                     960      -1279

Yuan                                     1279    -1368 

(beginning with the lead of Dschingis Khan’s grandson Kublai)

MING                                    1368     -1644

Qing                                     1644     -1911

What happened to the next dynasty? I would have named it Meihua Dynasty by the way. Well in the Meihua Dynasty … I rather not call it Meihua dynasty, because this time was not as Meihua as it should have be…

Wilted Empire                            -west colonization

                                                -Taiping Revolt

                                                -Opiumwars (1840-42) / (1856-60)

                                                -Last emperor child Pu Yi (-1912)

                                                -Warlords

…. have to learn French now ( oral graduation exam on Wednesday) haha, gonna continue after that….

MEIHUA 梅花