Worth Millions Jade Stone Show His Face in Taiyuan City

A people is in curious touching the thousand million jade stone.

On Mar.1, the 2012 China(Taiyuan) International Collection Cultural and Tea Exhibition was held in China Coal Musuem.

A crowd of people was surrounding a huge black stone when the reporter stepped in the front gate of the musuem. "What a good jade!" said the people. Learning from the organizer,the "big stone" is the biggest Taishan jade stone in China, worth of over 1 thousand million RMB. Its height in 3 metres and weight in 11.9 tons, which has over 6,000 year history and discovered 8 years ago.

Shenzhen Art Museum Introduction

Shenzhen Art Museum, located inside the scenic areas of Donghu Park, Luohu district, Shenzhen, which was surrounded by rivers and mountains. Its predecessor was Shenzhen Exhibition Centre, which was established in 1976 and it is the earliest art exhibition institute in Shenzhen. After the Shenzhen special area was set up and had been approved by the government, it was changed the name as Shenzhen Art Museum in 1987. It is occupying an area of 5,500 sqm, the build-up area was 2,800 sqm, and the exhibition area was 1,200 sqm.

During the period of 30 years establishing, it is depending its advantages in geography that near Hongkong and Macau, held the forms of activities facilitating the art communication local and abroad. Since 2001, Shenzhen Art Museum had established the goal for “care the modern city arts, care the local arts”, which had been planning and holding the annually exhibition in order to push the development of local arts.

Now Shenzhen Arts Museum has collected 753 pieces of Chinese painting, 374 pieces of oil painting, 1084 pieces of engraving, and the sculptures, calligraphy, watercolor, cartoon, paper cutting works sum in 2,809 pieces. Its collection has a strong feature combining modern arts and local arts, especially the contemporary oil painting works have been formed a large scale.

Kun Kung Painting Exhibition

The Chinese Dragon Year in Shanghai was very happy and celebrating. On the fifth day of the lunar calendar, the "Kuan Kung Painting Exhibition" was being held.

It is said that a set of Kuan Kung stamp contains 2 pieces. The first one called "Ride in miles" and the other one which called "Read the Spring and Autumn" with a par value of 1.2 RMB . The small one that was in Kuan Kung portrait created by famous painter Mr.Gao Gu. Besides, the Chinese Post has issued a series of Kuan Kung stamp which contains 4 items made from silk with a par value of 24 YUAN. It is reported that the Kuan Kung stamps have been hotly chasing since issued day.

China Post issue special stamp in 2012

China Post announced that the special stamps with a par value of 1.2 RMB will be issued on 5th of January,2012. The small stamps brochure will be issued at the same time which was the ninth of third round of the 12 animal zodiac stamps.

Underwater dragon dance

Divers perform dragon dance at an aquarium during an event to welcome the Year of Dragon in Beijing, capital of China, Jan 5, 2012.

Dongguan flower fair highlights

The 2012 Spring Festival Dongguan flower fair will be held from January 17 to 22 at Yuan Mei Road in Nancheng District, featuring flower arrangement and intangible cultural heritage performances.

Showcasing tangerine, high-end potted flowers, chrysanthemum, herb, man-made flowers as well as festival decorations, the flower fair will open from 9 AM to 9 PM. Occupying an exhibition area of more than 25, 000 square meters with over 300 booths, the fair is expected to attract over 200,000 visitors.

According to the fair's organizer, the high-end flower booths will mainly open to local flower shops, while tangerine and chrysanthemum booths will mainly open to flower growers from other places.

The price of the flowers at this fair is expected to increase, said the fair's organizer, take moth orchid for example, the market price is anticipated to be 70-80 RMB for each individual plant, an increase of 40 percent over the previous year.

Highlights

1st flower arrangement competition

The 1st flower arrangement competition will be included in Dongguan flower fair this time. More than 100 competitors will showcase their innovation and flower arrangement skills. The winners' artwork will be sold to donate for Dongguan Red Cross. At the same time, a charity will be raised for those in need.

Intangible cultural heritage performances

Intangible cultural heritage performances will be presented at the flower fair, puppets shaped Chinese character "happiness", "prosperity", and "longevity" will also get interact with visitors.

Dongguan typical products on display

Typical products characterizing Dongguan culture such as Dongguan sausage, malt sugar will be on display.

New Year lantern exhibition debuts on Lychee Bay

A New Year lantern exhibition will be started in the evening of Dec 31 with 38 groups of lantern displayed along Lychee Bay located at Liwan District. The exhibition will last for 38 days, till the Lantern Festival on Feb 6 next year. 

It’s the year of dragon next year in Chinese zodiac, so most of the lanterns are designed with the elements of dragon. There are also designs with the elements of local tradition and culture to attract the visitors. The exhibition will be designed by the designers of Guangzhou Culture Park lantern exhibition with more than 50 years of history.

Visitors can also travel by boat. The ticket is priced at 50 RMB each person for 90 minutes travel.

Various activities about Cantonese culture will be held during the exhibition. After the end of the lantern exhibition, most lanterns will be kept there permanently.