Monthly Archives: July 2010

Brief Biography of Zhao Jiping

Zhao Jiping was born in 1945 and graduated from the Xi’an Music Conservatory in 1970 in Shaanxi Province. He worked in a local opera institute until 1978 when he began to study composition at the Central Conservatory of Music. It is said that Zhao had a wide range of interests in musical taste and absorption, [...]

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"Naked Marriage" in China

During these years, many Chinese people are enthusiastically in the Judgments of such a phenomenon – "naked marriage" – "Do not buy a house, do not buy a car, do not do weddings, even do not buy wedding rings, just direct register and get married." Some people support it and argue that this reflects exactly [...]

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Harvest Drum – A Special Instrument

Harvest Drum is popular among regions of Northeast China, Inner Mongolia, Hebei and Anhui provinces. It’s a kind of feature instrument used mainly by the Han and Manchu people. It is said that the drum came into being in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and was named as Harvest Drumin the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). According to [...]

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