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I read an article about Dragon Boat Festival in China, which particularly focuses on the way of celebrating the festival nowadays. As written in the article, with mandatory holiday, dragon boat racing, and sticky rice, this obviously shows that the festival is now a business. People have lost the real meaning in Dragn Boat Festival. The boats should have represented the villagers frantic attempt to save a noble patriot, while the splashing paddles and beating drums are actually meant to scare the fish so that they don’t eat the idealistic corpse of died patriot. Rice is also thrown in the river as an attempt to scare the fish. Now the festivals aren’t really communicating that history and culture anymore. Read the article for more information about Dragon Boat Festival: the history, culture, deviation, current condition, and some great photographs. Read here.

I found a great article that discusses the ancient Chinese marriage. We know from movies that the marriage is so complicated and traditional: many rules and details to be followed. Just not so long ago, the process was still following the six general categories that had been held for ages. Now it is much easier. The brides and grooms can hand all the “modern” responsibilities to wedding organizers or even family members they trust. There are no more complicated rules. All they need to finish personally might be only for motorcade choice, gowns, and photographer. See how such big culture could change in years. I suggest you read the article if you are interested in history, culture, and traditional marriage. Read here.

I read in article that Beijing has a big modern facility called Beijing Planning Exhibition Center. Since Beijing is predicted to face a big challenge with the rampant growth and environment degradation, the city has to settle with the problem of transportation to waste-water management. The facility itself is a modern three-story building featuring all sorts of high tech displays. Each of the floors has a massive aerial and model recreation of greater Beijing in coming years, showing all the detail buildings, homes, or whatever across the city including the infrastructure. Every little thing such as railway, air pollution, highways, subway lines, tunnel, etc has been included in the modeling. What a great planning ahead! Look at the photographs, you will be amazed of the built models. Read here.