Cloisonne Works of Beijing

CLOISONNE, or enamel work on red copper, is a traditional handicraft in Beijing. It has a history of more than 500 years in China. Cloisonne requires precise and careful work. The body is made of red copper, tapped into shape by hand. Then thin copper wires are twisted into the desired shapes and     

Still in Love After 50 Years

QUIET in the deep night. The golden anniversary celebration has ended and the relatives and friends have gone. In our room only a pair of red candles burn silently. In the flickering candlelight, two pairs of hands are tightly clasped. The backs of the hands are covered with blue veins and age spots. Bai and I sit face to face, smiling and recalling the past, our frustrating and beautiful lifetime.     

A Family in the Porcelain City

IN Jingdezhen, the Porcelain City of China, people began to make porcelain during the Han dynasties (206 B.C.-220 A.D.). Jingdezhen is world renowned for its innumerable superb porcelain products. One type is blue and white porcelain with a red underglaze. Legend has it that the humorous King of Fire liked to play jokes with the red underglaze. When the temperature of the kiln is slightly different, the red underglaze will become brown, yellow, grey or black; sometimes it will even vanish. In other     

Spotless, Jade-like Personality (traditional Chinese painting)

The interpretation of the traditional Chinese paintings done by Xie Lijun vividly expresses a woman's tolerance and silence. In traditional Chinese paintings black is the main component and the function of the color red is only to provide a striking contrast, so it is only used occasionally. On the contrary, in "Spotless. ,Jade-Like Personality." the color red is the main color in the painting. So different from its usual function, the red set against the quiet internal world passes from the expression of the figure's eyes. The red color adds more elegance and inlplicit meaning to the work.     

Beijing's Carved Lacquervare

As early as the sixth century, carved lacquerware had already appeared in China. Usually a work must be given more than 30 coats of red lacquer, and then it is carved after drying in darkness. Carved lacquerware has always been regarded as a precious gift. In the past, however, lacquerware was only used in the palace; today common people enjoy its beauty and utility. The Beijing Carved Lacquerware Mill is reputed for its quality products, most of which find ready sale on the international market. Masters and students—most of whom are women—have played an important role in the development of carved lacquerware.     

Beijing Lantian Nursery Arts Troupe

Beijing Lantian Nursery Arts Troupewas established 18 years ago on theback of the Beijing Lantian Nursry.Almost every year for 18 years thetroupe has put on a full-lengthperformance. Its piece this year is "TheMother's Kiss," the mother being themotherland, China. It will be staged onthe People's Republic's 50thanniversary. Among the new items, a number ofshort song and dance dramas refresh theaudience. In "Spring Rain Brings HeartyLaughter," a group of children play excitedly inthe rain. They carry large palm leaves on theirheads, splashing in the rain puddles andchasing each other-all natural customs of theDai people. The background behind "Long Red SilkRibbon" is the customs and music of thenorthern Shaanxi on the loess plateau. Childrendance holding a long red ribbon, a ribbonpassed down generation upon generation fromtheir ancestors, from yesterday to today and onto tomorrow. This ribbon is a symbol ofindomitable life or the continuous growth and     

Marriage in a Hutang

To the deafening accompaniment of gongs and drums.followed by huge crowds of pcople,a red sedan chair     

都太国际连锁海鲜寿司自助餐厅

SOLANA, a shopping mall that has elegant buildings and charming alleys, is located to the northwest of Chaoyang Park. It has 19 Europeanstyled buildings and at least 600 retail stores, 30 restaurants and 20 waterfront bars. It also has a cinema, a skating club and a KTV complex. Women of China recommends Todai Sushi and Seafood Buffet Restaurant to anyone who wants to enjoy the taste of seafood.     

艺术欣赏：李平的西部山水画

Li,who has become a media darling,has a deep feeling for the landscapes in western China.She tries to communicate her understanding of the meaning of lie by painting nature ,Each of her works has spirituality;each painting reflects reality and has a strong feeling of the times.     

Art Appreciation

Wang Erkeis a middle-aged woman with deep feelings and a strong character She has lived on the black land of the Great North Wilderness and gained abundant experience from her ups and downs She has tasted the happiness of marriage and as well the pains of divorce in the new life she has made for herself, she feels as fresh and vital as the spring. She tried to discover the type of painting that enabled her to express her inner feelings Though she lost the chance to study at an art academy. she studied and practiced ink and     

Golden Peacocks By the Ruili River

The Dai nationality, with a population of 1,025,128, mainly reside in Xishuangbanna Dai Nationality Autonomous Prefecture, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Nationalities Autonomous Prefecture, and 30 counties and cities such as Gengma and Menglian in Yunnan Province.The Dai nationality has its own written language. The 1,000-year Dai documents, including Buddhist Scriptures on Pattra and the famous Dai calendar, prove that the Dai nationality has long cultural history. The Dai narrative poem, Zhaoshutun and Nanmunuona (a legend about a prince and a peacock princess) and the medical classic entitled Traditional Dai Medicine, are important to the precious Chinese cultural heritage. The Dais celebrate the Water-sprinkling Festival every April.The Dais tend to settle along rivers. The ever-green Dai area has a subtropical climate with thick forests. The plentiful rainfall and the fertile soil are favorable to farming.Xishuangbanna Prefecture, dubbed as the "Kingdom of plants" and "Kingdom of animals", has a variety of     

Objectives and Principles Announced for 1994 International Year of the Family

The United Nations has proclaimed 1994 as the International Year of the Family and has defined its objectives to stimulate local, national and international actions as part of a sustained longterm effort to: a. Increase awareness of family issues among Governments as well as in the private sector. IYF would serve to highlight the importance of families; increase a better understanding of their unctions and problems; promote nowledge of the economic, social and emographic processes affecting families     

FROM THE CHINESE PRESS

The population of Shandong Province is about 87 million. Currently the leading groups of 17 cities and 137 counties in the province have 355 women cadres. For the first time since the founding of New China the province has a woman vicegovernor and a woman mayor. The provincial Party committee has paid close attention to the training of the grassroots women cadres. It believes that with a large     

To Our Readers In the New Year

WITH the deepening of China's reform and the expansion of the policy of opening to the world, we greet the year 1995. A new year means a chance for development and a new beginning for any person or career. The editorial department of Women of China sends its best wishes to all our readers. Women of China magazine has entered its 39th year since its establishment. With love and concern from our large readership, the magazine has made friends with readers from countries and regions all over the     

The Developing Chinese Garment

CHINA is a country with a 5,000-year history and a population of 1.2 billion people. Clothing plays an important role in Chinese people's cultural and social life. Since the reform and opening up in the 1980s, the garment industry has greatly developed and has increased progressively by an average of 15.7 percent a year. In the past 10 years particularly, township-run garment production enterprises have suddenly come to the fore,     

Hospitals in Beijing

IN recent years in Beijing, milky white buildings with red crosses have risen from the ground one after another as have clinics and wards. Those that have opened will offer better services for patients. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Beijing's medical policy has been to "stress grassroots organizations, put prevention first, balance urban and rural areas and     

凤梨鱼片

Preparations Clean and gut fish （about 750 grams）, and remove the scales. Slice the fish, cutting along the bone, and separate the flesh from the bone. Cut the flesh, the pineapple, red pepper and green pepper into 3 × 5 centimeter strips. Place fish strips in a bowl. Add 3 grams of salt and 5 grams of cooking wine and mix.     

Maternity and Child Care in Yinan County

YINAN is a poor county in the Yimeng Mountain Area in Shandong Province. It has a population of 900,000, over 80 percent of whom live in rural areas and about 600,000 of whom are women and children. Protecting the health of women and children is not only important to reach the goal "Everyone Enjoys Health Protection by the year 2000" and the goals set out in the "Program for Chinese Children's Development in the 1990s," but also has a crucial influence on the     

Art Appreciation

Modern embossed forged copper has an elegant character. This art form works well as decoration for the walls of buildings. Chen Chuan, the designer, pursues a look of simplicity and powerfulness in his works Auspiciousness and Harmony, which is based on the themes of man and nature. Chen carefully plans the arrangement of convex and concave parts, adding texture by hammering or scraping in many small points and fine lines. With a steel pick, the artist creates a surface sometimes rough and matte, sometimes smooth and shiny. Chen Chuan graduated from the Hubei Institute of Arts in 1965, and was deputy director of the Shandong Provincial Art Gallery from 1984 to 1991. A member of the China Artists Association and the China Graphic Art Association, Chen Chuan is ranked as a first-class artisan, and currently serves as director of the forge copper art office of the Shandong Academy. He has won awards at exhibitions held both at home and abroad.     

FROM THE CHINESE PRESS

Li Yiyi, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of Shenyang Metal Research Institute, has developed a new system for creating a low temperature and high pressure anti-hydrogen material in the research of engineering material. She has also been successful in her research of various types of steel.