Chabaixi, which literally means "hundred surprises with tea", gained popularity overnight after being featured in a popular Chinese drama. Indeed, “A Dream of Splendor” brought to life an intricate ancient forgotten Chinese ceremony requiring calligraphy and patterns appearing in the froth of whipped tea, “dian cha” style. A thousand-year-old art!...
BYE BYE “Dumbo” boat !
The sky was overcast and the sound of a fog horn sounded for a long time as a sign of farewell. On June 14, Jumbo, the world's largest floating restaurant left Hong Kong forever. Aberdeen Bay will no longer be what it was, now orphaned by the huge neon lights...
SERIES: China’s high-tech 10 trends for the future of humanity (4)
China's first photonic chip Today, the world is experiencing unprecedented natural disasters: floods, droughts, hurricanes. At the same time, humanity is facing global challenges: disruptions in world trade, employment difficulties and an aging population. In its contribution to universal modern history, China relies on the continuous advancement of scientific and...
A new Chinese Art Museum at Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Palace Museum is a planned museum exhibiting artefacts of Beijing's Palace Museum in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD). Construction began in April 2019 and it will open in July with its first exhibition ! The Hong Kong Palace Museum aspires to become one of the world’s leading cultural institutions committed to...
“Long March” to the “Heavenly Palace”!
It took place on June 5 in the Gobi desert in China and it was a perfect success. No one succumbed to dehydration! Long March is the 2 F rocket that propelled the Shenzen 15 mission ship to the Chinese orbital station Tiangong, ie the « Heavenly Palace ». Snub to the...
Lao She, the pure Pekingese culture
Of all the great modern Chinese writers, Lao She is one of the first to have fully utilized all the resources finally offered by the use of spoken language in literature. Better than many of his contemporaries, who sometimes confused “clear language” (baihua) with the Westernization of syntax and vocabulary. ...
The Art of Chinese garden in the « Yuanye »
The Chinese garden is certainly one of the most accomplished forms of artistic expression that traditional China has bequeathed. His concept, intimately linked to other forms of art such as painting, poetry, calligraphy, music and, of course, architecture, reflects, through the images he stages, a whole utopian and microcosm underlying ...
BIG IN CHINA
Nicolas Godelet is a civil engineer architect graduated from the Catholic University of Louvain, 46 years old, originally from Condroz Namur and founder, in 2008, of the office "Gejian Architects & Engineers". This versatile and humble genius of 46 years leads the only Belgian-owned architectural workshop registered in China, which...
Christian Dotremont, poet on paper from China
During a European scale exhibition in Brussels for the 100th anniversary of the birth of the immense Belgian artist, Dotremont, it was important to show his links with Asia, especially China, and the strange world of his very personal calligraphy called by him, « logogram ». Did you know that Dotremont had...
CONFUCIUS HAS A NEW FACE!
The oldest portrait of Confucius was recently discovered in China, after archaeologists reconstructed a broken mirror dating from the Western Hans dynasty, 2000 years ago… This operation allowed them to identify this oldest portrait of the great Chinese sage having been discovered to date. He was hidden in a tomb...