DUSSELDORF Reggie Nelson Raiders Jersey , Germany, Feb.1 (Xinhua)-- A two-day art exhibition entitled "National Cultural and Artistic Exhibition in Qinghai, China" kicked off here on Thursday, showcasing unique traditional culture and art as well as beautiful landscape in northwest China's Qinghai Province.
The exhibition, held by the information office of the Qinghai provincial government, featured over 100 fine pictures and dozens of thangka, a traditional Tibetan Buddhist scroll painting. It displayed local characteristics of arts, crafts, natural scenery and folk customs.
When attending the opening ceremony of the exhibition, Xia Wujiao, a Chinese master of arts and crafts, showed visitors the majority of the work in the exhibition.
The exhibition held in North Rhine-Westphalia. a highly developed area of German culture and art with multi-cultural dynamics, presents a good opportunity for both the Qinghai province and the North Rhine-Westphalia state to exchange ideas, said Chinese official He Wenbo on behalf of the Chinese Consulate General in Dusseldorf.
Michael Ruhland, vice director of the German-Chinese Friendship Association Dusseldorf, recalled his memory of the 12 fantastic trips to Qinghai in the past, saying the exhibition might make him to return to northwest China once again.
BEIJING, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Stargazers across China looked up at the moon to witness the rare sight of a "super blue red Moon" Wednesday night.
In Beijing, the total lunar eclipse began at 8:51 p.m. when the moon entered the shadow of Earth and appeared to be wrapped in coppery blue.
As the moon passed into Earth's shadow, it exhibited a reddish tinge as the sunlight was refracted while shining through the Earth's atmosphere. The red moon graced the sky in most parts of China for over an hour, according to the Beijing Planetarium.
According to Zhang Yang, an expert at the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, the second full moon in a month is a blue moon. On Wednesday, the moon also happened to be rather close and bright because its orbit was near its closest point to Earth, thus called a supermoon.