Saturday, May 23, 2009

Selling Morel mushroom

Selling wild Morel mushroom, just dried ,blacks, yellows and grays. location: MI, USA xuwalk@yahoo.com

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Classical Chinese food(1) :Sichuan Style shredded pork

Materials : 5 oz (150g ) boneless pork filet 3/4 oz(20g) pickled chili (chilli) pepper 1/4 tsp. salt, or to taste 1 tbsp soy sauce 2 tsp. rice wine 4 tsp. cornstarch (cornflour) 4 tbsp ( 50ml) vegetable oil 2 tsp. rice vinegar 4 1/2 tsp. sugar 2 tsp. scallion, chopped 1 tsp. fresh ginger, chopped 1 tbsp garlic, chopped 1/2 tsp. pepper 1/4 tsp. MSG(optional) Steps : (1) Cut the pork and chili pepper into slivers. Set the peppers aside. Mix the pork with the salt and 1 tsp. each of the soy sauce and rice wine. Mix with 1 1/2 tsp. of the cornstarchand a few drops of oil and stir to coat. (2) Mix 2 tsp. of the soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, the remaining 2 1/3 tsp. of cornstarch, the remaining 1 tsp. of rice wine , the scallion, ginger, garlic, pepper, and MSG into a sauce. Set aside. (3) Heat the oil in a wok to very hot. Add the pork slivers and peppers and stir-fry until the pork is cooked through. Add the sauce the stir-fry about 30 seconds, or until blended and thickened. Remove and serve. Materials 5 oz (150g ) boneless pork filet 3/4 oz(20g) pickled chili (chilli) pepper 1/4 tsp. salt, or to taste 1 tbsp soy sauce 2 tsp. rice wine 4 tsp. cornstarch (cornflour) 4 tbsp ( 50ml) vegetable oil 2 tsp. rice vinegar 4 1/2 tsp. sugar 2 tsp. scallion, chopped 1 tsp. fresh ginger, chopped 1 tbsp garlic, chopped 1/2 tsp. pepper 1/4 tsp. MSG(optional) Steps (1) Cut the pork and chili pepper into slivers. Set the peppers aside. Mix the pork with the salt and 1 tsp. each of the soy sauce and rice wine. Mix with 1 1/2 tsp. of the cornstarchand a few drops of oil and stir to coat. (2) Mix 2 tsp. of the soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, the remaining 2 1/3 tsp. of cornstarch, the remaining 1 tsp. of rice wine , the scallion, ginger, garlic, pepper, and MSG into a sauce. Set aside. (3) Heat the oil in a wok to very hot. Add the pork slivers and peppers and stir-fry until the pork is cooked through. Add the sauce the stir-fry about 30 seconds, or until blended and thickened. Remove and serve.

Monday, January 14, 2008

Chinese Old Musical instrument

1: Ancient time, (approximately 6000 B.C. - 1711 B.C.): According to the Chinese existing unearthed material object, plays the musical instrument which a kind of musical instrument is appears most early, is most remote by the Henan Wuyang bone flute. This times unearthed many have also struck play a kind of musical instrument. Ancient times the time musical instrument hunted and the dance accompaniment primarily. 2: Pre-Qin period, (711 B.C. - 256 B.C.): This is the Chinese musical instrument history first peak, has determined musical instrument's classification: “eight sounds”. The guqin was appearing by now, and becomes one kind of very important solo musical instrument very quickly. This time's musical instrument strikes plays the kind primarily, the unearthed material object the chime influence is biggest by Zeng Houyi, music is also take the clock music as representative. 3: The Qin and Han Dynasty &Sui and Tang dynasties time, (221 B.C. - A.D. 960 years): This is the Chinese musical instrument history prosperous time, along with the Chinese and foreign culture's exchange, the massive foreign musical instrument spreads to China, plays a kind of musical instrument to obtain the unprecedented development and the prosperity. The Tang Dynasty is the high point which the Chinese musical instrument develops, presented the ancient book of music for strings, extant Qiu Ming (494 year - 590 year) passes on "Quiet Orchid" is our country earliest book of music for strings. Late Tang Cao Rouyou creates the abbreviation spectrum, causes the guqin music to be able to preserve. The pipa is the Tang Dynasty most important musical instrument, music also by palace Representative Yan Lewei. Plays the string class musical instrument to start in the folk to appear. 4: Song &Yuan &ming dynasty time, (960 years - 1840): This time stringed musical instrument development, stringed musical instrument's introduction with the universal use, promoted the drama, the traditional entertainment involving talking and singing music development most more importantly. The guqin presented the numerous schools, the end of the Ming dynasty spread to the dulcimer from Persia. Plays the kind of musical instrument Yuan Dynasty to present the suona, strikes plays the kind of musical instrument Yuan Dynasty to present the set of gongs, this time palace music is bleak gradually, what displaces is the folk music.

Saturday, January 12, 2008

Chinese old drawing(2):From Qin and Han dynasty

Mural (From Qin and Han dynasty) In the book records Qin Dynasty mural, because the time is remote, today mostly has not been able to see. The Xianyang palace ruins have discovered some murals. They are "Carriages and horses Chart", "Meter Weaponry Chart" and "Wheat ear Chart". "Carriages and horses Chart" the carriages and horses, are nearly completely consistent with the Chin Shihhuang mausoleum unearthed copper carriages and horses modelling, display the Qin drawing the practical ability. Chinese dynasty's mural art has been inheriting Qin's traditional style, and develops forward. The Han Dynasty divination century grave mural, manufactures in Western Han Dynasty illustrious emperor, proclaims emperor the time (first 86- first 49), it is the extant earliest Han tomb mural. Portrait stone and brick The Han Dynasty paints a portrait the stone to build in Western Han Dynasty later period, then vogue in the entire Eastern Han Dynasty time. Its basic production process, is by has the special skill masonry and the picture labor completes together. Its method is: Has the artist to hit in the first system good flagstone plane to draw the drawing manuscript which going beyond a line cancels, then performs the carving portray by the masonry according to the rough sketch, finally must add the colored drawing on pottery again by the picture labor. The Chinese paints a portrait the stone manufacture, has included the carving and the drawing two kind of techniques actually. The Chinese paints a portrait the stone performance theme and the content is extremely widespread, because the portrait stone is mainly does for the grave and the sacrificial offering place for decorative or ornamental purpos, therefore its picture content also much revolves grave beliefs and so on master's biography, wealth, social activity as well as production activity which, deity, ghosts and gods for it serves launches.

Friday, January 11, 2008

Chinese old drawing (1): from primitive society

Old Rock Drawing
The rock drawing is on the rock the carving . They probably create in the paleolithic period. The Chinese domestic rock painting distribution is very broad, compared with famous has the Yin rock painting, the Yunnan frontier Cangyuan rock painting, Guangxi's colored mountain rock painting, Jiangsu Lianyungang's general the cliff rock painting, Xinjiang to shout the chart wall rock painting, Qinghai's Gangcha rock painting as well as Gansu Jiayuguan nearby Montenegro rock painting. China's rock painting may divide into the north and south two systems according to its performance's content: Northern area's rock painting displays each kind of animal, the character, the hunting and each kind of mark, reflected that primitive moves about in search of pasture the life; The south area's rock painting besides displays each kind of animal, the hunting scene, but also has contents and so on gathering, house or village, religious rite, has reflected south the primitive farming society's living condition.
Painted pottery picture About 10,000 years ago, the Chinese history entered the Neolithic Age, its symbol is the agriculture and the animal husbandry production as well as the grinding stone implement, the earthenware and the primitive textile appearance. Neolithic Age ruins world-wide each region in China: Yellow River upstream Majiayao culture, Yellow River middle reaches Yangshao culture, Yellow River downstream Dawenkou culture and Longshan culture, between Jianghan's Qu Jialing culture, Jiangsu and Anhui basin blue lotus hillock culture, Yangtze River downstream Kaboto culture, Ma Jiabang culture and Liangzhu Culture, southeast west Inner Mongolian, Liaoning and Hebei northern Hongshan culture. Recently some people unearthed the unearthed massive handicrafts in these cultural remains site: Painted pottery, jade carving, bone implement, wooden article and so on.

Saturday, December 29, 2007

A Brief Chronology of Chinese History

I will introduce some old things from old China, so I think that this historical form possibly help you. I hope so!! :)

Welcome

Welcome to visit my blog ! I am come from China, I am planning to introduce some Chinese traditional culture and art,and more Classical things. My English is not good, but I still plan with English writing in this blog., because I want more people to know more things about China, and I hope to share my blog with my family, their language is english. China has five millennium historical ,many people died and their stories vanished in such long years, but their some works and the technology and the thought remained down, passed on from generation to generation, today they become the humanity common cultural heritage. Possibly you know some things from China, and maybe you have visited the Great Wall Great Wall and Forbidden City ,but maybe you do not know the countryside culture and artistic from China, so I plan to introduce more things from chinese countryside. Thank you for reading!