Global Times - 02.09.2019

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LIFE

Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and

Shaw, the latest spin-off in the Fast

and the Furious franchise, topped

the Chinese mainland box office on

Friday, its eighth day in theaters,

the China Movie Data Information

Network said on Saturday.

The film raked in 49.38 million

yuan ($6.9 million), accounting for

more than 40 percent of that day’s

total box office.

Coming in second was Chinese

animated film Ne Zha, which grossed

28.1 million yuan on its 36th day in

cinemas.

Vortex, a domestic crime movie,

came in third by earning 10.82 mil-

lion yuan on its opening day.

Xinhua

With a final perfor-

mance by the Nation-

al Ballet of China, the

2019 Open the Gate

of Art festival came

to a close in Beijing

on Saturday. A total

of 70 performances,

11 art summer camps

and 12 art lectures

were held in the capi-

tal during the 58-day

festival.

An annual art

event, the Open the

Gate of Art festi-

val has remained

extremely popular

among residents

in the capital due

to its high quality

performances and

education programs. According to the

organizers, tickets for the opening

ceremony sold out within six minutes,

the remaining performances enjoyed

an average attendance rating of more

than 90 percent and more than 4,

people attended the art lectures.

Many young aspiring musicians

have been inspired by the festival over

the years.

Zheng Lirui, a Juilliard student and

one of the performers at the festival

over the past two years, said that the

festival made him realize that he has

a social responsibility to spread classic

music and help more people come to

love music and take part in it them-

selves.

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2019 Open the Gate of Art festival comes to close in Beijing

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Dancers perform at the closing ceremony of the 2019

Open the Gate of Art festival on Sunday. Photo: Courtesy of

the Forbidden City Concert Hall

Chinese researchers have examined
an artifact unearthed from a Western
Han Dynasty (206BC-AD 25) tomb
and confirmed it is a herb used in
traditional Chinese medicine.
The artifact was excavated from
the tomb of the Marquis of Haihun in
East China’s Jiangxi Province in 2015.
It has been confirmed to be processed
rehmannia root, a common herb in
traditional Chinese medicine, according
to Huang Luqi, president of the China
Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences,
who led the research.
It is believed to be the earliest
sample of processed herbal medicine
ever found in China, Huang said.
Huang added that his team used a
number of techniques including mi-

croscopy, mass spectrometry and three-

dimensional reconstruction to analyze

the sample. The team found it had been

coated with sucrose and starch.

The sucrose and starch are believed

to have been applied to ease the herb’s

bitter taste and unpleasant smell, ac-

cording to Peng Huasheng, a member

of the research team.

The sample is of great significance to

the study of traditional Chinese medi-

cine, Huang said.

The tomb of the Marquis of Haihun

is part of China’s most complete West-

ern Han Dynasty cemetery. Excavation

began in 2011, with more than 10,

relics unearthed so far.

Xinhua

China discovers 2,000-year-old herbal medicine

New spin-off film in ‘Fast and Furious’ franchise

continues to dominate Chinese mainland box office

A

n exhibition of 130

paintings by children

aged 4 to 17 kicked

off at the Central Acad-

emy of Fine Arts (CAFA)

museum in Beijing on

Thursday.

The artworks were sub-

mitted as part of the CAFA

Lucion Nation Youth and

Children Painting Com-

petition, sponsored by the

CAFA and the Shandong

Lucion Investment Hold-

ings Group.

After a two-month sub-

mission period from May

to July and three reviews,

the 130 works were selected

from nearly 10,000 submit-

ted works.

Among the works, 7,

works were submitted by

individual participants and

1,838 works were submitted

through social institutions

including child autism reha-

bilitation centers.

At the opening of the ex-

hibition, the judges for the

competition shared their

thoughts and opinions on

child painting education.

Yang Jingzhi, director of

Capital Normal University’s

College of Fine Art, said

he feels that painting as an

art form is different from

music or dancing.

“If children want to study

music or dance, they must

first learn many basic skills,

but painting is much easier

to begin with.”

Qiao Xiaoguang, direc-

tor of CAFA’s College of

Humanities, suggested that

children should start paint-

ing or doodling anywhere

between a few months old

and 6 or 7 years old.

“This is part of a child’s

nature, which is not some-

thing that can be taught,”

said Qiao.

A research report on

painting education and the

130 selected works was also

released at the event.

The report compares and

analyzes the different paint-

ings and their connection

to the psychology of the par-

ticipants to help gain a new

perspective on the future of

child painting education.

The exhibition is sched-

uled to come to an end on

September 10.

Global Times

The CAFA Lucion Nation

Youth and Children Painting

Competition Exhibition at the

CAFA Museum in Beijing

Photo: Courtesy of the CAFA