Tea ceremony at a temple in Nara, Japan.
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A giant rubber duck is displayed at the riverside of Osaka, Japan.
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A department store in Nanjing, China, has made a bouquet of 1999 ‘rose’ which was made of 24K gold-paper. Each of the rose is sold for 299 yuan (US$45), and the whole bouquet is sold for 600,000 yuan (US$90,000).
Bone soup made in a bronze tripod 2,400 years ago was discovered in an ancient tomb in Xi’an, capital of Northwest China’s Shaanxi province, the Provincial Archaeological Institute announced on Saturday.
The institute said its archaeologists discovered the bronze vessel on Nov 25 when cleaning a Warring States Period (475-221 BC) tomb for the Xi’an Xianyang International Airport’s second construction phase.
“It’s the first time Chinese archaeologists have unearthed such a container with bone soup still inside,” archaeologist and head of the tomb’s excavation team Liu Daiyun said.
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An ancient traditional Chinese seven-string musical instrument, the Guqin, has set a new world record at a musical instrument auction, selling for 136 million yuan (US$20 million) in Beijing on December 7.
The ancient Guqin was made for Chinese emperor Song Huizong during the Song Dynasty in 1120. It was treasured by the royal family and the Qing Dynasty emperor Qianlong, who he had his seal engraved on it in 1742.
However, the Guqin was taken from the Yuanmingyuan, the Old Summer Palace in Beijing, when it was pillaged by a joint British and French military expedition in 1860. It was recovered at the beginning of the 20th century and preserved by a Chinese musician in Shanghai. Finally, an anonymous buyer purchased it.
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