Category: Chinese Culture

As part of an effort to improve treatments for life-threatening illnesses, a team of scientists have created rabbits that glow in the dark.为了促进研究治疗危害人类疾病的方法，近日一组科学家培育出了一种会在黑暗中发光的荧光兔。
Their efforts produced two rabbits out of a litter of eight that went from being a normal, fluffy white to glowing green in the dark. The rabbits were born at the University of Istanbul as part of a collaboration between scientists from universities in Turkey and Hawaii.这一窝一共有八只兔子，其中两只从正常的毛绒绒白兔变成了在黑暗中发绿光的荧光兔。这两只兔子是在伊斯坦布尔大学诞生的，由土耳其和夏威夷大学的科学家合作研发。
The rabbits glow to show that a genetic manipulation technique can work efficiently, though the specific color is more cosmetic than scientific. "The green is not important at all – it's just a marker to show the experiment can be done successfully," said University of Hawaii associate professor Stefan Moisyadi.这些荧光兔子的成功培育，表明基因操作技术是可行的，尽管这个颜色只是个表象，并不具有多大的科学意义。“绿色一点都不重要——这只是表明实验可以成功进行，”夏威夷大学副教授斯特凡·莫伊斯雅迪说。
To produce the glowing effect, researchers injected jellyfish DNA into a mother rabbit's embryos. Those altered embryos were then inserted back into the mother. Similar experiments have resulted in glowing cockroaches and cats.为了产生这种荧光效果，研究人员在一只母兔的胚胎中注入了水母的DNA，之后再把这些变异的胚胎植回母体。类似的实验还曾培育出荧光蟑螂和荧光猫。
Eventually, the researchers hope the technique can lead to new ways to produce medicines, Moisyadi said. The rabbits are expected to have the same life span as their non-glowing counterparts, but Moisyadi said he understands people can object to this kind of experimentation involving live animals.莫伊斯雅迪表示，最终，研究人员希望这项技术可以用于生产药物。这些兔子的寿命预计将会和普通兔子一样，但是莫伊斯雅迪说他理解人们可能会反对这种活体动物实验。

The Summer Palace lies in the northwestern outskirts of Beijing. It is the largest and best preserved royal garden in China. Occupying an area of 290 hectares, the park consists mainly of a hill, called Longevity Hill and a lake, Kunming Lake, with halls, towers, galleries, pavilions, bridges and islands dotted all over. Blending southern Chinese-style garden architecture with northern China's natural landscapes, the gardens are probably the best of their kind when it comes to Chinese garden architecture. In December 1998, UNESCO included the Summer Palace on its World Heritage List.

A China zoo has been forced to apologise after it tried to pass off a dog as a lion.中国一家动物园为其试图用狗冒充狮子向公众道歉。
Angry visitors to the People's Park in Luohe, Henan province, complained when the 'African lion' started barking.到河南漯河的人民公园参观的游客，听到这只“非洲狮”汪汪叫时都开始生气地抱怨起来。
Zoo staff said they had pretended the Tibetan mastiff was a lion because they could not afford the real thing, local media reported.当地媒体报道，动物园的工作人员说他们之所以用藏獒冒充狮子，是因为他们买不起真正的狮子。
Elsewhere in the zoo, visitors found a mongrel dog in the Timber wolf's cage and another pooch posing as a leopard in the big cat enclosure. Then in the reptile house, keepers had placed two giant sea cucumbers which they were trying to pass off as snakes.在动物园的其他地方，游客还发现一只杂种狗在大灰狼的笼子里，还有一只狗被放在大型猫科动物区冒充豹。在爬行动物区，饲养员放了两只巨大的海参，以此充当蛇。
One customer called Liu said: ''They're cheats. I paid good money to see the lion and all I got to see was a dog. The zoo is absolutely cheating us. I took my son there so he could hear the different sounds animals made but when we reached the cage where the African lion was supposed to be, the big animal in there started barking.'一位姓刘的游客说：“他们是骗子。我花了钱来看狮子，结果却看到了一只狗。动物园简直是在欺骗我们。我带着儿子来这，让他听听不同动物的叫声，但是我们到了非洲狮的笼子时，里面的狗却叫了起来。”
A spokesman for the zoo said: 'We're doing our best in tough economic times. If anyone is unhappy with our displays we will give back their money.一位动物园的发言人表示：“现在经济不景气，我们已经尽力了。如果有人不满意我们的展出，我们会把钱退给他们的。”

The Temple of Heaven, literally the Altar of Heaven, is a complex of Taoist buildings situated in southeastern Beijing. The Emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911) visited the complex annually when they prayed to Heaven for good harvests. The temple complex covers an area of 273 hectares, about four times the size of the Forbidden City. The main buildings were built in 1420 under the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) by Emperor Yongleto worshipHeaven and Earth.

Big Buddha, also known as Tian Tan Buddha, is the world's largest outdoor bronze Buddha. Located on the peak of the Muyu Mountain, it was unveiled in December 1993. The buddha is 34-meter-tall including the lotus base. It weighs 250 tons and was welded by 202 pieces of bronze. It is surrounded by The Offerings of the Six Devas, six smaller bronze statues representing deities on their knees, offering flowers, incense, lamp, ointment, fruit, and music to the Buddha.