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China launched the Chang’e-3 lunar

China launched the Chang'e-3 lunar probe with the country's first moon rover aboard early on Monday, marking a significant step toward deep space exploration.
本周一凌晨,中国发射了嫦娥三号卫星。嫦娥三号由着陆器和中国首个月球车组成,将一期工程的“表面探测”引申至了对月球的内部探测。

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About the Kiln Site at Yaozhou

The similar celadon was produced in Linru, Yiyang, Baofeng, Xin'an, Yuxian, and Neixiang, all in Henan Province, and Xicun Kiln in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, and Yongfu Kiln in Guangxi Province, and thus constituted Yaozhou(耀州Yàozhōu)Type System.

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Chinese civil servant: golden handcuffs

College student Wang Zixu was among the 1.1 million hopefuls who packed out school and universities across China on Sunday to sit the country's civil service exams.
上周日,中国各大院校挤满了上百万满怀期望的考生,准备参加全国公务员考试。大学生王子旭(音译)也是其中一员。

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What is the Heavy Snow?

In the outer reaches of the Yellow River, the ancient Chinese used the phenology calendar, in which five days formed a hou, and three hous formed a solar term. A year was divided into 24 solar terms and 72 hous. Every hou corresponded to a natural phenomenon to explain the change of weather and phonological phenomenon. The hou could be divided into two categories: one was about biological phenomena, animals and plants. The other was about non-living things, such as water or thunder. The phenomena used to characterize the hous depended on the observations of the ancient people, so some of them we today know are false, such as the eagle turning into a turtledove, or the wild bird changing into a clam. In ancient times, however, they played an important role in guiding agricultural activities.

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