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Tianjin Natural History Museum

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The Tianjin Natural History Museum, located at the west end of the Machang Road, was set up in 1914 by a French missionary and opened in 1927, with the previous name as Beijiang Museum. It got the present name in 1957.

The museum is specialized in collections of paleontology and paleo-anthropology fossils. Specimens total 380,000, and the key collections show the paleontology group in the late period of Chinese Cenozoic Era, including fossils of ancient mammals excavated from the Yushe Basin of Shanxi Province,
the Qingyang Basin of Gansu Province, the Yang Yuanni Basin of Hebei Province and the Inner Mongolia -- the abundance of paleontology groups of the four places are rare worldwide, which are important references for researches on the evolvement of amniotes.

The museum features four basic displays of Animal, Paleontology, Plants and Paleo-anthropology fossils, containing ancient reptiles and mammals, animal ecology, insects and aquatic organisms.

The museum often organizes small-scale roadshows such as the Exhibition of Butterflies, the Exhibition of Prepotency, the Exhibition of Fostering Flowers, the Exhibition of Protecting Rare Birds and Beneficial Birds, the Exhibition of Environmental Protection, the Exhibition of Strange Animals and
so on in different districts, counties, municipalities and provinces.

In collaboration with related scientific research institutes, the museum has compiled books such asthe Brochure of Hemiptera Insects in China,Tibetan Insects,Major Agricultural Pests in China,Forest Insects in Yunnan, and so on.

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Study Chinese - Liuzhou City Museum

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Liuzhou City Museum

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The Liuzhou City Museum, located at Liuzhou City of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and founded at the end of 1958, is a local historical museum of China. The Museum has successively excavated a few ancient tombs and the former cultural sites of Liujiang Man fossil andBailiandongCave, and
discovered the former site of ancients and animal group fossils in the caves ofSouth China.

The Museum has collected more than 5,000 relics (not including the fossil samples), particularly the folk custom relics of the minority groups of Zhuang,Yao, Miao and Dong. There are over 20 Class One collections, of which a set of bells from the Warring States Period (475-221BC),
theChunyu(ancient bronze musical instrument), bronze mirror and bronze drum from the Han Dynasty (206BC-220AD) are rare ones. The basic exhibition of the Museum is the Exhibition of Relics Collected by the Museum, divided into three parts -- the primitive society, the slave society and the feudal
society -- to display mainly the ceramics, bronze and ironware, painting and calligraphy, jade, gold and silver jewels, handicraft carvings, the ancient and extinct animals and plants and palaeoanthropological fossils.

The Museum has held a few exhibitions on special topics such as the Exhibition of Historical Relics of Ming Dynasty in Liuzhou and the Exhibition of Folk Custom Relics of Minority Groups of Zhuang, Miao, Yao and Dong, as well as an auxiliary exhibition of the Memorial Hall of Liu Zongyuan.

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China, the Homeland of Tea

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China, the Homeland of Tea

Of the three major beverages of the world -- tea, coffee and cocoa -- tea is consumed by the largest number of people.

Tea, the most popular beverage for the Chinese, is one of China's specialties and traditional exports. According to historical data, China began to grow tea about two thousand years ago during the period of the Warring States (475-221BC).

It is universally acknowledged that China is the original tea-growing area, as well as the first country to grow, produce and drink tea.

In the Song (960-1279) and Yuan (1271-1368) Dynasties a popular custom was tea appraising. Over the long history of drinking tea, a special and simple Chinese tea culture came into being. Drinking tea was not only for quenching thirst or for enjoyment, but also for the promotion of friendship and
mutual understanding. Folk customs of drinking tea reflected the ancient Chinese people's great interest in tea culture.

People often used tea as a betrothal gift; for it could not be "transplanted." After accepting tea as a betrothal gift, a girl could not capriciously change her decision to marry her fiancé.

Entertainment of guests to tea is the most fundamental social behavior in the Chinese people's contacts with each other. When a guest comes, the Chinese will offer him or her a cup of tea to express friendship.

China is the home country of tea. Before the Tang Dynasty (618-907), Chinese tea was exported by land and sea, first to Japan and Korea, then to India and Central Asia and, in the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) Dynasties, to the Arabian Peninsula. In the early period of the 17th century,
Chinese tea was exported to Europe, where the upper class adopted the fashion of drinking tea. Chinese tea, like Chinese silk and china, is an outstanding contribution to the world's material and spiritual civilization.

China is the homeland of tea. It is believed that China has tea-shrubs as early as five to six thousand years ago, and human cultivation of tea plants dates back two thousand years. Tea from China, along with her silk and porcelain, began to be known over the world more than a thousand years ago
and has since always been an important Chinese export. At present more than forty countries in the world grow tea, with Asian countries producing 90% of the world's total output. All tea trees in other countries have their origin directly or indirectly in China. The word for tealeaves or tea as a
drink in many countries is derivatives from the Chinese character "cha." The Russians call it "cha'i", which sounds like "chaye" (tea leaves) as it is pronounced in northern China, and the English word "tea" sounds similar to the pronunciation of its counterpart in Xiamen (Amoy). The Japanese
character for tea is written exactly the same as it is in Chinese, though pronounced with a slight difference. The habit of tea drinking spread to Japan in the 6th century, but it was not introduced to Europe and America till the 17th and 18th centuries. Now the number of tea drinkers in the world
is legion and is still on the increase.

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