By: Ke Liu  134102207  Class 4

 

Hip-Hop came from New York 19 Centuries 60’s.From the word Hip-Hop can we know the meaning which is like dance. Hip-Hop just has been through so many years  ,nowadays,Hip-Hop is becoming a sort of attitude, fashion ,music and sport so on.
Hip-Hop was came from street. Black people have no a truly better life than most white people, they are living in the ghetto ,or we can say hood. They have no enough money to pay the ticket for club, so they are dancing on the street, t hey have no money to play basketball in the park, so they are playing on the street ,they are also like to singing on the street ,so many elements was combined then to be the Hip-Hop.

“To me ,Hip-Hop is really important. Especially the music, which we call rap.”Jeanguy Said.
“A rap has beat ,sometimes it also has some DJ scratching. Rap has so many genre, which are gangster, hardcore, old school and west side or east side. Everybody think that rap is full of sex ,cash and violence but they have no seen the essence of rap.”
Jeanguy is a black guy who intends to be a rapper, he focus on it so hard, concentrate his spirits in every single second. “A famous rapper Eminem who only had 2 dollars in the Christmas day before he came to be famous but he ain’t quit ,he was trying so hard, finally he got a shot, he seized that opportunity. Now he is a billionaire.”Jeanguy is just like Eminem ,he left France for China to hold Hiphop shows in Dalian, he now works in Beijing.

Mentioned the influence of Hiphop to our lives, he gives me three points.

 

1. Dressing style

In China,You can see more and more teenagers wearing loose T – shirt and jeans, a pair of cool basketball shoes and a hiphop cap on his head. The hip-hop culture lovers and others formed a sharp contrast.

2. The selection of music

Those who like hip-hop music people often hold a negative attitude towards China-pop and K-pop. They always like the songs full of the strong rhythm, emotions.

3. Attitude to life

Most of them pursue hedonism and gratification, like to live in the present .Express the dissatisfaction to the social problems as they realize there is one.
In the end, Jeanguy told me:“Hip-Hop has changed people’s live and it has a extremely big impact to us. If you all think that Hip-Hop is dressed ridiculous and it is all about negative things, you are all wrong. Dressed like a Hip-Hop or act like a Hip-Hop that does not mean anything ,Hip-Hop is more about what is the way which you are going to take that  can make your life diffirently and more better. No matter what is the issues ,you will confront it,never and ever surrender to it .Anyway, Hip-Hop may not means so much to you but it surely means to much to me.”

You can rotate more than 4 hours without stop? Do you believe that someone did it? Do you know why they can do that? Let me tell you.

By:liting Liu  120101205  Class1

At 2014 Chinese Spring Festival, a traditional festival, a girl continuous rotation from the beginning to the evening party end left us a deep impression. Her stage name is“ Xiao caiqi”, Yang Liping’s niece, who is a famous dancer. Through out the Spring Festival Evening performances, she kept rotating in four hours. Because of this , she was called “time female.” Recently, a girl came from Ningbo to challenge her. The girl to continuously rotate six hours and she broke the record which “Xiao caiqi” set. Why they can rotate many hours without stop?
Reason one

On the one hand, her usual trainings make some help. Technology Site “Nutshell network” friends, zhitao Gen, who get a master’s degree in neurobiology Beijing Normal said:” Dizziness are usually caused by people circling motion sickness, and the reason is same  caused by the nature of playing the game, both are derived from the sensory nerve balance – the vestibular. And the balance human vestibular organ is located in deep ears. It grows inside many small plush, like plants, like shaking. “Plants” through the nerves attached to the brain. Our head have a move, these “weeds” followed Akira, the brain will know.” Along with beautiful melodies, ballet dancer tiptoe rapid rotation, when they stop, they can stand firmly. For this mystery, British scientists recently made a related study. They found that long-term practice of rotation allows ballerina change the relevant parts of the brain so to help them alleviate the vertigo. This discovery inspired scientists to develop a new method for the treatment of chronic vertigo. So people who want to rotate many hours must to practice again and again. If you want to be the next “Xiao caiqi”, the one thing you must do is practice.
Reason two

On the other hand some “tricks” she takes may be helpful. According to professionals, to keep rotating, one of the most important trick is eyes must always looking at an origin. This always called “stay head” in dance. However dancers need to do what when they are rotate? When the dancers on stage rotating, their eyes will stare at a certain point, even if first turn the whole body, their eyes staring at that point must continue until the body turned half, before the head and eyes fierce rejection of the past. This is the key to overcome the circular motion of vertigo. Moreover, keep balance of the body, the ability to control body, are also very important.
Reason three
What is always been ignored is that there are important relationships between the arm and the rotation. Among the rotating action of figure skating, often see rotating at different speeds. Some experts said this is mainly related with the angular momentum, when performers folded hands, reducing the moment of inertia, so that the angular velocity increases, the faster. Pictures from the show and we can also see “Xiao caiqi” arms slightly open, with a slight lift of rotation, “which to some extent can help her keep the body balanced.”
If you want to be the King of rotation, follow this, and you will be the next “Xiao caiqi”.

 

I Love the Chinese national music. The Chinese national music famous for its moderation, briefness, neutralization, implication. Being different from the western music, the Chinese national music only has five scales, and emphasized in the line–shaping.  

By: Xiaowen Wang 120307235 Class 4

I love the Chinese national musician Song Zuying, not only for her beauty and her beautiful sounds, but also for her diligence and her hard-working. Although she has made great success in her career, she will never for get her early teacher—JinTielin, who helped her a lot before, and the native people and her motherland.

Song Zuying is the most powerful young musician in China. She has abroad sound territory and beautiful sounds. Her singing flavor is originated from the national culture, and she makes good use of the scientific singing technique; during the performances he is good at using her heart; also she always have the correct understanding of the works. So we can say she has her unique singing flavor. The master piece the loving of our China is the most famous one , which is loved by all the Chinese. Her record the flowing sounds for one hundred years can be regarded as the one which represents the high lever of the Chinese national music. In February, 2007, she was autographed by Grammy. People all over the world get to know her name and her beautiful sounds.

Song Zuying tonguing, a person who has a successful career, a happy family, good character, is admired by all of us .

 

Xiaoya Luo 120211324
Youth is a heavy rain, even cold, Also hope to pour it back again. Maybe I was too young to say this, but the youth has a special meaning for me. The film was about five senior high school students who fall in love with the same girl.
Kevin, Lance, Sam, Tom and Paul are best friends since junior middle school and they spend almost every day with each other. There is an open secret among them is that they all like the most beautiful girl in the class, Abby. Abby is class monitor who is ‘the good student’ in teacher and parents’ s eyes. Because of bad grades, Kevin is arranged sat in front of Abby. Something interesting is happen between ‘the good student’ and ‘the bad student’. After once Kevin help Abby and take the blame, Abby begin to help Kevin with his lesson by coercive? In which the other four jealous of him, but they have no idea about this. After they graduated from high school, Kevin and Abby keep in touch like a lover, just like. Because they never break it, the relationship between them like lover also likes good friends. But everything begins change after Kevin holds a free fighting game? Abby and Kevin lose contact. And then, everything becomes different. The friends of Kevin begin hunting Abby. At last, seven years later they are all being invite by Abby to attend her wedding. The groom is a man who they do not know. The five mans all think they may make trouble in the wedding, but after they see the smile face of Abby, they all give their best wishes. Though, Kevin does really want to hit the groom and kiss Abby.

Time like running water, whatever you want to catch it, its never stop. Like Kevin, he may knows they are fall in love with each other, however, because of his timid? He is fear that Abby refuse his express, so he lose Abby, youth as well. In the end, in my opinion, Abby is not only the goddess in their heart? Its youth, the best time in their life. They play basketball with best friends, they discuss the football star, and they cheat in exams?
This is youth, a crazy time, we may have the same thing, but we have different friends. In the winter vacation, I hold a Junior high school classmate party; in fact, I want to hold a party is more accuracy. Because I fail one half. There is forty student in our class, but only fifteen students absent. Everyone change a lot. A girl who is shy before, but in this party, she become more outgoing and easygoing. We chat a lot. A boy who is the tallest in our class, now he is taller than before, in my remember, he plays basketball like an animal, and which make us admire is that he getting into a Normal University, his dream is become a P.E teacher. We make a fun of he is play into university, is not it interesting? Of course, at the party, I meet my best friend (in the junior high school) Mary, who is my desk mate before. In fact, on the one hand, I am glad to see her, on the other hand, I feel a little embarrassed? Because we have touch with each no more than ten times after we graduated from junior high school?
Time flies, we become adult, we may have more freedom in money or make friends, we get a lot of things, at the same time, and we lose a lot like friends. But, as for me, I will remember the beautiful days, the good things and good person. Hey girl, be confidence and be brave，nothing will stop to waiting for you, we have to catch it if we need or love it.

Different from other area, it is possibly that finding a worth-watching concert on mainland china is a little bit difficult. People living in other place may regard watching a concert as usual entertainment same like watching a movie or going to the KTV while many mainland people do not think so. Mainland china market is quite hard to attract talented artist to hold their own concert. Waiting for a long time, music fans would not miss the fancy concert “moonshine jungle” indeed, because it is a really precious chance to watch a charming live show.

YuHeng Zhang, 110909241, class2

Moonshine jungle tour in china was Bruno Mars’s first time came to China. He is a popular singer-songwriter from America and has high popularity in the world including china. There were two stages in Shanghai and Beijing respectively.

Bruno Mars is a wide variety style singer including soul, pop, rock, R&B and others but I can say R&B is his mainly song style. Actually, R&B and rock plays an important role in Chinese pop music market in recent years. Affecting by the popular music style in western countries and the chief song-writer in china, Chinese pop music fans impact by these two music style deeply and this is possibly the essential reason why fans in china can easily accept and attract by Bruno’s song.

If a popular singer want to explore one’s market at oversea, cultural different may be the first factor want to consider. And moonshine jungle, became the next successful concert held by artist from other countries after 2012 maroon 5 shanghai concert and it had been 2 years we waited until Bruno Mars came. It is worth mention that, maroon 5, an American new rock band, their main music style is ‘rock’, which is also the mainstream music style in china. It seems that ‘fashion music style’ is much important than national culture in music area and Bruno Mars has a huge market in China. He wrote a lot of melodic songs such as ‘just the way you were’, ‘when I was your man’, ‘grenade’, ‘runaway baby’ and I guess the song ‘when I was your man’ is the most special one because it only use piano accompaniment, which is a huge challenge of singing skill.

Concert ticket is a decent standard to judge ones popularity. Actually, Concert ticket did not sold well in mainland recent years. Scalpers work with the organizer and ticketing network usually make a discount to attract people to buy their tickets but you can not count on scalpers if you want to watch Bruno Mars show!

Apparently, not each concert ticket can sold rapidly and even scalpers use mark-ups to earn money but all the ticket of Moonshine Jungle sold out in one day indeed. There was a hot blog about the dramatic concert ticket price on Sina Weibo a few days ago, toast saying that ‘guess what? Today I went to Leehom wang’s concert, the original price is 1680rmb, and I bought it 95rmb from the scalper! Feel jealous? Why you guys use 3000rmb to buy the 1680rmb ticket of Jay Chou concert?’. That’s not a joke, it is true. Among the Chinese singers, Jay Chou is the only one whose concert has the best attendance no one can exceed. But may be it does not mean Chinese young people are not willing to pay for music, because Bruno Mars, after Maroon 5, also gave a nice shot in mainland, proving that he is such a charming big star. Original price of each concert are quite similar, but after it control buy scalpers, the price differences became too exaggerate.

The two stages of Moonshine Jungle also held at indoor gym and it means that the amount of ticket was much fewer than outdoor gym. Fans was rush to purchase this concert ticket or they can just buy the pricey ticket. It sounds like a little bit crazy, but music fans would do it for Bruno Mars because his exclusive live charm!

After the concert, audience post a great deal of picture and many fans said that it was the best concert they seen in this year. At the opening of the concert, the curtain prints the scenery of real jungle made everyone feel like they are in it. The other fancy part is most of the audience heard each of the song on the set list before and these songs all written by Bruno Mars himself. However, compared with the other concert, it seems like Moonshine Jungle is quite short and it only lasting 80mins. May be this was the only part people feel no that satisfied but I guess time can not represent the quality of a show because if you are watching some weird and boring concert, three-hour is a plenty time can turn you into sleep or even the last subway back home is more worthy to catch!

   By  Class 4    130108127   Si  Yi  Cheng

                German musician Beethoven, is one of the most famous European music history musician, he was born in Bonn in Germany in 1770, in Beethoven Pepo’s time, his father is very high expectations for him, hope that their sons to become Mozart’s musical prodigy. In Beethoven at the age of 4, my father would take a pile of notes in front of Beethoven let him play, sometimes Beethoven put the hands are practicing swollen still can’t rest.

One day, the church bells are knocked to 12, Beethoven was in practice, he must check his music to sleep until father came back, mother looked at eyes narrowed into a crack of Beethoven, and have mercy said to him: “children, all 12 o ‘clock, go to sleep.”

              　He answered ‘No, if dad found that I being not play the piano, he will beat me.’

Mother also does not have method, to the drunkards husband had to holding the Beethoven piano in tears, soon, Beethoven fell asleep in her mother’s arms, mom kept him on the bed.

When the bell sounded again, Beethoven’s alcoholic father came back, “the rabbit, how does not practice his violin?”

“You don’t look at the time, but also let the children practice, do you want to put to death he was willing to give up?”

“Yes, you’re right,” says the Beethoven’s father as, side to Beethoven’s bedside, Beethoven to be brought up, mother how block also can not stop.

Beethoven’s sleepy on the piano, while eyes closed, in spite of this, Beethoven’s performance is very smooth and natural.
“Line, there is some Mozart.” The father in the side happily say.

When a few years later, Beethoven from 4 to 8 years old, after four years of hard practice, he piano level had the very big enhancement, his alcoholic father also satisfied, then let him in music school held a solo concert, the show was very successful, father son enjoyed the joy of success.

There is a rare singer who is good at singing, creating and performing, she has full passion, she said “Being sincere to yourself is the most important “.she has talent for music, when she was just a little girl, her father put on the scissors, the brushes, the books ,the microphone and so on in front of her, little girl hold the microphone immediately, maybe that’s why she became the popular rock star all around the world.do you know who is she?

JIA SHI    130907245    CLASS TWO

 

Yes, You might have guessed who is she, she is Avril. Avril lavigne was born in a small town in Canada in 1984.
When she was 15 years old, she experienced a rebellious youth period, she started to make up for herself. “I finally understand, dress up like writing songs, don’t care about others’ evaluation，Being sincere to yourself is the most important. ”She knows it, she understands it and she does things like that. When she is a child, a boy of her classmates quipped that girl won’t catch fish. Later, she was found with a group of girls caught 78 fish in the lake to prove that the girls are very capable of independently. See, what a different girl she is!
doesn’t like to be a “Follower” ,she just wears the kind of clothes and decorations what she likes, she is fond of wearing white T-shirt with cropped trousers and sneakers on the concert instead of the heavy performance costumes, she yearned for freedom, she is not bound, she has a personality of her own.

Avril is a girl free with her thoughts, she is honest , she is not hypocrise and she loves music. She says what she want to say, she does what she wants to do, maybe the things is wrong, but she always chooses to follow her heart. Once when Lindsay Morgan Lohan came to Avril in a hotel ,Avril said” Get the hell out of here before me! hypocritical people! Loser! I hate the man who is hypocritical! Stay far away from me and my friends!” If she doesn’t like you , she will let you know, because she thinks” Being sincere to yourself is the most important”.
When she was 16 years old , Avril Skipped her class to go to New York, then go to Los Angeles, had a nice trip, maybe that is her courage helped her become a legend. Adolescence, rebellious period, just like Avril, establishes her dream and tries her best to achieve her dream .Maybe in the most people’s eyes, she is very absurd and crazy, even a little bit regardless of the consequences ,but I have to say that Avril is a really legend. When she was 17 years old, she likes wearing a tie, don’t like to go as a follower but a conqueror, she has the spirit of the personality that many young people are short of.

Now Avirl has already got married, but she still loves music and she has already grown up although she sang the song” Here’s To Never Growing Up”, but her stories have deep influence to me .
That’s all Avril’s stories in her childhood and teenager period that I want to share ,maybe something you have already known, something you don’t know, but whatever I want to say, this is the girl who I love!

“TaoLiBei” is a dancing competition. Talented dancers are given a chance to achieve their dream on this stage.

By Shuo Sun 131004117 Class1

The guests that were invited in this program had won the gold medal of ninth “TaoLiBei” competition. Guests showed their high standard of skills and exquisite dance to the audience through a wonderful opening show, which enable the audience to have a refreshing feeling. And the enthusiastic applause from audience also suggests the popularity and superb skills of them.

“TaoLiBei dance competition” has the highest specifications in domestic youth dancing competition, and it is a professional dance competition that is hosted by China’s ministry of culture. “TaoLiBei” is a subclass award of Chinese culture art government Wenhua prize award, and it is also one of the most important awards in awards of culture and art colleges. It was held initially in 1985 by the Beijing dance academy, and it is held once every three years, at the same time it has a good reputation, people consider it as the “Oscar” in China.

Firstly I would like to introduce the gold medal winners in group A in Chinese national folk dancing. They are Bian Jiang, Luo Wenbo, and Liu Jing.

Bian Jiang, 19-year-old, comes from Beijing dance academy. He won the gold medal of “TaoLiBei” national folk dancing in group A of young men’s competition. He’s from Hengyang but he stayed in Beijing for seven years. His winning dance was called Korean “Spare Crane”. After dancing there was an interaction between guests and audience.

Next let’s introduce the Liu Jing from Henan province. He is 17 years old, from Beijing dance academy. He won the gold medal of “TaoLiBei” national folk dancing in group A of young group’s competition. His winning dance was Tibetan dance. Due to this dance has a transfer technique, the host also want to try this action. Then they also invited the audience to try this action.

Then the host Tian Yuan showed a Mongolian dance called “Pentium”.

The next guest is LuoWenBo who comes from Heilongjiang province. She’s 19 years old and she won the gold medal of “TaoLiBei” national folk dancing in group A of young women’s competition. Her winning dance was Han dance. It told aa story about a husband who join the military and leave his family during revolution time. This dance used the vocabulary of tea-picking in Jiangxi province. And it also modeled a specific woman lived in revolution times.

Finally let’s introduce the teacher who won the gold medal of “TaoLiBei” classical dance choreography. His name is Hu Yan. He’s 29 years old, comes from Beijing dance academy. During the last “TaoLiBei”competition, his <Kong yiji> and <Bookworm> won the gold medal of dance choreography.

The host asked him some questions on the stage. And he said, “the characteristics of classical dance is gradually developed from the ancient palace dance, but in the Ming and Qing dynasties it was classified into the other arts like acrobatics, rap, many forms of art, and it actually means that court dancing was already lost. After 1949, due to our older generation of artists purified and refined the dance from operas and martial arts, our present classical dancing system has been gradually formed.”

If you want to know more imformation about “TaoLiBei” please click here.

 

“We all have two lives… The life we know and another one, that lies waiting for us.”

Do you believe in destiny? Maybe not. Then, have you ever confused about your life path? Have you ever doubted on the decisions you used to make? I bet you have, we all do. Then you may find an answer in the book “The Strange Journey Of Mr. Daldry”.

By: Zhang Yao  110909221  Class 2

The story is about a young perfume mixer Alice, she is really passionate about what she is doing yet she living an ordinary prosaic life. Usually she spends the late night chatting with her friends but received much complaints from her cantankerous neighbor Mr. Daldry. During an outing to Brighton on Christmas Eve a fortuneteller’s words completely changed Alice’s life. Alice has never believed in soothsayers or destiny but she cannot stop thinking about the old woman’s words. Later Alice starts her adventure to Istanbul accompanied by Mr. Daldry.

Open this book, it makes me kind of feeling like start an adventure of myself. Sometimes word has the power to attract you in and at that moment, it’s you, standing by Alice, with all beautiful scenery filled in eyes. Marc Levy the delicate brushwork of the picturesque scenes in Istanbul make it so real. You can smell the flowers and spices in a single word, you can see the crowd and winding streets in each line, even you can hear the bustle of hawkers, a hubbub from the crowd. After meeting six men, love leads Alice to Mr. Daldry and finally found out her lost past. So, the opinion in this novel is quite interesting, seems like in an instant, a little decision could twist your life to an entirely disparate situation.

After finishing the book, I just can not stop to think about my own life, how I made all my decisions and is that the power lead me to this way, make me who I am. Is there really an another life waiting for me? But now let’s just imagine, one day when you are walking on the street, someone comes along to your way, suddenly, you feel so familiar and comfortable about this guy, you even thinking about say hi to him and see what will happen. But you hesitate, you act like it’s stupid and there is no such thing as destiny. So you smile at each other and then, just walk away. Time goes by, life become dull and utterly pointless. Memories take you back to old days, somehow that smile crossed your mind, and you just realized as the moment you passed by, a same feelings on his face, strange but familiar.

Or maybe like this, when you still young, you try to adventure, try to do something different, yet your parents and friends persuade you like you are trying to ruin your life. So you think, maybe this is your fate, maybe this is how life goes. After years and years, you found there are some people, live a more liberal life you dreamed about. So you start thinking that if there was a chance you could live a totally different life. If you had picked the other way, maybe now you are climbing the Alps, feeling the wind fight on your face, hurt but real, touching the snow on the ground, cold but pure, not sitting in the couch, eating popcorn and watching the boring shows . If you had chosen the another path, maybe now you are walking along la seine, watching the sunrise, waiting for the sunset. Your life may filled with conversations and daydreaming, travel and adventure, pleasantly surprised in carelesslydescends. Not standing behind the window watching people going by, sighing of your life and you deserve a better one.

So you see, where your road leads, determined by every moment you are experiencing. What I’m deeply thinking about is if every point could be the bend in the road, what can be your guiding light through this long and winging life? You may still not believe destiny, but I’ll say what you are doing is your destiny. It is not arranged by anyone but your heart. I Truly believe the anther life do exist but the only one thing could indicate you is to follow your heart, live your life. It is simply to say but many people could not do it even once in their whole life. So just think even for one minute, listen to your inner voice, are you willing to let others eyes erode your life, or following your heart into your freewheeling world.

Someone used to ask me a question: what is your youth? I thought for a long time, but i knew i wouldn’t find the right adjective to describe such an abstract word. Every one is special, so i believe, everyone’s youth is the one and only.

JiaqiFang,130306209

After the college entrance examination, my friends together with me watched a film named<So Young>. It tells a story about a group of teenagers with youth, love and friendship.The protagonist in the movie as if is a true portrayal of our own. With their yearning for University and the desire of youth, they come into university—-a wonderful stage of life.

Q: What story does the <So Young> tell?

In this movie, actress is a beautiful and energetic girl named ZhengWei, she comes to the school with the vision of the university, then she meets a lot of friends, three of the most important are RuanGuan, a gentle and considerate girl; ChenXiaozheng, an ideal and ambitious boy; LinJing, a bear and tough boy. Zheng and Chen is a pair of quarrelsome lovers, in times of struggle, they gradually fall in love and finally fall in love with each other. But in addition to Ruan, very few people know, Zheng used to love another boy, it is Lin. Lin has been in love with Zheng, but because of various reasons, he can only hide her, silently watching her behind her back. If most of the youth is the warm and sunshine, there are always some people, their youth is burdened with too many wounds and secrets, becomes dark and could. Lin is the person like this.Looking at their sweet love, he desn’t want to give up on this.What will he do? On the other hand, because of ambition, Chen wants to leave Zheng and she is heartbroken, after a long time of recovery she becomes strong, change into a more charming and attractive lady-woman. A few years later they met again, Zheng knows the secrets behind Lin as well, what choice will she eventually make? How this group of youths end? One thousand people have one thousand Hamlett. Different people have different feelings.

Q: What happiness and sorrows the <So Young> can bring to audience? 

Everyone is a wonderful movie, everyday is a new story. The film<So Young> ends up with an open ending because it focuses on youth of characters. The characters of film is like ourselves, from this film, i see my own youth. I also have a group of friends throughout my whole youth, we share our successes and failures, our youths become colorful because of the company. When i watch this film,i feel like myself travel with my friends. Nowadays, after i entered the university, i look back on my youth, different kinds of experiences in sight. This movie brings me happinesses and sorrows. Life is different, different people have different experiences, the sour, sweet, bitter, hot in your lifetime, only people walking on this rood can experience. In any case, although there are a variety of pain and regrets the youth, as long as you work hard towards the future, tomorrow will be more brilliant!