The 12 zodiac animal signs (shenxiao), are in order, the rat, ox (or Cow), tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep (ram or goat), monkey, rooster, dog and pig (or boar). There are many legends to explain the beginning of the zodiac.
One of the most popular reads, in summarised form, as follows:
The rat was given the task of inviting the animals to report to the JADE EMPEROR for a banquet to be selected for the zodiac signs. The cat was good friend of the rat, but the rat tricked him into believing that the banquent was the next day. The cat slept through the banquet, thinking that is was the next day.
When he found out, the cat vowed to be the rat's natural enemy for age to come.
A variation tells that the cat had asked the rat to wake him up the day of the Race. The rat agreed, but on the said day, he did not wake the cat in his greed to win. When the cat finally woke up and got to the racing ground, he found the race to be over. The cat than swore upon the rat.
Rats are ruthlessly, power-hungry, vindictive, and MACHIAVELLIAN.
The Tiger is the third in the Chinese zodiac, line-up and correlates to the sign of GEMINI, an air sign which corresponds to symbolism of diversity, constant activity and intellectual superiority.
In China, the tiger is considered the KING OF ALL BEASTS and represents powerful energy. Further, the tiger is associated with TSAI SHEN YEH, the Chinese God of Wealth, and this god is usually seen sitting on a tiger in Asian Art.
The Tiger is powerful because it strength comes from both lunar and solar sources (symbolically). It is at once mystical and magical in lunar light-as well as commanding and authoritative by solar shine.
The 15th day of the first lunar month is the traditional Lantern Festival (YUANXIAO IN CHINESE). The name comes from the fact that the first lunar month is also called YUANYUE and XIAO means night. The night of the 15th day of the first lunar month marks the appearance of the first full moon.
It's a tradition to admire lanterns at the festival. The custom started from the Han Dynasty, and has a history of more than 2,000 years. On the night, every place is decorated with lanterns and colorful streamers and there is a bustling atmosphere. As night falls, people go in crowds to admire the colorful lanterns: palace lanterns, wall lamps, figure lanterns, flower lanterns, revolving horse lanterns, animal lanterns, and toy lanterns, of all hues and colors, forming a sea of flickering light and color. Some lanterns have riddles on them, which encourage people to compete to find the answer.
It is also a traditional custom to eat rice dumplings at this time. As early as the Song Dynasty over 1,000 years ago, there was such kind of food. The rice dumpling is a round ball of glutinous rice flour filled with a stuffing made of sugar and different kernels. After it is boiled, it is very fragrant, sweet and tasty. Since it is eaten on the Lantern Festival, people call it "YUANXIAO". The Chinese people hope that everything is satisfactory ("YUANMAN" in Chinese), and to eat rice dumplings on the first night witha full moon in a year is to wish that family members will remain united, harmonious, happy and satisfied.
The first day of the first lunar month is the New Year in the Chinese lunar calendar. Among the traditional Chinese festivals, this is the most important and the most bustling. Since it occurs at the end of winter and the beginning of spring, people also call it the Spring Festival.
Chinese have many traditional customs relating to the Spring Festival. Since the 23rd day of the 12th lunar month, people start to prepare for the event. It was the day to offer sacrifices to the kitchen god in olden times. Every family will undertake thorough cleaning, do their Spring Festival shopping, create paper-cuts for window decoration, put up New Year pictures, write Spring Festival couplets, make New Year cakes, and also prepare all kinds of food to bid farewell to the old and usher in the new. The New Year pictures are those put up in the room for a happy and festive atmosphere when Chinese people spend the Spring Festival. The New Year cake, made of glutinous rice flour, is a kind of food for the Spring Festival, meaning "higher year after year".
New Year's Eve is the time for a happy reunion of all family members, when they sit around the table to have a sumptuous New Year'sd Eve dinner, talking and laughing, until daybreak, which is called "staying up to see the year out". When the bell toils midnight on New Year's Eve, people eat dumplings. In ancient time, midnight was called ZISBI (a period of the day from 11p.m. to 1 a.m.). Dumplings (JIAOZI) are eaten because it sounds the same as "change of the year and the day" in Chinese.
From the first day of the lunar year, people pay New Year calls on relatives and friends, which is an important custom for the Spring Festival.
Setting off friecrakers is the favorite activity of children in the Spring Festival. According to legend, this could drive off evil spirits. The continuous sound of firecrackers can be heard everywhere, adding to the atmosphere of rejoicing and festivity.
Many places hold temple fairs. The wonderful dragon lantern dance and the lion dance performances, along with various handicraft articles and local snacks attract thousands of people
With the development of the times, some changes have taken place in the customs of spending the Spring Festival. For example, to prevent environmental pollution, many cities have banned firecrackers. But this does not have an impact on the happy atmosphere of the festival. On New Year's Eve, family members get together to have dinner while watching TV programs.
For Chinese at home and abroad, the Spring Festival is always the most importan festival.
FIRST TIME EVER IN THE WORLD, A GRAND SYMPHONY OF A 1000 SITARISTS- BY RAAGH BAGESHWARI VIDEO
21st Nov, 2008 NCR Delhi, India BRAHM NAAD, for the first time ever in the world - a grand symphony of a 1000 sitarists, was conceived by Art of living founder and spiritual guru. His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.. Sri Ravi Shankar Art of living BRAHM NAAD Grand Symphony 1000 sitarists Sitar Indian Classical Music India Raag Gandharva Veda Rhythm Harmony Culture Historic Event Concert Bageshwari One Thousand Sitars Guiness World Record Records.
I have seen the largest orchestral score ever wirtten. It requires and enormous orchestra, 3 choruses and solosits to be performed. It comes to a total of over one-thousand musician. But 1000 sitarists Indian Classical Music. Fantastic performance.
This is probably the lartest orchestral score ever written. It requires an enormous orchestra, 3 choruses and soloists to be performed. So it should come as no surprise to anyone why this work is seldom staged. Once you have all the necessary ingredients: it comes to a total of over one-thousand musician (orchestral and vocal forces combined). A very poignant point: Mahler never called this work "The Symphony of a thousand"; it was music critic who first made note of this fact. However and with all being said: when Mahler first conducted the work in Munich in 1910, there were more than one-thousand musicians on the stage.
Here it the video of a thousand symphony no. 8 by Mahler.
A tonsillectomy is a 2,000 year-old. 1. Surgical procedure in which the tonsils and removed from either side of the throat. The precedure is performed in resporise to causes of repeated occurrence of acute tonsillitis or adenoidtis, obstructive sleep apnea, nasal airway obstruction, snoring, or peritonsillar abscess. Sometimes the adenoids are removed at the same time, a procedure called adenoidectomy. Although tonsillectomy is being performed less frequently than in 1950, it remains one of the most common surgical procedures in children in the United states.
I have been having a case of chronic swollen tonsils and what feel like slightly swollen nodes directly above where you would check your pulse on your neck and below the jaw. Some white spot on the tonsil.
Sometime swelling of lymph nodes. Usually it swell both side in my case the right side is swelling. The Dr. say is better to removed it.
The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor registers, and occasionally higher. Appearing in its modern form in the 1800, the bassoon figures prominently in orchstral, concert band and chamber music literature. The bassoon is a non-transposing instrument known for its distinctive tone color, wide range, variety of character, and agility. Listeners often compare its warm, dark reedy timbre to that of a male baritone voice.
UKULELE a small four-stringed guitar that developed in Hawaii in the 19th century from the Portuguese *machete, which was brought there by sailors. It is a different instrument, however, from the HAWAIIAN GUITAR. Shaped much like classical guitar but only half as large, the ukulele has four strings, today usually of nylon, and a fingerboard provided with frets. The strings, usually tuned either A D F# B or G C E A, are plucked with the fingers or with a small plectrum. The ukulele is used almost wholly to accompany the singing of popular songs or folk songs. Music for ukulele is often written in a kind of tablature that consists of a drawing of the fingerboard, showing the stopping positions required to produce the desired chords. It is used in dance music and is closely related to the *banjo.
What is an accordion instrument? A musical instrument that consists of two bowlike boards connected by a folding bellows. The player hangs the instrument around his neck. The board near his right hand is fitted with a keyboard like that of a piano, on which he plays melody notes; the board near his left hand has buttons for playing chords and bass notes. Inside the boards are pairs of flat, flexible tongues, called reeds. Each reed vibrates and sounds a single tone whose pitch depends on the reed's length and thickness. Opening and closing the bellows creates a flow of air that makes the reeds vibrate and therefore produce a sound. One of each pair of reeds sounds when the bellows are pushed together, and the other sounds when they are drawn apart. The keys and buttons open valves to admit air to the desired pairs of reeds. In some accordions the two reeds of a pair are tuned to sound adjacent tones of the chromatic scale (C and C-sharp, for example), so that one note sounds when the bellows are pushced and a different onw when they are pulled. In most modern accordions, however, the two reeds of pair are tuned to the same tone.
I played the accordion during my school time. I enjoyed playing. Sometime when i am free i still played it.
A type of late eighteenth-century band music that used some of the percussion instruments employed by the military band of the Janissary, the life guards of the Sultan of Turkey. Among these instruments were the triangle, cymbals, bass drum, and Turkish crescent. Their sound, considered very exotic, became quite fashionable in Europe about 1780 and was imitated by serious composers.
JANISSARY COMPANY. Meheter, the oldest marching band in the world.
A performing group of 4 instrumentalists where the instruments are unspecified (e.g. Amadeus Quartet) a string quartet is assumed - 2 violins, viola, cello.
A numerous mixed body of instrumentalists. As a more or less stable institution, the orchestra originated in early 17th-century opera, being afterwards contiunally modified (obsolete instruments being replaced by new ones), enlarged, and re-systematized. So SYMPHONAY ORCHESTRA, standard, large orchestra of 19th and 20th centuries, able to play symphonies, etc.- as opposed e.g. to chamber orchestra (small size) or STRING ORCHESTRA (strings only). The term THEATRE ORCHESTRA customarily indicates not an opera orchestra (which is ideally of 'SYMPHONIE' size) but a smaller orchestra used for musicals, etc., commonly including saxophones. A combination of wind instruments only, or any combination for dancing to, is commonly called not an orchestra but a band - the occasional 20th century used of DANCE ORCHESTRA being pretentious. Not that PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, unlike symphony orchestra. Although composers may vary boththe kind and numbers of instruments used (variety being especially noticeable in the percussion setion), the forces standardized by the requirements of 20th-century (and late 19th-century) symphonic music are:
(a) woodwind: 3 flutes, 1 doubling piccolo.
3 oboes, 1 doubling English horn.
3 clarinets, 1 doubling bass clarinet.
3 bassoons, 1 doubling double-bassoon.
(b) brass: 4 (sometimes 6) horns.
3 trumpets.
3 trombones (2 tenor, 1 bass).
1 tube.
(c) percussion: 3 kettledrums (1 player). Snare-drum, bass-drum,m cymbals, gong, trinangle, xylophone, vibraphone, etc. (2 or more players).
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Akim plays Concerto G major op.11 with the Johan Strauss Orchestra.
Concerto means a composition for one or more solo instruments and orchestra, in which the parts of the soloist and of the orchestra are about equal in importance. Occasionally composers have written a concerto for orchsetra alone, in which they contrast different instruments much as soloist and orchestra are contrasted in the solo concerto.
The technique of playing a stringed instrument with a bow, the most important of such modern instruments being the violin, viola, cello, and double bass. There are many ways of using a bow, some of which are indicated in scores by special signs. The two most important are down-bow, which indicates that the bow arm moves away from the body (from left to right), and up-bow, which indicates that the bow arm moves toward the body (from right to left). In general, the down-bow is used on accented notes and the up-bow on unaccented notes.
A kind of guitar popular in Russia and other East European countries, where it is used mainly to accompany folk singing and dancing. It has a triangular body and a long neck provided with four movable frets to show where the fingers must stop the strings. There are three strings, which the player plucks with a plectrum. The balalaika is made in at least six different sizes; one of the most common has its strings tuned E E A.
THE MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL The 15th day of the eighth lunar month is China's traditional Mid-Autumn Festival. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, the lunar eighth, ninth and 10th months make up autumn. The eighth month falls in mid-autumn, and the 15th day is in the middle of the month, hence the name "Mid-Autumn Festival". On that day, the Chinese have the custom to admire the moon and eat moon cakes. In autumn, it is fine and cool, there are few floating clouds in the sky and the moon at night seems particularly bright. This is especially true on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. Since people consider the full moon as the symbol of reunion and satifaction, the festival is also called "the Festival for Reunion'. According to traditional custom, Chinese people enjoy fruits and moon cakes while admiring the moon. As the moon cake is round, symbolizing reunion, it is sometimes called "Reunion Cake". The Chinese moon cake has many varieties and production methods differ from place to place. There are sweet, salty, meat and vegetable fillings. It has various decorative patterns and words. In autumn, people reap the results of their year's labor. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the whole family will sit together to admire the moon and eat moon cakes, filled with happiness for the bumper harvest and a family reunion. At that time, people far away from hometown will also look up at the moon and miss their hometown and family members. Children carried lanterns walked along from street to street and have a lot of fun. Since ancient times, China has had many fairy tales and legends about the moon, among which the most famous is "Chang'e Flying to the Moon'. Chang'e was the wife of Houyi in ancient Chinese myths. Legend has it that she swallowed an elixir stolen from Grand Old Lady of the West, became an immortal and flew to the moon palace.
Osteoporosis is a disease in which bones become fragile and more likely to break. If not prevented or if left untreated, osteoporosis can progress painlessly until a bone breaks. These broken bones, also know as fractures, occur typically in the hip, spine and wrist.
Any bone can be affected, but of special concern are fractures of the hip and spine. A hip fracture almost always requires hospitalization and major surgery. It can impair a person's ability to walk unassisted and may cause prolonged or permanent disability or even death. Spinal or vertebral fractures also have serious consequence, including loss of height, severe back pain and deformity.
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Get your daily recommended amounts of calcium and vitamin D.
EXERCISE:
Engage in regular weight-bearing and muscle. Strengthining exercises maintain a health life style:
Avoid smoking and excessive alcohol consumption.
Talk to your health care provider about bone health.
Get Tested:
Have a bone density test and take medication when appropriate.
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According to the statistic report issued by WHO, in a total of 135 common disease, 106 disease are related with calcium deficiency. Unbalanced calcium of human body will cause osteroporosis, calcification and the following illness.
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insomnia.
cardiopulmonary.
diabetes.
senile plaque.
menopause.
insufficiency.
sexual disturbance.
high blood pressure.
liver disease.
senile dementia.
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tumor.
arterioscierosis.
headache.
cardiopathy.
urine acid and Gout.
acne.
spondylitis.
micturition.
fatigability.
apoplexy.
child hypogenesis.
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Drum set percussion instrument composed of a set of drums and cymblas. 1. Ride cymbal: circular brass plate producing treble sounds. 2. snare drum: drum producing a sharp ratting sound. 3. lug: enable to adjust the membrane of the drum to a desired tension. 4. Bass drum: the biggest drum of the set, it produces and deep low sound. 5. Percussion sticks: instruments used to hit the drum and cymbals to produce different sounds. 6. Tripod stand: three-legged support. 7. Rock toms: pair of drums. 8. High-hat cymbals: pair of cymbals which produce a sound when operating a pedal that makes the upper cymbals hits the lower cymbals. The pedal also allows to modify a sound when the upper cymbal is hit with a percussion sticks. 9. Tension post crash cymbal: screw used to adjust the length of a sound.
