THE SPRING FESTIVAL

THE SPRING FESTIVAL



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

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.

A THOUSAND SYMPHONY NO.8 BY MAHLER

A THOUSAND SYMPHONY NO.8 BY MAHLER

Why it is called a thousand symphony?

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.

TONSILLITIS SURGERY

TONSILLITIS SURGERY

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.

BASSOON INSTRMENT

BASSOON INSTRMENT

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.

HAWAIIAN GUITAR

HAWAIIAN GUITAR

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.

THE LONE RANGER ON THE ACCORDION; UNBELIEVABLE

THE LONE RANGER ON THE ACCORDION; UNBELIEVABLE.

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.