Guizhou. Zhenyuan Ancient Town
Zhenyuan has long been an ancient town of the Miao people. Time-honored history endows Zhenyuan Ancient Town with many rich and generous cultural relics, making it much like a historic garden.This ancient city has 2,000 years of tradition, and its architecture is in the style of Ma Tou Qiang.This architecture is characterized by steep roofs that protect against heavy rains.
Rongshui Tian tou miao zhai Village By B&B China bnbchina com
Rongshui Tian-tou-miao-zhai Village is one of the main scenic spots are melting water and Miao Autonomous County, the national AAA-level scenic spots, Guangxi melt a famous eco-tourism spot ethnic folk Miao Autonomous County, located in east Rongshui Shi-rong village farms.it located in the northwest, 45 kilometers from the county, the village 142 500 people, beautiful natural landscape, rich in tourism resources, based on ethnic customs and natural scenery and cultural landscape scenic combine.
2017 China Fishing Live TV Classic (Zhejiang Longyou Station)
November 4 - 5, 2017, 2017 China Fishing Live TV Classic (FTT-Zhejiang Longyou Station) fired at the square of Longhe International Fishing Center. 636 athletes to participate in the competition, which is CAA history's largest pool fishing match. In the end, Liu Tao won the championship.
Wu Chinese
Wu is a group of linguistically similar and historically related varieties of Chinese primarily spoken in Zhejiang province, the municipality of Shanghai, and southern Jiangsu province.
Major Wu dialects include those of Shanghai, Suzhou, Ningbo, Wenzhou, Hangzhou, Shaoxing, Jinhua, and Yongkang. Wu speakers, such as Chiang Kai-shek, Lu Xun, and Cai Yuanpei, occupied positions of great importance in modern Chinese culture and politics. Wu can also be found being used in Yue opera, which is second only in national popularity to Peking Opera; as well as in the performances of the popular entertainer and comedian Zhou Libo. Wu is also spoken in a large number of diaspora communities, with significant centers of immigration originating from Qingtian and Wenzhou.
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Episode 4: Township of Water 第四集：水之乡
中国的江南水乡，位于中国第一长河——长江中下游南岸，也是中国最为富足的乡村聚居之地。南浔古镇，因其便利的水陆交通，造就了商业往来的繁荣，明清以来发达的桑蚕丝织业，更使得南浔富甲一方。在今天的南浔古镇，依然保持着许多造型优雅的古代建筑，他们大多都来自于当年镇上的丝商之家。驰名世界的中国丝绸便是通过蚕虫，吐丝结茧加工制成，间接造就了贯通中西的丝绸之路。
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Zhenan Min (Chinese: 浙南閩語; pinyin: Zhènán Mǐn Yǔ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chiat-lâm-bân-gí; literally: Min language in southern Zhejiang), is a variety of Min Nan Chinese spoken in the Wenzhou region of the southern Chinese province of Zhejiang.
The Zhenan Min people had settled in areas such as Cangnan County, Pingyang County, Yuhuan County and Dongtou County from Fujian Province as early as the Tang dynasty period (618–907) and new waves of immigrants continued during the Southern Song dynasty, Ming Dynasty and the Qing dynasty periods.[1]Zhenan Min has in the past been influenced by Eastern Min and the Northern Min, due to its close geographical proximity with those areas. It has limited intelligibility with other Min Nan dialects, such as Teochew and Hokkien–Taiwanese. Zhenan Min, in proximity to Wenzhou dialect and Jinxiang dialect, has also borrowed some influences from Wu Chinese, such as voiced initials (z) and noun suffixes unique to Wu Chinese (such as 头).
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The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is the police department of the city of Los Angeles, California.
The LAPD has been copiously fictionalized in numerous movies, novels and television shows throughout its history. The department has also been associated with a number of controversies, mainly concerned with racial animosity, police brutality and police corruption.
The radio show Calling All Cars hired LAPD radio dispacher Jesse Rosenquist to be the voice of the dispatcher. Rosenquist was already famous because home radios could tune into early police radio frequencies. As the first police radio dispatcher presented to the public ear, his was the voice that actors went to when called upon for a radio dispatcher role.
The iconic television series Dragnet, with LAPD Detective Joe Friday as the primary character, was the first major media representation of the department. Real LAPD operations inspired Jack Webb to create the series and close cooperation with department officers let him make it as realistic as possible, including authentic police equipment and sound recording on-site at the police station.
Due to Dragnet's popularity, LAPD Chief Parker became, after J. Edgar Hoover, the most well known and respected law enforcement official in the nation. In the 1960s, when the LAPD under Chief Thomas Reddin expanded its community relations division and began efforts to reach out to the African-American community, Dragnet followed suit with more emphasis on internal affairs and community policing than solving crimes, the show's previous mainstay.
Several prominent representations of the LAPD and its officers in television and film include Adam-12, Blue Streak, Blue Thunder, Boomtown, The Closer, Colors, Crash, Columbo, Dark Blue, Die Hard, End of Watch, Heat, Hollywood Homicide, Hunter, Internal Affairs, Jackie Brown, L.A. Confidential, Lakeview Terrace, Law & Order: Los Angeles, Life, Numb3rs, The Shield, Southland, Speed, Street Kings, SWAT, Training Day and the Lethal Weapon, Rush Hour and Terminator film series. The LAPD is also featured in the video games Midnight Club II, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, L.A. Noire and Call of Juarez: The Cartel.
The LAPD has also been the subject of numerous novels. Elizabeth Linington used the department as her backdrop in three different series written under three different names, perhaps the most popular being those novel featuring Det. Lt. Luis Mendoza, who was introduced in the Edgar-nominated Case Pending. Joseph Wambaugh, the son of a Pittsburgh policeman, spent fourteen years in the department, using his background to write novels with authentic fictional depictions of life in the LAPD. Wambaugh also created the Emmy-winning TV anthology series Police Story. Wambaugh was also a major influence on James Ellroy, who wrote several novels about the Department set during the 1940s and 1950s, the most famous of which are probably The Black Dahlia, fictionalizing the LAPD's most famous cold case, and L.A. Confidential, which was made into a film of the same name. Both the novel and the film chronicled mass-murder and corruption inside and outside the force during the Parker era. Critic Roger Ebert indicates that the film's characters (from the 1950s) represent the choices ahead for the LAPD: assisting Hollywood limelight, aggressive policing with relaxed ethics, and a straight arrow approach.