It is assured that alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) was introduced in Han dynasty. There are cognitive differences on whether Zhang Qian introduced alfalfa.. Based on the previous studies, research inductive method was used. The relationship between Zhang Qian and alfalfa introduction was analyzed from the motivation, experience and influence of Zhang Qian to the Western Regions and the image gener...

As a social and cultural activity, translation to some extent is the “barometer” of social, ideological trends, activities are greatly influenced restricted by movements. In last years Qing Dynasty, four movements happened subsequently, i.e., “the movement using barbarians’ skills deal with barbarians”, enforcing army enriching country”, carrying out constitutional reforms” enlightening people”...

The traditional Chinese “Twelve Flora” refer to the images of twelve flower gods corresponding months lunar calendar. They are usually composed celebrities in history and subject matter paintings, closely related festival cultures. This paper mainly uses research methods iconography, formal analysis prototype theory study Twelve Flora middle Qing Dynasty. While examining visual images, it metho...

As an important part of modern society, symbolic capital has become link to maintain social relations, obtain identity, and achieve structure ideological reproduction with the development human history. At same time, system that makes meaningful also been embedded in beings, can be reproduced as a symbol. This paper will use theory analyze Song Dynasty civil study its occurrence, role under his...

L iu Sung-nien was a court painter from Ch'ien-t'ang (modern Hangchow). He painted figures and landscapes and was honored by Emperor Ning-tsung during the Sung Dynasty (960–1279), a prosperous and culturally rich period of Chinese history. The arts (silk tapestries, embroideries, calligraphy, lacquer, porcelain, pottery) explored the complexities of the physical and spiritual world, and paintin...

A monochromatic millimeter-wave imaging system coupled with an infrared temperature sensor has been used to investigate historic objects preserved at the Museum of Aquitaine (France). In particular, two-dimensional and three-dimensional analyses have been performed in order to reveal the internal structure of nearly 3500-year-old sealed Egyptian jars.

In Latin, lucidum means shiny or brilliant and aptly describes this mushroom’s fruiting body, which has a modeled, sculptured, varnished appearance. The Chinese and Koreans know it as Ling Zhi (mushroom of herb and immortality), whereas the Japanese call this mushroom reishi or mannentake (10,000 year mushroom). The virtues of G. lucidum extracts, handed down from generation to generation, incl...

Environmental archaeology of archaeological sites on both sides of the Dachang section in the Daning River, the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, shows that riverbed evolution has a great influence on the distribution of archaeological sites during the prehistorical and historical period, and it restricts human activity and the development of ancient culture. Field investigation, dating data, ...

We establish the nature of the dynamics of the exchange rate in a two country model with heterogenous firms a la Abadir and Talmain (2002). We are picking an “off-the-shelf” two country (‘home’ or ‘foreign’) monopolistic competition model from Cook and Devereux (2016), denoted as CD later, and adapt it to our setting. We generalize their model by allowing heterogenous productivities among firms...