Posted by: wistaria0727 in Untagged on
Jan 01, 2009
The Chinese calendar (like the Jewish and Islamic calendars is a lunar calendar. It is divided into 12 months of 29 or 30 days (compensating for the lunar month's mean duration of 29 days, 12 hr, 44.05 min).
This calendar is synchronized with the solar year by the addition of extra months at fixed intervals.
The Chinese calendar runs on a 60-year cycle. The cycles 1876-1935 and 1936-95, with the years grouped under their 12 animal designations, are printed below, along with the first 24 years of the current cycle. This cycle began in 1996 and will last until 2055. Feb. 9, 2005, marks the beginning of the year 4703 in the Chinese calendar, and is designated the Year of the Rooster. Readers can find the animal name for the year of their birth in the chart below. (Note: The first 3-7 weeks of each Western year belong to the previous Chinese year and animal designation.
2008 has left the building. We'd like to kick off the new year by spicing things up in the reviews section a little bit. Reviews submitted to the business directory throughout the month of January will be entered into our reviews contest. At the end of the month, we will choose from the best-written reviews and award a top prize of 500 yuan. *Note* We are looking for quality in these reviews, not simply quantity. Writing a good review should tell us why you felt the way you did about a place, (what you ordered from a place, what the service was like, etc), and not be a simple "this place sucks", or "this place is great" statement.
To be considered for this contest, you need to reside in Tianjin at the end of the month. We will contact the contest winner by email to arrange for sending the money. To get started on your review writing, head on over to the Business Directory .
Posted by: Jason Xu in Untagged on
Dec 27, 2008
It's 5 months since the first arrival in TEDA.
Hiding from the dwelling behind Financial Street, 3rd Avenue, where I am working in also, enjoy the sunlight warm me up every morning.
My business start over here in November this year.
Got this from the Shanghai Daily. Although his involvement in Tianjin politics appears to have been some time ago, it is strange to see the daughter involved as well. See the link for the whole article.
Former Tianjin official target of probe
By Li Xinran | 2008-12-23 |
THE former head of Tianjin's Binhai New Area is under investigation for alleged violations of "economic discipline," a Beijing-based magazine has reported.
Pi Qiansheng, 57, who served on the Communist Party of China's Tianjin Committee before he was sacked in June 2007, is under double-designation status, Caijing magazine reported yesterday.
The designation sets off a procedure under which a member or official of the Party is ordered to explain or confess alleged involvement in a disciplinary violation or corruption case.
Pi's daughter, Pi Xiaomeng, who worked for Citibank in the United States, was taken into custody by Tianjin police in August during her annual leave in China.
Pi Xiaomeng's confession provided clues to Pi's disciplinary violation, Caijing quoted an insider as saying.
Posted by: bettyren in Untagged on
Dec 21, 2008
The weather is really cold today, and also we got the firstly snow this year. The snow let me got the reminiscences of my mother who passed away in May of 2008.
Before, I always exciting when I see the first snow of the year, now the feeling is totally changed, I worried about my father who has to live by himself. I am afraid he is feeling lonely at this cold moment...
Human beings are human beings, nomatter what kind of skin color we have, we have to face the same problem of the life , we are all lonely inside somewhere.
