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Biodiverse Yunnan sees rare “butterfly explosion”

June 13, 2022320 Views

Hundreds of millions of butterflies have began to emerge from chrysalises in the Honghe butterfly valley in southwest China's Yunnan Province, forming a rare ecological spectacle. "Butterfly explosion" refers to the seasonal landscape formed in late spring and early summer every year, in which a large number of Stichophthalma larvae pupate in a short period of time and then emerge into butterflies, according to Yang Zhenwen, curator of the butterfly valley museum in Ma'an'di Town under Jinping Miao, Yao, and Dai Autonomous County. Photo taken on June 9, 2022 shows butterflies in the Honghe butterfly valley in southwest China's Yunnan Province. (Xinhua/Hu Chao) "Based on the samplings at 23 observation sites in the valley, the total number of butterflies during this year's explosi...

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As COVID retreats, dragon boat tradition back in south China

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June 4, 2022279 Views

The dragon boat tradition returned in parts of China on Friday for the first time since the outbreak of the pandemic in late 2019, as restrictions are lifted along with a major drop in COVID-19 cases. The historic Lychee Bay scenic area in the southern Chinese manufacturing hub of Guangzhou staged boat displays and other scaled-back celebrations to mark the holiday commemorating the death more than 2,200 years ago of revered poet and government minister Qu Yuan. Dragon boat participants from Panting village row along a canal in the historic Lychee Bay scenic area in Guangzhou in southern China's Guangdong Province, Friday, June 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Caroline Chen) Restrictions on the length of events and the size of crowds remained in place but did little to dampen the mood. Alon...

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Tivoli debuts in China at Chengdu Cultural Heritage Park

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April 18, 2022236 Views

Tivoli Hotels & Resorts, a luxury Portuguese-rooted hospitality brand, has announced an important milestone in its expansion strategy throughout Asia with the opening of Tivoli Chengdu at Cultural Heritage Park. Developed in partnership with Chengdu Qingyang Urban and Rural Construction Development Company Limited, the 201-room luxury property is located in the International Intangible Cultural Heritage Park, in Chengdu. While holidaymakers will enjoy direct access to the park’s purpose-built exhibition halls showcasing world cultures, business travellers will appreciate the proximity of Chengdu Shuangliu Airport located just 19 kilometres away and the hotel’s state-of-the-art meeting facilities. Chengdu, a thriving cultural and commercial capital of Sichuan Province, has an...

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Qingming in China in the shadow of Omicron

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April 3, 2022735 Views

China's transport ministry expects a 20% drop in road traffic and a 55% fall in flights during the three-day Qingming holiday due to a flare-up of COVID-19 cases in the country. The Qingming Festival is a traditional Chinese festival for honoring ancestors. During Qingming, Chinese families visit ancestors' tombs and burn joss paper to make ritual offerings. More than 27 Chinese provinces and regions have recently reported coronavirus cases, mostly the highly transmissible Omicron variant, forcing the authorities to impose stringent mobility restrictions or even city-wide lockdowns. Local governments across China are requiring people to make appointments before visiting cemeteries to avoid crowds and encourage online memorials to rein in the risk of spreading COVID-19 during ...

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Archaeologists discover innovative 40,000-year-old culture

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March 4, 2022760 Views

Well-preserved Palaeolithic site in northern China reveals a new and previously unidentified set of cultural innovations The discovery of a new culture suggests processes of innovation and cultural diversification occurring in Eastern Asia during a period of genetic and cultural hybridization. Although previous studies have established that Homo sapiens arrived in northern Asia by about 40,000 years ago, much about the lives and cultural adaptations of these early peoples, and their possible interactions with archaic groups, remains unknown. In the search for answers, the Nihewan Basin in northern China, with a wealth of archaeological sites ranging in age from 2 million to 10,000 years ago, provides one of the best opportunities for understanding the evolution of cultural behavior in ...

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New fossil birds discovered near China’s Great Wall – one had a movable, sensitive “chin”

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February 20, 2022674 Views

Approximately 80 miles from the westernmost reach of China’s Great Wall, paleontologists found relics of an even more ancient world. Over the last two decades, teams of researchers unearthed more than 100 specimens of fossil birds that lived approximately 120 million years ago, during the time of the dinosaurs. However, many of these fossils have proved difficult to identify: they’re incomplete and sometimes badly crushed. In a new paper published in the Journal of Systematics and Evolution, researchers examined six of these fossils and identified two new species. And as a fun side note, one of those new species had a movable bony appendage at the tip of its lower jaw that may have helped the bird root for food. “It was a long, painstaking process teasing out what these things were,” s...

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Researchers reveal evolution of Central Tibetan Valley

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February 14, 2022876 Views

A new study led by Prof. DING Lin from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the evolution of the Central Tibetan Valley, which may shed light on the formation of Tibetan Plateau. The findings were published in Science Advances on Feb. 10. The growth of Tibetan Plateau has attracted much attention since the 19th Century for its influences on the regional and global climate and biodiversity. Previous researches indicate that around 60 million years ago (mya), before the collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates, a wet and low elevation Valley system existed between the high Gangdese Mountains on the southern margin of Eurasia and the Central Watershed Mountains in the north. The range of the central Tibetan Valley (whi...

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Exquisitely preserved embryo found inside fossilized dinosaur egg

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December 22, 2021964 Views

A 72 to 66-million-year-old embryo found inside a fossilised dinosaur egg sheds new light on the link between the behaviour of modern birds and dinosaurs, according to a new study. The embryo, dubbed ‘Baby Yingliang’, was discovered in the Late Cretaceous rocks of Ganzhou, southern China and belongs to a toothless theropod dinosaur, or oviraptorosaur. Among the most complete dinosaur embryos ever found, the fossil suggests that these dinosaurs developed bird-like postures close to hatching. Life reconstruction of a close-to-hatching oviraptorosaur dinosaur embryo, based on the new specimen ‘Baby Yingliang’. Photo courtesy: Lida Xing Scientists found the posture of ‘Baby Yingliang’ unique among known dinosaur embryos — its head lies below the body, with the feet on either side an...

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Collapse of ancient Liangzhu culture caused by climate change

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November 29, 2021805 Views

Referred to as "China's Venice of the Stone Age", the Liangzhu excavation site in eastern China is considered one of the most significant testimonies of early Chinese advanced civilisation. More than 5000 years ago, the city already had an elaborate water management system. Until now, it has been controversial what led to the sudden collapse. Massive flooding triggered by anomalously intense monsoon rains caused the collapse, as an international team with Innsbruck geologist and climate researcher Christoph Spötl has now shown in the journal Science Advances. FILE PHOTO: Aerial view of Liangzhu City Site (from southwest to northeast) in China. © Hangzhou Liangzhu Archaeological - Site Administrative District Management Committee In the Yangtze Delta, about 160 kilometres southwes...

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Volcanic eruptions contributed to collapse of China dynasties

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November 12, 2021659 Views

Eruptions create sulfuric acid clouds in the upper atmosphere and can cool the climate Volcanic eruptions contributed to the collapse of dynasties in China in the last 2,000 years by temporarily cooling the climate and affecting agriculture, according to a Rutgers co-authored study. Large eruptions create a cloud that blocks some sunlight for a year or two. That reduces warming of the land in Asia in the summer and leads to a weaker monsoon and less rainfall, reducing crop harvests. The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines temporarily cooled the global climate. The June 12 eruption (shown here) was followed by a larger one three days later. Many eruptions in various places were larger during imperial China. “We confirmed for the first time that collapses of dynas...