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" Miyanishi Tatsuya dinosaur healing trip" launched on August 11th

Details: Category: Health News; Published: Monday, 19 August 2019 08:55

How was the Tyrannosaurus written by Miyanishi Tatsuya born and how did he embark on the road of illustration? On the afternoon of August 9th, the opening ceremony of "Dinosaur healing trip of Miyanishi Tatsuya " and the opening of the media in the U Space of Ningbo Cultural Square were held as scheduled. These questions were answered at the scene.

Zhenhai District Archives collected the electronic version of "Yinyi Dialect”

Details: Category: Ningbo District; Published: Monday, 19 August 2019 08:55

“People would rather listen to Suzhou people quarrel than listen to Ningbo people talk." This proverb says that Ningbo dialect is not so gentle and difficult to understand. As early as more than 160 years ago, the founder of Ningbo No. 3 Middle School and the British sinologist, Bob Yi, wrote a magical book. It is said that foreigners can learn to speak Ningbo dialect in six months. This is the earliest Ningbo-dialect text in Roman alphabet "Yinyi Dialect" collected by Zhenhai District Archives.

It is reported that the museum has collected the electronic version of the book. The whole book consists of 7 pages. Except for the first line which is the Chinese character “Yin Yi Dialect”, the rest are all Romanesque words, a total of 753. They are arranged in the rhyme order: a, ia, ang, iang, ao, iao, etc, with a total of 48 rhymes. Foreigners can learn all the Ningbo dialect syllables by reading them. Therefore, this book can be said to be the earliest existing lectures on the teaching of Pinyin in Ningbo.

The writer is probably the founder of Ningbo No. 3 Middle School Bob Yi.

In modern history, Ningbo was influenced by the West earlier, and the missionaries had a certain influence on Ningbo’s education, publishing,

Wang Yangming in Edinburg International Festival

Details: Category: Ningbo News; Published: Monday, 19 August 2019 08:54

Wang Yangming in Edinburg International Festival: Ningbo’s Original Play Hearing Yangming is now traveling to Britain

Crew and Cast of the play Hearing Yangming take a flight to Edinburg Britain in the afternoon of August 7th and are expected to present the original and contemporary version of Wang Yangming’s story to European audience in the afternoon of August 11th at Edinburg International Conference Center.

Hearing Yangming—born in script reciting

Needlework Culture Festival Held at Qiantong Ancient Town

Details: Category: Ningbo News; Published: Monday, 19 August 2019 08:53

(photo by Yan Long and Jiang Pan)

Qixi Needlework Culture Festival & Ancient Town Fair for Cultural and Creative Products was first held at Qiantong Ancient Town on August 7th, Chinese Valentine’s Day. Streets in the town were lined with cultural