Traditional Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival celebrated in Egypt

STORY: Traditional Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival celebrated in Egypt DATELINE: Sept. 23, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:29 LOCATION: Cairo CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of Egyptian students reciting Chinese poems 2. various of an ensemble from east China's Jiangxi Province staging a performance 3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): MOHAMED RAMZY, Junior student of Chinese language at Cairo University STORYLINE: The China Cultural Center in Cairo marked the upcoming Chinese mid-autumn festival with music and poetry recitations performances on Thursday evening. Several Egyptian student winners of a just-concluded recitation contest of Chinese literature attended the event held in the Egyptian captial, impressing the audience with the recitations of iconic classical and modern Chinese poems. At the show, beautiful melodies flew from an ensemble of the pipa, erhu, dizi and other traditional Chinese instruments, which were arranged to stage between each recitation performance. The ensemble from Jingdezhen, a world-famo

Dutch Rijksmuseum holds largest-ever Vermeer exhibition

STORY: Dutch Rijksmuseum holds largest-ever Vermeer exhibition DATELINE: Feb. 8, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:33 LOCATION: Amsterdam CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of Amsterdam with the poster of Vermeer exhibition 2. various of the Vermeer exhibition STORYLINE: A retrospective exhibition of 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer is held at the Rijksmuseum, the national museum of the Netherlands, for the first time in its history. Speaking at a press preview event on Tuesday, Taco Dibbits, Director of the Rijksmuseum, hailed Vermeer as "one of the most famous painters in the Netherlands, along with Rembrandt, Van Gogh and Mondrian." He said, "with this exhibition, we can introduce a new generation to Vermeer's painting at the highest level and present the results of the latest research." With loans from museums around the world, including those from the United States, Ireland and Germany, it is expected to be the largest Vermeer exhibition of all time. Vermeer's masterpieces, including the world-famo