Saturday, March 26, 2005

News

Woman with 4.2-meter-long hair: Dai Yueqin shows her 4.2-meter-long hair in Tongxiang, east China's Zhejiang Province March 24, 2005. Dai has kept her hair uncut for 26 years since she was 14 years old.

New Rules to Safeguard Charms of Old Beijing: The Beijing Regulation for Historical and Cultural City Protection, which will take effect from May 1, stipulates that the city will protect not only its more than 3,500 listed heritage sites, but also unlisted sites deemed to be of historical or cultural value.

Bamboo slips shed light on rise of Great Wall: Archeologists in central-south Hunan province have sorted out altogether 36,000 bamboo slips, about 35,000 of which bear official authentic records from 2,200 years ago at a coincidence with the rise of China's imposing Great Wall, which was first built on and off from the third century B.C.


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