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Xiquets De Hangzhou
Xiquets de Hangzhou () is a Chinese castellers group in Deqing, about 40 km to the northwest of Hangzhou in East China.Caja, Niel. The group was created on the initiative of Qian Anhua, who discovered the Catalan tradition of ''castellers'' on a trip to Catalonia in 2009. Anhua, president of the Chinese textile company Antex (De Qing) Fashion Clothes Co. Ltd, decided to import ''castellers'' to his textile colony as a social activity for the employees.Garcia, Efren. The group initiated their activity in May 2010, as a result of a visit from Colla Vella dels Xiquets de Valls to Shanghai for the International Exhibition.Foncillas, Adrián. Xiquets de Hangzhou is the most successful ''colla exterior'' (castells team outside the Catalan-speaking region). Their best ''castells'' are the ''3 de 9 amb folre'', the ''2 de 8 amb folre'', the ''3 de 8'', the ''5 de 7'' and the ''3 de 7 amb l'agulla''. The relationship between Xiquets de Hangzhou and Colla Vella is very close, with Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hangzhou
Hangzhou ( or , ; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), also romanized as Hangchow, is the capital and most populous city of Zhejiang, China. It is located in the northwestern part of the province, sitting at the head of Hangzhou Bay, which separates Shanghai and Ningbo. Hangzhou grew to prominence as the southern terminus of the Grand Canal and has been one of China's most renowned and prosperous cities for much of the last millennium. It is a major economic and e-commerce hub within China, and the second biggest city in Yangtze Delta after Shanghai. Hangzhou is classified as a sub-provincial city and forms the core of the Hangzhou metropolitan area, the fourth-largest in China after Guangzhou-Shenzhen Pearl River agglomeration, Shanghai-Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou conurbation and Beijing. As of 2019, the Hangzhou metropolitan area was estimated to produce a gross metropolitan product (nominal) of 3.2 trillion yuan ($486.53 billion), making it larger than the economy of Nigeri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ball (dance Party)
A ball is a formal dance party often characterised by a banquet followed by a social dance that includes ballroom dancing. Ball dancing emerged from formal dances during the Middle Ages and carried on through different iterations throughout succeeding centuries, such as the 17th century Baroque dance and the 18th century cotillion. Several variations exists such as the masquerade and debutante ball as well as the more modern prom. Etymology The word ''ball'' derives from the Latin word , meaning 'to dance', and ''bal'' was used to describe a formal dancing party in French in the 12th century. The ''ballo'' was an Italian Renaissance word for a type of elaborate court dance, and developed into one for the event at which it was performed. The word also covered performed pieces like ''Il ballo delle ingrate'' by Claudio Monteverdi (1608). French developed the verb , and the noun ''bal'' for the event—from where it swapped into languages like English or German—and , the Span ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the List of most visited websites, second most visited website, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. , videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute. In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. Google's ownership of YouTube expanded the site's business model, expanding from generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subscription option for watching content without ads. YouTube also approved creators to participate in Google's Google AdSens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3 In 8
3 in 8, which in Catalan is called , is a castellers human tower with 8 levels and 3 people per level in the trunk, except for the last three levels called the top crown (' in Catalan), which, like in most other castells, consists of the pair ('), a bending child (') and the crowner ('). One of the pairs, called the right pair ('), stands on the shoulder of a casteller of the fifth level, completing the main row usually called ', while the other pair, called open pair ('), stands with its legs open with one foot in each of the other castellers shoulder. The other two rows are called the right and left rows (' and '), or the full and empty rows (' and ').termcat.catEsquerra The bending child climbs up through the left/empty row, while the crowner and the open pair climb up through the right/full row. Once crowned, the crowner climbs down using the main row. References External links Castellers Catalan folklore {{Catalonia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
