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Yuhuan Library
Yuhuan City Library (formerly known as Yuhuan County Library, also known as Yuhuan Library) is a county-level public library located in Yuhuan, Zhejiang, Zhejiang Province, China, established in August 1978. The old location is at Guangling Road No. 69, Yucheng Subdistrict, Yuhuan, Yucheng, Yuhuan, while the new library located in the South Zone of Yuhuan Economic Development Zone is under construction. As of the end of 2016, the total collection of the Yuhuan Library exceeds 300,000 volumes. Currently, Yuhuan City Library is managed by the Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film, Television, Press, and Publication of Yuhuan and is designated as a National first-class library, national first-grade library by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (China), Ministry of Culture and Tourism. History During the period of the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China, the collection and reading work of Yuhuan County's books was undertaken by the Yuhuan County People's Education Hall. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yucheng Subdistrict, Yuhuan
Yucheng may refer to: Places in China * Yucheng, Shandong (禹城市), county-level city of Dezhou * Yucheng County (虞城县), Shangqiu, Henan * Yucheng District (雨城区), Ya'an, Sichuan * Yucheng, Yutai County (鱼城镇), town in Yutai County, Shandong * Yucheng, Zibo (域城镇), town in Boshan District, Zibo, Shandong * Yucheng, Haiyan County, Zhejiang (于城镇), town in Haiyan County, Zhejiang Other uses * Yujiulü Yucheng (reigned 464–485), ruler of the Rouran {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Yuhuan () is a county-level city of Taizhou, at the midsection along the coast of southeastern Zhejiang Province, China. Yuhuan, with total area of including land area of , has a total population of 392,800 containing a permanent population of 93,000 from other provinces and regions. Yuhuan administers three streets, six towns and two villages, referring to Yucheng Street, Damaiyu Street, Kanmen Street; Chumen Town, Qinggang Town, Lupu Town, Ganjiang Town, Shamen Town, Longxi Town; Jishan Village and Haishan Village. Yucheng Street is the administrative and commercial center of Yuhuan. Environment Yuhuan consists of numerous islands as well as a mainland part. Yuhuan Island is the largest island, and has maximum elevation of . Yuhuan Island is nowadays connected to the mainland with dikes and reclaimed land. Other islands include Daludao (), which has been developed as a recreational area. The island has a network of footpaths and touristic sights, a beach, and a hotel. Adm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chumen
Chumen () is a town under the jurisdiction of Yuhuan, Taizhou, Zhejiang province, China. It is the hometown of China's pomelo. Chumen is situated in the north of Yuhuan and in the heart of the peninsula. Chumen's area is 37.5km2 (14.5mi²) and there are 18 villages and 3 residential committees under its authority. History In the ancient times Chumen was under the sea where Mount Yaji (丫髻山) and Mount Xiqing (西青山) formed an estuary. It later rose above sea level when the Yuan dynasty (1341–1367) government enclosed the tideland for cultivation. The town was named after the cluster of Chu trees ('' Vitex'') that grew there. During the Hongwu Emperor's reign (1368–1398) in the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), he had his imperial army build the town in 1387, and Chumen was first administered by Yueqing County. During the reign of the Ming dynasty Chenghua Emperor (reigned 1464–1487), it became part of Taiping County in 1476. Chumen was governed by Yuhuan officials beg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Yuhuan () is a county-level city of Taizhou, at the midsection along the coast of southeastern Zhejiang Province, China. Yuhuan, with total area of including land area of , has a total population of 392,800 containing a permanent population of 93,000 from other provinces and regions. Yuhuan administers three streets, six towns and two villages, referring to Yucheng Street, Damaiyu Street, Kanmen Street; Chumen Town, Qinggang Town, Lupu Town, Ganjiang Town, Shamen Town, Longxi Town; Jishan Village and Haishan Village. Yucheng Street is the administrative and commercial center of Yuhuan. Environment Yuhuan consists of numerous islands as well as a mainland part. Yuhuan Island is the largest island, and has maximum elevation of . Yuhuan Island is nowadays connected to the mainland with dikes and reclaimed land. Other islands include Daludao (), which has been developed as a recreational area. The island has a network of footpaths and touristic sights, a beach, and a hotel. Adm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
QR Code
A QR code (an initialism for quick response code) is a type of Barcode#Matrix (2D) barcodes, matrix barcode (or two-dimensional barcode) invented in 1994 by the Japanese company Denso#Denso Wave, Denso Wave. A barcode is a machine-readable optical label that can contain information about the item to which it is attached. In practice, QR codes often contain data for a locator, identifier, or Website visitor tracking, tracker that points to a website or application. QR codes use four standardized encoding modes (numeric, alphanumeric, byte/binary, and kanji) to store data efficiently; extensions may also be used. The quick response system became popular outside the automotive industry due to its fast readability and greater storage capacity compared to standard Universal Product Code, UPC barcodes. Applications include product tracking, item identification, time tracking, document management, and general marketing. A QR code consists of black squares arranged in a square grid on a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telephone Booth
A telephone booth, telephone kiosk, telephone call box, telephone box or public call box is a tiny structure furnished with a payphone and designed for a telephone user's convenience; usually the user steps into the booth and closes the booth door while using the payphone inside. In the United States and Canada, "telephone booth" (or "phone booth") is the commonly used term for the structure, while in the Commonwealth of Nations (particularly the United Kingdom and Australia), it is a "phone box". Such a booth usually has lighting, a door to provide privacy, and windows to let others know if the booth is in use. The booth may be furnished with a printed directory of local telephone numbers, and a booth in a formal setting, such as a hotel, may be furnished with paper and pen and even a seat. An outdoor booth may be made of metal and plastic to withstand the elements and heavy use, while an indoor booth (once known as a silence cabinet) may have more elaborate architecture and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crossword
A crossword is a word puzzle that usually takes the form of a square or a rectangular grid of white- and black-shaded squares. The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues which lead to the answers. In languages that are written left-to-right, the answer words and phrases are placed in the grid from left to right ("across") and from top to bottom ("down"). The shaded squares are used to separate the words or phrases. Types Crossword grids such as those appearing in most North American newspapers and magazines feature solid areas of white squares. Every letter is checked (i.e. is part of both an "across" word and a "down" word) and usually each answer must contain at least three letters. In such puzzles shaded squares are typically limited to about one-sixth of the total. Crossword grids elsewhere, such as in Britain, South Africa, India and Australia, have a lattice-like structure, with a higher percentage of shade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Papercutting
Papercutting or paper cutting is the art of paper designs. Art has evolved all over the world to adapt to different cultural styles. One traditional distinction most styles share is that the designs are cut from a single sheet of paper as opposed to multiple adjoining sheets as in collage. History Paper cut art appeared during the Han dynasty in 4th century AD after the Chinese official, Cai Lun invented paper in 105 AD. The oldest surviving paper cut out is a symmetrical circle from the 6th century Six Dynasties period found in Xinjiang China.Needham, Joseph. Chemistry and Chemical Technology. 974(1974). Cambridge University Press. Papercutting continued to be practiced during the Song and Tang Dynasties as a popular form of decorative art. By the eighth or ninth century papercutting appeared in West Asia and in Turkey in the 16th century. The knowledge of papermaking did not reach Europe until the 13th century so papercutting could only have arrived after that. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year is the festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar and solar Chinese calendar. In Chinese and other East Asian cultures, the festival is commonly referred to as the Spring Festival () as the spring season in the lunisolar calendar traditionally starts with lichun, the first of the twenty-four solar terms which the festival celebrates around the time of the Chinese New Year. Marking the end of winter and the beginning of the spring season, observances traditionally take place from New Year’s Eve, the evening preceding the first day of the year to the Lantern Festival, held on the 15th day of the year. The first day of Chinese New Year begins on the new moon that appears between 21 January and 20 February. Chinese New Year is one of the most important holidays in Chinese culture, and has strongly influenced Lunar New Year celebrations of its 56 ethnic groups, such as the Losar of Tibet (), and of China's neighbours, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oriental Dollarbird
The Oriental dollarbird (''Eurystomus orientalis'') is a bird of the roller family, so named because of the distinctive pale blue or white, coin-shaped spots on its wings. It can be found from Australia to Korea, Japan and India. Taxonomy The Oriental dollarbird was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1766 in the twelfth edition of his ''Systema Naturae'' under the binomial name ''Coracias orientalis''. Linnaeus based his description on "Le Rollier des Indes" that had been described and illustrated by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760. The type locality is the island of Java in Indonesia. The Oriental dollarbird is now placed in the genus ''Eurystomus'' that was introduced in 1816 by the French ornithologist Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2018 found that the azure dollarbird (''Eurystomus azureus'') was nested in a clade containing subspecies of the Oriental dollarbird. Formerly, some autho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Photography
Photography is the visual art, art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed in many fields of science, manufacturing (e.g., photolithography), and business, as well as its more direct uses for art, film and video production, recreational purposes, hobby, and Mass communication, mass communication. Typically, a Lens (optics), lens is used to focus (optics), focus the light reflected or emitted from objects into a real image on the light-sensitive surface inside a camera during a timed Exposure (photography), exposure. With an electronic image sensor, this produces an Charge-coupled device, electrical charge at each pixel, which is Image processing, electronically processed and stored in a Image file formats, digital image file for subsequent display or processing. The result with photographic emulsion is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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