Astronomy – Luna Crescent

#北京。 #中國 #China #Beijing | #紫禁城 #ForbiddenCity #February2023 | #ForbiddenCityDairies #中國元宵節 #元宵節 #ChineseLanternFestival #YearOftheRabbit with a distance smaller first #FullMoon illuminating the Forbidden City like an ancient Chinese lantern..

February 6, 2023 kevinjamesngLeave a comment

元宵喜乐 During the Lantern Festival on February 5^th 2023 at the Forbidden City, Beijing, China, People’s Republic of China , a full moon passes through the turrets of the Forbidden City, and it is in the same frame as the ridge beast, which is too beautiful to behold. According to astronomy science experts, the Lantern Festival of the Year of the Rabbit in Guimao is “15 moons and 16 rounds”, and the full moon will appear in the early morning of the 6th. This round of the roundest Lantern Festival moon is not only the first full moon this year, but also the smallest full moon in 2023.

On this day on the 5th February 2023 on the fifteenth day of Chinese lunar new year festival is the lantern festival or known as Chinese Valentine’s Day…. in which this painting is inspired by the Hangzhou West lake storytelling of the legend of the white snake…..

The early days, young people were chaperoned in the streets in hopes of finding love. Matchmakers acted busily in hopes of pairing couples. The brightest lanterns were symbolic of good luck and hope…… Lantern Festival is one of the events they can go out and join in the celebration. And that’s when other young guys can get to meet the ladies. Therefore, the Lantern Festival is sometimes referred to as Chinese Valentine’s Day. There will also be big displays of lanterns in some major parks or open space.

Love inscribed in poems

The other evidence of the Lantern Festival being Chinese Valentine’s Day is recorded in Chinese literature. In the thousands of ancient poems passed on from the Tang and Song dynasties, many depicted ardent love for their partners.

Not only was love engraved in ancient poems, but also sceneries and the boisterous carnivals of the Lantern Festival, when the nights were as bright as the daytime with hundreds of lanterns burning.

The festive atmosphere, the performances, and the moonlight jointly created the best time for a date.

The history of the festival could be traced back to the Han Dynasty (202 B.C.-220 A.D.), and the celebrations were gradually enriched, expanded and settled in succeeding dynasties. But from the very beginning, lanterns have been an indispensable part of the day.

元宵喜乐 During the Lantern Festival on February 5, a full moon passes through the turrets of the Forbidden City, and it is in the same frame as the ridge beast, which is too beautiful to behold. According to astronomy science experts, the Lantern Festival of the Year of the Rabbit in Guimao is “15 moons and 16 rounds”, and the full moon will appear in the early morning of the 6th. This round of the roundest Lantern Festival moon is not only the first full moon this year, but also the smallest full moon in 2023.

Images and visuals are from – Forbidden City –Palace Museum Beijing- China –People’s Republic of China…..

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April 26, 2022 kevinjamesngLeave a comment

The Forbidden City Book Store which in the grounds of the Forbidden City Complex Forbidden City Hundred Excellent Books Public welfare reading activities! “The Way of the Forbidden City Architecture” is the work of Wang Zilin, an expert from the Palace Museum, to study the construction of the Forbidden City. The Forbidden City has a rich architectural language that emphasizes the principles of order, proportion and symmetry. The central axis is the backbone of the building and the pivot that supports the entire palace. The Forbidden City is upright, symmetrical and orderly, and is a “model student” of ancient Chinese official architecture. The architectural complex of the Forbidden City has a unique shape and cultural connotation rich in traditional charm.

For example, the frame structure of the Forbidden City—five gates and three dynasties, the front court and the back bed, the east and west six palaces, comes from the “Zhou Li”. The Qiankun hexagram in “Book of Changes” makes the combination of buildings have a metaphysical height and a solid foundation. For example, the plane structure of the east and west six palaces presents the three-painted hexagram, which symbolizes the Kun hexagram, while the Qianqing Palace, The names of Kunning Palace and Jiaotai Hall are directly derived from Qian Gua, Kun Gua and Tai Gua, which make the Forbidden City have the logical law of the positioning of heaven and earth and the intersection of heaven and earth. The red walls and yellow tiles constitute the color tone of the Forbidden City architecture. In traditional cognition, yellow symbolizes earth, red symbolizes fire, and earth is located in the center. Therefore, the three halls are built on earth-shaped platforms. The color is yellow, so the central emperor is called the Yellow Emperor.” According to the principle of the five elements, fire can generate soil, so the red wall symbolizes fire, and the yellow tile symbolizes soil. The building roofs in the Forbidden City include almost all the forms of ancient Chinese building roofs, such as hard hills, hanging hills, Xieshan, Hudian, Zanjian, cross ridges, double eaves, rolling tents, scorpion tops, etc. They have strict grades. The difference reflects the etiquette characteristics of that era.

In addition to deciphering the architectural language from the architecture itself, when the landscape and architecture are integrated and are no longer isolated natural landscapes, they also become part of the architectural language and shoulder the heavy responsibility of interpreting architectural ideals. The Jinshui River and Wansui Mountain in the Forbidden City are no longer natural mountains and waters in a pure sense, but have an inseparable relationship with architecture. Wansui Mountain is the backing of the Forbidden City. Without this mountain, the Forbidden City will lose its strongest barrier and become an isolated city. The Jinshui River also has this function. It not only provides water for the entire Miyagi city and ensures the water and drainage of the palace city, but also plays the role of connecting the northwest trunk with the southeast Sunda, making the Jinshui River an image of a trunk. The river of gold enables the communication between heaven and earth and the connection between mountains and lakes….

Imagines credits are of the Forbidden City –Imperial Palace –Beijing – China- People’s Republic of China also from the Series Weibo北京卫视上新了故宫 Treasures in the Forbidden City…

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April 3, 2022 kevinjamesngLeave a comment

徐可意Shirky is a well-known Science Blogger from Chinese University of Hong Kong – Hong Kong SAR – China – People’s Republic of China she resides in Beijing the Capital in which she’s passionate in in which Her works international Known for Nature Photographer, Main photography of scenery/starry sky/wildlife also she is of Winners of the first annual wildlife video competition in China｜Works published in “China National Geographic”, National Geo Traveller｜Global Traveller….

徐可意Shirky Demonstrates use Huawei P50 Pro to demonstrate how to use a mobile phone to take pictures of the starry sky in the city Astrophotographying in one of the many Ultra Mega Malls of Ancient Postmodern Beijing City in the center of Galaxy Soho business center, shopping mall and residences in Beijing in which is located Chaoyangmen district Beijing, Dongcheng, Xiaopaifang Hu Tong, 小牌坊胡同甲7号邮政编码: 100010 …..Architectural project by Zaha Hadid only built in three years between 2009 -2012 in which Internationally Iconically Know for Iconic curvy commercial center building with offices, shops & restaurants with incredible spatial open spaces….

Come see the stars with us! Can you take pictures of stars in your city How beautiful is the city starry sky captured by mobile phones…..

In The Little Prince, it is said that if a person falls in love with a unique flower among the vast stars, then the person will feel extremely happy when looking up at the stars. The beautiful starry sky can also be seen in the city. I often enjoy every bit of excitement and emotion brought by astronomical observation, and of course, the rare spiritual relaxation in the silent night.

Humans were originally born on a star, and temporarily lived on this star called the Earth. There is a famous line in “The Wandering Earth”, “Beijing, you can’t see the stars at all.” As the capital and political center of China, in this metropolis, as long as you wait for the sunny environment and wait patiently, even if you only have a mobile phone, you can still record the starry sky around you. In this tutorial, I use Huawei P50 Pro to demonstrate how to use a mobile phone to take pictures of the starry sky in the city.

Images and visuals are from their respectives 徐可意Shirky

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April 3, 2022 kevinjamesngLeave a comment

In this year’s 2022, the second decade from the turn of the century in Beijing the Capital of China also the People’s Republic of China, in which is also the year of the Tiger, marking its six hundred and two years anniversary of the Forbidden city that marks the transitional point of in between the middle of the Ming Dynasty (1368- 1644) transitionally from Nanjing to Beijing towards the Qing Dynasty (1636-1644-1911) …. The Imperial Palace seen so many countless seasonally transitional equinoxes but further its six hundred years is iconic, but it’s five hundred ninety nine years it marks it Autumn Equinox…. In which it only took twelve years to build the same of the Daming Palace of The Tang Dynasty Xian Imperial Capital only it was least twenty times larger…

热毛毯上的雪 Featuring a Beijing Photographer Blogger whom Just recently of the month of March 2022 Astrophotography in the middle of Beijing City’s central Axis in the Forbidden city in which residing Haidian District of the City in which has a love off Aeronautical engineer; music lover; photographer….

Explaining ..Can you photograph the stars in the city? How to find the stars in light pollution? With this question in mind, I started planning a year ago, stepping on the site, preparing equipment, testing, setting goals, and checking the weather. Four times, I spent all night in the corner tower of the Forbidden City, fighting against the cloudy sky and smog, and waiting for the appearance of the stars in several cold nights.

Even in the light-polluted ocean in downtown Beijing, the starry sky can be photographed. Look up to the sky after a busy day, the stars are there.

Figures 1-3 are the corner towers of the Forbidden City, and Figures 4-6 are the downstairs of the house, both of which are in the Porter Dark Sky 8-level severe light pollution environment. They were taken through uhc filter + 6d astronomical modification. The Corner Tower Galaxy, the Corner Tower Orion, and the Orion Nebula and the Horsehead Nebula deep space are used as a summary of this more than one month shooting phase. In the future, there will be several attempts of camera positions and forms. I will write the detailed information about the previous and later stages in the form of articles, so stay tuned

图1、图3使用器材：
6Dbcf改+宇隆uhc+腾龙17-35+信达大星野
图2使用器材:
6Dbcf改+宇隆uhc+腾龙100-400+信达大星野
图4-图6使用器材:
6Dbcf改+宇隆uhc+天虎60ed+信达大星野

Images and visuals are from their respectives 热毛毯上的雪

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December 13, 2021 kevinjamesngLeave a comment

During the Month of December 2021, in which current Beijing – China – People’s Republic of China the Beijing the three thousand more ancient postmodern ultra-metropolis mega city in which the evening of 12 December 2021 there was in the evening of Beihai Park, the afterglow of the setting sun is sprinkled on Yong’an Bridge, and the gorgeous sunset glows on the lake, and the white pagoda is reflected in each other, like a fairy mountain and Qiongyu, making the night of Beihai beautiful

Beihai Park 北海公園; 北海公园is a public park and former imperial garden located in the north-western part of the Imperial City, Beijing. First built in the 11th century, it is among the largest of all Chinese gardens and contains numerous historically important structures, palaces, and temples. Since 1925, the place has been open to the public as a park. It is also connected at its northern end to the Shichahai.

The park has an area of more than 69 hectares (171 acres), with a lake that covers more than half of the entire park. At the center of the park is an island called Jade Flower Island (瓊華島; 琼华岛; whose highest point is 32 meters.

Beihai literally means “Northern Sea”. There are also corresponding Central (Zhonghai) and Southern (Nanhai) “Seas” elsewhere. These latter two are joined inside a complex of buildings known after them as Zhongnanhai; it is the home of China’s paramount leaders.

The Beihai Park, as with many of Chinese imperial gardens, was built to imitate renowned scenic spots and architecture from various regions of China such as Lake Tai, the elaborate pavilions and canals of Hangzhou and Yangzhou, the delicate garden structures in Suzhou and others all served as inspirations for the design of the numerous sites in this imperial garden. The structures and scenes in the Beihai Park are described as masterpieces of gardening technique that reflects the style and the superb architectural skill and richness of traditional Chinese garden art….

On previously on 11^th December 2021 on the night of the Summer Palace in the winter is charming with crescent moon waxing towards the full moon from the first quarter in winter romantically walks of romance mystery walks.