A SPECIAL pipa con-cert, “Sifting Sand for Crystal – Classical Folk Music Apprecia-

tion Concert,” will be staged free of admission at Shenzhen Library on Aug. 25. No sign-up is needed.

Pipa is a traditional East Asian plucked musical instru-ment with a long history of more than 2,000 years.

Audiences will be able to listen to famous pipa pieces including “The Dance Music of the Yi Ethnic Group,” the intense and exciting piece “The Night of Torch Festival” and the sentimental, melancholy yet beautiful piece “Telling Stories.” Performers will show-case their various techniques to express their understanding and creative interpretation of traditional Chinese music. The melodious and powerful tunes plucked by them will provide a refreshing take on the Chinese instrument.

In addition, Qu Ge, a master musician at Tianjin Conserva-tory of Music and vice secretary general of Shenzhen Guzheng Institute and deputy director of Shenzhen Fangyin Orches-tra, will give a lecture on pipa at the concert.

The event is organized by Shenzhen Library and Shenzhen Guzheng Institute and performed by Shenzhen Fangyin Children’s Guzheng Orchestra. The concert aims to educate the public on tradi-tional Chinese music and help people become more familiar with Chinese music.Time: 7-9 p.m., Aug. 25Venue: Report Hall, Shenzhen Library, 2001 Fuzhong Road 1, Futian District (福田区福中一路2001号深圳图书馆报告厅)Metro: Line 3 or 4, Children’s Palace Station (少年宫站), Exit D (Yang Mei)

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THE Shenzhen Summer Wedding Expo will be held at Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center from Aug. 12 to 13.

As the biggest wedding expo in South China, the event will host over 200 com-panies occupying an exhibition area of 15,000 square meters. Local companies, as well as many international companies in Hall 6 will showcase their wedding products and services including wedding

necessities, wedding dresses, cosmetics, wedding car rentals, wedding banquets and honeymoon travel packages. Wed-ding photo packages, wedding planning services and jewelries will be exhibited in Hall 7.

The expo will provide a platform for customers to compare the prices of dif-ferent products and services all under one roof. Making it easy to fi nd what you want faster, the organizer suggests that

the brides and grooms decide on their preferred wedding style, list out their wedding ceremony particulars, consider their wedding budget and then write these things down on a wedding checklist before going to the expo.Time: Aug. 12-13Venue: Halls 6 and 7, Shenzhen Con-vention and Exhibition Center, Fuhua Road 3, Futian District (福田区福华三路会展中心)

Wedding expo comes to Shenzhen

Biodiversity of Shenzhen

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THE biodiversity exhibition “Seeing Life,” which fea-tures photos of Shenzhen’s plants and animals, is being held at Guan Shanyue Art

Museum through Aug. 20.The exhibition was curated by the

museum’s head Chen Xiangbo and Shenzhen author Nan Zhaoxu. “There

are more than 20,000 species of animals and hybrids of plants in Shenzhen,” said Nan. “The biodiversity of our planet, our country and Shenzhen is beyond our imagination. In your residential community, if you grab a handful of soil and put it under a microscope, you can see a lively world. Thousands of bacteria are hustling and bustling.”

From North China’s Shanxi Province, Nan was an American and European literature teacher at Shanxi University. After moving to Shenzhen in 1989, he founded his own publishing and docu-mentary production company, Yuezhong Cultural Transmission Co. With a pas-sion for Shenzhen, Nan wrote two books on the city’s history, “The Shenzhen Memory (1949-2009)” and “Behind the Old Files of Shenzhen.” As an avid lover of photography and nature, he also wrote a few books on Shenzhen’s nature, extol-ling the beauty of Shenzhen’s wildlife and emphasizing that humans are very much a part of it.

He believes that a city’s history is not only to be found in decades-old buildings or fi les in museums, but also lies in nature. By organizing countless events for children, Nan hopes to share Shenzhen’s ecological and environmental changes with locals. “Between ‘home’ and

Metro: Line 1 or 4, Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center Station (会展中心站), Exit D (Nan Nan)

‘nation,’ there is a ‘homeland’ for every one of us,” said Nan in an earlier inter-view. “My point is to let locals know that Shenzheners are living in such a beautiful place rich in different species. Please love and protect our homeland.”

Time: Until Aug. 20Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m., closed MondaysVenue: Guan Shanyue Art Museum, 6026 Hongli Road, Futian District (福田区红荔路6026号关山月美术馆)Metro: Line 3 or 4, Children’s Palace Station (少年宫站), Exit B (Cao Zhen)

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