IR Illuminator

IR Illuminator
E-3000C IR Illuminator with 100m IR Distance and 25/30 Degrees IR Angle

Features:

* LED: 27 + 6 pieces
* IR distance: 120m
* IR wavelength: 850nm
* Power supply: 220V AC +\-10%, 600mA
* Status: under 10 lux by CDS
* Gamma: 0.45
* Video output: 1Vp-p 75ohms, negative
* Operating temperature: -10 to 50 degree Celsius, RH 95% maximum
* Storage temperature: -20 to 60 degree Celsius, RH 95% maximum



YES Development Co.,LTD
6/F, Block B,
Runfeng Industrial Park,
Gushu, Bao'an District,
Shenzhen
Guangdong
China 518000
Tel: (86 755) 29988558 (86 755) 88822033
Fax: (86 755) 82722676 / (86 755) 29988777
Mobile: (86) 13760401230
Homepage Address
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USB Video Capture Adapter

USB Video Capture Adapter with Small Size and Plug-and-Play Function

* Features:
o Video capture
o Plug-and-play
o Edit movies and video mail
o Snap shot
o Small wonder
o Net meeting and video conference
o Video input
o Compression
* Specifications:
o Video input: one RCA composite, one S-Video
o Video output: serial data for USB standard compliant
o Video capture size: 160 x 120, 176 x 144, 320 x 240, 352 x 288, 640 x 480
o Power source: 5V DC, 170mA (max.) through USB port
o Frame rate: 30fps at CIF (352 x 288 pixels)
o Dimensions: 88 x 31 x 21mm
o Version: USB 2.0
o Systems: support NTSC, PAL
o OS support interface: USB 2.0: Windows 2000 / XP P4.1 1.8GHz (real-time MPEG-2)
SharpVision Co Ltd
4F, No. 4 Tangdong Dong Road,
Tianhe District, Guangzhou
Guangzhou
Guangdong
China 510665
Tel: (86 20) 85572236/85572237 (86 20) 85545366
Fax: (86 20) 85542122

Homepage Address
http://www.sharpvision.cn

Automatic Switch Box

AC-503 Automatic Switch Box with Four Camera Inputs, Operates from 12 to 32V Voltage

Features:

* Supports four camera inputs
* When five trigger wires for cameras are triggered, image of monitor automatically switches to relative channels
* Button with trigger cable for switching channels are by hand
* Two AV outputs
* Operates from 12 to 32V voltage


SharpVision Co Ltd
4F, No. 4 Tangdong Dong Road,
Tianhe District, Guangzhou
Guangzhou
Guangdong
China 510665
Tel: (86 20) 85572236/85572237 (86 20) 85545366
Fax: (86 20) 85542122

Homepage Address
http://www.sharpvision.cn

EAS Sensor System

BS-2108 EAS Sensor with 80 to 180cm Detection Range, Easy to Debug and Install

Specifications/Special Features:

* CE certified
* Technical parameters:
o Scan center frequency: 8.2MHz +/- 0.05MHz
o Sweeping bandwidth: 7.5 to 9.2MHz
o Detection range: 80 to 180m (depends on the size of tag or label)
o Alarm volume: high, medium and low (three kinds of optional volume)
o Optional colors: black, gray and white
o Dimensions: 165 × 39 × 10cm (mm)
* Specially designed for top grand shopping plazas and garment stores
* Elegant design, concise shape and soft color
* Ideal for your ornament taste of stores

Wenzhou Boshine Electric Security Co., Ltd
2nd F D Building Liaoqian Industry,
Liaoqian West Road,
Wenzhou
Zhejiang
China 325000
Tel: (86 577) 88992230
Fax: (86 577) 88992333

Spy DVR Pen

HY-V001 &2 Spy DVR Pen with High Resolution, Used for Law Enforcement Agencies and Stealth Surveillance

Key Specifications/Special Features:

* Product descriptions:
o Professional pen DVR for the professional investigators or law enforcement agencies
o Has high quality video and audio with real time date and time stamping for the evidence in the court
o Built-in 4GB memory, gives 16-hour audio/video recording in AVI format which is acceptable for the evidence in court or in police and army departments
o Super sensitive microphone can record the voice in a range of 15 square meters
o With delicate outline, fluent writing function, changeable pen filling is super vivid, long
o time used
* Specifications:
o Real-time date and time stamping
o 4GB built-in memory
o Video: 3,000K pixels, AVI format
o Built-in microphone
o Normal size pen with handwriting function
o Built-in lithium battery, can record for two hours if the battery is fully charged
o High-speed USB 2.0 interface
o Portable U-disk function
o Supports firmware upgrade
* Packing includes:
o Pen DVR
o User manual
o Emergency charger
o USB connector
o Charger connector
o Two pieces extra refills for the pen
o Nice gift box
* Parameters:
o Image rate: 15 to 30fps (frames)
o Sensitivity: 0.6 lux (1.3V/lux sec)
o Lens exterior: 8 x 8
o Object lens: 2.8mm
o Focus: 2.6mm
o Video resolution: CIF 640 x 480 pixels
o Dimensions: 150 x 15.6mm
o Weight: 46g
* Product applications:
o Police can use it for law enforcement
o Lawyers can use it to collect evidence
o Reporter can use it to interview in special occasion
o For stealth surveillance

Redleaf Technology (HK) Industry Co.,Ltd
Block A2, Hangcheng Industry Park,
Gushu, Bao'an District
Shenzhen
Guangdong
China 518000
Tel: (86 755) 27479943 (86 755) 83205823 Ext : 801
Fax: (86 755) 83208897

Homepage Address
www.hkredleaf.com.cn

Exorcising Ghosts Opera

I had heard a long time ago that Guizhou was the only place where an ancient opera of primitive culture, the exorcising ghosts opera (nuoxi), was still played. On my trip to Guizhou this time, I happened to see a few shows.

The performers were all farmers. The accompanying musical instruments included gongs, drums, and cymbals. With simple costumes and masks, they danced to the importance. Although this opera died out long ago in its birthplace, it still lives on in a border province hundreds of miles away.

The exorcising ghosts opera originated from a sacrificial ceremony for driving away evil and pestilence in ancient times. The unearthed objects from the Yin ruins in Henan Province showed the mask worn by the official of the exorcising ceremony. It province that this kind of ceremony was found in the Rites of Zhou, a book recording the system of the court of the Zhou Dynasty (c, 11th century-221B.C.). It reads, "With eyes shining like gold, bear paws over his palms and a red coat over his shoulders, a masked man waved a spear and a shield and led a hundred slaves to exorcise the pestilence...."

By the Han (206 B.C.-A.D. 220) and Tang (618-907) dynasties, the scale of the court exorcising ceremony grew even larger. "Masked Dance" and "Dance of Twelve Gods" appeared in the Han Dynasty. Folk exorcising dances became popular and more entertaining, with stories added to the rituals of offering sacrifices to the gods and exorcising ghosts.

During the Song Dynasty (960-1297), the plot of the story became more complicated and complete, and its masks more varied. Gradually, the ceremony developed into an opera.

By the 13th to 14th centuries, zaju, poetic dramas set to music, flourished in the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368). Instead of wearing masks, performers painted their faces with colourful paint and the exorcising opera was also replaced by different local operas. By the Song Dynasty (960-1279), the exorcising ghosts opera was introduced to China's southwest area by war refugees from the Central Plains. Later in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), soldiers stationed in the Guizhou border area also brought the opera there from the interior.

Now, the exorcising opera and many of its offshoots are still popular in Guizhou.


Wearing a mask, the actor enjoys the status of a god for the moment and can relish the fruits, wine and provisions proffered by the villagers.
However, the exorcising opera and sacrificial rite dance popular among the ethnic groups such as the Yi and Bouyei still remain at their early stage, similar to the sacrificial northeast Guizhou has reached the zenith of its development.

This opera is characterized by various masks made by local artists. In Guizhou, there are almost a thousand exorcising opera troupes and each one has some masks handed down from previous generations.

Looking at the masks, I could not but admire the ingenuity of those who carved them. By the hands of a skilled artisan, a piece of lifeless wood was transformed into an image full of artistic power. Ghost or human, every one of them looks unique and vivid. Further-more, the performers' exaggerated gestures and humorous lines also add dramatic effect to the masks. Though already different from their original form, these bold and vivid masks still capture attention with their artistic beauty.

The Mongolian Nationality

The Mongolian Nationality, who are the main body of the population of Inner Mongolia, have their own traditional social customs and etiquette which are especially imbued with the characteristics of honesty, courtesy and hospitality. When they meet a guest, they warmly shake hands with him and say "Tasain bainu" (which means "How do you do" in Mongolian). When the guest gets into the yurt, the housewife presents him a bowl of milk tea with both her hands and then puts all kinds of dairy food on the table in front of the guest. When the guest leaves, all the family get out of the yurt to say to him. "Good-bye and wish you a good trip."

The Mongolian Yurt, called " a vaulted tent" or "felt tent" in the ancient times, is a domed peaked tent. The frame of the yurt is a supporting ring, formed by some wooden poles. The wooden poles are fastened with leather thongs and studs to form a fence-like structure (which are called "Hana" in Mongolian). The frame of the yurt is covered with thick felt fastened from outside the yurt with ropes. Every yurt has an opening on the top, which provides both light and ventilation, and a wooden door facing south or southeast.

Mongolian Ox Cart
The ox cart, also called the "Lele" cart, is a traditional traffic vehicle invented and used by the Mongolian people. It used to be made of birth wood or elm wood. The cart itself weighs about 50 kilograms. It is capable of carrying a few hundred or a thousand kilograms of goods.

The Festivals
The major traditional festivals among the Mongolian people are the Off Year, which is on the 23rd day of the last month according to the lunar calendar, and the On Year, which is the first day of the first month of the new year also according to the lunar calendar.

The Mongolian people make use of the Off Year festival to worship the "Kitchen God" as well as to bid farewell to the "Kitchen God". They particularly worship the "the Fire God", believing that the "Fire God" could bring happiness and wealth to man. On the off Year Day all the members of the family are sure to come together to have a reunion dinner. When it is time to bid farewell to the Kitchen God, they throw a little food of all kinds into the fire and pray the god for blessings.

The Mongolian people make the On Year Festival (which is called the Spring Festival by the Han people) a chance to have their family reunited. Before the festival, they are busy getting everything ready, including beef, mutton, new clothes and delicious food of all kinds. On the eve of the festival, all the family sit at the dining table with cooked meat, dairy products and good wine, talking and laughing while they are eating and drinking. A large piece of paper, with their ancestor's name on it, is often placed in the centre of the dinner table, which indicates that the spirit of their ancestor would come back to celebrate the festival with them. On the first five days of the first month of the lunar calendar, they go to the friends and relatives' yurts, paying New Year calls and give Hada and wine as presents. In doing so, they often take back a small packet of tea with them, hoping that they would bring good luck home from outside.

Dress and Personal Adornment

In order to adapt themselves to the natural conditions, the Mongolian people have developed their unique national costume which consists of the loose sleeved tunic, the long sash, Mongolian boots and head ornaments (i.e. head-dress). The Mongolian women often wear head-dress while they visit their friends and relatives. The head-dress is made of agate, pearls, coral, jadeite, gem, gold and silver, with which many different beautiful patterns are formed. The Ordos women's head-dress is the most typical of all in Inner Mongolia. Made of valueable materials, it si exquisite and pleasing in form, weighing about 20 kilograms.

It is customary for the Mongolian women to wrap their heads in scarlet or green silk. The Mongolian men wear hats with heavy ear-flags in winter. The robes worn by Mongolian people have high collars and long loose sleeves, reach below the knees and button down at the right breast. The sash is often worn round the waist to match the robe. The materials of the robes can be silk, satin or cotton cloth. They are suitable for riding horses.

Marriage Customs
Two kinds of marriage customs used to be in fashion among the Mongolian people; snatching a maiden and making her a bride; making a proposal of marriage to the girl and her parents by offering betrothal gifts. The former custom had died out by the 13 th century while the latter custom has been handed down. In the pastoral area cattle, sheep or other live-stock are often sent to the bride's family as betrothal gifts. The number of gifts must be nine or can be divided by nine. This is because cardinal numbers are regarded as auspicious by the Mongolian people. The wedding often lasts two or three days.

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Liao Dynasty Street

Yingxian Wooden Pagoda is a world-famous Buddhist pagoda in Yingxia County under the jurisdiction of Shouzhou City, Shanxi Province. Now a new Liao Dynasty Street has been built to the south of the noted pagoda. Running from north to south, the street together with the wooden pagoda constitutes in the county.

The street was constructed in line with the architectural style and characteristics of the Liao Dynasty (916-1125). Its completion symbolizes the prosperity of the Liao Dynasty when the construction of the Yingxian Wooden Pagoda began.

Along the street stand buildings with the unique features of the Liao Dynasty. The organized layout of these buildings blends harmoniously with the street, creating both a simple and unsophisticated look. Some are two stories and some are three stories. Some have upturned leaves and some are decorated with crisscrossing beams. Each of these building links to another, forming a typical cultural street of the Liao Dynasty. Together with the wooden pagoda there is a unified architectural style.

The street is 340 meters in length, with a width of 18-meters (42-meters if the buildings on both sides are included). Its construction area covers 12,000 square meters. Twenty million yuan was invested in this large-scale project, where the market played the role of the lever without financial support from the central government. The local people have put their plan into practice and have also created a new way of developing local tourism. Now the Liao Dynasty Street serves as a tourist attraction with a special cultural flavor.

The street is also called a cultural street because it has such a deep cultural connotation. It lures tourists to take a long walk along it. Shops and stalls line both sides of the street and sell various kinds of goods and commodities, such as special local products, goods which are unique to northern Shanxi local food popular in the area beyond the Great Wall, and fine arts and souvenirs for tourists. The market scene is a symbol of the flourishing local tourism.


The Liao Dynasty Street in Yingxia County.
The magnificent wooden pagoda has stood here for 900 years. It is 60 meters tall and 30 meters in diameters at the base. As a representative of the architectural level and culture of the Liao Dynasty, it has become a noted historical site of cultural interest in the Dynasty, it has become a noted historical site of cultural interest in the Datong Tourist Area. Over the past 20 years, it has attracted numerous domestic and overseas tourists who have wanted to see for themselves its beauty and primitive simplicity. The cultural street has formed an entire architectural complex. As a window for both Chinese and foreigners to find out something about economic development in Yingxian County, the Liao Dynasty Street has put local tourism and the economy back on track.

Now the local people are working hard to level the ground in order to build a large square and the Pagoda Reflection Park to the south of the pagoda. They also plan to rebuild a section of the city wall around the square in order to show what the frontier fortress in the Liao Dynasty would have looked like, thus creating a tourist attraction with a unique atmosphere.

"Magpie Dress" in Yunnan

In the Yunnan local dialect, a small intermontane plain is called a bazi. Baofengba in Puning County is a village inhabited by the Hans. When I saw Luo Meiying, the township leader, she wore a typical peasant dress: a black cloth scarf wrapped apron on her head, a white tight jacket covered with a black lace vest, an embroidered apron around her waist, blue pants and embroidered cotton shoes. Sensing my curiosity, she told me that it was called a magpie dress because the black head and body and white wings.


The Miao women in Guizhou are good at weaving, dyeing and embroidery. They use homemade cloth and embroidery to dress and decorate themselves and their children.
The magpie dress was introduced to this Han village by Luo Meiying from her Yi village when she got married more than 12 years ago. She then changed the chintz scarf and white vest to black, making her look like a magpie which is regarded by the Chinese as a lucky bird. They believe that if a magpie sings in the tree in front of your house, your family will be fortunate.

Yi girls are known for their simplicity, beauty and kindness. Young men from Baofengba think themselves very lucky if they can marry Yi girls. They get to know each other while cutting firewood in the mountains, at country fairs and singing, dancing or drinking mountain wine at local festivals or activities.

When I visited a Yi village called Tianba, I saw a tiyue (dancing) scene. According to the Yi custom, Yi girls can only dance with young men from Han villages bring wine, sausage and candies to the appointed place and start a fire while waiting. When the Yi girls arrive, they all get up and greet them before sitting down around the fire, while the Yi girl gathers some brambles and puts them on the designated meeting spot to show her disappointment, thus breaking up the relationship.

But if a young man breaks his promise by not showing up at the appointed place, the Yi girl gathers some brambles and puts them on the designated meeting spot to show her disappointment, thus breaking up the relationship.

At Tianba, the old Yi houses with thick walls made of sticky soil look as a castle. In the past, there was always a dog crouching on the flat roof to watch our for people who came to attack the village. The frequent contact over the past few decades between the Yi and the Han has also resulted in intermarriage between the Yi and the Han. When the Yis found that the Han's brick houses with slanted roofs were durable and good for drainage, they also started to build their houses as the Hans do.

I was invited by a Yi family of Guo Xiaolan. They lived in a two-story house. Entering the arched gateway, I found myself in a small yard with a sitting room and bedroom in front and two rooms on each side: one that served as a kitchen and the other that served as a storehouse. It looked quite similar to the houses found in the Han village of Baofengba.

It was the slack winter season. A few young people from the Tianba amateur singing and dancing troupe were practising the Flower Lantern Opera, a folk opera which used to be popular among the Hans in Yunnan and Guizhou. During the Spring and Lantern festivals, a group of three to five performers would bring simple costumes with them and give performances from village to village.

After generations of intermingling with the minorities, the Han people have also been influenced by them in clothing and customs.

The Miao women are good at dyeing, weaving and embroidery. Not only do they wear colourful embroidered dresses, but they also dress their children in colourful clothes. Even the bundle cloth they use to carry baby on the back is also embroidered with beautiful patterns. Imitating the Miao women, the Han women also make embroidered hats for their children and carry their babies with embroidered bundle cloths on their backs. It is difficult to tell a Miao woman from a Han from their back. Assimilating and developing the best of different minorities, some Han women in minority-inhabited areas dress themselves in colourful minority costumes, and yet no one can identify them with any particular minority group.

The Han women living at Baofengba of Jinning all wear embroidered cotton shoes. As the shoe has an upturned tip which looks like a turtledove's head, it is known as turtledove shoe. Though most of the minority women living in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces also wear embroidered shoes, no one can say for sure who the originator is.

the Moon Festival

On the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar, the moon is round and the Chinese people mark their Moon (or Mid-autumn) Festival. The round shape to a Chinese means family reunion. Therefore the Moon Festival is a holiday for members of a family to get together wherever it is possible.

On that day sons and daughters will bring their family members back to their parents' house for a reunion. Sometimes people who have already settled overseas will come back to visit their parents on that day.

As every Chinese holiday is accompanied by some sort of special food. On the Moon Festival, people eat moon cakes, a kind of cookie with fillings of sugar, fat, sesame, walnut, the yoke of preserved eggs, ham or other material. In Chinese fairy tales, there live on the moon the fairy Chang E, a wood cutter named Wu Gang and a jade rabbit which is Chang E's pet. In the old days, people paid respect to the fairy Chang E and her pet the jade rabbit.

The custom of paying homage to the fairy and rabbit is gone, but the moon cakes are showing improvement every year. There are moon cake

hundreds of varieties of moon cakes on sale a month before the arrival of the Moon Festival this year. Some moon cakes are of very high quality and very delicious. An overseas tourist is advised not to miss it if he or she happens to be in China during the Moon Festival.

Poems on Moon and Home

The Mid-Autumn Moon
by Li Qiao

A full moon hangs high in the chilly sky,
All say it's the same everywhere, round and bright.
But how can one be sure thousands of li away
Wind and perhaps rain may not be marring the night?

The Yo-Mei Mountain Moon
by Li Bai

The autumn moon is half round above the Yo-mei Mountain;
The pale light falls in and flows with the water of the Ping-chiang River.
Tonight I leave Ching-chi of limpid stream for the three Canyons.
And glide down past Yu-chow, thinking of you whom I can not see.

Jingdezhen

Jingdezhen, formerly spelt Ching Teh Chen and known as the "Ceramics Metropolis" of China, is a synonym for Chinese porcelain.

Variably called Xinping or Changnanzhen in history, it is situated in the northeastern part of Jiangxi Province in a small basin rich in fine kaolin, hemmed in by mountains which keep it supplied with firewood from their conifers. People there began to produce ceramics as early as 1,800 years ago in the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the Jingde Period (1004-1007), Emperor Zhenzong of the the Song Dynasty. decreed that Changnanzhen should produce the porcelain used by the imperial court, with each inscribed at the bottom "Made in the Reign of Jingde." From then on people began to call all chinaware bearing such inscriptions "porcelain of Jingdezhen."

The ceramic industry experienced further development at Jingdezhen during the Ming and Qing dynasties or from the 14th to the 19th century, when skills became perfected and the general quality more refined; government kilns were set up to cater exclusively to the need of the imperial house.

Jingdezhen, the ancient ceramics metropolis, has been regenerated with new vigor since the founding of New China. It now boasts a ceramic research institute and a ceramic museum in addition to five kaolin quarries, 15 porcelain factories, two porcelain machinery plants, one porcelain chemical plant, two refractory materials factories and dozens of porcelain processing works.

The leading centre of the porcelain industry, Jingdezhen has been put under state protection also as an important historical city. With 133 ancient buildings and cultural sites, it is a tourist town attracting large numbers of visitors from home and abroad.