2006-01-14





Part I: Opening and Letters

A: Hello and welcome to Listeners' Garden. I'm LPC.

B: And I'm XH.

A: In today's program, on the request of Singaporean listener Alex Long, we'll provide some info on the xiao, a vertical bamboo flute and one of China's most famous wind instruments.

B: Following that , we'll try out another Chinese idiom, with the expression (笑里藏刀), meaning to "Hide a dagger within a smile".

A: But to experience genuine joy, let's first check our mailbox for some more interesting letters from our listeners.

Bill Watters from the USA
Ni Hao! Today Dec.31 I heard your program with greetings and listeners’ messages. Thanks for reading my e-mail on the program. You wondered what Chinese movies I had watched recently. One was Kung Fu Hustle. The other was The Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. The new King Kong movie is also very popular here, but I've yet to see it. Wishing you all a very happy, healthy and safe 2006. Oh! and Thanks for the QSL card, showing a Chinese Pangolin. It’s the first time I’ve seen this animal. Host: So what do you think of those Chinese movies you mentioned? In fact, if you’re interested in Chinese film, you might want to check out a recent feature on In The Spotlight, when we had a look at the domestic film industry, which enjoyed its one hundredth anniversary in 2005.