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Painting exhibition remembers calamity
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Source: CCTV.com | 05-12-2009 12:22
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A 50-meter long oil painting on show at the Capital Museum in Beijing has distilled the spirit of the Chinese people on canvas. The purpose is to remember the quake victims and salute those who contributed to the reconstruction.
A 50-meter long oil painting on show at the Capital Museum
in Beijing has distilled the spirit of the Chinese people
on canvas. The purpose is to remember the quake victims
and salute those who contributed to the reconstruction.
A minute of silence opened the exhibition, to remember those who lost their lives a year ago.
It was followed by a reading of the poem "Don't Cry for Me, Mom, for I'm in Heaven", and a performance by a children's chorus. The programs had participants remembering the very moment when the deadly earthquake jolted Sichuan.
