Chinese Cost Player girl

Cost play has a several meanings, but the most relevant is the words costume and play.

If you want to wear a costume while attending an event perhaps even to compete then you have enter the exciting world of cost play.
Zhi Zhanj, 22 is team leader of Valkyria cost players in China.

She is known among the children in her city for being cost player character of Mio in famous Japan cartoon K-on.
She has interested in cost play since 2004 when she was in school.

Since 2004 Zhi Zhanj hardly worked with her team to perform as best as they can to win Cost play competition, which held every year in Gonjo big city of Chine.

“It was really hard to compete with other teams they all were very beautiful and worked very professional and spending a lot of money for their presentation.” Said Zhi

On 2006 Valkyria team won best cost player prize in Gonjo , China.

“ Judges liked the way we presented, we choose different type of closed and from not well-known cartoon to make audience to know about other cartoons characters which usually other teams were choose same character every time and people were bored by them.

Zhi Zahan likes to be a cast player whenever she performing in stage it gives her different feelings separate from normal daily life.

I asked her what is the different between real Zhi Zhanj and Mio character.

“Well Mio she is very shy girl while I am not at all but basically you have a different faces and characters like sometime you are princes or sometimes you are witch which means I am not as soft as princes and not bad as witch.” she smiled and said.

In China "cosplay" as a hobby is usually an end unto itself. Likeminded people gather to see other costumes, show off their own elaborate handmade creations, take lots of pictures, and possibly participate in best costume contests. Mostly they are playing for Japans cartoons since in China Japanese cartoon are most famous for their outstanding animation.

However, for Chinese people in some circles, "cosplay” expanded to mean simply wearing a costume, having fun and spend nice time by enjoying watching their popular cartons characters alive.

Zhi Zahan being known as Mio cartoon character said: “ For me its only entertainment and fun its not the field of carer for me its not a way of making money.”

Zhi Zahan doing her MAJ in Westminster University in London she wants to be a magazine editor in China in a future. And she wants to continue to be cost player as well.

By Sadia Hasanzada

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“Rosetta Stone should be given back to Egypt”

Egyptian academic ask Britain to give back the Rosetta stone.

Dr.Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquates said Britain must return the icon of Egyptian identity which is kept in British Museum in central London.

He did not believe that Britain had looked after the stone properly.
“They kept it in dark badly lit room until I came and asked it and now it became important to them” said Dr. Zahi Hawass in his interview with “London Evening Standard” newspaper.

The Rosetta stone is an Ancient Egyptian artifact which was instrumental in advancing modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. The stone is a Ptolemaic era stele with carved text made up of three translations of a single passage two in Egyptian language scripts and one in classical Greek.

Rosetta stone was discovered by French troops 1799 in during Napoleons campaign in Egypt. It was given to British Museum by France for demonstrating in 1801 under the Treaty of Alexandria. Since that time it was kept in British Museum.

Randa El-Tahawy an Egyptian student of Westminster University says many of Egyptian historical heritage are displays in European Museums, because previously we couldn’t look after them properly but since Dr. Zahi assigned as a supreme council of antiquates the situation of historical ancient became batter. He is doing very good job he organized institution to look and repair all historical heritage. So now there is no reason to keep them outside of the country we should bring them back.

“Its our right to ask them back it’s a part of our culture we have to preserve it.” says Randa
Egypt is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world's most famous monuments, including the Giza pyramid complex and its Great Sphinx.

The southern city of Luxor contains numerous ancient artifacts, such as the Karnak Temple and the Valley of the Kings. Egypt is widely regarded as an important political and cultural nation of the Middle East. And to collect its entire ancient heritage they requested the return of the Rosetta stone in 2003 as well. But a Britain is not willing to give this stone back they said the collection must remain as a whole.

By Sadia Hasanzada

Image taken from this site:

http://www.uncp.edu/home/rwb/Rosetta_Stone_BW.jpeg