Chen: Last year, of the 2.3 million GM vehicles sold in ChinaâShanghai GM sold more than 1 million passenger vehicles. Of the remaining vehicles, SGMW sold about 1.2 million mini-commercial vehicles, and FAW-GM sold about 88,000 trucks. Shanghai GM produces three well-known brands: Buick, Cadillac, and Chevrolet. Buick is by far the most popular in Chinaâwe sold about 550,000 Buicks last year.
Tea ceremony. A tea ceremony is a ritualized form of making tea practiced in Asian culture by the Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Indian, Taiwanese, and Vietnamese. The tea ceremony, literally translated as way of tea in Japanese, and art of tea in Chinese, is a cultural activity involving the ceremonial preparation and presentation of tea.
BDSM 101: Collaring and Collaring Ceremonies. I posted a few weeks ago about the ceremony that my esclave and I went through that formally acknowledged our relationship. In the lifestyle we call this a collaring ceremony. The collar is a physical representation of the spiritual bond between a Dominant and his submissive. A collaring ceremony is akin to a wedding in the non-kink world, and is where a Dominant claims the submissive partner and presents the collar.