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ORDOS , China, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- They live in different places. They belong to different ethnic groups. But they have one thing in common _ a strong will to pursue their dreams.
"My dream is to do something for my family," said Guangxi's Wei Yangzhe, who won the first prize in women's bamboo drifting at the 10th Chinese Ethnic Games here.
Standing on a seven-meter-long bamboo pole and using a much thinner bamboo in hands as an oar to glide on water, Wei looks like a steersman on a boat.
Wei was born in a poor family in Liujiang County , Guangxi Province. As the only university student of her family, Wei was placed great expectations. But she didn't get full support from her family when she started to practice the sport.
Wei's father was angered when she refused to go back home on Tomb Sweeping Day, or Qingming Festival, a traditional Chinese festival for honoring ancestors and the deceased.
"I love this sport so much," Wei explained.
Wei cried when her father offered a word of encouragement over the phone after she claimed the top prize at the Ethnic Games.
"It's a great reward to get my father's support ," Wei said.
Unlike Wei, Li Dan's sport is racing on a real boat. Yet, affection is the same.
"I don't cry very often. But most of my tears go to dragon boat," said the 30-year-old Li.
As a Beihua University student, Li was selected to take part in winter dragon boat race in 2002. Li and her teammates trained in such cold conditions that sweat froze very soon. For some moments Li couldn't help crying.
Li became a professional coach after graduation. Being a young and female coach , Li was often looked down upon. But she shrugged off all the skepticism choice but to lead the team to train harder and harder. Perseverance eventually paid off.
In 2013, Li's team won the title in a national tournament. When her team clinched two golds at the Asian championships one year later, Li could not hold back her tears any more.
With national and continental titles in hand, Li now has an even bigger dream.
"I hope that dragon boat racing would feature at the Olympic Games one day and I could stand on the Olympic arena," said Li.
Dream for contribution. Dream for participation. There is also dream for bigger challenge.
China's most famed high-wire daredevil Adili Wuxor announced during the Ethnic Games that he will attempt to walk above the Taiwan Strait.
"I have planned a tightrope walk across the Taiwan Strait for years ,"said the 44-year-old Uygur, who has several records listed with the Guinness World Records organization.
"It will be the first high-wire stunt above the sea."
Adili's feats include high-wire walks above the Yangtze River in 13 minutes and 48 seconds and between two apices of Hengshan Mountain in central China's Hunan province, the longest walking distance on a 1,399-meter-long wire at a height of 436 meters.
LONDON, May 26 (Xinhua) -- Queen Elizabeth will leave Buckingham Palace in a horse-drawn carriage on Wednesday to make her way to the Houses of Parliament to mark the ceremonial opening of British parliament.
It's an event that will show British pomp and pageantry at its most colorful: the Queen will be escorted by cavalry soldiers on horseback and the streets will be lined with spectators for the procession.
But before the Queen arrives at parliament , there will be political theater within the Palace of Westminster. Tradition dictates that a parliamentary official usher known as Black Rod parade along the corridors of the Houses of Parliament, holding a staff, to the main door into the chamber of the House of Commons, the exclusive domain of elected Members of Parliament (MP).
The large heavy door is slammed in his face and he then knocks three times with his stick. Eventually the door opens. Black Rod requests the attendance of the MPs to the chamber of the House of Lords, the meeting place of unelected peers and bishops.
The door knocking ritual symbolizes to the monarch the independence of the Commons , starting in 1642, when King Charles I attempted to have five members of parliament arrested. Since that date, the House of Commons has maintained its right to question the right of the monarch's representative to enter their chamber.
After the knocking ritual, newly re-elected Prime Minister David Cameron, his ministers , MPs, and opposition leaders and their MPs will then stroll into the House of Lords to hear the Queen's Speech in which she will outline the proposals due to be presented to parliament by Cameron's Conservative government.
Among those making that walk from the Commons will be newly elected MP Alan Mak, the first ever ethnic Chinese person to win a seat in the British Parliament. He won by a large majority on May 7, the only one to succeed out of 11 ethnic Chinese candidates bidding for seats.
Missing from the proceedings will be the four elected Sinn Fein MPs, the nationalist party members representing constituencies in Northern Ireland.
Sinn Fein MPs are not allowed to take their places in parliament as they have a long-standing policy preventing them swearing an oath of allegiance to the British monarch.
As well as not being allowed to participate in proceedings or vote , Sinn Fein's policy comes at a cost. None of the Sinn Fein MPs will receive their pay for the position, currently standing at 67,060 British pounds (103,400 U.S. dollars). Over the five-year life span of the last parliament, the protest cost the MPs a loss of pay around 2.6 million U.S. dollars.
For the longest-serving Sinn Fein MP , Pat Doherty, elected in 2001, he will have lost a total of around 2 million U.S. dollars by the end of the current parliament.
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