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A film adaptation of the best-selling novel Gui Chui Deng, or "Ghost Blowing Out The Light", has received critical acclaim for its spectacular depiction of tomb raiders and afterlife.
Industry sources say the scenes in "Mojin, The Lost Legend" could be an indication that the country's cinema regulators are loosening up on previously forbidden areas.
"Ghost Blowing Out The Light" is a fantasy novel written by Zhang Muye about two grave robbers seeking hidden treasures. It was first published online in 2006 and quickly became the bestselling online novel in China with an estimated six million readers. When it was published in print form later the same year, it went on to sell over 500,000 copies. The novel is widely regarded as one of China's most popular works of fantasy.
However, turning the work into a film script posed a massive challenge for the producers, Wanda, Huayi Brothers and Enlighten Media.
According to an unwritten rule in China's movie regulations, ghosts cannot be portrayed on in movies, and raiding tombs is an illegal activity that should not be presented.
However these were the two key elements which had fascinated fans.
Coincidently, just three months ago, "Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe", the first feature movie based on some parts of the novel, was fiercely criticized by fans for excessive rewriting of the story.
In the movie made by LeTV, ghosts are portrayed as alien creatures who came to earth thousands of years ago.
This is NEWS Plus Special English.
Second-hand smoke exposure has dropped in China despite an increase of 15 million smokers in the past five years.
A domestic smoking report has found that compared with 2010, the second-hand smoking exposure rate fell from 35 percent to 17 percent in primary and middle schools, and from 55 percent to 38 percent in government buildings.
The report was released by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Second-hand smoking also dropped in workplaces, restaurants, public transport vehicles and medical institutions.
Chinese smoking population has increased to 316 million, or 28 percent of the total targeted population. The smoking rate was 52 percent for males and almost 3 percent for females.
