Shanghai Travel - Daizhou used to be a famous center of business

Daizhou used to be a famous center of business and commerce, and in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) its stores reached 131. At present, more than 3,000 precious cultural relics such as gold, stone and pottery objects are preserved in the county. The cultural relics combine the characteristics of the Hu and Han peoples and form their unique features, including rich dietary culture, elaborate architecture and ceremonious folk customs. Among all, paper cutting, dough modeling, embroidery and carvings make viewers gasp in admiration; dancing, boating and wrestling boast unique enchantment. The newly emerged folk painting spreads its fame far and wide to Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan as well as Norway and Sweden in North Europe, Argentina and Uruguay in South America,Shanghai Travel, etc. ¡¡¡¡ ¡¡¡¡Daixian County abounds in natural resources. Its golden crisp pear, luscious and tasty, is reputed as high-grade fruit and sells quite well in Hong Kong and Macao,China Pictures; the county is one of the four production bases in China for red capsicum, and its red capsicum has enjoyed a great reputation for a long time and entered restaurants in Europe and America; the rice produced in the area around the L¨¹tuo River is of top grade among rice products, and late Chairman Mao once spoke highly of it. The southern and northern mountains in the county are abundant in iron, rutile and gold, and have a good prospect for mineral exploitation. ¡¡¡¡ ¡¡¡¡Daixian is located in a temperate continental semi-arid climate zone. The four seasons are clearly demarcated. In winter, it is cold with slight snow; in spring, it is warm, dry and windy; in summer, it is fervent with plenty of rain; while in autumn, the sky is high and the weather is fine.

China Pictures - Repeated recordation of the Crescent Spring can

Repeated recordation of the Crescent Spring can be found in historical documents, closely connected with the Mingsha Mountain. According to historical records, the marvelous desert spectacle of Mingsha Mountain and the Crescent Spring has a history of more than two thousand years. Over all these years, people never foud out why drift sand did not fill the spring. ¡¡¡¡ ¡¡¡¡According to research, the Crescent Spring is embraced by sandy mountains on all sides, with the mountain ridges turning into a crescent shape as that of the spring. Wind blowing into such circular valley will spiral upwards according to aeromechanics principle. As the result, sand drifted down from one side of the mountain will be carried to the opposite side by wind. That's why sand never fills the spring. Owing to such a unique terrain movement,China Pictures, the sandy mountain and the spring keep a contradictory as well as a harmonious coexistent relationship with each other over two thousand years. ¡¡¡¡ ¡¡¡¡Reputed as the first desert spring under heaven,Shanghai Travel, the crystal clear Crescent Spring is one of the eight sights in Dunhuang. It is also a national key point of interest, ranking among one of the forty famous scenic spots in China.

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Daizhou used to be a famous center of business and commerce, and in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) its stores reached 131. At present, more than 3,000 precious cultural relics such as gold, stone and pottery objects are preserved in the county. The cultural relics combine the characteristics of the Hu and Han peoples and form their unique features, including rich dietary culture,Shanghai Travel, elaborate architecture and ceremonious folk customs. Among all, paper cutting, dough modeling, embroidery and carvings make viewers gasp in admiration; dancing, boating and wrestling boast unique enchantment. The newly emerged folk painting spreads its fame far and wide to Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan as well as Norway and Sweden in North Europe, Argentina and Uruguay in South America, etc.

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¡¡¡¡Daixian County abounds in natural resources. Its golden crisp pear, luscious and tasty, is reputed as high-grade fruit and sells quite well in Hong Kong and Macao; the county is one of the four production bases in China for red capsicum, and its red capsicum has enjoyed a great reputation for a long time and entered restaurants in Europe and America; the rice produced in the area around the L¨¹tuo River is of top grade among rice products, and late Chairman Mao once spoke highly of it. The southern and northern mountains in the county are abundant in iron, rutile and gold, and have a good prospect for mineral exploitation.

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¡¡¡¡Daixian is located in a temperate continental semi-arid climate zone. The four seasons are clearly demarcated. In winter, it is cold with slight snow; in spring, it is warm, dry and windy; in summer, it is fervent with plenty of rain; while in autumn, the sky is high and the weather is fine.

China Pictures - As the capital of the Zhao State in ancient China

As the capital of the Zhao State in ancient China, Handan has been nourished by the special culture. The rich sites of human culture inherits and continues the historical connotation of thousands of years here and the charm of Handan just lies in its ever-flowing cultural river. ¡¡¡¡,China Pictures; ¡,Shanghai Travel;¡¡¡Located in the south of Hebei Province, Handan City neighbors Taihang Mountains in the west, faces the Fuyang River in the east and has the Zhanghe River cutting through its south. It is low-lying and belongs to the South China Plain. About 450 km from Beijing, Handan has developed into an important industrial city in south Hebei.

Shanghai Travel - With a perimeter of 11.9 kilometers, the ancient

With a perimeter of 11.9 kilometers, the ancient city wall was 3.7 kilometers long from east to west, and 2.7 kilometers wide from south to north. Surrounded by a moat, the city had 3 gates open on the east, west and north walls each, and 2 gates open in the south wall. The gate was 7-15 meters wide. The present Qufu City is located in the southwest corner of the Ancient City of Lu State, occupying about 1/7 of the total area of the ancient city. ¡,Shanghai Travel;¡¡¡ ¡¡¡¡Built in the southwest corner of the ancient city, the inner city occupied 1/4 of the total area of the big city. In the center of the inner city was a highland where stood the palace and the royal ancestral temple. The Duke Zhou Temple, built in the Song Dynasty, still exists today. Official bureaus, markets and residences scattered around the highland. ¡¡¡¡ ¡¡¡¡Densely arranged workshops for smelting copper and iron and making bone and pottery wares were built in the north and west of the city. A burial ground was also discovered in the west part of the city. Over 100 tombs of the Zhou Dynasty were unearthed, together with wares made of bronze, pottery, bone, and mussel. These burial objects, with the common features of the Shang and Zhou cultures, proved that the Lu culture integrated with the two cultures. ¡¡¡¡ ¡¡,China Pictures;¡¡Rich cultural relics were unearthed in the city site. Over 36 sites have been recognized as key protection areas that provide valuable data for the historical study of the Zhou Dynasty.

Shanghai Travel - The city planning of Zhongjing City of Liao imitated that of Bianjing

¡¡The city planning of Zhongjing City of Liao imitated that of Bianjing City of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127),Shanghai Travel, with three rings of cities, namely the outer city, the inner city and the imperial palace. Taking a rectangular shape, the outer city was 4,200 meters long from east to west, and 3,500 meters wide from south to north. A gate was open in the center of the south wall, with a small defensive town built outside the gate that had a turret in each of the four corners. From the south gate of the outer city, the Zhuxia Gate, to the south gate of the inner city, the Yangde Gate, the whole distance was about 1,400 meters, with a 64-meter-wide street lying in the center. On both sides of the street, two drains covered with wooden boards led to the stone culverts cut at the foot of the city wall on both sides of the Zhuxia Gate. A saddle-shaped mount protruded in the center of the street, about 500 meters to the Zhuxia Gate. It is believed that this mount is the remnant of a building. Along both sides of the central street were symmetrically distributed streets, of which 6 stretching from south to north and 10 from east to west, all about 4-15 meters wide. These streets cut the city into lanes where lived the Han people. ¡¡¡¡ ¡¡¡¡,China Pictures;To the north of the outer city were sites of temples, posthouses and official bureaus. On the hillside in the northwest of the city scattered a number of temple sites. A multi-eave brick pagoda was built in the northeast corner of the south city, near the south wall of the inner city. Legend has it that it was a dagoba built in the Gansheng Temple, now known as Daming Temple, inside the Zhongjing City during the reign years of Emperor Zhongzong of Liao. Built on a 6-meter-high base, the octangular pagoda was 74 meters high with 13 floors. Seen from outside of the first layer, the front four sides of the pagoda were carved with figures of Buddha, Bodhisattva, Hercules and Flying Apsaras while the back four sides were divided into double layers, with the upper layer carved with the name of this pagoda and the lower layer with the name of the Bodhisattva. It was built with a simple and vigorous style that made it a masterpiece among architectures of the Liao Dynasty. To its southwest was another pagoda of 24 meters high, which known as Small Pagoda. Also an octagonal pagoda with 13 floors, it was believed to be built during the late Liao Dynasty or Jin Dynasty.

Shanghai Travel - Nanjing's tumultuous history, but a more commonly accepted

Nanjing Confucius Temple,Shanghai Travel, a shrine to Confucius, the famous thinker and educator during China's ancient Spring and Autumn Period, is both a historical building, and a museum that reflects the local customs and the ancient Chinese culture. In contrast, the recently-developed surrounding commercial area has developed into a weekend and holiday resort, as during the year there are different culture galas, such as a spring lantern exhibition, a summer folk-custom cultural fair and an autumn food festival. Outside the temple, clothing shops and restaurants line the main streets while stalls selling stuffed animals, plants, CDs and even more clothes fill the alleys. Tourists can always find souvenirs such as the usual jade trinkets, teapots, and paintings at shops around the temple complex. ¡¡¡¡Also, there are various Yuhuashi (Rain Flower Pebble), multicolored rocks special to Nanjing, on display. Some believe the colors come from the blood Chinese people spilled during Nanjing's tumultuous history, but a more commonly accepted story goes that a Buddhist scholar who preached in the southern Nanjing hills so moved the gods that they showered flowers down from the heavens in praise of him. Upon touching the ground, these heavenly flowers then turned into multicolored pebbles.

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Imagine: a collection of poems whose date of authorship has not been
determined. Imagine: a Chinese thinker about whom little is known and
whose authorship of the poems has been challenged. Then read statements
like these: "Accept being unimportant" and "Give up learning, and put an
end to your troubles." You have entered the mysterious world of The
Tao Te Ching.

Despite their cloudy and distant origins, the poems make many
statements that may sound curiously familiar to contemporary Americans. The Tao describes the allure and artificiality of wealth as it
reaffirms the value of a modest,Taiyuan Tours, balanced life: "Amass a store of gold
and jade, and no one can protect it. / Retire when the work is done. /
This is the way of heaven" -- a refreshing antidote to the
"keeping-up-with-Joneses" syndrome. The Tao relocates humans in an
ecological context where the company of humans is but part of a natural
world order: "Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care
for all things." How appropriate this injunction is today, when many
people worry that they must care for the physical environment that must,Taiyuan Pictures,
in turn, care for them. At the same time, the Tao questions the
value of abstract thinking in favor of selfless action: "Give up
sainthood, renounce wisdom. / It is more important / To realize one's true
nature." And, the Tao recognizes the limitations of coercive power
and encourages "leading, not dominating," certainly a desirable profile
for leaders of the future, where consensus-building might take place of
patriarchal authority.

For all its difficulties (of translation, of transliteration), the
Tao offers a restorative vision of a balanced human life lived in
the context of a natural world community. Do the poems describe a Chinese
society contemporaneous with the writing of the poems? No more than they
refer to societies years later and miles away. Do we need to know about
Lao Tzu in order to more fairly interpret the poems? Not if we read with
care and caution, recognizing necessary limits to our conclusions. [Next]

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