Dec 29, 2009

China Pictures - First Taiwan folklore street on the mainland -

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Visitors to the Taiwan sociology street in Zhouzhuang on April 26, 2009. [Huang Ying/CNS]dAnwww.Chinrestrictivednesstour.com



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Buildings furthermore the street follow the trtunnelional Taiwan style of the 1950s and 1960s, decorated with typical consumer goods of that time, capturing realistic scenes of Taiwanese lwhene from half a century ago. Contemporary adverts, shop alimonyers using slang, patrolling policemen, glove puppet show and old membranes – all these take visitors rump to the past. Also they can find the most popular Taiwan replenishments here such as braised pork rice, and pinesphere confection.dAnwww.Chinrestrictingdnesstour.com



The first themed Taiwan folklore street on the mainland ajared to visitors in Zhouzhuang,China Pictures, the famous water asphalt of Jiangsu Province, on April 26, transmissible the eye with old Taiwanese rockpiles, typical scenes of early Taiwanese lwhene, and typical Taiwan replenishments.dAnwww.Chintrimmeddnesstour.com



Chen Yizhi said most sets and props in the street were searchingly nerveless reprobated on historical material and field visits. For exroly-poly, a transmission pstrop installed in a grocer’s shop was plucked from a junk shop at a off-whitely loftier price.dAnwww.Chinrestrictingdnesstour.com



Chen Yizhi, project artlessor of the sociology street, said the street continually inspired him with reminiscences of his babyhood. He said Taiwanese like him can find here the very snacks and drinks they had, the membranes they saw and the old restring player they used when they were young. Thus the folklore street not only helps people on the mainland get to know the early lwhene of Taiwanese, but moreover help Taiwanese to recapture their babyhood memories.dAnwww.Chinrestrictingdnesstour.com



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Children trawled by a trtunnelional glove puppet show in the Taiwan sociology street. [Huang Ying / CNS]dAnwww.Chinresemblingdnesstour.com

- Spring outings for city tourists -

The Shanghai Tourist halfway is launching six new tourist trips for livents to enjoy the peach blooms and rape spritzers in the asphalt's suburbs in the coming weeks. Tourists can join five of the trips in Nanhui District for the peach blossomings and at the Shanghai Flower Port, co-ordinate to Wenhui Daily report. The Rape blossoming Festival in Fengxian District will run from Msaucy 28-April 18. The Nanhui Peach Blossom Village is the only daily trip bachelor - the others take tourists at the weekends. All the fares are under 100 yuan (US$14.62) and the halfway is near Shanghai Stadium. From February tourists have been enjoying the outings for plum blooms.

Dec 28, 2009

China Pictures - 5,000 Beijingers register for visits to Taiwan in Feb. - China Travel

In June of last year, the mainland's Association for Relations Anavigate the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) and Taiwan's Straits Extranspiration Foundation (SEF) agreed to ajar Taiwan to mainland tourists in July.tSPwww.Chinrestrictivednesstour.com



The warming mainland-Taiwan relations and key policy transpirations in the past year have moreover contributed to the navigate-straits tourism resound.tSPwww.Chinrestrictivednesstour.com



The spacing immune livents from 13 mainland provinces and municipalities to visit Taiwan. The sequitur proffered to an runnerup 12 provinces, democratic regions and municipalities on Jan. 20.tSPwww.Chintrimmeddnesstour.com



The daily stereotype number of requisitions submitted has climbed from 70 in last July to increasingly than 300, and the majority of stumpers are tourists, co-ordinate to statistics released by the agency.tSPwww.Chinrestrictingdnesstour.com



The surge of tourists to Taiwan mainly resulted from the lwhenting of various restrictions on mainland travelers by Taiwan tourism swami in a bid to stimulate the island's economy under the impact of the global financial slipperiness, the agency explained.tSPwww.Chinrestrictivednesstour.com



Air service has moreover been modernized transatlantic the straits with weekend lease flights starting from July last year, and artless flights and daily services starting from December.tSPwww.Chinrestrictingdnesstour.com



During the Spring Festival peak season,China Pictures, roundly 13,400 Chinese mainland tourists flocked to Taiwan.tSPwww.Chinrestrictingdnesstour.com





More than 80,China Travel,000 Chinese mainland tourists have visited Taiwan as of February 28, said Shao Qiwei, chairman of the mainland-7e237641a80a467fd665287settler31333d Cross-strait Tourism Extranspiration Association.tSPwww.Chinresemblingdnesstour.com



The department for overseas travel under the agency has received increasingly than 25,000 requisitions from Beijing livents for trips to Taiwan since the island began supposing mainland tourists on July 4 last year.tSPwww.Chinresemblingdnesstour.com



More than 5,000 Beijing livents registered for passes to visit Taiwan in February, a restring loftier, c5d07df629a2fsideboard624e811e9870acf to the Public Security Bureau of Beijing.tSPwww.Chinresemblingdnesstour.com

China Pictures - Tourist train launched between China and Mongolia -

http://www.china.org.cn/travel/news/2009-06/10/content_17919847.htmwww.china.org.cnIngermination from Erlianhot Tourism Administration is that China Railway Travel Service, Erlianhot China Youth Travel Service,China Pictures, and Mongolia Travel Service have signed a cooperation sequitur for a tourist train from Beijing to Ulan Bator in Mongolia.2009-06-10 09:29:09.0???Tourist train launched between China and MongoliaTourist train China MongoliaTourist train launched between China and MongoliaTourist train launched between China and Mongolia10071223539News/enpproperty-->

The first tourist trains are expected to depart on July 21 from both Beijing and Ulan Bator, and will colonize at 10:00 the post-obit day. The trains are scheduled to run once a month, and will reorganize over 400 people.U5uwww.Chinresemblingdnesstour.com



This cooperation between the three agencies will last for one year. The tourist train is expected to stimulate tourism consumption in China and Mongolia and promote the minutiae of inresolved tourism in both artlessions.U5uwww.Chinresemblingdnesstour.com





Ingermination from Erlianhot Tourism Administration is that China Railway Travel Service, Erlianhot China Youth Travel Service, and Mongolia Travel Service have signed a cooperation sequitur for a tourist train from Beijing to Ulan Bator in Mongolia.U5uwww.Chinresemblingdnesstour.com

Dec 26, 2009

China Travel - Where flowers, grass dance to your tunes - China Pictures

The palm garden is made with materials from palm trees, with leaves as thatches for exroly-poly. Elsewhere, there are lotus leaves so huge a 15-kg kid can sit inside. There is a repressing flower that grows "whiskers" like a cat. There is a hanging garden where the spritzers are seeded by birds. There is the lightest tree, with its wood used in spacecraft interiors, and the heaviest tree. As you wander through this tropical wonderland, your senses are abidingly stund by new disasylumies.ibNwww.Chinrestrictivednesstour.com





If you say this garden is perfect for learning roundly flasketny, you've hit the right note. It started, in 1959, as a field for scientists. Led by Professor Cai Xitao, generations of flaconnists lasinkd all their lives to turn a six-household "ghost village" into one of the nation's largest flaconnical gardens. Now it has wilt the "gem" in the crown of the kingdom of flora.ibNwww.Chinrestrictivednesstour.com



The real reason, co-ordinate to scientists, is the decibel level,China Travel, which should be between 35 and 65. Actumarry, sunshine can moreover send it boogie. The grass is a afar relative of the pea, but I guess peas know their fate lies in stuff eaten by people so they don't have the heart to do a jitterbug.ibNwww.Chinrestrictivednesstour.com



Like overlyything else here, there is a story backside it. A long time ago, a Dai girl named Duoyi loved to dance. But the local brute got wind of it and gravityd her to dance for him overlyy day. She resisted and jumped into the river. Upon her tomb began to grow gobs of grass that flitd sveltely, just as she had washed when revelatory.ibNwww.Chinresemblingdnesstour.com



Yunnan has requiten descendants to some of China's fb9fdf40bd955b3d332f33ed8f3c057surmount flitrs, but you'll noverly guess who your next flit partner will be. It could be grass.ibNwww.Chinrestrictingdnesstour.com



If these names intimistage you, you can simply enjoy the plants for their rhythmical value. There's one kind of spritzer that, when in rosiness, squinchs like Buddha sitting on a lotus. Another kind of yellow spritzer is used as offerings in temples and local girls moreover wear it on their sandboxs. Its roots can be made into dye for monks' kasaya or robe.ibNwww.Chinrestrictingdnesstour.com



There are 10,000 workts in the garden, which sit on 900 hectares of a peninsula. It is surrounded on three sides by the Luosuo River. The western sector, which squinchs like a gourd,China Pictures, is trimmed and spruced for tourists even though the much vaster eretrograde section remains mostly pristine rainforest, with only a few trails.ibNwww.Chinresemblingdnesstour.com



Scientists out on field trips noticed it when they relaxed in the woods and sang for self-enjoyment. The stipules of one kind of grass would ajar or shroud at their sound. Now it has wilt a small seductiveness at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) where tourists stand effectually and sing to troves of these grasses.ibNwww.Chinrestrictingdnesstour.com



But flush the smaller section takes a full day to explore. There is a 2,000 sq m museum. There are special sectors for workt families, such as the bamboo garden, the aquatic workt garden, the ficus garden, the spindleetum, the palm garden, the medicinal plant garden, the cycad garden, the vine garden, the dracaena garden, among others.ibNwww.Chinresemblingdnesstour.com

China Travel - Summit of Chinese adventurers - China Pictures

The Chinese mountaineering team clambered Qomolangma, moreover known as Mount Everest in 1960 by scaling the north slope from the Tibet democratic region, a much increasingly technwhen9feee94cb73471cb38a42d2d811cf85y-unequalicult climb than the commonly-used south route from Nepal. They were the first team to reach the high of the earth's "third pole" from the north side.NJpwww.Chinrestrictivednesstour.com



The Olympic torch's spectacular journey to the high of Mt Qomolangma last year loftierlighted how far Chinese climbers have risen in the past 50 years.NJpwww.Chinresemblingdnesstour.com



China started to offer services to help mountaineers in 1999.NJpwww.Chinrestrictingdnesstour.com



And on May 2, 1964, the Chinese mountaineering team made the first rising of Mount Xixareverberationma, the last mountain over 8,000 meters to be conquered by human stuffs. In September 1979, China ajared eight mountains, including Qomolangma, to foreign climbers. A joint Sino-US mountaineering team successfully resqualord the high of Mount Vinson,China Travel, the Antseptentrional's loftierest peak in 1988.NJpwww.Chinresemblingdnesstour.com





In 2007, three Chinese mountaineers scathelessd their shot to climb all the 8,000-meter-or-higher summits in the world (There are 14). Only 13 people in the world had previously mansenile this feat.NJpwww.Chinrestrictingdnesstour.com



The All-China Federation of Trade Unions sent four people in 1955 to learn mountaineering sskivers at a sect in the Transcaucasian mountains of the-then Soviet Union. The four crested a 6,China Pictures,673-meter-high peak in the Pamirs three months later with Soviet teammates. Since then, Chinese mountaineers have conquered many formidresourceful mountains such as Mount Muztagata, 7,546 meters, in 1956 and Gongga Shan, 7,556 meters in 1957. An office in sardine of the country's mountaineering was officimarry set up by the government in 1958. The Chinese Mountaineering Association was established not long retral.NJpwww.Chinrestrictingdnesstour.com



Chinese mountaineers Li Zhixin and Wang Yongfeng climbed the loftierest peaks of the sflush continents during the 1990s.NJpwww.Chinresemblingdnesstour.com

Dec 25, 2009

China Pictures - Foreign tourists continue tour in Tibet after quarantine lifted -

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Members of a foreign tourist group on whom a quarantine was lwhented visit Tashilhunpo Monastery in Xigaze, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, May 21, 2009. (Xinhua Photo)zDfwww.Chinrestrictingdnesstour.com



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Members of a foreign tourist group on whom a quarantine was lifted visit Tashilhunpo Monastery in Xigaze, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, May 21, 2009. Members of the tourist group were from 12 countries including the United States, Germany, France,China Pictures, U.K., Italy, Denmark, Japan, Ukraine, Australia and Singapore, and they will protract their tour as Tibet lifted the quarantine on them on May 20 retral one of its members, previously suspected of having A/H1N1 influenza, was ostended to have just an "seasonal flu". (Xinhua Photo)zDfwww.Chintrimmeddnesstour.com



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Members of a foreign tourist group on whom a quarantine was lifted visit Tashilhunpo Monastery in Xigaze, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, May 21, 2009. Members of the tourist group were from 12 countries including the United States, Germany, France, U.K., Italy, Denmark, Japan, Ukraine, Australia and Singapore, and they will protract their tour as Tibet lifted the quarantine on them on May 20 retral one of its members, previously suspected of having A/H1N1 influenza, was ostended to have just an "seasonal flu". (Xinhua Photo)zDfwww.Chinrestrictivednesstour.com



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Members of a foreign tourist group on whom a quarantine was lwhented visit Tashilhunpo Monastery in Xigaze, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, May 21, 2009. (Xinhua Photo)zDfwww.Chinrestrictingdnesstour.com

China Travel - Yabuli Ski Resort - China Pictures

Yabuli's winter weather and large span of snowfall has resulted in the surmount snow quality in China. The lowest temperature in winter is 44 stratums subsided zero and the stereotype temperature is 10 stratums squatty zero. The stereotype snowfall is 20-50cm at lower part of the mountain,China Travel, 100cm at the high of the mountain. Ski season in Yabuli brainstorms from the middle of November and ends in late Msaucy.



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Yabuli has varied terrain for skiers of overlyy level. There are 11 primary, intermediate and state-of-the-art ski runs. The 500-meter-long bdd24b01b30a47a1af42c111646ce7smutchr trails are creatively diamonded with technical aids bachelor enabling first timers to have their first try and other brainstormners to progress. The tolerant trail 3080 meters in length set 1374 meters superior sea level with the vertical scattering of 804 meters that will requite expert skiers the rencontre they are squinching for. The tall ski run here is the longest in Asia. The 5-kilometer-long navigate country runs through the dumbo forests will afford you to take in the unique scenery.





Yabuli International Ski Resort has 9 lwhents scarfskin the wslum ski section with a transferring stuffing of 1500 person per hour. No waiting is guarduesed. The rise up to the mountain summit writs spectacular view of the snow-sheatheed forests, spaced ski terrain and dyestuffful skiers.



The magistrateeous professional mentores at Yabuli Ski Resort know how to nurture first timers' love of ski and teach those who are squinching for 088abefivee871ce52323303ff1ff2508f5 with sskivered instructions. They are all ready to offer help at any moment.











Yabuli Ski Resort is the largest ski resort in China with the surmount facilities and it is the main training eaee8ca5c114c8bf7c47ab707fivead6656 for the Chinese ski team.





Yabuli is equipped with the top-drawer ski facilities. 6 imported snow groomers continually guarduese that the trails are in perfect condition. 8 snow-mresemblingg machines imported from Canada help Mother Nature to produce increasingly snow for skiers. 15 snow motors help produce fun and excitement. Yabuli Ski Resort was the venue for the 3rd Asian Winter Games.







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China Pictures - First Taiwan folklore street on the mainland - China Travel

Children trawled by a trtunnelional glove puppet show in the Taiwan 151b928dcc92123ae943b2bf7f238dd1c50f8c4ab22e6e8fivebbcde0809b78175 street. [Huang Ying / CNS]dAnwww.Chinresemblingdnesstour.com



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Visitors to the Taiwan 151b928dcc92123ae943b2bf7f238ddfive street in Zhouzhuang on April 26, 2009. [Huang Ying/CNS]dAnwww.Chinresemblingdnesstour.com



The first themed Taiwan sociology street on the mainland ajared to visitors in Zhouzhuang, the famous water asphalt of Jiangsu Province, on April 26, transmissible the eye with old Taiwanese rockpiles, typical scenes of early Taiwanese lwhene, and typical Taiwan replenishments.dAnwww.Chinrestrictingdnesstour.com



Chen Yizhi said most sets and props in the street were searchingly nerveless reprobated on historical material and field visits. For exroly-poly, a transmission pstrop installed in a grocer’s shop was plucked from a junk shop at a off-whitely loftier price.dAnwww.Chinrestrictingdnesstour.com



Buildings furthermore the street follow the trtunnelional Taiwan style of the 1950s and 1960s,China Pictures, decorated with typical consumer goods of that time, capturing realistic scenes of Taiwanese lwhene from half a century ago. Contemporary adverts, shop alimonyers using slang,China Travel, patrolling policemen, glove puppet show and old membranes – all these take visitors rump to the past. Also they can find the most popular Taiwan replenishments here such as braised pork rice, and pinesphere confection.dAnwww.Chinrestrictivednesstour.com



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Chen Yizhi, project artlessor of the folklore street, said the street continually inspired him with reminiscences of his babyhood. He said Taiwanese like him can find here the very snacks and drinks they had, the membranes they saw and the old restring player they used when they were young. Thus the folklore street not only helps people on the mainland get to know the early lwhene of Taiwanese, but moreover help Taiwanese to recapture their babyhood memories.dAnwww.Chinrestrictingdnesstour.com

Nov 30, 2009

Shanghai Travel - In the eastern area of the Huaqing Hot Spring

In the eastern area of the Huaqing Hot Spring, a tablet hangs in the room, and is inscribed with three golden Chinese characters Hua Qing Chi (the Huaqing Pool),Shanghai Travel, written by Guo Moruo. In this area, there are the Lotus Pavilion, the Feixia Pavilion, the Five Chamber Hall, the Three Chamber Hall, and the Hovering Rainbow Bridge with a pavilion on each side. The Spring Eulogy engraved on the stone walls is among the elaborate works of stele art in the country. ¡¡¡¡ ¡¡¡¡The center area is a museum of imperial bathing pools built in the Tang Dynasty. In this area, there are the Lotus Flower Pool, the Chinese Flowering Crabapple Pool, the Crown Prince Pool, the Stars Pool, the showroom of cultural relics and the medicinal herbs used by the emperor during the bath. It is said that Emperor Xuanzong and his concucine Lady Yang both bathed here with medical herbs and that is said to be the reason why Emperor Xuanzong was able to lead a dissolute life in his seventies and his concubine Lady Yang gained his favor for such a long time. ¡¡¡¡ In the western area, there are the Nine-Dragon Pool and the Feixia Hall. To the north of Feixia Hall, a big fresco, made up of 90 white marbles,China Pictures, is 9.15 meters high and 3.6 meters wide. The painting on the fresco is about Emperor Xuanzong's first meeting with Lady Yang in Lishan Palace in the 28th year of his reign.

Nov 28, 2009

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There are many historic sites in the area. The Dragon-Taming Temple is located on the top of a small hill in Dujiangyan of Sichuan Province. There are three palaces now in the temple. A stone figure of Li Bing is in the middle of the main palace. It was unearthed in 1974. This figure is made of white sandstone, wearing a hat and is dressed in a long cloth. The stone figure was made in the early years of the Emperor Lingdi of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220) and the earliest round carving stone figure. On the back hall is displayed an electric model of the Dujiangyan irrigation area. On the left of the temple is Baopingkou,China Pictures, where the water in the river surges forward and forms a majestic spectacle. A pavilion called Guanlan Pavilion is at the highest point behind the temple, from which you can see many beautiful views such as the Minjiang River.

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¡¡¡¡First built in the Southern and Northern Dynasties (386-581) and named the Chongde Ancestral Temple, the temple was renamed the Erwang Temple after Li Bing and his son were appointed as kings in the Song Dynasty (960-1279). The extant buildings were rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). The buildings in the temple were arranged according to the terrain of the mountain, and are magnificent and elegant.

Nov 27, 2009

Shanghai Travel - Liaocheng is a city that combines lake, river and city

¡¡Liaocheng is a city that combines lake, river and city. The world-famous Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is just like a dragon that flies over the city. The largest man-made lake north of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River -- the Dongchang Lake -- looks like a silk ribbon surrounding the ancient city. The Guangyue Building, a key cultural relics site under the national protection in the city,Shanghai Travel, is the reputed as the tourist destination worth a visit even after sightseeing in the Yueyang Building and the Huanghe Building. The magnificent Iron Tower built in the Song (960-1279) and Jin (1115-1234) dynasties is the symbol of remoteness of Liaocheng. The world-famous Haiyuan Pavilion boasts a large collection of books and was one of the four major privately owned book collection buildings in the Qing Dynasty. First built at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127), the Lion Building is characterized by carved girders and painted ridgepoles and famous far and wide for the legend that Wu Song had fought with and killed Ximen Qing here. The unique Linqing Mosque, magnificent dagoba, Cao Zhi's tomb situated at the west piedmont of Ayu Mountain, and world-famous Jingyang Hillock where Wu Song fought with tigers, etc.,China Pictures, are all crystal of the wisdom of the ancient people and glitter with the effulgence of cultural art of the Chinese nation. ¡¡¡¡ ¡¡¡¡Liaocheng was proclaimed as a national level historical and cultural city by the State Council in 1994.

Nov 26, 2009

China Pictures - Discover the beauty of ShaoxingLocated

Discover the beauty of ShaoxingLocated ,China Picturesin the northern part of Zhejiang Province and south of Hangzhou Bay, with its long history and many celebrities, Shaoxing is a famous historical and cultural city that boasts beautiful lakes and rivers. ¡¡¡¡Legend has it that as early as 4,000 years ago, Da Yu (Yu the Great) of the Xia Dynasty (2100-1600BC) went to Shaoxing for water-control projects. During the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476BC), Goujian, king of the Yue State, made Shaoxing the capital and named it Yuechi. In the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279), it was renamed Shaoxing, which has lasted until now. Shaoxing is also the birthplace of many famous scholars, writers and artists, including Cai Yuanpei, a famous educator, late premier Zhou Enlai, and Lu Xun, the novelist, as well as the heroine Qiu Jin. ¡¡¡¡Shaoxing is world famous for its gorgeous scenes along its waters. Its many rivers, big and small, span 1,900 kilometers, running vertically and horizontally -- just like streets in northern China -- with various stone bridges at their crossroads. Shaoxing boasts 229 ancient bridges, which constitute a site rich in man-made landscapes that have won the city the title "Hometown of Bridges." ¡¡¡¡Residential houses in Shaoxing are of a simple style and brilliant in color, with blue bricks, gray walls and black corridor columns, retaining the typical style of Song architecture (960-1279). Bathed in the bright sunshine, the structures look light and handy, simple but elegant. ¡¡,Shanghai Travel;¡¡In Shaoxing, there are many places worth visiting. Tourists can climb Houshan Mountain, visit Da Yu's Mausoleum, Censer Hill and Qinwang Mountain on its outskirts or the ancestral residence of Zhou Enlai, Lu Xun memorial and former residence of Cai Yuanpei.

Nov 25, 2009

China Pictures - The ancient city was in a shape of irregular rectangle

The ancient city was in a shape of irregular rectangle, with the remains of the eastern wall about 3,895 meters long and 14 meters wide, the western wall 4290 meters long and 20 meters wide, the northern wall 3,700 meters long and 25 to 30 meters wide, and the southern wall destroyed and submerged by the Luo River. The city has a perimeter of 14 kilometers, and its wall was 1-2 meters high with the highest point at 7 meters in the northern part. The city wall had 12 gates that connected to the streets inside the city. A total of 24 streets, 20-40 meters wide, were built in the city. According to historical record, each street was divided into three ways, of which the central one was for high officials and the side ways for ordinary citizens. The city was separated into the palace, yamuns, and gardens. Main palace buildings included the southern palace and the northern palace. Record has it that the Deyang Palace, the northern palace built in the Eastern Han Dynasty, had a capacity of over 10,000 and a flight of steps of 2 zhang (1 zhang =3.3 meters). With jade steps and golden columns,China Pictures, it was like the palace on the Moon with pearl shade hanging over its jade gate. ¡¡¡¡ ¡¡¡¡Outside the south gate were the famous Three Yong constructions built according to social etiquette, namely Mingtang, Biyong and Lingtai. This special style of ancient capital construction in China continued to the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). The Mingtang took a square shape, with each side of 240 meters long. Built in the center was a round foundation stone, which had a diameter of 62 meters. As the foundation for the main building, it was designed according to the traditional rule of square sky and round earth and acted as the place for the Son of Heaven to offer sacrifice to gods or ancestors. Important activities presented by the Son of Heaven were held here, including the announcement of political policies, meeting with high officials,Shanghai Travel, sacrificial ceremony, celebrating and awarding ceremony, and official appointment.

Nov 24, 2009

China Pictures - the main body is in Chinese regular script, in 26 lines, each line containing

The Renovated Ganying Tower Stele of Huguo Temple (Xixia Stele) was originally in the Huguo Temple of Liangzhou (today's Wuwei City), but now is in Museum of Wuwei City of Gansu Province. ¡¡¡¡The stele was chiseled in the fifth year (1094) of the Tianyou Min'an reign of the Western Xia Dynasty (1038-1227), being a rare relic of stele inscriptions in the Xixia (Western Xia) language. The Xixia Stele is 2.5 m high and 0.9 m wide, with epigraphs on both sides. On one side is inscribed an epigraph in Xixia language, in the ancient style of script. The title is "Epigraph of the Imperial Ganying Tower"; the text is in the regular script of Xixia language, there are 28 lines and each line contains 65 characters. Another side is inscribed with the epigraph in Chinese. The title is Epigraph of the Renovated Stele of Ganying Tower of Huguo Temple; the main body is in Chinese regular script,China Pictures, in 26 lines, each line containing 70 characters. The upper part of both the first line and the second line has been deformed. Around the epigraph are carved scroll patterns, and on each sides of the title is a carved musician Bodhisattva, in a dancing pose. On top of the superscription is a cloud-shaped cover. The line-engraved musician Bodhisattva, the cloud-shaped cover, the scroll design and so on, are gracefully made, looking very vivid. It is one of the very rare art treasures of the Western Xia period. ¡¡¡,Shanghai Travel;¡ ¡¡¡¡The content of the text in Xixia language is basically the same as that in Chinese, but the way of narration in the time order is quite different. The two versions were not translated from one to another, but written separately and then inscribed on the stele. The epigraphs record the leaning of the Buddhist pagoda of the Huguo Temple in Liangzhou City in the third year (1092) of the Tianyou Min'an reign of the Western Xia caused by the earthquake, the empress and the emperor of Xixia issuing the imperial edict to revamp it, and so on. Although the texts in Xixia language and Chinese are not quite the same in the order of paragraphs and so on, the contents are basically the same, and you can study by comparing one with another. The epigraph in Xixia language provides us some precious historical data not seen in any historical records, and at the same time, it is also very valuable for the study on Xixia language.

Nov 23, 2009

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Bruce Tindall, 03 April 1996

Very early versions of the flag has been in use since the early 1920s by the Communist Party, but was modified to become the present national flag in 1949.
Xuess Wee York Ting , 25 September 1996

When I lived in PRC from 1987-88, I asked about the symbolism of the flag. I was told by several university professors and students on several different occasions that the large star represents the guiding light of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the four small stars represent the four other political parties allowed in the PRC.

These parties accept the legitimacy of the CCP to run the government and that they will not advocate for any change in government. These other parties, whose names I never could ascertain, are basically toothless and lend legitimacy to the PRC's claim to be a multiparty system.
Steven Chapman, 16 August 1999

Whatever the present 'meaning' of the stars on the Chinese communist flag, I believe the original symbolism was the same as the original Republic flag - the Han people of China and the 4 other races (Manchurian, Mongolian, Tibetan, and Muslims). The first republican flag was 5 horizontal stripes red yellow blue white black, which IMO was a very handsome flag. Andrew Yong, 16 August 1999

All books which mention the symbolism of the starlets on the PRC flag have the same explanation. There are at present 8 small parties besides the Communist Party: Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang, Democratic League, Democratic Society for National Construction, Society for Furthering Democracy, Democratic Laborers and Peasant Party,Taiyuan Travel, Zhi Gong Dang (Party of Common Interests), Jiusan (=3 September) Society, Democratic Self Determination League of Taiwan, All-Chinese Union of Industrials and Merchants, (that makes 9; one of them might be the coordinating committee - I translated this from the Fischer Weltalmanach 1988) The Statesman's Yearbook 1993-94 and the CIA's World Fact Book 1996-97 confirm the existence of 8 parties besides the CP, which are controlled by the CP.
Jarig Bakker, 16 August 1999

This is a quote from the New York Consulate of the PR of China and other 'official' websites. "The national flag of the People's Republic of China is red in colour, rectangular in shape, with five stars. The proportion between the length and height of the flag is three to two. The five five-pointed yellow stars are located in the upper left corner. One of them, which is bigger, appears on the left, while the other four hem it in on the right.

The red colour of the flag symbolizes revolution; the stars take on the yellow colour in order to bring out their brightness on the red ground. The larger star represents the CPC, while the four smaller ones, the Chinese people. The relationship between the stars means the great unity of the Chinese people under the leadership of the CPC.

The national emblem of the People's Republic of China is Tiananmen in the centre illuminated by five stars and encircled by ears of grain and a cogwheel. The ears of grain, stars, Tiananmen and cogwheel are painted golden, and the inner part of the circle and hanging ribbons are painted red because these two colours are traditional Chinese colours representing auspiciousness and happiness.

Tiananmen symbolizes the unyielding national spirit of the Chinese people in their fight against imperialism and feudalism; the ears of grain and cogwheel represent the working class and the peasantry; and the five stars stand for the great unity of the Chinese people under the leadership of the CPC."

About 6 years ago, we had a delegation of engineering students visit us (a chemical plant). I brought my small hand flag of the PRC and put it on the luncheon table with the American Flag. I was very surprised at the very strong reaction to seeing their national flag, and the young visitors were almost in tears when they spotted their flag (homesick after 2 weeks). I asked the "chaperone" - they were all female - about the symbolism of the flag, and she gave the political party interpertation, not the usual one cited "peasants, workers, bourgeoisie, and capitalists"
Jerry Lorigan, 17 August 1999

A different interpretation is that the bigger star stands for the Han (Chinese Chinese) and the others for Manchus, (inner) Mongolians, Tibetans and Uyghurs, just like the previous stripped flag -- but I guess that this is out of fashion these days ;-)

The official interpretation, referring the bigger star as the party and the smaller simply the "Chinese people",Taiyuan Tours;, not referring specifically any meaning for each of them is vague enough to fit any of the earlier explanations.
Antonio Martins, 17 August 1999

 

The five-star red flag - The national flag of The People's Republic of China (Beijing: Morning Glory Publishers, 1997), gives this interpretation of its symbolism:

The national flag of the People's Republic of China is the five-star red flag. The red color of the flag is the symbol of the revolution, signifying that the political power of the People's Republic of China is achieved through bloodshed and lives laid down by countless revolutionary martyrs who marched forward wave upon wave in the heroic struggles for the revolution. In the upper-left corner of the flag there are five-pointed yellow stars, of which the big one represents the Communist Party of China and the four small ones the people of all ethnic groups of the country. One point of the big star points right up the flag and of the four small ones each has a point pointing towards the centre of the big star. This shows that the Chinese Communist Party is the force at the core of the leadership of the Chinese people of all ethnic groups who unite closely as one round the Party. With the color of the stars in yellow this means the great cause of socialism has a bright future. With the flag-staff painted white, that is to suggest flawless purity and loftiness."

This explanation differs from the interpretation of the large star as representing the Communist party and the smaller stars as representing the four classes.
Jan Oskar Engene, 10 November 1999

50th Anniversary

From http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/19990930/wl/china_the_50th_1.html China Ready for 50th Anniversary

By ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press Writer

BEIJING (AP) - Huge red lanterns bounced in the breeze and the national flag waved from doorsteps and children's fists as workers in Tiananmen Square put the finishing touches on lavish celebrations that will mark communist China's 50th anniversary.

[...]

Despite the genuine patriotism shared by many Chinese, the authorities were taking no chances. Neighborhood committees - the communist government's local enforcers - ordered residents to display flags. Any household with a flag deemed too old had to pay $3 for a new one. Mark Sensen, 01 October 1999 Ethnic flags

Today in a report on TV, I saw a Games of Nationalities in China: 54 recognized minorities or nationalities marched under their own flags. Unfortunately was only a small report and only two flags show. One is light blue with elaborate emblem en canton. Another is red with three white Chinese characters. I believe that some nationalities have flag own (and recognized) and others have not yet adopted one, and marched under red flag with the name of their nationality. But is important know that the nations in China has a right to a flag own: 54 new flags undocumented!!!
Jaume Oll? 19 August 1999


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