1.A Brieflntroduction This is the map ofthe Forbidden City.The Forbidden City covers an area of 72 hectares①with a total floor...
Beautiful Scenic Sites
The edge of the Gobi Desert, Dunhuang may seem like an unlikely place to find an asis of Buddhist art....
Summers are pleasant but the winters are very cold and dry. The best time to visit is spring and summer...
Every region in China has at least one or two don't miss destinations, and Qinghai Lake (qinghai hu) and Kumbum...
Before you start, leave behind everything you don't need best to be mobile; at some point, you'l1 need both hands...
The saying, "the early bird gets the worm," is definitely true on Hua Shan. If you sleep in, you'll lose...
Visiting Hua Shan can be a day-trip, a two-day or even a three-day affair. There are two ways up Hua...
As the minibus ascends the winding road to Hua Shan, the jagged scenery unfolds like a captivating piece of Chinese...
221 BC, for the first time in its history, China was united under one emperor, Qin Shihuang of the Qin...
The Great Wall(wanli changcheng) snakes its way across northern China,from the Yellow Sea and past the Gobi Desert, for some...
During the Second Opium War in 1860 the Summer Palace was looted and partially destroyed by French and British forces....
The Temple of Heaven(tiantan) served Ming and Qing dynasty emperors as vast sacred space to perform ceremonial rites on behalf of...
The abode of 24 Ming and Qing emperors of the Celestial Empire, the Forbidden City gugong is a fittingly awe-inspiring...
This too is China and makes me have extraordinarily mixed feelings towards this country which i first got to know...
The 51. 4-meter-high Yellow Crane Tower (built in AD 223), together with Yueyang Tower in Hunan Province and Tengwang Pavilion...
"Tibet" comes from "Stod-bod", which was the old name before the Ming Dynasty.The Tibet region was called "Dbus-Gtsang" in the...
In the long history of the Chinese nation, the Yangtze River (6, 380 kilometers)and Yellow River (5, 464 kilometers), Chinese...
The Temple of Heaven in southern Beijing built in 1420, the 18th year of the reign of the Ming Emperor...
Fortification back to the year 656 BC. After over 2, 000 years of rebuilding, the Wall now stretches westward for...
Chinese Culture Cards "China is not only one of the world's oldest civilizations, but also the Chinese have created the...