During the first one thousand years of Chinese imperial history，Beijing was a provincial city on the northern periphery of China....
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The earliest events of Beijing's history are shrouded in legend and myth.In the first volume of the Records of the...
The city of Beijing has a long and rich history that dates back over 3，000 years.Prior to the unification of...
The Book of Rites，literally the Record of Rites，is one of the Five Classics constituting the core of the traditional Confucian...
The Book of Han，Hanshu or History of the Former Han Dynasty is a classical Chinese history finished in AD 111，covering...
Shuo wen Jie Zi“Explaining and Analyzing Characters"），often shortened to Shuowen，was an early 2nd-century Chinese dictionary by Xu Shen from the...
Ancient China focused on the cultivation of great virtues and considered virtue as the highest.The meaning of virtue evolves with...
Inclusiveness means the ability to accept different people and things.It has two meanings:rone is tolerance and the，other is accommodation.Han Shu（History...
Innovation means to get rid of old things and come up with new ideas.Wei Shou（506-572），a historian in the Northern Qi...
Patriotism is a glorious tradition and the core value of the Chinese nation.It mobilizes all Chinese people to fight for...
Beijing Spirits:Patriotism，Innovation，Inclusiveness，Virtue Beijing spirits are a set of values and ideals created，passed down and practiced by generations of Beijingers，reflecting the...
Fragrant Hill is an imperial garden at the foot of the Western Mountains in the Haidian District，in the northwestern part...
The Summer Palace，literally“Gardens of Nurtured Harmony”is a former imperial palace and now a park and UNESCO World Heritage Site in...
The Ming Dynasty Tombs，literally“Thirteen Tombs of the Ming Dynasty”are about 42 kilometers north-northwest of central Beijing，Swithin the suburban Changping District...
Beijing is one of the most developed cities and economic centres in China.Its tertiary industry accounts for 71.3%of its GDP...
According to the Constitution of the People's Republic of China，the administrative division of China is as follows： 1.The country is...
Beijing Dust from the erosion of deserts in northern and northwestern China results in seasonal dust storms that plague the...
Beijing Air quality Joint research between American and Chinese researchers in 2006 concluded that much of the city's pollution comes...
Beijing has a rather dry，monsoon-influenced continental climate，characterized by hot and humid summers due to the East Asian monsoon and generally...
Beijing is situated at the northern tip of the roughly triangular North China Plain，which opens to the south and east...