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Heshan Stone Carvings Jiayuguan Attraction

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Gansu China travel destination Heshan Stone Carvings Jiayuguan Attraction. View more details including related videos clips reviews comments and rating.

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Rock carving is one of the oldest fashions of painting; it was a spontaneous way for the ancients to depict the surrounding environment. The Heshan Stone Carvings are one of the kinds. They are a few meters elevated from the hillside of the valley. Although vary in magnitude, they generally stretch out from 0.2 to 2.4 meters long and 0.3 to 3.0 meters wide.

The carvings are incredibly simple yet vivid and intensively expressive. The carvings that centered on humans revealed ancient lives from dancing to hunting, from shooting to horse-riding, from military training to camel riding. The ones pivoting animals portrayed lively scenes such as tigers chasing after cows and sheep.
Among all, the carving of dancing scenes was the most impressive work with amazingly vivid characters radiating emotions, dynamics, passion, joy and even musical rhythm of the time. People were dancing in lines or circles surrounding their herds and animal accompaniers.

No scenes of farming or weapons of swords or spears were found in these carvings indicating that these ancients had a very high probability of being nomads who had no permanent residence and moved from places to places following weather and the seasonal changes in search for food, water and gazing lands. They wore robes and hats with feathers.

According to some anthropological investigation, these carvings to some extend revealed strong desires and passion of the ancient herdsmen for spiritual living and development. They dated back to the times of the ancient Qiang, and they are extremely valuable for archeological and anthropological research.
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The Qilian Mountain Jiayuguan Attraction

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Yunnan China travel destination The Qilian Mountain Jiayuguan Attraction. View more details including related videos clips reviews comments and rating.

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Introduction to the spot:
In the Qilian Mountain, there exists virgin forest, which covers an area of 157,000 hectares with wood reserve of about two million cubic meters. The plants there include spruce, cypress, poplar and willow, and various shrubberies. The Qilian Mountain is one of the major forest zones in Gansu Province. In the dense trees and snow peaks herds of deer can be seen.
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Desert Park Wuwei Attraction

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Xinjiang China travel destination Desert Park Wuwei Attraction. View more details including related videos clips reviews comments and rating.

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The Desert Park, covering 12,000 Mu, is a scenic spot embodied with desert landscape, grassland scenery and rural characteristic. In the past, the site of the Desert Park was successive dunes. From 1972, over 1.5 million trees and 5 million bushes were planted, which forms two strong hurricane-proof forest belts to fix the dune and it became a beautiful green oasis.
In 1978, the people of Wuwei established a desert park on this basis. In the desert park, there is a garden, a manmade lake, a swimming pool, a botanical garden, which is appearing the landscape of “Kiangnan north of the Great Wall”. Out of the park, there are spacious desert and the ancient Great Wall winding on the desert. Ascending high, tourist can taste beautiful oasis landscape and appreciate wonders in desert.
30 different dunes are the center of the desert park. In the desert park, there is a 32-meter-high gazebo, a swimming pool covering 4,000 square kilometers, racecourse, sand bathing spot and Damo Pavilion, Taoxin Pavilion, Yuanyang Pavilion and other amusement facilities. In the desert park there are successive dunes and various kinds of plants including birches, jarrahes and so on. The desert park is the first scenic spot in China embodied with desert landscape and desert oasis.
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Hashenha’er International Hunting Field Jiuquan Attraction

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Qinghai China travel destination Hashenha’er International Hunting Field Jiuquan Attraction. View more details including related videos clips reviews comments and rating.

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The total area of the Hashenha’er International Hunting Field is 8,292 square kilometers. The average altitude of the hunting field is between 3,500 and 4,000 meters. The annual average temperature is 6.5 degrees centigrade. It lies in the desert and hill, where is very cold. It’s a good place for hunting beasts. The number of beasts here can reach 5 orders 12 families. There are argali, bharal, Ohou antelope, white-lipped deer, wild camels, etc. The density of animals is 0.45 head per square kilometer. On the way to the hunting field, people can visit many scenic spots, such as, the Grotto with five Temples, the Ruins of Dangcheng, the Heigou Rock Paintings, the Yanchiwan Hot Spring, etc.
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Langmu Temple Gannan Attraction

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Hebei China travel destination Langmu Temple Gannan Attraction. View more details including related videos clips reviews comments and rating.

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“Langmu” in Tibetan means a beautiful “fairy”. The name is from that there is a stone which looks like a slim beautiful “fairy”. In local folk legends, it is said the stone is changed from the slim beautiful “fairy”. And there was once a tiger’s den hidden in the deep woods behind the temple. In Tibetan the den means Dehecang”. So the literal meaning of Langmu Temple means that a slim beautiful “fairy” standing in a tiger’s den.
The Langmu Temple and Geerdi Temple in Sichuan Province which are opposite each other across White Dragon river once were very famous and were in a great fashion for a long period in history. However, it was a sorrowful pity that the Temple was destroyed in the year 1969. At present, the Temple has been rebuilding year by year gradually.
There is a mountain in front of the Temple, which is looked like a monk’s cat. Red cliffs made of grit stones are towering in the east of the Temple and rock peaks are towering in the west of the Temple, which are craggy and rugged. There are very large verdant pine forests down the mountains.
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Relics of Huangniangniangtai Terrace Wuwei Attraction

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Yunnan China travel destination Relics of Huangniangniangtai Terrace Wuwei Attraction. View more details including related videos clips reviews comments and rating.

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Huangniangniangtai Terrace also called Yinfurentai Terrace is located Songjiayuan Village, Jingyang Town, 2.5 kilometers northwest of Wuwei City. Yinfuren, the wife of Lisi, King of Western Liang during Eastern Jin, made great contribution to the foundation of Northern Liang.
So people also call the Regime of Western Liang as “”the Regime of Li and Yin””. The ancient site of the Huangniangniangtai Terrace is 500m long from west to east and 250m wide from south to north with a cultural wall of from 0.62m to 2.3m. Nine ancient buildings surrounded by kilned archway were unearthed.
There are three different kilned archways the circle shaped, the oval shaped and the rectangle shaped. A number of relics including stone wares, bone corner bracket, bronze wares, among which the potteries are the largest in number, were unearthed. The swords and the awls are red bronze, caved or forged. The number of funeral objects in different tombs is different. The jade axes and jade gems, representing right and wealth, were also unearthed in the relics. It fairly stated that the people had entered late New Stone Age, a period the usage of bronze wares and stone wares.
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the great nunnery Gannan Attraction

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Ningxia China travel destination the great nunnery Gannan Attraction. View more details including related videos clips reviews comments and rating.

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There are total 8 pagodas around the great nunnery. After rebuilding, the area of the great nunnery is about 40 mu. The main building of the great nunnery is including 42 pieces of smaller nuns’ meeting rooms where nuns do religious activities together. There are many statues of famous figures in its history.
And there are lots of religious classics and religious instruments like suona horn,shell trumpets and others in main building. There are total 86 nun’s yards including 260 pieces of nuns’ dorms in the great nunnery. All the places make a relative independent living environment and a relative independent religious environment. There are very strict inner disciplines in the great nunnery.
The nuns are a main part of local Tibetan Buddhist cultures. till the year 1995 there are total 160 nuns and most of them are young Tibetan girls.The nuns are a very special social group. For the living Buddha, there are Gulangjiasai ,zhuoluo and others.every year,its Buddhist activities will be held for days in January, March, April ,August and May in lunar calendar. At that time hundreds of pilgrims will come here to worship the Buddha and other saint figures. Around the great nunnery a beautiful picture made of natural sights connected with human sights naturally. It is a particular scenic spot.
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Wang Mu Palace in Jingchuan(national AA level) Pingliang Attraction

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Henan China travel destination Wang Mu Palace in Jingchuan(national AA level) Pingliang Attraction. View more details including related videos clips reviews comments and rating.

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Wang Mu Palace
Wang Mu Palace was built by digging the mountain, its appearance takes a shape of Chinese character “?”, outside there are three-storey grotto eaves, constitutes the main body of Xi Wang Mu main hall, Dong Wang Gong main hall, the side hall and Hui House. Among the numerous steles of Wang Mu Palace, the Praise Stele of Wang Mu Palace being the most famous one and was crowned a gem.
Yao Pool
Around the Yao Pool, trees grow up to touch the sky and form shadows and the tinkling and tingling spring runs into the?? River. Go up the staircases, the winding path leads to a secluded quiet place with unique and intriguing flowers and grasses. It is really a spectacle. According to the tradition, Yao Poll holds the Xi Wang Mu feast every 20th day of the Third lunar year. And at that time, people from far and near come here to make their pilgrimages to Xi Wang Mu. The mountains and seas of people make a grand view.
Wang Mu Palace Grotto
Wang Mu Palace Grotto lies beside the Hui House, was dug and built in the Taihe Period of the Northern Wei, dating back about 1400 years. Inside there stands the square centered pillows and 200 Buddha statues. Outside there stands the stately four-storey wooden air garret. The grotto has high sight value and helps to do archaeological studies on Buddhist culture.
Hui House
Hui House is situated at the foot of Hui Mountain, was said to be the living place of Xi Wang Mu. In 24th, Feb. 1992, a group of more than 30 people from Taiwan Fengdeyu Hall come to make pilgrimages and took the photos of Hui House, in which Wang Mu seemed to once appear in the reality.
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Yuquan Taoist Temple Tianshui Attraction

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Shandong China travel destination Yuquan Taoist Temple Tianshui Attraction. View more details including related videos clips reviews comments and rating.

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Brief introduction
Yuquan Taoist Temple was first built in 1281 of the Yuan Dynasty (1206-1368), collapsed, destroyed and rebuilt several times. Yuquan Taoist Temple was once named as Chengbei (northern city) Temple, Chongning and Guashan temples. When the local officials submitted a statement to ask the court to build a Taoist temple here, they referred to the place as a famous mountain with a jade spring. So the temple was called Yuquan (jade spring) Taoist Temple later.
Yuquan Taoist Temple is located in the northwestern part of Qincheng (ancient Tianshui), within the Yuquanguan Park. With graceful cypresses towering above, and some great views of Qincheng below, the temple, and the park form a peaceful and pretty ambience. The main constructions in the temple include the Pavilion of Jade Emperor (Supreme Deity of Taoism), Sanqing Temple, and some large-scale grand Taoist building groups built around. Most of the buildings were built against the mountain and face south.
Yuquan Temple is located up on the main hill of the park, with long stone steps leading up to the temple gate. After entering the gate are the two small temples of the sun and the moon and the two halls of black dragon and the white tiger (the black dragon and the white tiger are two immortals in the Taoist legendary). Crossing the two halls, you can see the Pavilion of Jade Emperor, and on the stele hung on the gate of the pavilion are four Chinese characters meaning “Heaven and earth — a world of difference”.
On both sides of the Pavilion are the halls of two Taoist immortals, Leizhu and Sanguan. The main hall here is the Hall of Lord Lao [Chinese philosopher of the late Spring and Autumn Period (770BC-476BC) and the founder of Taoism], where the statues of the Taoist deities are set. In front of the hall is a jade spring (Yu Quan). It is said the water in the spring can cure eye illness, thus the spring is also called “Bright-eye” Spring.

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Jiayuguan Pass Jiayuguan Attraction

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Sichuan China travel destination Jiayuguan Pass Jiayuguan Attraction. View more details including related videos clips reviews comments and rating.

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The Jiayuguan Pass was one of great strategic importance. The existing Jiayuguan Pass walls were built in the time of Ming Dynasty. The construction of these walls began in 1372. It was not until 1539 that the they became a complete defense system, which had three defense lines, the entrenchment, the outer wall, and the inner wall.
The inner wall is 10.7 meters high and encloses a city section of about 25,000 square meters. It has two gates, namely the Rouyuan Gate in the west and the Guanghua Gate in the east (Rouyuan means appeasement and Guanghua means brilliance in Chinese). Both of the two gates have defensive enclosure structures.
On the walls there are 14 pavilions. Inside the wall, there are also many spots of interest, such as the General’s Mansion, the Well Pavilion, and Wenchang Pavilion. Outside the eastern gate, there is a Guanyu’s Temple (in honor of General Guanyu who lived in the period of Three Kingdoms), a memorial archway, and an opera tower. The overall layout of the section in the inner wall is integrated and well-organized.
The walls at the Jiayuguan Pass linked with the Great Wall, formed a strongly fortified defensive system. There are many legends concerning the construction of the walls: “goats carrying bricks on their backs”, “the foundation brick”, “transporting wall stones on an icy path”. All of these stories give people a sense of mystery.
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