Beijing China

Sun Yat-sen’s Residence (in simplified Chinese 孙中山行宫) is located in 23 Zhang Road. In the Ming dynasty it was actually the home of the emperor Chongzhen’s wife, called Spring Garden. This land was later been used by the late Qing Dynasty as a park. During early years of the Republic it was the chief diplomatic residential Wellington Koo.

Sun Yat-sen, after discussing with his family in 1924, decided to live in this place. He also used this place as an office for handling the affairs of the state. On March 12, 1925, Sun Yat-sen died in the bedroom in this residence, three days after the transfer of Hope Temple in Xiangshan. Here it is one of the key units to be protected in Beijing.

Beijing Song Temple and Intelligence Temple (in simplified Chinese北京嵩祝寺及智珠寺) are located at Back Street in Dongcheng District. There were in a row of three large temples: the East for the Law-Yuan Temple, the central part for Song Temple, and the west it is the Intelligence Temple. These temples are the remains in the Han Ming Dynasty and are renovated by the fans of these temples as well as the religious associations.

Before and after the Law Yuan Temple there are totally 5 halls, including the Shanmen Hall, King Hall, Measureless Hall, Main Hall and the Backyard. Sadly, all these halls are abandoned nowadays.

Beijing Phoenix Ridge Natural Scenic Area (in simplified Chinese 北京凤凰岭自然风景区) is located in the territory of the Western Hills in Haidian District, covering an area of 973 hectares. It is a combination of surprising great scenery, humanities and religious waterfall. Therefore, it is really a very famous place in Beijing and forest coverage rate of the area was up to 90%, and air purity is 5 times of that of the urban area. In this area, there is a wide range of natural human landscape like Lee Yi Port, Kowloon female Tuo, water and yellow rocks & P Center, Fu-Sheng Temple, Miu Temple, Temple Cloud, etc.

Beijing Tong Education Temple (in simplified Chinese北京通教寺) is located in 19 North Needlework street. The temple covers an area of more than 2.5 thousand square meters. It was built in the Ming Dynasty and in Qing Dynasty it changed its name to “Tong Education Buddhist temple.” In 1942 under the supervision of the monks coming from Fujian to Beijing, the temple was opened, and there were two monks managing the temple. After a monastery expansion, the temple changed its name to “Tong Education Temple.”

Beijing Phoenix Pavilion (in simplified Chinese北京凤凰亭) is a very famous tourist attraction in Beijing. It is located in Yanshan in Fangshan District on the hillside of the road. It is a pavilion with a lot of heavy stones. Vertically inside the pavilion there are some remains that show that the pavilion was built at nine years of Qing Emperor Yongzheng (1731). In the pavilion, it is written the words “Xi Mountain Light Fong Shengde inscriptions.”

This pavilion is really very beautiful. In the past, it was just a stone with names on it. However, after years of construction and decoration, it has become such a beautiful pavilion in Beijing. You would be able to see a lot of beautiful views when you reach this pavilion because it is located at hillside and therefore, when you climb up to this pavilion, you would be able to view the bottom and see the beautiful Beijing city.

Beijing People’s Heroic Monument (in simplified Chinese北京人民英雄纪念碑) is located in Tiananmen Square Center. At September 30, 1949 the Chinese People’s Political Consultative first plenary session adopted a resolution to build the monument, and the foundation stone of the monument was laid by Mao, the Chinese leader at that period. After extensive discussion by the National the monument type was determined in August 1952 in an official building, and it was completed in April 1958. At May 1 the same year, the grand opening of the monument was held.

Beijing Great Hall of the People (in simplified Chinese北京人民大会堂) was built from October 1958 to August 1959 entirely by the Chinese designers in just 10 months and this marks a great history of our country’s modern architecture.

The Great Hall of the People’s Republic has a place for hanging of the national emblem, and the place is very eye-catching. The whole building roof was green with yellow glass mosaic products, showing the grand solemn in a simple and elegant style and a bit extraordinary for modern national building.

The Great Wall Beijing Session, 北京万里长城北京段, Great Wall

The Great Wall Beijing Session (in simplified Chinese 北京万里长城北京段) is the most ambitious defense project in ancient China and it was founded in the Spring and Autumn Dynasty (before and after the seventh century BC), before Qin Dynasty’s Great Wall project at west Pro Peach (Minxian Gansu), along Yinshan. This Session is east to Liaodong jieshi, and is as long as Yu Hua Session. The Great Wall Beijing Session is known as “The Great Wall”, and nowadays there are still remains of the Great Wall.

Beijing Wangfujing Commercial Street (in simplified Chinese北京王府井商业街) is located downtown on the north side of East Chang’an Avenue. It has a long history, first formed in the Yuan Dynasty 700 years ago. At the mid-Ming Dynasty, the street was the first commercial street.
In the Qing Dynasty, it built on the street for eight Wangfu Princess House, and later a well was drilled for water and the water are found to be very sweet. Therefore, this gives to the name of the Wangfujing Street. In 29 years of Guangxu in Yuan Dynasty, Wangfujing Street has it commercial development began and the street becomes one of Beijing’s four major commercial areas.

Beijing Tomb of 318 Incident (in simplified Chinese 北京三一八烈士墓) is located  at the southwest corner of Haidian District, and there are the Yuanmingyuan Ruins nearby. In 1929, it was built to commemorate the 1926 “318″ tragedy of the 47 martyrs who sacrificed.

Tombstone was sitting south, with a 5-meter-high hexagonal monument standing at the tomb of the base of 60 square meters, and the monument engraved had the words of “Monument to the Martyrs of March 18,” and there are the names of the martyrs marked on the stone. The tombstones of 1971 “318″ martyrs LIU Bao-Yi, Jiang, Liang Chen were moved from Beijing Institute of Technology to this tomb to commemorate their great contribution in fighting for democracy.