Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 at 10:06 pm
Zhongnanhai (in simplified Chinese中南海) is located at Xicheng District. It was the open sea in the Jin and Yuan Dynasty and later it was turned to South China Sea in the early Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty and it was collectively known as Court ban.
The main building of the Zhongnanhai includes Shuiyun pavilion and there is a sentence in the middle of the pavilion written as “The autumn wind is too fluid,” and the monument is for “Yanjing Eight”. In addition there is Ziguangge, such as banana garden. Yingtai has main features for the South China Sea (Zhongnanhai) and there are Luan Xiang Ge, Dian-yuan Han, Dian-Xiang Habitat (the Penglai Pavilion), Ying-ting, and smoked building. There are also a lot of flowers, rocks, pavilions and some flowers live over the water, which are beautiful and pleasant. The Zhongnanhai has some gardens, the Huairen Hall and other halls in the building sea. In the early years of the Republic has established the Office of the President here.
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Zhongnanhai located at Xicheng District333 words, reading time ~ 1:20 mins
Friday, January 27th, 2012 at 10:07 pm
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.
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Sun Yat-sens Residence located in 23 Zhang Road334 words, reading time ~ 1:20 mins
Saturday, November 26th, 2011 at 10:06 am
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.
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Beijing Phoenix Ridge Natural Scenic Area346 words, reading time ~ 1:23 mins
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011 at 10:08 am
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.
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Beijing Phoenix Pavilion332 words, reading time ~ 1:20 mins
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011 at 10:20 pm
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.
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Beijing People s Heroic Monument348 words, reading time ~ 1:24 mins
Monday, September 12th, 2011 at 10:18 am
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.
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Beijing Wangfujing Commercial Street363 words, reading time ~ 1:27 mins
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 at 10:31 pm
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.
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Beijing Tomb of 318 Incident, 北京三一八烈士墓362 words, reading time ~ 1:27 mins
Friday, August 5th, 2011 at 10:07 pm
Beijing Tiananmen Square (in simplified Chinese 北京天安门广场) is located in the center of Beijing. It is the world’s largest square, having an area of 500,000 square meters.
From here, you can see the history of New China Architecture because it was born even earlier than the Republic of China for several hours. On September 30, 1949, the eve of the founding ceremony, all the CPPCC National Committee members were led by Mao Zedong to Tiananmen Square, where the People’s Heroes Monument laid the first cornerstone.
According to traditional Chinese thought, monuments and buildings should be blocked south, but Zhou Enlai told the project architect, suggesting that the possibility for the monument in Tiananmen Square to be Changan-oriented because the vast majority of people are entering from the north side of the Square. Architects accepted his proposal and made the change.
Thursday, June 30th, 2011 at 12:20 pm
Beijing Ying Gong Shouson Presbyterian Tower (in simplified Chinese 北京应公长老寿塔) is located in Fangshan Town’s Tiankai Uk Jong Village. The Beijing Ying Gong Shouson Presbyterian Tower was commonly known as the Monk Tower. Dade was built in the Yuan Dynasty five years (1301) February.
To the South, there is a five canopy hexagonal pagoda-style, passing 12 meters high, and built on the three-tier lotus tower. Positive cylindrical tower arch was opened to public.
At southeast, southwest and inlay on both sides it was of the side-ming building style. There are some doors and the other sides there are some windows. There are also some wood structures which make the tower a very special place.
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Beijing Ying Gong Shouson Presbyterian Tower346 words, reading time ~ 1:23 mins
Monday, February 8th, 2010 at 11:49 am
Beijing Tai Temple (in simplified Chinese 太庙) is located at the eastern side of Tiananmen Square in Dongcheng District. It has an area of 139,600 square meters, with the north-south plane making the temple a rectangular shape. The main entrance of the temple is in the south, and is surrounded by a triple wall. Inside the building there is a side hall as well as a palace hall, in which the front door has glass bricks and the door is having halberd, between two stone. During Ming and Qing dynasties it is called the Royal Temple.wood used for building this temple is of great quality and the remaining components of the temple included gold wood, barrel wood. In spite of the Qing Dynasty about the alteration of its regulatory system, the wood and stone of the whole temple were kept to maintain the original structure, and therefore this temple is Beijing’s most complete group of the Ming Dynasty architecture. Cooper Tai Temple is a well-known architecture which is hundreds of years old. of the Beijing Tai Temple is strictly following the building style of Mindanao Wei Hong-li, an ancient architect. On 1st May 1950, the temple was renamed the Beijing Working People’s Cultural Palace. The Tai Temple now is one of the national key units to be protected.
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Beijing Tai Temple336 words, reading time ~ 1:21 mins