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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.

North Sea (in simplified Chinese 北海) is located in the center of Beijing, near the Millennium has a history as the “world’s oldest park built Imperial Royal Park” and it is a classical imperial garden in our country set a lot of art into a jewel.

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.

Pu Shou Muslim Temple (in simplified Chinese北京清真普寿寺) is located in the  63 Square Street in West City District. The year of establishment of this temple was unknown. The original area of the temple was 4000 square meters. This Basilica mosque was back in the holy shrines and it was sitting back to the west because “Mecca” is located in the western orientation of China.
There are three gates in this temple. The words at the door have the meaning of “Thanks to Pu Shou Temple.”

Badaling Great Wall (in simplified Chinese八达岭万里长城) is the most outstanding representatives of Chinese Great Wall and it was the essence of the Ming Dynasty Great Wall. Early in 1961 it was issued by the State Council as key national heritage conservation units of the country. In 1988, the Badaling Great Wall was approved by the United Nations as a world cultural heritage of mankind. In 1991, for the forty good Places of interest at the National Award, the Badaling was high on the list.

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.

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 1^st 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.

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.

Church of St. Nicholas (in simplified Chinese 圣尼古拉教堂) is located at North Dongzhimen Street. The Orthodox Church was set up in Beijing in 1685 (twenty-four years of Emperor Kangxi). In Jaxa war, the Qing government lost in self-defense against intruders from Russia therefore, Emperor Kangxi Dongzhimen decided to negotiate with the Russian government to end the war. One of the requirements in the treaty is that there should be a Church in Beijing. Therefore, in response to the treaty, this church was set up. This place in Beijing is actually known as the “Temple Rasetsu” or the Russian “North Hall.”