Great Wall in Hebei
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Stretching out through Liaoning Province, the wall continues its way west to Hebei Province where it is well preserved. This part of the wall includes many famous spots, such as Shanhaiguan Pass, Laolongtou Great Wall, Jiaoshan Great Wall, Xifengkou Gateway, Panjiakou Gateway, Zijinggua...
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A-Ma Temple
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A-Ma Temple
The former name of A-Ma Temple (Ma Kok Miu) was Ma Tsou, the oldest temple in Macau, which has a history of over 500 years.
It is so alleged that over 400 years ago when Portuguese reached Macau and landed on the sea promontory opposite the A-Ma Temple, they noticed the temp...
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sayram lake
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sayram lake
Sayram lake, located in the Botala Prefecture near the Tian Shan Mountains, Xinjiang, China.Sayram Lake, also called “Santai Haizi”, is a stunning and peaceful lake. The lake received its name because the Elezhuyitubomu military dais was built on the east bank ...
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Winter Solstice Festival
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Winter Solstice Festival
Ancient china did pay great attention to this holiday, regarding it as a big event. There was the saying that “Winter solstice holiday is greater than the spring festival”. Nowadays, many regions still celebrate it as a big holiday. Northerners may h...
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Northern Hot Springs Park
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No stay in Chongqing is complete without a visit to the Northern Hot Springs Park as it has so much to offer the visitors and is rightly considered to be a pearl of the Jialing River.
The park lies at the foot of Jinyun Mountain on the north side of the Jialing River. It is about 52 kil...
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Earth Towers of the Hakkas
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As early as one thousand years ago, some of the original Hakka migrated and settled at the sparse Yongding area. In order to protect themselves against bandits and wild beasts, they used local materials to build tall, multi-storey circular earthen buildings where a whole family or clan ...
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Ling Yin Temple (Temple of Soul’s Retreat)
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In 1961 Ling Yin Temple was listed for protection as a key provincial historical and cultural site and is considered a leading centre for research relative to Chinese Buddhist culture.
Lingyin temple, like many Chinese temples, is constructed according to a basic pattern. Built on a nor...
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Dragon and Tiger Mountain (Long Hu Shan)
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Dragon and Tiger Mountain (Longhu Mountain) is a famous Taoism mountain with a long history. As a cradle land of Taoism, Dragon and Tiger Mountain has been regarded as a Holy Land to which many pilgrimages are made every year.
According to the record of Taoism, in the middle of the East...
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Takla Makan Desert
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Takla Makan Desert is China’s largest desert, situated in the middle of the largest Basin, Tarim in Xinjiang Province. This is reputed to be the world’s second largest shifting-sand desert covering an area of over 33, 700 square kilometers (over 13 square miles).
In Uigur l...
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Luoyang Bridge
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The Luoyang Bridge is the earliest existing sea-crossing stone beam bridge in China. Over the Luoyang River in the east suburbs of Quanzhou, the bridge was constructed in 1053 under the direction of Cai Xiang, a prefecture chief in Quanzhou.It is China’s earliest stone beam bridge...
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