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The Jietai Temple
The Jietai Temple is located at the foot of Ma’an Mountain, west suburbs of Beijing. It was built facing east. Its construction follows the contour of the mountain, scattered but well spaced. Due to its important status in Chinese Buddhist world, the stand in it has been able to confer the highest rank in Buddhism, the Bodhisattva Discipline. Thus the temple, also the highest Buddhist academy in China, was named after this ceremonial stand. |
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The Old Street in Lijiang
The bridges, rivers and houses probably make you think you have come to the southern part of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. In fact, however, it is on the plateau of 2,400 meters high. The small town like the water region in the southern part of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River is the ancient town of Lijiang in Yunnan Province. |
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The Pagoda Forest in the Tanzhe Temple
Located in the west suburbs of Beijing and having a history of a dozen or more dynasties, the Tanzhe Temple has seem numerous monks do Buddhist practice here and finish their lives in this world, thus leaving many pagoda tombs in different styles close by the temple. |
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Hall of Supreme Harmony
Newcomers to the former Imperial Palace in Beijing are very impressed by the high and imposing architecture of the Meridian Gate. But when they enter into the mysterious Imperial Palace and look north from the Gate of Supreme Harmony at the Hall of Supreme Harmony, China’s highest existing imperial structure, they would feel an even greater impact. The Hall of Supreme Harmony demonstrates to the full the imperial power and grandeur of looking down on the world at a vantage point. |
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The Long Corridor
One of the architectural marvels of the Summer Palace, a former imperial landscaped garden in Beijing, is the seemingly endless covered promenade. On December 2, 1998, the Summer Palace was included by UNESCO on its World Cultural Heritage List. The promenade, popularly known as the Long Corridor, has been recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest of its kind in the world. |
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Jvyong Pass
Jvyong Pass is one of the most famous passes along the Great Wall. It is located among the mountains northeast of Beijing. The entrance presents a grand sight."Jvyong" means a pass inhabited by laborers and soldiers.
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Meaning of number “9” reflected in Temple of Heaven
9 is an ordinary number, but for the ancient Chinese philosophers, it has rich connotations. People can find interesting answers from ancient architecture of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing.
The Temple of Heaven was an architecture of complex for the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties to pray in spring for a good harvest and offer sacrifices to heaven in winter. |
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The Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin
Without the discovery of the terracotta warriors and horses, Xiyang Village in Lintong County of Shaanxi Province would have never attracted the attention of the world as it does today. |
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Mountain Summer Resort
In early September 1703 when Emperor Kangxi finished his tour in North China and his hunting in the imperial preserves, he passed by Wulie River on his way home. |
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Longmen Grottoes
Longmen Grottoes flanks the banks of Yihe River, 12 kilometers south of Luoyang, Henan Province. This religious relic honeycombs the cliffs of the Eastern and Western Hills. Among all grottoes in China, Longmen has the largest amount of statues and grottoes. |
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Ming Tombs
The Ming Dynasty from 1368 to 1644 had 16 emperors. Thirteen of them were buried in Beijing. So their tombs are called Ming Tombs. Through the 5,000 years of Chinese history many emperors left after them large or small tombs, but the Ming Tombs are well preserved today. |
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Yungang Grottoes
One of three grottoes in China, Yungang is situated in the western suburbs of Datong, Shanxi. Its construction began in the 5th century in the Northern Wei Dynasty about 1,500 years ago. The first five caves, being dug under the direction of Monk Tan Yao, were called "Tan Yao´s Five Caves". |
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Potala Palace
On a mysterious plateau in the southwest of China live the Tibetans who are an ancient nationality. Being centuries－old Buddhist adherents, many of them travel long distances to Potala Palace on the top of Red Mountain in Lhasa, prostrating every step, to pray for blessings for their next life. |
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Temple of Heaven
In 1420 the Emperor Zhu Di had decided to move the national capital to Beijing. But the capital city needed an altar to Heaven. So the construction of the altar, later known as Temple of Heaven, was under way in the rapidly extending city.
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Summer Palace
This is a beautiful spot with exuberant wood and grass at the foot of the West Hill in the western outskirts of Beijing. From the Ming Dynasty on, many high－taste nobles built their private gardens in this place. |
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Palace Museum
Nearly all palaces have been reduced to rubbles in wars, but the last imperial palace group built in China in the 15th century has survived. Today it is called the Palace Museum. |
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The Great Wall
The Great Wall extends over 6,000 kilometres in north China. It rises and falls like a magical dragon keeping the spiritual lifeline of our nation. |
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