This is one the most popular and visited after the Great Wall of China and Forbidden City. You can find here very cool in the summer time and very fun and entertaining place somewhat like that. It was first time initiated to build a summer palace kind of imperial garden for living king and its imperial relatives in it.
its major parts and complete construction was done in the 1750 giving its name “Garden of ripples”. Misfortunately it had faced many foreign force invasions and got severely damaged in 1860 by Anglo-French forces and 1900 eight allied forces. Its restoration works had been started in the 1886 in Qing dynasty by using the public money and forces as labor and in the 1900 due to second time attacks. You can find lots number of things to do in the garden of ripples and 2/3 area of it is water, numerous temples, pavilions and ponds, garden lawns and much things to do.
Some of important fact about the summer palace:
• It was first built in the 12th century as an imperial palace for the king.
• The summer palace in northwest suburban Beijing is the largest and most complete imperial garden existing in China.
• Two thirds of the area of the Summer Palace is water. If the waters of the Kunming, West and Back lakes were still, it was seen as a sign that the nation was stable.
• The summer palace is known as the mother of all imperial retreats, Garden of Clear Ripples and in Chinese it is called Qingyi Garden.
• The summer palace is divided in to 3 groups the administrative area, residential area and scenic area.
• The Sea of Wisdom temple is covered with 1,100 terracotta Buddhas.
• In 1860 and 1900 it was destroyed by European troops.
• It is said to be the best preserved imperial garden in the world.
• CURRENT RESTORATION projects are due for completion in 2010.
The summer palace has declared by World heritage of world by the NESCO in 1990 and often is quoted as Garden of gardens. You must visit and realize all about by yourself.
Monday, September 26, 2011
The national imperial park “summer palace” in Beijing
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Jiaozhou Bay Bridge-The world longest over Water Bridge in china
Jiaozhou Bay Bridge: This is newly built and completed in early of 2011 and opened for traffic on 30 june of 2011 with grand ceremony and celebration in the china.It has been rewarded and got registered in the guinease book of world record of the longest over water bridge,in the world. it is T shaped over water bridges and there are three entry side and three exit side for the bridge traffic.
It is connected the three Cities of china Huangdao distirct-Hongdao-Qingdao and it has in the middle of bridge meeting points where bridges traffic exchanged their route. It has taken only 4 years to be built and costing more than 10 billion Yuan (US$1.5 billion).
The specification of the bridges:
• Carries -Motor vehicles
• Crosses -Jiaozhou Bay
• Location -between Qingdao and Huangdao District, China
• Designer -Shandong Gaosu Group
• Material -Prestressed concrete
• Total length -41.58 kilometers (25.84 mi)
• Construction -early 2011
• Opened -30 June 2011
• Daily traffic -expected 30,000
• Coordinates -36.169913°N 120.298305°E
It is connected the three Cities of china Huangdao distirct-Hongdao-Qingdao and it has in the middle of bridge meeting points where bridges traffic exchanged their route. It has taken only 4 years to be built and costing more than 10 billion Yuan (US$1.5 billion).
The specification of the bridges:
• Carries -Motor vehicles
• Crosses -Jiaozhou Bay
• Location -between Qingdao and Huangdao District, China
• Designer -Shandong Gaosu Group
• Material -Prestressed concrete
• Total length -41.58 kilometers (25.84 mi)
• Construction -early 2011
• Opened -30 June 2011
• Daily traffic -expected 30,000
• Coordinates -36.169913°N 120.298305°E
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
The list of 10 things to do in the Beijing china
1.Forbidden City: This is imperial palace which has collection of Ming dynasty to Qing dynasty of old time china histories of everything which has happened those times. There are more than 980 house building which represent the art, culture, war, economy and lots more about the Ming empire and invasion of Muslims. It was built during the 1402 to 1420 ad by the emperor. The forbidden city has declared world heritage city by 1987 by UNESCO as the largest collection of preserved ancient wooded structures in the world.
2. Tiananmen Square: This is very historical square in the history of china. It is one the largest square in the world by its size and areas. The recent came into news 4 june 5 1989 gathered people and Chinese students were demanding the democracy and resign of communist leaders. So Chinese’s government crushed the mobs and their dreams of democracy. You can find a lot number of things to do there.
3. Temple of Heaven: The temple of heaven is very popular place for worship and ancient time historical grand structural designed building every constructed. Its area is three time greater than Forbidden City of china. In the 14th centuries its construction was started and from that time to 19th centuries many time renovations have taken place to maintain its building original design and shape. The emperor built many other temple apart from this like earth sun temple, earth temple and moon temple. Hence behind all such construction of building was worshiping of heaven.
4.Summer Palace: this is also one the interesting place for the tourist people who love to visit over there. You can find the all structured building, cool place and pavilion for refraining from the sun heat. This is popularly known as “Gardens of Nurtured Harmony" and it has been declared world heritage of world by UNESCO in the 1998 Summer Palace "a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design.
5. Ming Tombs: Tourists visit the tomb of yongle of mind dynasty who was buried over there. This is one the great constructed building of the ancient time of the mind dynasty. This lies in the changling county which is 50 km away from the Beijing. All building of that time have been made by using the feng sui principle throughout all constructed building. The last emperor of Ming dynasty was Chongzhen who suffered very hard rebellion of people of china and it spread whole country and it became to control and in last the emperor including himself killed all house and palace members by his own sword and killed himself by hanging by tree.
6. Great Wall of china: the great walls are one the most famous in the history of construction by human. It was started in the 5th century BC and the first emperor of Qin dynasty who initiated its construction of the china wall. Aftermath of end of Qin dynasty many other dynasties came into existence like Tong, Song, Liao, Jin and Yuan in these dynasties very little construction received to add construction in the great wall. The major extension of wall constructed in the Ming dynasty. The main purpose of creation of wall was to stop the intruders, invaders of nomadic people of North china and Mongolian people.
7. Hutongs: In Beijing, hutongs are alleys formed by lines of siheyuan, traditional courtyard residences.Many neighbourhoods were formed by joining one siheyuan to another to form a hutong, and then joining one hutong to another. The word hutong is also used to refer to such neighbourhoods.Since the mid-20th century, the number of Beijing hutongs has dropped dramatically as they are demolished to make way for new roads and buildings. More recently, some hutongs have been designated as protected areas in an attempt to preserve this aspect of Chinese cultural history.
8. Olympic Sites of china: China was host of Olympic 2008 and many all Olympic stadiums and play ground were made in the Beijing china. There are so many newly styled made stadiums, play grounds made by use modern all building techniques.
Some of them are
• The National Stadium ( bird's nest): The twig-like structure and the bowl-shaped roof are the masterpiece of the project. It is designed by Herzog and DeMeuron. The most unique feature of the structure is its "cushion" system which can fill the spaces within the building's facade to regulate wind, weather, and sunlight. It can house 91,000 visitors.
• National Aquatics Center (the Water Cube): After the games, the center has turned into a large water recreational center open to the public. It is dubbed "cube" because of its semi-transparent "bubbles" spread out all over its surface with a shape very similar to the structure of "H2O".
9.Beijing Roast Duck : Beijing Roast Duck has the famous for tasty and delicious food of Beijing cuisine of china. Some find it a bit greasy, but others get hooked after one taste. In any case, a Peking roast duck dinner is usually a fixed item on any Beijing tour itinerary. the duck roasty cooking techniques came from the european countries. the first person behind is Marco Polo who introduced the duck roasting techniques to the chinses people. he has visited yuan dynasty (1271 to 1368) and some rulers of yuan dynasty carry to beijing, since then it has become the speciality of cuisines of beijing.
10. Beijing Opera or Peking opera : a form of traditional Chinese theatre which all together represents music, vocal performance, mime, dance and acrobatics. It was fully developed in the Qing dynasty period of late 18th century and now it has become part of cultural traditional treasures of china. They utilize the skills of speech, song, dance, and combat in movements that are symbolic and suggestive, rather than realisti Above all else, the skill of performers is evaluated according to the beauty of their movements. Stylistic conventions that help audiences navigate the plot of the production.
2. Tiananmen Square: This is very historical square in the history of china. It is one the largest square in the world by its size and areas. The recent came into news 4 june 5 1989 gathered people and Chinese students were demanding the democracy and resign of communist leaders. So Chinese’s government crushed the mobs and their dreams of democracy. You can find a lot number of things to do there.
3. Temple of Heaven: The temple of heaven is very popular place for worship and ancient time historical grand structural designed building every constructed. Its area is three time greater than Forbidden City of china. In the 14th centuries its construction was started and from that time to 19th centuries many time renovations have taken place to maintain its building original design and shape. The emperor built many other temple apart from this like earth sun temple, earth temple and moon temple. Hence behind all such construction of building was worshiping of heaven.
4.Summer Palace: this is also one the interesting place for the tourist people who love to visit over there. You can find the all structured building, cool place and pavilion for refraining from the sun heat. This is popularly known as “Gardens of Nurtured Harmony" and it has been declared world heritage of world by UNESCO in the 1998 Summer Palace "a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design.
5. Ming Tombs: Tourists visit the tomb of yongle of mind dynasty who was buried over there. This is one the great constructed building of the ancient time of the mind dynasty. This lies in the changling county which is 50 km away from the Beijing. All building of that time have been made by using the feng sui principle throughout all constructed building. The last emperor of Ming dynasty was Chongzhen who suffered very hard rebellion of people of china and it spread whole country and it became to control and in last the emperor including himself killed all house and palace members by his own sword and killed himself by hanging by tree.
6. Great Wall of china: the great walls are one the most famous in the history of construction by human. It was started in the 5th century BC and the first emperor of Qin dynasty who initiated its construction of the china wall. Aftermath of end of Qin dynasty many other dynasties came into existence like Tong, Song, Liao, Jin and Yuan in these dynasties very little construction received to add construction in the great wall. The major extension of wall constructed in the Ming dynasty. The main purpose of creation of wall was to stop the intruders, invaders of nomadic people of North china and Mongolian people.
7. Hutongs: In Beijing, hutongs are alleys formed by lines of siheyuan, traditional courtyard residences.Many neighbourhoods were formed by joining one siheyuan to another to form a hutong, and then joining one hutong to another. The word hutong is also used to refer to such neighbourhoods.Since the mid-20th century, the number of Beijing hutongs has dropped dramatically as they are demolished to make way for new roads and buildings. More recently, some hutongs have been designated as protected areas in an attempt to preserve this aspect of Chinese cultural history.
8. Olympic Sites of china: China was host of Olympic 2008 and many all Olympic stadiums and play ground were made in the Beijing china. There are so many newly styled made stadiums, play grounds made by use modern all building techniques.
Some of them are
• The National Stadium ( bird's nest): The twig-like structure and the bowl-shaped roof are the masterpiece of the project. It is designed by Herzog and DeMeuron. The most unique feature of the structure is its "cushion" system which can fill the spaces within the building's facade to regulate wind, weather, and sunlight. It can house 91,000 visitors.
• National Aquatics Center (the Water Cube): After the games, the center has turned into a large water recreational center open to the public. It is dubbed "cube" because of its semi-transparent "bubbles" spread out all over its surface with a shape very similar to the structure of "H2O".
9.Beijing Roast Duck : Beijing Roast Duck has the famous for tasty and delicious food of Beijing cuisine of china. Some find it a bit greasy, but others get hooked after one taste. In any case, a Peking roast duck dinner is usually a fixed item on any Beijing tour itinerary. the duck roasty cooking techniques came from the european countries. the first person behind is Marco Polo who introduced the duck roasting techniques to the chinses people. he has visited yuan dynasty (1271 to 1368) and some rulers of yuan dynasty carry to beijing, since then it has become the speciality of cuisines of beijing.
10. Beijing Opera or Peking opera : a form of traditional Chinese theatre which all together represents music, vocal performance, mime, dance and acrobatics. It was fully developed in the Qing dynasty period of late 18th century and now it has become part of cultural traditional treasures of china. They utilize the skills of speech, song, dance, and combat in movements that are symbolic and suggestive, rather than realisti Above all else, the skill of performers is evaluated according to the beauty of their movements. Stylistic conventions that help audiences navigate the plot of the production.
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