Wolong Natural Reserve China: see closely of panda and precious plant

Do you like to see "Panda" ? Wolong is the correct place to visit.

Wolong Natural Reserve is the largest and most important natural reserve of panda in China, Wolong Natural Reserve has always receiving great attention all over the world. It is the third largest natural reserve in China. The Wolong Natural Reserve is situated in Aba autonomous region of Sichuan province, about 130 kilometers from Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province. The natural reserve was established in 1963, which is one of the earliest national comprehensive natural reserves of China. The natural reserve is in the embrace of high mountains, of which the highest one is the Siguniang Mountain on the southwest with an altitude of 6250 meters. In the area, trees are extremely flourishing and lush, with streams and rivers flow around. The reserve is established to protect the national treasure of China "panda", which make the reserve prestigious throughout the world. 

Wolong National Natural Reserve is home not only to the giant pandas but also to rare and endangered animals such as red panda, golden monkey, white-lipped deer, gnu and precious plants like yew and beech. Wolong National Natural Reserve is a fairyland for tourists. 

 

Wolong National Natural Reserve enjoys warm and humid climate favorable to bamboo, pandas' favorite food. At the same time, 101 mountains are above 5, 000 meters varying from 6, 250 meters to 1, 150 meters. These contribute to bio-diversity preservation as well as spectacular beauty of natural scene in Wolong National Natural Reserve. The Wolong National Nature Reserve was badly damaged in the May 12 earthquake. For security reasons, the pandas have been moved to Bifeng Gorge Base of China Panda Protection and Research Center. They will come back to Wolong after it is repaired. Fertile Natural Resources With the geographical environment, complicated topographical features, and pleasant climate, Wolong National Nature Reserve is full of rare and precious plant species among which can be used as ingredients for traditional Chinese medicine. The beauty of Wolong Nature Reserve is not only the perfect place for the giant pandas to live, but also for visitors enjoy. The mountains in the area are covered with primitive forests, flowing springs, and large waterfalls. The snow covered mountains, with their ancient glaciers, offer the perfect backdrop for this pristine setting and make visiting this special place unforgettable. Most visitors to Wolong National Nature Reserve come to visit the giant panda, but find so much more. Wolong Natural Reserve, including the Panda Research Center, has been largely devastated on 12 May 2008 by a catastrophic earthquake.Six pandas escaped after their enclosures were damaged. 

Beijing city China: serve the royal style and real happy thing

 Beijing is one of the largest city in china with a unique charm and great tolerance that other metropolis do not have. This is the specialty which is superior to other cities. In modern civilization, Beijing serve the life of royal style and of course, all the people will get really happy thing  . You can go to the old Imperial City to feel nostalgia, or go to Wang Fu Jing for shopping safari, you can go Hou hai café and bar, or listen to rowing sound in ecstasy. In short, Beijing is a city both ancient and modern, joys and sorrows, subject and ridicule. It never goes without a heavy Beijing flavor. That is a feeling that every Beijinger can not let go.

Site place of Beijing

Beijing is located in the northern end of North China Plain. Southeast local regions are connected with Tianjin. The rest is surrounded by Hebei province. The city area is 16,411 square kilometers.  It is secondary to Shanghai in the inland. Beijing has a typical monsoon climate with warm and semi-humid weather. Hot and rainy in the summer while cold and dry in the winter. Spring and autumn is short. 

The History Evolution of Beijing

In the year 1046,  the Western Zhou Dynasty , King Wu proclaimed that Beijing and the surrounding area are named Yan, the capital is located in LiuLihe town which belongs to Fangshan District of Beijing. These sites are still there. Qin Dynasty set Beijing as Jixian. In 1153, Jin emperor built his capital in Beijing officially. (This is considered as a starting point to compute the history of Beijing as a capital) Since then the capital of Yuan Dynasty and Qing Dynasty were both established here. In Yongle reign of Ming Dynasty, in order to defense Mongolian Army conveniently, Yongle Emperor Zhu Li moved the capital to Beijing. Since then, Beijing has become the new capital of the Ming Dynast. In the early year of Ming Dynasty, the capital was moved to YingTianFu (now Nanjing). Dadu road was renamed as Peking House in August of the first year of Hongwu. In October of the same year, it was transferred to Shandong province for the military needs. In the March of the next year of Hongwu, it was changed to Peking Chengxuan administrative commissioner's resident. Yan Wang ZhuLi won the throne after the JingNan incident and then renamed Peking to Bejing In the first year of Yongle. This is what we call XINGZAI (where a city is not the capital, but the emperor lives there, we call it XINGZAI) What's more, they are in the Permanent Mission. From that moment, Beijing got its name nowadays. On 31 January 1949, General Fu Tso-yi reached a peace agreement with the Chinese Communist Party, and led 250,000 Kuomintang armies to convert to Chinese Communist Party. People's Liberation Army surged forward into the Peiping municipal and achieved the liberation of Beijing. On 27 September of the same year, the CPPCC adopted the resolution about China’s Capital, Calendar, National Anthem and National Flag of the People's Republic by the First Plenary Session. Peking renamed Beijing. Old Beijing In order to truly experience the authentic old Beijing, we really need to get deep into the alley, sitting in the courtyard, making a cup of tea and listening attentively to Beijingers' chitchat. 

Peking Opera.

Peking opera is specialized in the performance of the historical themes of political and military struggle. Most of the stories are from the Historical Romance and fiction. Peking Opera singing gently, actors looking handsome, costumes gorgeous, makeup refined elegance, all of these make opera as China's cultural legacy undoubtedly.

Courtyard and the Alley Alley is a unique ancient city lane in Beijing. In Beijing, there are tens of thousands of lanes. They are around the Forbidden City and the surroundings. Most of them formed in three dynasty of China's history, that is, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasty. The pattern of Beijing Hutong is neat and broad. It is also smooth, vertical and horizontal. The extremely traditional feature makes Beijing like a big chess board. Hutong is the urban context, traffic channels and people’s living dependence. They pass streets with attached avenues. Creating the world outside and living and working in peace and contentment inside Display the imprints of life of Beijingers.

The old Beijing, is  the Royal enclosed grounds for Emperors' amusement, temples, altars and Palaces, large numbers of people's housing residences are innumerable courtyards. Surrounding houses get together to supply a "mouth" shape. Commonly, Walls and housing next to streets do not open the window. The environment inside is enclosed and quiet. You can not feel this kind of tranquil leisure and the close harmony with people in the concrete jungle of modern society. 

Modern Development 

With deep historical and culture heritage, today's Beijing is full of ancient and young attitude to meet the challenges. With the thick and the long history, the new Beijing shows a unique double charm conferred by the modern urban atmosphere. She bestows intoxication to each one who approaches her, touch her and feel her. 

The Olympic Games 

This is a proud word, memorable precious memories. The magnificent opening ceremony, the stadium full of passion, and the graceful tears with playing anthem are so vivid in our memories. Olympic Games not only show the Chinese people's strength, wisdom and passion, but also make Beijing's international reputation louder. The post-Olympic effects brought by the Beijing Olympic Games advance China's economic development and increase the international impact. 

Beijing Olympic Park: new symbol of the metropolitan, beautiful scenery

 The Beijing Olympic Park not only drew attentions in the period of Olympics, but also attracts thousands of tourists after the gala. With distinguished building style and beautiful scenery, the park will become a new symbol of the metropolitan. The park is composed of three major parts----the National Stadium, National Swimming Center, and Nation Indoor Stadium. Olympic Park will not be a decoration of the capital. Instead, it will play a functional part after the Olympic Games. Aiming on the long-term development of Beijing and the demands of the residents, Olympic Park will become a comprehensive park for sport activities, conference exhibitions, entertainment and shopping. The spacious building and beautiful environment will enable it become the center of public activities. 

History and Culture The Olympic Park as planned is to be an expansion on the basis of an extension from the axis to the north during the 11th Asian Games in 1990. It will play an important role in completing the construction of the northern part of the axis. Being at an end of the axis, it will form an imposing sight of urban construction during the expansion, with the World Trade Center projected as the centerpiece of architecture gracing the ground. Beijing Olympic Park is the central area for holding Olympic sports. It contains 44% of the total Olympic sports venues and most of the service facilities. The area will contain 14 sports venues, an Olympic Village for 16,000 athletes, coaches and accompanying staff, reporters’ village with a floor space of 400,000 square meters, as well as a news center an international broadcasting and TV center. The Olympic Park undoubtedly becomes the model of "Green Olympics". The concept of "green" of the Park has far exceeded the category of "growing trees, grass" and "landscaping". The Park also pays attention to economizing on use of energy and water, wind and solar energy, and use of environment-friendly building materials. Besides, the Olympic Park gives a full play to high and sophisticated technology. Digital wide-band network communication, wireless transmit, electronic information technology, Internet technology, intelligent technology, etc, are widely used in the Park.

Confucian China: famous place and great history

Confucian China is  the most famous place and the largest temple will attract visitor and remaining the great history of confucian that well-known in the world. 

Confucianism has had the most enduring and profound effect over Chinese culture. As time went on, Confucius became respected as a sage, and the temples to Confucius were built as a landmark for all of China. Among them, the Temple in Qufu, the hometown of Confucius, is the most famous and the largest. Located inside the south gate of Qufu, Shandong, the Temple of Confucius is a group of grand buildings built in oriental style. Together with the Summer Palace in Beijing and the Mountain Resort of Chengde, the Temple of Confucius in Qufu is one of the three largest ancient architectural complexes in China. The largest and oldest Temple of Confucius is found in Confucius's hometown, present-day Qufu in Shandong Province. It was established in 478 BC, one year after Confucius's death, at the order of the Duke Ai of the State of Lu, who commanded that the Confucian residence should be used to worship and offer sacrifice to Confucius. The temple was expanded repeatedly over a period of more than 2,000 years until it became the huge complex currently standing.

In 454, the first state Confucian Temple was built by the Liu Song dynasty of south China (420 to 479). In 489, the Northern Wei constructed a Confucian Temple in the capital, the first outside of Qufu in the north. In 630, the Tang Dynasty decreed that schools in all provinces and counties should have a Confucian temple, as a result of which temples spread throughout China. Well-known Confucian shrines include the Confucian Temple in Xi'an (now the Forest of Steles), the Fuzi Miao in Nanjing, and the Confucian Temple in Beijing, first built in 1302.

Dacheng Hall

Dacheng means master with great achievement, which truly describes Confucius. Dacheng Hall is the main hall of the Temple at its core. This hall is 24.8 meters (81feet) high on a base of 21 meters (69 feet), and is the highest building in the Temple as well as being one of the three largest ancient halls in China.

Apricot Altar

Located in front of the Dacheng Hall, Apricot Altar is said to be where Confucius preached. The Altar is surrounded by red fences with hills behind them. One finely decorated pavilion has a painted dragon and a stele engraved with Emperor Qianlong's 

Kuiwen Pavilion

Kuiwen Pavilion, a library, is in the middle of the Temple. Kuixing was the legendary star responsible for literacy in ancient China. A famous wooden pavilion, Kuiwen Pavilion was daintily designed with two stories. The upper story houses classic books and writings given by emperors and kings while the lower story houses items used by the emperors when offering sacrifices to Confucius.

Chengde summer resort China : It is the largest and best imperial palace

The city Chengde in Hebei Province is place  with a cool and scenic summer resort 250 kilometers northeast of Beijing. More than two hundred years ago Emperor Kang Xi (1662-1723) discovered this rare scenic spot during a hunting trip. It took eighty-seven years to complete the construction of a temporary palace in what used to be called Rehe (Jehol), also known by the quaint name "Mountain Hamlet for Escaping the Heat." The palace is enclosed by a wall over ten kilometers long, which rises and falls with the mountain ridges. It is the largest and best-preserved imperial palace outside of the capital. 

The Mountain Resort is divided into four parts: 

• the Palace Area, 
• Lake Area, Plain Area 
• and Mountain Area. 

The Palace Area lies in the south part of the Mountain Resort and is a concentration of palaces where the Qing emperors handled the political affairs and where the royal families lived. It covers an area of 100,000 sq meters (25 acres), consisting of four main complexes: 

• the Main Palace, 
• the Pine-Crane Hall, 
• the East Palace 
• and the Pine Soughing Valley. 

The Main Palace was the place where important ceremonies and events were observed but today it is used as the Mountain Resort Museum. The Pine-crane Hall was the residence built by Emperor Qianlong for his mother-the empress while the East Palace was damaged in a fire in 1945 with only the groundwork still visible today. The Pine Soughing Valley was the reading room of the emperors and the office where the emperors handled the political mandates. Many of the scenic spots around the resort‘s lake area were copied from famous landscaped gardens in south China. For instance, the main building on Green Lotus Island, "Tower of Mist and Rain," (Yanyulou) is a copy of a tower in Nanhu Lake at Jiaxing in Zhejiang Province. The resort‘s plain area possesses characteristics of the scenery of the Mongolian grasslands. Forested mountains and valleys are dotted with various building.

 In December 1994 the Mountain Resort was listed by UNESCO on its list of World Heritage Sites. It is the world's cultural heritage, national heritage conservation units, one of China's top ten attractions, and the 5A-level scenic area of the state. “Chengde Summer Resort,is the summer palace of the Qing Dynasty,”Evaluation of the World Heritage Committee appraised ,”It not only has the study of very high aesthetic value, but also maintains the rare historical sites of the end of China's feudal society.” The Eight Outer Temples As they were under eight different administrations, they were usually referred to as the "eight Outer Temples." Eleven splendid temples were built more than two hundred years ago east and north of the resort. Only seven temples remain intact today, reflecting the traditional art and culture of the Han, Manchu, Mongolian, and Tibetan nationalities. The Temple of the Potarak Doctrine (Putuozongshengmiao), occupying an area of 220,000 square meters, is by far the largest of all temples in the area. With rows of buildings rising at different levels from the south upwards, the temple is a copy of the Dalai Lama‘s Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet. It was built to mark the sixtieth birthday of Emperor Qian Long and was used by him to receive nobles of the various minority nationalities in China. The Torguts, a Mongol tribe who had migrated from Xinjiang to the banks of the Volga and back, returned to their home in 1771. Together with leaders of various other nationalities, the Torguts arrived at Chengde for an audience with Emperor Qian Long when the temple was completed. This demonstrated the prosperity of a united nation at that Time. These temples were built by the use of the advantage of the Xiangyang hillside, the main hall is magnificent.

Zhangjiajie National Forest Park China: grotesque peaks, cave, unique hill

Zhangjiajie National Forest Park,is Special place that will attract everyone to visit, you can fully appreciate its magnificent natural scenery and experience appealing folk custom as well as other thrilling tourist activities, and you will be deeply impressed by the hospitality of local people. It’s surely that your visit to Zhangjiajie is really exciting, joyful and unforgettable. Zhangjiajie is a prefecture-level city consisting of Yongding and Wulingyuan Districts, Cili and Sangzhi Counties. Wulingyuan District, also called Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area, is endowed with striking natural beauty. This site is dominated by more than 3,000 narrow sandstone pillars and peaks, many over 200m high. Between the peaks lie ravines and gorges with streams, pools and waterfalls, 40 caves, and two large natural bridges. It is also home to a number of endangered plant and animal species. Therefore, it was listed into the World Natural Heritage Catalogue by the UNESCO in 1992. What’s more, Zhangjiajie was awarded the title of “World Geological Park” in 2004. In ancient times, Zhangjiajie was regarded as remote and inaccessible. The earliest human activities can be traced to 100, 000 years ago and the legendary god of Agriculture was said to live a reclusive life here. Local story also indicates that Zhang liang, a lord in the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD), lived here in seclusion and was buried below Qingyan (now Zhangjiajie) Mountain. Zhangjiajie was formerly named Dayong city, founded in 1988. As Zhangjiajie National Forest Park is increasingly becoming known to world, Dayong city was renamed as Zhangjiajie city under the permission of the State Council in 1994. Now, Zhangjiajie has basically developed a large-scale, high-rank tourist resort where strange mountains, green lakes, deep caves, serene valleys and historical culture and special folk customs are well blended into a beautiful painting.

Zhangjiajie is home to major three ethnic groups:

• Tujia, 
• Bai 
• and Miao people, which together make up approximately 70％ of the local population. 

Up to now, these people still remain much of their traditional culture, including the language, festivals, clothing, and architectural styles as well. The long history of many minorities and their folk customs such as marriage custom, singing and dancing together with modern culture all contribute to the charm of Zhangjiajie. One thing is certain: All of these will give you a lasting memory.

Unique Karst Landform

Quartz Sandstone Peak Forest and Karst Caves constitute the outstanding landscape features of Zhangjiajie, which are rare in the world. Here you'll find yourself with hundreds of grotesque peaks, beautiful waters, towering trees, deep valleys, marvelous caves and exuberant forest that have formed a complete primitive ecological environment. In fact, Zhangjiajie, honored as "the most fantastic mountain under heaven" and" a living Chinese landscape painting", is a perfect combination of the beauty of Guilin, the grotesqueness of Mount Huang, the peril of Mt Hua and the magnificence of Mt Tai . It is also widely acclaimed as “an enlarged potted landscaping”, “a miniature fairyland” and “a maze of nature", attracting a growing number of tourists from home and abroad.

Amazing Natural Sceneries There are over 300 marvelous scenic spots in Zhangjiajie, such as 

• Tianzi Mountain, 
• Yangjiajie 
• and Baofeng Lake. 

As the core of Zhangjiajie attractions, Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area is composed of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, two major Nature Reserves -Tianzi Mountain and Suoxi Valley and the new Yangjiajie Scenic Area, stretched over a total area of 397 square kilometers. 

 Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, set up in 1982, is the first authorized national forest park in China, featured by its unique hills, queer ridges and peaks, tranquil valleys, clear streams, abundant fauna and flora and hospitable climate. There are six main scenic spots and over 90 smaller ones in the park，which will bring you a lot of excitement and fun.

Wulingyuan Scenic Area Near the downtown area of Zhangjiajie stands grand Tianmen Mountain called “the Soul of Wuling", and there is a beautiful Maoyan River that enjoys the reputation of "one-hundred-li long gallery", a Jiutian Cave named “the number-one cave in Asia” and other charming scenic spots in Wulingyuan. All these natural wonders are worth exploring. In addition, you can take great delight in touring the Puguang Buddhist Temple, Hongjiaguan- Former Residence of Marshal Helong, Tujia Folk Custom Park, the Old House and other historical and cultural sites in Zhangjiajie.

Zhoukoudian China: Explore Primitive life of human ancestors

Please welcome to Zhoukoudian, this place will over you to the old life of the cradle of China civilization, and this  will describe for the Primitive life of human ancestors .

Zhoukoudian, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) southwest of Beijing, was a natural habitat of human ancestors about 700,000 years ago. Here multiplied descendents, from age to age, created the splendid Paleolithic Age. To some extent, this is the cradle of Chinese civilization. In this charming and mystical land, Peking man left its footprints. Today, the remains and site provides a good opportunity for tourists to explore the primitive life of our human ancestors.

Three representative remains exist:

1. the Peking Man Site, 
2. the Upper Cave Man Site and 
3. the New Cave Man Site.

In 1921, a cave was discovered at Zhoukoudian. Archaeologists confirmed it as the habitat of Peking Man. Today, it is called Locality One or Apeman Cave. In 1929, the discovery of a complete skullcap fossil by a Chinese Paleontologist, Pei Wenzhouong, caused excitement around the world. The skullcap fossil could be traced back 500,000-700,000 years ago, proving the existence of Sinanthropus. This discovery serves as reliable and convincing evidence for the theory of evolution. Since then, Zhoukoudian has become known as the “Home of Apeman”. Decades of scientific work and excavation revealed many skeletal fossils of the ancient Peking Man, stone and bone implements and ash residues.

In 1918, a site of ancient animal fossils was discovered in Zhoukoudian by Antson, a Swedish geologist and archaeologist appointed as the consultant by the then Northern Warlords ruling government. In 1921, Antson and an Austrian paleontologist, guided by local people, discovered more fossil deposits on the north slope of the Dragon Bone Hill, known as the Zhoukoudian first site, where they found two fossil teeth of human being. In 1927, Swedish paleo-vertebrate zoologist B. Bulin and Chinese geologist Li Jie led a large-scale excavation in the first site. On December 2, 1929, Chinese renowned archaeologist Pei Wenzhong independently launched another excavation and discovered the first skull fossil of ape man which was named as the Peking Man. It was identified as being at least 600,000 years old. The news of finding the Peking Man shocked the academic circle around the world. In the following excavations, a number of relics of stone tools and sites where Peking Man used fire were discovered on the Dragon Bone Hill. The study on these findings indicates that Peking Man lived about 690,000 years ago and could walk erectly. They lived on hunting animals, could make and use coarse stone tools and learned how to use fire to cook food.

Peking Man lived in the early Paleolithic period.

• The Peking Man Site .

The Peking Man Site is situated in the Dragon Bone Hill near Zhoukoudian. Since 1921, eight sites of ancient human remains have been discovered. 26 localities where high concentrations of fossils were found have been excavated. 118 kinds of animal fossils and over 100,000 stone wares have been unearthed. These fossils and remains serve as evidence of the existence of humanoid species 500,000 years ago in Zhoukoudian.

• The Upper Cave Man Site.

The Upper Cave Man Site was discovered in 1930, and was excavated in 1933. It is located above the Apeman Cave near the peak of the Dragon Bone Hill. The cave is about 4 meters (13 feet) high and 5 meters (16 feet) wide. Three complete skullcap fossils and many other fossils were discovered here. Around the skeletons the powder of red hematite was also discovered. Other finds include bone needles, animal teeth and the remains of necklaces that were used as ornaments. These remains prove the utilization of animal furs to make clothes and to dress themselves and to keep warm. According to scientific research, the Upper Cave Man lived about 18,000 years ago with their physical character being quite similar to that of modern man. The New Cave Man Site In 1973, the New Cave Man Site was found in Locality Four, 100 meters (328 feet) south to the Apeman Cave. The New Cave Man lived 100,000 years ago. The discovery of this site bridges the gap between Peking Man and Upper Cave Man, and the succession of Peking Man's evolution. One tooth, fossils of amniotes and other animal fossils were unearthed here.