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Meng Jiang-Nu Temple, Story behind the Great Wall

The story of Meng Jiangnu is widely spread in China. People admired her loyalty, respected her faithfulness and staunchness, so built Meng Jiang-Nu Temple to memorize her. The temple is situated on the Mountain Fenghuangshan, 6 kilometers east of Shanhaiguan Pass in Qinhuangdao City. It was first built before Song Dynasty and reconstructed in the 22nd year of Ming Wanli reign. And it is the preserved intact temple worshipping Lady Meng Jiangnu.

In front of the temple are built 108 steps using pedestrian flagstones conforming to the terrain of the mountain, symbolizing the hardships and obstacles on Meng Jiangnu's journey to look for her husband.

When visitors ascend step by step to enter the front hall via the mountain gate featuring the stele "Zhen Nv Ci", they can see the famous couplet hung on the columns that is renowned throughout the country. The first line reads “Hai shui chao zhao zhao chao zhao chao zhao luo”, and the second line reads “Fu yun zhang chang chang zhang chang zhang chang xiao”. There are actually a number of ways to understand these 2 phrases. Weighing every word carefully, the reader will begin to appreciate its inherent humor and wit.

Top Five Popular Chinese Traditional Arts and Crafts

The following are my pick of Five Popular Chinese Traditional Arts and Crafts, anyone who loves Chinese culture and arts can take a look.

Chinese Embroidery

Chinese embroidery

Chinese embroidery is a very long established art form famous in the world. It is one of the oldest extant needlework. The four major regional styles of Chinese embroidery are Suzhou embroidery (Su Xiu), Hunan embroidery (Xiang Xiu), Guangdong embroidery (Yue Xiu) and Sichuan embroidery (Shu Xiu). All of them are nominated as Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage. Embroidery adds much pleasure to Chinese life and culture.

Mount Huang: Loveliest Mountain of China

Mount Huang, also known as Huangshan ("Yellow Mountain"), is a mountain range located in southern Anhui province in eastern China. The range is composed of material that was uplifted from an ancient sea during the Mesozoic era, 100 million years ago. The world heritage covers a core area of 154 square kilometres and a buffer zone of 142 square kilometres.It is famous for its sunsets, peculiarly shaped granite peaks, Huangshan Pine trees, and views of the clouds from above.

Mount Huang

The Huangshan mountain range has many peaks, some more than 1,000 meters (3,250 feet) high. The three tallest and best-known peaks are Lotus Peak (1,864 m), Bright Summit Peak (1,840 m), and Celestial Peak (literally Capital of Heaven Peak, 1,829 m).

The Huangshan pine is named after Huangshan and is considered an example of vigor because the trees thrive by growing straight out of the rocks.Many of the area's pine trees are more than a hundred years old and have been given their own names. Huangshan's moist climate facilitates the growing of tea leaves and the mountain has been called "one of China's premier green tea-growing mountains.

Top 10 Must See Attractions in China

No matter you have been in China or not, there are ten attractions here deserve your visit. The following are my pick of the Top 10 Must See Attractions you should visit, please have a look and hope can help you.

Great Wall of China

Great Wall of China

As one of the most magnificent ancient defense works, the Great Wall is arguably the main attraction bringing more foreigners coming to Beijing.

The Forbidden City: Chinese Imperial Palace

Situated in the center of Beijing, the Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty. It is to the north of Tiananmen Square and is the world's largest palace complex consisting of 980 buildings and covering 72 ha (180 acres).  Surrounded by a 52-meter-wide moat and a 10-meter-high wall are more than 8,700 rooms. The wall has a gate on each side.

The Forbidden City

It was orignally constructded in 1407, the 5th year of the Yongle reign of the third emperor (Emperor Chengzu, Zhu Di) of the Ming dynasty and was finished in 1420. It was said that a million workers including one hundred thousand artisans were driven into the long-term hard labor. Stone needed was quarried from Fangshan District.  It was also said a well was dug every fifty meters along the road in order to pour water onto the road in winter to slide huge stones on ice into the city. Huge amounts of timber and other materials were freighted from faraway provinces.

The Forbidden City is listed as a World Cultural Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1987 and is now one of the most popular tourist attractions world-wide.

Chinese Paper Cutting: People's Expression of Hope

Accidentally I went to the Children's Paper Cutting Show in Beijing Women and Children's Museum in Dongcheng District. That was Friday May 30th, some of my friends and I went there for a walk, and I never thought I would be touched by those beautiful and amazing paper-cuts.