The document summarizes 5 famous tourist places in China:
1) The Leshan Giant Buddha, a 71-meter tall Buddha carved into a cliff face.
2) The Yonghe Temple, one of the largest Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in Beijing containing a 26-meter tall Buddha statue.
3) Beihai Park, a large imperial garden and now public park located near the Forbidden City featuring a large lake and island.
4) Jiuzhaigou Valley, a protected nature reserve and national park known for its colorful lakes and waterfalls.
5) The Great Wall of China, a series of fortifications stretching thousands of kilometers across northern China, most sections dating back to the Ming
The document summarizes 5 famous tourist places in China:
1) The Leshan Giant Buddha, a 71-meter tall Buddha carved into a cliff face.
2) The Yonghe Temple, one of the largest Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in Beijing containing a 26-meter tall Buddha statue.
3) Beihai Park, a large imperial garden and now public park located near the Forbidden City featuring a large lake and island.
4) Jiuzhaigou Valley, a protected nature reserve and national park known for its colorful lakes and waterfalls.
5) The Great Wall of China, a series of fortifications stretching thousands of kilometers across northern China, most sections dating back to the Ming
The document summarizes 5 famous tourist places in China:
1) The Leshan Giant Buddha, a 71-meter tall Buddha carved into a cliff face.
2) The Yonghe Temple, one of the largest Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in Beijing containing a 26-meter tall Buddha statue.
3) Beihai Park, a large imperial garden and now public park located near the Forbidden City featuring a large lake and island.
4) Jiuzhaigou Valley, a protected nature reserve and national park known for its colorful lakes and waterfalls.
5) The Great Wall of China, a series of fortifications stretching thousands of kilometers across northern China, most sections dating back to the Ming
The document summarizes 5 famous tourist places in China:
1) The Leshan Giant Buddha, a 71-meter tall Buddha carved into a cliff face.
2) The Yonghe Temple, one of the largest Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in Beijing containing a 26-meter tall Buddha statue.
3) Beihai Park, a large imperial garden and now public park located near the Forbidden City featuring a large lake and island.
4) Jiuzhaigou Valley, a protected nature reserve and national park known for its colorful lakes and waterfalls.
5) The Great Wall of China, a series of fortifications stretching thousands of kilometers across northern China, most sections dating back to the Ming
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China
Name: *Sol Valentina Prieto Panqueva Grade: 9B Date: 11/08/14 CHINA
China has a number of tourist places that are beautiful in culture,
art and beautiful natural and architectural sites in this essay I will tell you 5 places of this beautiful place
*The first place is The Leshan Giant Buddha This is The Great Buddha of Leshan statue is carved in stone Buddha highest in the world. It was built during the Tang Dynasty.
It is carved into a cliff face that lies at the confluence of the rivers Minjiang, Dadu and Qingyi, in the southern part of Sichuan Province of China, near the city of Leshan. The sculpture faces Mount Emei while the river water runs through the Buddha's feet.
In 1996, UNESCO included the Great Buddha of Leshan, along with
the Mount Emei Scenic Area, on the list of World Heritage sites considered humanity.1
The size, having a height of 71 meters, represents a Maitreya
Buddha with his hands resting on his knees. The shoulders are 28 meters wide and the smallest toe is wide enough so you can sit on it a person. A local saying goes: The Mountain is Buddha and Buddha is a mountain. The origin of this phrase is in the fact that the mountain on which lies the Great Buddha (view from the river) has a silhouette reminiscent of a lying Buddha *The second is the Yonghe Temple (Palace of Peace and Harmony) is one of the most important Buddhist monuments in Beijing (China). It was established under the Qing Dynasty.
It represents the climax of the liturgy and iconography of Tibetan
Buddhism once became semi-official religion of the Chinese court from the Yuan dynasty. It is known in popular or tourism context as "Lamaserio Yonghe," "Buddhist Cathedral» Beijing, or just Lamaist Temple in Beijing.
Is the most important temple and monastery of the Geluk China
order of Tibetan Buddhism. It is located in the northeastern part of Beijing, China. Although much declined with the fall of imperial patronage, it is still one of the most important temples of this order, at least to the architectural and iconographic level. The styles combine Tibetan temple elements and Chinese elements
This located in the northeastern part of Beijing, is one of the largest
Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in the world. The temple was built by Chinese emperors who harbored a deep fascination for the Tibetan version of Buddhism. Over the years, many Tibetan and Mongolian monks lived and taught here, and there are still monks in residence today. The temple contains a 26 meter tall statue of Maitreya Buddha carved from a single piece of white sandalwood. *The third place is Beihai Park was an imperial garden and now a public park located to the northwest of the Forbidden City in Beijing. First built in the 11th century, it is among the largest of all Chinese gardens and contains numerous historically important structures, palaces, and temples. Since 1925, the place has been open to the public as a park. It is also connected at its northern end to the Shichahai.
The park has an area of more than 69 Hectares with a lake that covers more than half of the entire park. At the center of the park is an island called Jade Flower Island whose highest point is 32 meters
The Beihai Park, as with many of Chinese imperial gardens, was
built to imitate renowned scenic spots and architecture from various regions of China; the Taihu Lake, the elaborate pavilions and canals in Hangzhou and Yangzhou, the delicate garden structures in Suzhou and others all served as inspirations for the design of the numerous sites in this imperial garden. The structures and scenes in the Beihai Park are described as masterpieces of gardening technique that reflects the style and the superb architectural skill and richness of traditional Chinese garden art.
Beihai literally means "Northern Sea". There are also corresponding
central and Southern "Seas". These latter two are joined inside a complex of buildings known after them as Zhongnanhai; it is the home of China's paramount leaders. *The fourth place is Jiuzhaigou Valley is a nature reserve and national park located in the north of Sichuan, China.
The remote region was inhabited by various Tibetan and Qiang
peoples for centuries. Until 1975 this inaccessible area was little known. Extensive logging took place until 1979, when the Chinese government banned such activity and made the area a national park in 1982. An Administration Bureau was established and the site officially opened to tourism in 1984; layout of facilities and regulations were completed in 1987.
The site was inscribed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1992
and a World Biosphere Reserve in 1997. The tourism area is classified as a AAAAA scenic area by the China National Tourism Administration.
Since opening, tourist activity has increased every year: from 5,000 in 1984 to 170,000 in 1991, 160,000 in 1995, to 200,000 in 1997, including about 3,000 foreigners. Visitors numbered 1,190,000 in 2002. As of 2004, the site averages 7,000 visits per day, with a quota of 12,000 being reportedly enforced during high season The Town of Zhangzha at the exit of the valley and the nearby Songpan County feature an ever-increasing number of hotels, including several luxury five-stars, such as Sheraton. *The last place is Great Wall Of China is a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China in part to protect the Chinese Empire or its prototypical states against intrusions by various nomadic groups or military incursions by various warlike peoples or forces. Several walls were being built as early as the 7th century BC; these, later joined together and made bigger and stronger, are now collectively referred to as the Great Wall. Especially famous is the wall built between 220–206 BC by the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang. Little of that wall remains. Since then, the Great Wall has on and off been rebuilt, maintained, and enhanced; the majority of the existing wall is from the Ming Dynasty.
Other purposes of the Great Wall have included border controls,
allowing the imposition of duties on goods transported along the Silk Road, regulation or encouragement of trade and the control of immigration and emigration. Furthermore, the defensive characteristics of the Great Wall were enhanced by the construction of watch towers, troop barracks, garrison stations, signaling capabilities through the means of smoke or fire, and the fact that the path of the Great Wall also served as a transportation corridor.
The main Great Wall line stretches from Shanhaiguan in the east, to Lop Lake in the west, along an arc that roughly delineates the southern edge of Inner Mongolia. A comprehensive archaeological survey, using advanced technologies, has concluded that the Ming walls measure 8,850 km (5,500 mi).
