Interesting China Facts
From the long history to successive culture, delicious food, Kung fu, panda, magnificent landscape... China has it all! Here are some interesting and amazing facts about this country, which give a quick glance of the various cultures and lifestyles followed out here.
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Dazu Rock Carvings Facts
The Dazu Rock Carvings are a series of Chinese religious sculptures and carvings, dating back as far as the 7th century AD, depicting and influenced by Buddhist, Confucian and Taoist beliefs. Listed as a World Heritage Site in 1999, the Dazu Rock Carvings are made...
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Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces
Honghe Hani Rice Terraces is located in southern Yunnan Province, and spread in Yuanyang, Honghe, Jinping, Lvchun these four counties, with a total area of about 667 square kilometers . It is the landscape and idyll scenery painting carved by Hani people throu...
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Xinjiang Tianshan
Tianshan Mountains is one of the seven mountains in the global, is the world's largest chain of mountains in temperate arid regions, and also is the world's largest independent mountains of east-west trend. It was published as world natural heritage by UNESCO in...
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Chengjiang Fossil Site
Chengjiang Fossil Sites is located in Chengjiang County of Yuxi City in Yunnan Province, covers an area of 512 hectares, the buffer area of 220 hectares and has a history that can be traced back to over 530 million years ago. It was discovered in 1984 and has been...
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Site of Xanadu
Site of Xanadu is located in the Plain Blue Banner of Xilin Gol League and Duolun County, in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, covers an area of 251 square kilometers. Kublai Khan established Kaiping Government here in 1256 AD and promoted to Shang Du in...
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West Lake of Hangzhou
West Lake is a famous fresh water lake located in the historic area of Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province in eastern China. The lake is divided by the causeways of Su Di, Bai Di and Yang Gong Di. There are numerous temples, pagodas, gardens, and artificial...
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China Danxia
China Danxia is the generic terms of various geomorphologic landscapes which formed by continental red glutenite under the force of combined endogenic (tectonic uplift) and exogenic (climatic, erosion, weathering) forces. It was designated as a world natural herita...
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Mount Songshan Shaolin Temple and Historic Monuments of Dengfeng
Mount Songshang is considered to be the central sacred mountain of China. At the foot of this 1,500 meter high mountain, close to the city of Dengfeng in Henan province and spread over a 40 square-kilometer circle, stand eight clusters of buildings and sites. Const...