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This is a bridge which mark the chinese's pride as it was the first double-deck and track highway and railway bridge designed and built by the chinese.The construction took 7 years from 1961 to 1968.A place which you should not left out when visiting Nanjing.
Written Feb 4, 2006
Address: Nanjing
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Zhonghua Gate (Zhonghua Men) was the biggest and most splendid city gate of Nanjing city wall in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644).
The gate was built from 1366 to 1386.the wall was built with huge bricks and special cement made from lime,tung oil and sticky rice juice making the wall extraordinarily strong.
Zhonghua Gate castle is 128m long from south to north & 118.45m wide from east to west.It is 24.45m high and with total area of 15168 square metre
Written Feb 4, 2006
Address: Nanjing
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At the north of the Sacrificial Hall lies the vault. At the center of the bell shaped vault of the coffin chamber is a lying statue of Dr.Sun carved by a Czech sculptor.Dr.Sun's remains was buried deep below.
I read somewhere that we are not allowed to take pictures in this hall,but everyone was busy taking so I just followed the crowds.Any idea?
Written Feb 4, 2006
Address: Nanjing
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The Sacrificial Hall is a palace of 30 meters in length, 25 meters in width and 29 meters in height. In the center of the hall stand a 4.6m high statue of Dr Sun.
The statue was sculptured out of white marble produced in Italy.
Written Feb 4, 2006
Address: Nanjing
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The mausoleum is situated at the foot of the Mount Zijin. On first July 1929, Dr. Sun was buried there,after 3 years of his death.
Dr. Sun has been respected as the Father of the modern China as he fought unyieldingly against the corrupt Qing government and led the 1911 revolution to end feudal system and found the Republic of China, leading the chinese into a new era.
To lead to the vault,there is a 480-meter-long and 50-meter-wide stairway which has 392 stairs.
Admission of RMB40 is required
Written Feb 4, 2006
Address: Nanjing Zhongshan Ling
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Xuanwu lake lies in the northeast of Nanjing.It is near the railway station & out of the city wall. Xuanwu Lake used to be the drilling camp of the imperial navy. At the end of the Qing dynasty, it was turned into a park, which occupied an area of 434 hectares with 368 hectares in water.
Admission Fees of RMB10 is required
Written Feb 4, 2006
Address: Nanjing
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The Confucius Temple (Fuzi miao) is the holy shrine of Confucius, the outstanding ancient Chinese philosopher and thinker. The temple was built in 1034 in the Song Dynasty (960-1729).The complex consists of Confucius Temple, the Imperial Academy and Gongyuan where provincial and national examinations were held.
Howver the Confucius Temple was burnt and restored for many times. In 1937, the Japanese invaders burnt it into ashes. and it was rebuilt by the chinese government in accordance with Ming and Qing style in 1984. The Confucius Temple and rated as one of the top 40 tourist attractions in 1991.
Written Feb 4, 2006
Address: Nanjing Fu Zi Miao
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To the north of the centre is a great double deck bridge over the river, proudly built by the Chinese after the Soviet Union withdrew help in 1960.
Well what we saw was impressive, but, the mist closed in and we were barely able to see the river, shame, this was to be one of the highlights of our tour for me.
Written Dec 27, 2005
Website: http://www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/jiangsu/nanjing/bridge.htm
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Zhongshan Ling is the name of Dr Sun's mauseleum just outside the city centre. This is a serene and popular place for the Chinese to pay their respects to Dr Sun, the first President of China.
Interestingly we didn't see another "westerner" all the time we were there, maybe not on the tourist trail yet.
A shame about the misty weather, views over the purple mountains must be good after the 392 step climb, (not difficult)
Written Dec 27, 2005
Website: http://www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/jiangsu/nanjing/sun.htm
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The mausoleum area is huge and stretches up the entire hillside of Zijinshan to the northeast of Nanjing, and it is a busy place during the weekends. At the bottom, a ceremonial archway is etched with the word “Fraternity’ in Sun Yatsen’s handwriting. After a half-kilometre boulevard flanked by gingko and maple trees, is a further gateway, this time etched with the words “The World Belongs to the People”. High up above is the white marble mausoleum hall, up 392 steps: this flight is deliberately designed to hide the mausoleum building until the last step, intending to remind visitors that the revolution ‘ain’t over until it’s over’, although I’m sure Sun Yatsen would have expressed it somewhat more eloquently.
In the mausoleum itself, a statute of Sun Yatsen stares down silently, while the surrounding walls are etched with the entire constitution of the first republic.
Behind the mausoleum is a very small and very quiet garden among the pine trees, and a worthy place to rest and contemplate what might have been had Yuan Shikai not forced Sun Yatsen to the fringes of Chinese politics in 1912 at the very time when Sun’s skills and diplomacy could have changed the course of Chinese history.
Written Apr 28, 2005
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