30 ReviewsStone Elephant Road is the first section of the sacred way, 615 meters long . This road comes along with six kinds of stone animals including horses, unicorns, elephants, camels, bear-eyed unicorns,...
23 ReviewsI was lucky enough to visit this place in 2011, as they celebrated 100 years of Chinese Revolution. The admission to Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Mausoleum was free. You could see from my picture, they decorated...
14 ReviewsThe Presidential Palace is located in the center of downtown Nanjing, next to Nanjing 1912 commercial area, across the street from the Nanjing Library. You can easily reach here by the metro,...
14 ReviewsMochou Lake is located southwest of Nanjing City. It occupied 47 hectares (116 acres) of land, which was part of the Yangtze River. Now, the lake is connected to Yangtze River through Qin Huai River....
19 ReviewsThe original Confucian Temple was built in 1034 but was continuously detroyed and rebuilt over the years. The temple you see today was rebuilt after being burnt down by the Japanese during WWII....
6 ReviewsA museum and memorial dedicated to all those who who died in the Nanjing Massacre (also known as the Rape of Nanjing) during WWII, as well as survivors who were raped or attacked by the Japanese army....
5 ReviewsThe City Wall of Nanjing was designed by Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang (r. 1368-1398) after he founded the Ming Dynasty and established Nanjing as the capital 600 years ago. To consolidate his sovereignty and...
10 ReviewsThe Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge is the first bridge to be built across the Yangzi River in 1968. It was also the first double-decker, double-track highway and railway bridge designed and constructed...
3 ReviewsJen is so happy to go window shopping and take a lot of pictures in Fu Zi Miao Night Market.
There are lots of souvenier that you could bring backk home for your family, friends and...
7 ReviewsThe Nanjing Treaty History Museum is housed in the Jinghai Temple which itself is close to the city wall in the northwest of the city. The small museum houses a collection of photographs and...
7 ReviewsOne of the main reasons people are visiting Linggu Temple is give their respect to those heroes that sacrifice their life to fight with the Japanese solders. It looks more like a fairyland than a...
3 ReviewsMing Palace was built during Hongwu Emperor by Zhu YuanZhang, the first Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. It was once said to have magnificent structure which the imperial palace of Beijing was modelled....
9 ReviewsZhongshan Gate was first built during Ming Dynasty, as the East Gate of the Imperial Palace. It was called " Chaoyang Gate".
In 1927, the original door of the Zhongshan Gate was removed due to the...
2 ReviewsThe lofty and spectacular Yuejiang Tower on the Lion Mountain echoes such three famous buildings as Yellow Crane Tower, (you can read about it on my Wuhan Page), Yueyang Tower and Tengwang Tower at...
4 ReviewsThis museum commemorates the anti-dynastic Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Rebellion of 1851-64. The building was used by one of the rebellion's leaders while one section originally belonged to the first...
6 ReviewsThis 1 mile (1.6km) long lake is located outside the city walls to the northeast of the city centre. It was once an important water source for the city and was used for naval exercises during the Song...
3 ReviewsA modern observatory operated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, this is also a museum of ancient astronomy, with centuries-old star charts, an armillary sphere invented 1,800 years ago and an...
2 ReviewsThe origins of this Confucius Temple date back to 1034, while the current buildings date to the late 19th century. The temple was the seat of Confucian study for more than 1500 years. The temple is...
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Zhouzhuang
by wwliu
No.1 Water Country of China Zhouzhuang Town,Once called Zhenfengli,is located in Kunshan City ,30km to The Southeast of Suzhou in Jiangsu Province covering an area of 0.4 Sq.km.Bridge Water and houseZhouzhuang is well known for its beautiful environment and simple architecture Although more than 900 years have past,its architectural style is still well preserved ,More than 60 percent of the residential houses were built during the Ming (1368-1644)and Qing(1644-1911) dynasties, consisting of nearly 100 classic courtyards and 60 carved brick archways.A township on water The most interesting travel route is walking along the banks or rowing a boat Through the stone arch bridges to view the residential houses along the waterside. The houses commonly have two floors,with white walls and black roofs ,various styles of windows out of which often poke many bamboo poles carrying the household...
Nanjing -- Confucius Temple
by wwliu
Nanjing Confucius Temple is for consecrating and worshipping Confucius,the great thingker and educator of ancient China.Nanjing Confucius temple was built in Song Dynasty(A.D.1034) and expanded in East Jin Dynasty.These architecture was ruined and rebuilt for several times.The Confucius Temple once was rebuilt in Qing Dynasty(A.D.1869) but was serious fired and destroyed by the Japanese aggresser troops in 1937.In order to protect the old city,the Chinese Govemment appropriated funds to rebuild and fix the Confucius Temple. Nowadays it has re-expressed its splendid civilization to the world and has been Nregarded the special scenery of anjing.In 1991,the Confucius Temple was elected the "Forty Best Scenery Spots".
Suzhou -- Pan Gate
by wwliu
Pan Gate is a city gate in land and water In term of the Five Dynasties and ten counties, Suzhou was capital of Wu. By reason of abundant water resorce in Suzhou, there was built many city gates what used in both land and water. Pan Gate is one of the gates in that term which is protented better. The sight includes tree parts, Ruiguang tower, Wu Gate Bridge and Pan Gate tower.
Suzhou -- Zhuozheng Garden
by wwliu
Zhuozheng Garden in Suzhou and the summer palace, the summer resort, the Liu Garden are called the Chinese famous four garden. It was first built in Zhengde term in Ming dynasty (1506-1521) in which area is approximate 40,000 centiare . It is famous for water view that are be coverd water is 3/5. Mainly architecture was built beside water what seems frugal and lucidus, elegant and artless.
Suzhou -- the Lion Forest Garden
by wwliu
Compactly yet harmoniously spaced, the Lion Forest Garden has a prominent part for series of man-made mountains with various buildings around the lake, and an artificial waterfall and cliffs at the edge of the lake on the west. Remains of the 14th century man-made mountains, covering 1,152 sq.m. and being the largest of all at Suzhou, can be still seen today. Noted for its labyrinthine mountains with winding pathways and caverns, old pines and cypress trees, awesome peaks and jogged rocks of grotesque shapes resembling dancing lions with striking and unusual poses, it possesses with pride the true delights of mountain and forest scenery in limited space with a flavor of Zen Buddhism.
Suzhou -- Yipu
by wwliu
Suzhou, a city looks like a big gardens. You can feel her unique feature wherever. When you walk on the streets, Suzhou people speaking with an southern accent would sell to you various stuff what filled elegant sense. Diaphanous, ingenious, dignified, You can use every adjective to describe SuZhou as these.
Gondola rides
by stmlnyc
A gondola ride along the canal is a good way to see the town. It costs 60 RMB per gondola in Tong Li (max. 6 person, excluding children) and 80 RMB in Zhou Zhuang (max. 8 person). If you don't want to pay for the whole gondola, just chip in and ride with fellow tourists if your group is under the max. number.Tip: Try to get a female gondola rower, there more likely to sing traditional Wu-dialect songs during the ride.
Nanjing
by FreeCloud
Nanjing, the 'southern capital', once was the Replic of China's capital after World War II. Besides Dr. Sun Zhongshan's maoseleum, a must-see, the city used to be the 'greeniest' among all Chinese cities. It has a long history as well, onced to be an ancient capital for a short while. More later.
Wu Xi/Lake Tai Hu
by FreeCloud
Lake Tai Hu used to be a very beautiful place, and I liked it better than Suzhou. However, for past several years, they built several theme parks along the lake, which I think totally ruined the peace and the charm of it.Before many people can afford to fly and/or drve their own cars, Lake Taihu used to be Shanghai people's weekend/recreation/honeymoon place. The Shanghai tourists also jumped up the local prices.
Watertowns
by FreeCloud
There are many watertowns in Jiangsu province, where preserve relatively well of their traditional Chinese architecture and life style, to certain degrees.The few known to general tourists are Tong Li, Lu Zhi, Mu Du etc, all not far from Suzhou.
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