The Stone Forest Scenic Area of Kunming is located in the south county, it is 78kms from Kunming(昆明Kūnmíng). The south county(Nan xian in Chinese) is the symbolic Karst landform place in China. There are over 400 square kilometers stone forest in the county, the whole scenic area includes the Big Stone Forest Area, the Small Stone Forest Area, the Naigu Stone Forest (Ancient Stone Forest in Chinese meaning), the Big Folded Water, the Long Lake, the Moon Lake, the cave of Mushroom and Clouds, the Astonish Windy Cave.
Category: Chinese Culture
Wuhan University 武汉大学
****************************************************** Wuhan University(武汉大学：Wǔhàn Dàxué) is a key university directly under the administration of the Education Ministry of the People's Republic of China. It is located in Hubei Province's capital Wuhan known as "The thoroughfare leading to nine provinces". The university has rolling physical features with the scenic Luojia Hill(珞珈山：Luòjiāshān) in it and the beautiful East Lake by its side, seeming in picturesque disorder. Its campus is wooded and green, and has fragrant flowers everywhere all the year round, the buildings are in special architectural styles, magnificent and mansion-looking. For the above reasons, Wuhan University is widely known as one of the most beautiful universities in the world.
The university dates back to Ziqiang Institute(自强学院：Zìqiánɡ Xuéyuàn), which was founded in 1893 by Zhang Zhidong(张之洞：Zhānɡ Zhīdònɡ), governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty after his memorial to the throne was approved by the Qing Government. Later, it changed its name several times before it was named National Wuhan University in July 1928. During the War of Resistance against Japan, Wuhan University moved to Leshan, Sichuan Province and returned to Luojia Hill after the victory of the war. By the end of 1946, the university had six colleges, i.e., the colleges of liberal arts, law, sciences, engineering, agriculture and medicine.
Wuhan University boasts a campus which covers an area of 5508 mu and it has a floorage of 2.42 million square metres. There are large modernized teaching buildings, laboratory buildings, gymnasiums, sports grounds, swimming pools, archive buildings, and a specimen building with more then 200,000 pieces of valuable animal and plant specimens. The university's libraries have a collection of approximately 5.2 million volumes, subscribe to more then 10,000 kinds of Chinese and foreign periodicals, are the central-China canter officially decided for the "211 Project" documents–ensuring system of the Chinese universities and colleges.
Daxue 大学 “The Great Learning”
The Daxue 大学 "Great Learning" is a Confucian Classic. It is part of the canon of the Sishu 四书 "Four Books", to which it was added as integral Confucian writing on the order and harmony of society. It was originally a chapter of the ritual classic Liji 礼记. The Northern Song period 北宋 (960-1126) Neo-Confucian scholars Cheng Hao 程颢 and Cheng Yi 程颐 were the first to regard it as a separate treatise. The Southern Song period 南宋 (1127-1279) Neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi 朱熹 divided it into a classic (jing 经) and a commentary (zhuan 传), wrote a philological study (zhangju 章句) to the Daxue and made it part of the canon of the "Four Books". Zhu Xi believed that the part he called "classic" had been compiled by Zeng Shen曾参, a disciple of Confucius, while the the "commentary" was compiled by followers of Zeng Sen. This dispartment of the text is rather arbitrary and not based on scholarly evidence. The Qing period 清 (1644-1911) scholar Chen Que 陈确 therefore contradicted this assumption and brought forward, on the base of textual evidence, that the Daxue must have been compiled only during the Former Han period 前汉 (206 BCE-8 CE), and not during the age in which Confucius and his disciples lived (5th cent. BCE).
Kaiping watchtowers in China’s Guangdong Province
First time got to know watchtowers(a watchtower is a high building which gives a person a good view of the area around the place that they are guarding) in Guangdong(广东Guǎngdōng) was from the famous Chinese film Let the Bullets Fly, and I was shocked not only by the story but also by some architecture(the architecture of a building is the style in which it is designed and constructed) in it. They combine both the Chinese and western building styles including ancient Greek, Roman and Islamic ones, simple but revealing the deep sense of history. Compared with the ancient buildings I had visited before, watchtowers in the film seemed to be more modern.
Jeju-stranded liner back to China
On Sept. 15, 2013 shows the detained cruise Henna in Jeju Island, South Korea. The first batch of around 280 passengers on the detained cruise Henna in Jeju Island has departed from Jeju for China by plane at 3:20 p.m. local time on Sunday, according to the Chinese Consulate General in Jeju Island. 滞留在韩国济州港的中国邮轮“海娜号”上的游客当天开始陆续回国。中国驻韩国济州总领事张欣介绍说，中国海航计划调拨6架次包机运送“海娜号”的滞留游客。首架飞机已于当地时间15时20分搭载280名乘客回国，其余包机也将陆续起飞回国。
Song Ci: to the tune “Fragrance filling the hall” 周邦彦：满庭芳
周邦彦：满庭芳Zhou Bangyan (1056-1121): to the tune "Fragrance filling the hall"
风老莺雏，雨肥梅子，午阳嘉树清圆。Wind raises the oriol's chicks, rain manures the plum sprouts, midday sun makes trees grow, clearing and rounding.
地卑山近，衣润费炉烟。The ground is flat, the mountains near, wet clothes damping over the fire.
人静乌鸢自乐，小桥外，新绿溅溅。As man is quiet, the kites play happily. Outside the small bridge, new green in gurgling water.
凭阑久，黄芦苦竹，疑泛九江船。Leaning upon a balustrade, amidst yellow gourds and withered bamboo, I ask myself if the ship will reach Jiujiang.
年年，如社燕，飘流瀚海，来寄修椽。Year after year, like migrating swallows, like the floating desert, they come under my eaves.
且莫思身外，长近尊前。But never think at outside of your self, if long or short, rever the ancient.
憔悴江南倦客，不堪听，急管繁弦。Emaciated and tired are the guests from the south, let them hear music, play flutes and lutes,
歌筳畔，先安枕簟，容我醉时眠。Make a banquet on the fields; first prepare their mats and pillows, and let us only sleep when we are drunk.
Faye Wong break second marriage with Li Yapeng
Singer Faye Wong announced on Sept 13 that she has divorced her second husband, former actor turned businessman, Li Yapeng.
To encounter nonconventional sites in Guilin City
When it comes to Guilin(桂林Guìlín) City, you may figure out the elegant karst(喀斯特Kāsītè) landscape of Li River, the poetic idyllic scenery in Yangshuo(阳朔Yángshuò), the amazing winding terraced fields in the Longsheng….however, Guilin and its surrounding counties offer more choices than that for a dissimilar Guilin tour other than the fixed itineraries on ads.
Chuci 楚辞 “Poetry of Chu” or “Poetry of the South”
The Chinese literary type of Chuci 楚辞 "Poetry of Chu" or "Poetry of the South" is a sort of poem that found its origin in the works of Qu Yuan 屈原, a high minister in the state of Chu 楚.
Discover the Tomb of Shangguan Wan’er
The tomb of Shangguan Wan'er, a famous female politician in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), in Xianyang, Shaanxi province believed to be ravaged on Sept 4. No coffin was found in a one-month excavation, and a large portion of the patio and the corridor to the tomb were damaged, suspected to be destructions from officials in history, archaeologists on site said.
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