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storical document goes that Wuxi is known for its rich tin mine in its region, where Qin Shi Huang (the First Emperor in China) had a lot of troops (the relic of "Qin Huang Cove" still remains now) and which was the key place in battles. Then in Han Dynasty, ...
2011.12.12 17:14:00
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s meant to teach financial basics to children.
But a Chinese animation and special effects company, Xing Xing Digital, has had a hand in both.
If you have seen the eerily colored sky in fight scenes of “Twilight,” then you have already glimpsed Xi...
2011.12.14 10:36:00
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making them look strange compared with other paintings of the time. In addition, these painters were proud and uncontrolled and had bold personalities; thus they were named the Eight Eccentric Painters. Their paintings were not fully understood by many people...
2011.12.14 12:51:00
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hence the name Fiat Hills Hall. When Ouyang Xiu's student Su Dongpo moved to Yangzhou, he too served as prefect of the city. He had a hall built directly behind the one erected by his master, and called it Guling Hall. ...
2011.12.14 12:56:00
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5,000 years and an architectural history of over 2,600 years. As the place where Peng Zu, Liu Bang and Xiang Yu once lived, it had been a place of strategic importance. "Three Wonders of Han Dynasty" (tomb, carved stone and terra-cotta warriors of Han Dynast...
2011.12.14 10:57:00
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gdoms Period.
In 1280 AD, Yangzhou was the site of a massive gunpowder explosion when the bomb store of the Weiyang arsenal had caught fire accidentally. This blast killed over a hundred guards, launched debris of the buildings into the air that landed 10...
2011.12.14 12:39:00
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if it was in summer. This gave evidence that Yangzhou paper-cut has a long history.
People in the Tang Dynasty had the custom to welcome the Spring Festival by paper-cut. On the day of Spring Beginning, people cut paper into patterns of flowe...
2011.12.14 12:45:00
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he Geyuan Garden is well known as the only extant of gardening art for its Four-season Rockeries.The architect of Geyuan Garden had distinguished acuity of the figures and colors of rocks.In Geyuan Garden,different prospects in four seasons are constructed wi...
2011.12.14 13:00:00
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h city. More than a dozen ramparts with 8-9 meters high around the outer city form a natural barrier. It was said that King Yan had resisted the invasion of King Wu for years under the help of such ramparts and moats. A folk song was spreading like, “Between...
2011.12.14 16:26:00
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estival & Asian Wetland Symposium was opened in Wuxi. Experts, scholars and supervisors from more than 20 countries and regions had a discussion centering on the theme of “wetland and human beings”. Luo Fuhe, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the C...
2011.12.15 11:27:00
