History of Meidaizhao Lamasery

Meidaizhao Lamasery lies at around 80 km east of Baotou city affordable China travel packages. It was built in 1575 for Alatanhan who was a leader of the Mongol tribe in ancient China. It was one of the most important centers for disseminating Tibetan Buddhism in Inner Mongolia.

The programming of Meidaizhao Lamasery has three major intentions: temple of worshipping Buddha, royal residence and protection from aggression . The Lamasery is surrounded by thick and long walls. Watchtowers are built at four corners of the walls. This programming will help preserve the city from aggression.

Features of Meidaizhao Lamasery

Meidaizhao Lamasery Student tours to China is important for the study of Mongolia history of religion , arts and architecture in the Ming Dynasty. Inside the temples, the walls are covered with fair frescos describing Buddhist stories, Sakyamuni’s images, Mongolian nobility worshipping Buddhism, Mongolians in traditional costumes as well as images of Alatanhan and his wife. Royal palaces are located deep in the city. Inside the wooden tower of Empress Hall stored the ashes of Alatanhan's wife.

Every year on May 13 of lunar calendar, there is a conventional Meidaizhao Temple Fair. The fair lasts around a week’s time. People from different places gather here, not only for worshipping or pleasure trip, but also for exchanging and selling local products.

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Fahai Temple is located on the Cuiwei Mountain, two kilometers northeast of Moshikou, Beijing China vacation deals. The main constructions are respectively built on three terraces. On the first terrace is the Hall of Gateway; on the second is the Hall of Four Gods, and on the third is the Grand Hall of Buddha, around which is the Hall of Masters. Fahai Temple's construction was completed in 1443. Emperor Zhu Qizhen inscribed the stele of the temple, which makes it famous among numerous temples in Beijing.

Fahai Temple is noted for its murals, which are represented by the mural painting the auspicious clouds behind the three-life Buddha, the mural painting the Buddhists attending a meeting, the mural behind the shrine painting the three Masters and the mural on the back wall depicting Brahma worshiping the Buddha. They all adopt the traditional Chinese realistic painting method characterized by fine brush work and close attention in detail. Fine, delicate strokes, meticulous painting and exquisite coloring have made the murals distinguished among murals found in Beijing.

Compared with Dunhuang Murals and Yongle Palace Murals in Shanxi Province, murals in Fahai Temple Educational tours in China have their own merits, which could match the beauty of renaissant murals in Europe.

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Address: Moshikou, Shijingshan District, Beijing

Bus Route: Bus No.31 1, 336, 337, 396, 746, 747, 959, 965, 972, 977; Underground railway to the station of Pingguoyuan China Photographing Tours, transfer to Bus 336 or 396 to Shougang Xiaoqu, then take Bus.311 to Moshikou Dongkou.

Opening Hours: 9:00-17:00 (winter 9:00-16:30)

Visit Contents: Authentic works and video programs about murals created in Ming Dynasty, Pictures of Dunhuang Murals and Yongle Palace Murals.

Nearby Sights: Badachu Park, Tianyi Tomb, Glacier Vestige and Philanthropy Temple

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In December 1929, a Chinese paleoanthropologist named Pei Wenzhong discovered a complete skull of "Peking Man" on Dragon Bone Hill northwest of Zhoukoudian China vacation deals, in the southwest suburbs of Beijing. Later, archaeologists unearthed 40-odd individually fossilized skeletons of "Peking Man", male, female, old and young, all at the same site. Zhoukoudian, therefore, became the most common site for human remains with the most abundant fossils in the world from the same period. The discovery pushed the history of Beijing's civilization back to some 600,000 years. These fossilized remains prove that "Peking Man" was primitive man in an evolutionary process from ancient ape to modern man, and is the ancestor of the Chinese nation.

In December 1929, a Chinese paleoanthropologist named Pei Wenzhong discovered a complete skull of "Peking Man" on Dragon Bone Hill northwest of Zhoukoudian, in the southwest suburbs of Beijing Student tours to China. Later, archaeologists unearthed 40-odd individually fossilized skeletons of "Peking Man", male, female, old and young, all at the same site. Zhoukoudian, therefore, became the most common site for human remains with the most abundant fossils in the world from the same period. The discovery pushed the history of Beijing's civilization back to some 600,000 years. These fossilized remains prove that "Peking Man" was primitive man in an evolutionary process from ancient ape to modern man, and is the ancestor of the Chinese nation.

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Located at the southern foot of Wuzhou Mountain some 16 km west of Datong City, Shanxi Province last minute China travel deals, Yungang Grottoes were built against the mountain and extend about 1 km (0.62 miles) from east to west. The construction of the caves was started under the auspices of the noted monk Tan Yao in 453 and took 50 years to complete. Some 40,000 people, including the Buddhists from what is present Sri Lanka, contributed to the huge project.

The 53 grottoes in Yungang Grottos include some 1,000 niches with about 51,000 statues – a treasure-trove of cave art that combines traditional Chinese art forms with foreign influence, particularly Greek and Indian. Sculptures here are noted for their vigorous features and rich variety that range from the smallest, only 2 centimeters high, to the tallest – a Buddha 17-meters high. The tallest Buddha is surrounded by many small Buddhas in Grotto No. 5, also called the Big Buddha's Cave.

The Yungang Grottoes are divided into three zones: east, west and central and numbered from east to west. Grottos No.1 and No. 2 are located in the east zone. Statues and sculptures inside these caves have been severely damaged by exposure to the elements, but still preserved in the east zone are relief sculptures of Buddhist stories on the lower part of the eastern wall of Grotto No. 1. Inside the entrance of the Yungang Temple Student tours to China is an impressive four-storeyed wooden fa?ade with glazed top outside the Grottos Nos. 3, 4 and 5.

Most of the grottoes are in the western zone, and each has its own character. Grotto No. 20 – one of the five earliest caves of monk Tan Yao – houses the sitting statute of Sakyamuni, 13.7 meters high, with a full and round face with a majestic smile, slim lips and a high nose, ears that extend almost to the shoulders, radiant eyes and broad shoulders. Sakyamuni statue is representative of Buddha sculptures in Yungang Grottoes.

Over the past 1,500 years since their completion, Yungang Grottoes China Photo Tour have been damaged by both war and natural disasters. After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese government attached great importance to the preservation of the grottoes. A special Yungang Grottoes protection institution was set up in 1995, and in 1961, the State Council listed Yungang Grottoes as key cultural site under its protection. In 1965, the Datong municipal government issued and implemented the Programs for the Protection Scope and Safety of Yungang Grottoes. From 1973 to 1976, under the instruction of Premier Zhou Enlai, China injected a huge sum of money into the grottoes, rescuing many grottoes and caves that had been on the verge of collapse.

In recent past ten or so years, the Datong municipal government has intensified its efforts to protect the Yungang Grottoes. Huge investment has been made to get rid of illegal construction and to intensify landscaping efforts at the site. In December 2001, the 25th meeting of UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Helsinki, Finland, passed a decision to list Yungang Grottoes on the World Cultural Heritage List.

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Xu Beihong (1895-1953) was an outstanding Chinese artist and educator of the fine arts. His works cover a wide range of styles and mediums, though he is best known for his horse paintings affordable China tours.

The Xu Beihong Museum was originally housed near the Beijing Railway Station. In 1953 Xu' s wife, Mrs. Liao Jingwen, contributed the residence and his entire collection of books, calligraphy, and paintings to the country. Later, due to subway renovations, the museum was moved to 53 North Xinjiekou Street, the former location of Liu Qiyuan' s personal chrysanthemum collection.

The museum displays Mr. Xu' s studio as it was originally arranged. Among the wall hangings are the master' s copy of the Western European oil painting "Bountiful Harvest," traditional Chinese paintings by Ren Bonian and Qi Baishi, and a photo of Mr. Xu with the Indian poet and philosopher Tagore Student tours to China. Also on display are the master' s seals, ancient artifacts, and gifts given by foreign friends.

Photos include shots from Mr. Xu' s trips to the former Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, Italy and India. Copies of letters from the Chinese People' S volunteers and elementary school students, telegrams and original letters of condolence sent after the master' s death are also on display.

In the exhibition hall are color ink paintings, oil paintings, and sketches from each period of Mr. Xu's career. His explosive, daring "Galloping Horse" symbolizes beauty and power. The inscription says: "I'm agitated about the battle in Changsha China travel videos on August 10, 1941. Will it end as the first? I hope so." The master completed this work in the autumn of 1941 in Singapore, where he went to raise funds for the War of Resistance Against Japan.

The Xu Beihong collection is comprised largely of works collected by the master, works from the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties up to the May 4th Movement of 1919. All together, there are over 1,200 art objects, 10,000 ancient books, stone inscription rubbings, bronze vessel rubbings, and prints. Include is an expensive Tang painting "Eighty-seven Immortals" by Wu Daozi, a famous Tang Dynasty painter, which the master purchased in Hong Kong in 1938.

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The Yan-Huang Art Gallery, located at Yayuncun (the Asian Games Village), is China vacation deals Beijing's first large modern art gallery. It was sponsored by celebrated Chinese painter, Huang Zhou, and built with donations from art lovers from all walks of life, both at home and abroad. Its collection consists mainly of contemporary Chinese paintings, and also includes ancient Chinese paintings and calligraphy, cultural relics and other works of art.

The Yan-Huang Art Gallery Educational tours in China comprises a central lobby, exhibition halls, a multi-function hall, and a painting warehouse. The museum buildings reflect the architectural styles of the Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279) dynasties. Their layout is non-symmetrical, combining the spirit of the era, cultural tradition and local characteristics. The roofs of the three main buildings are in the shape of multiple trapezoids, the roof tiles are of a deep-purple glaze, and the walls are covered by granite. The main gate is of solid bronze, and the whole structure exudes artistic appeal.

The works of Huang Zhou occupy a prominent place in the art gallery, and include the works of art he created, as well as cultural relics and masterpieces collected over his lifetime. Influential Chinese artists, such as Xu Beihong, Fu Baoshi and Li Keran, and master artists residing overseas, often exhibit their works here.

Besides exhibitions of Chinese paintings, the gallery often holds national exhibitions of fine arts, such as oil paintings, sculpture, woodblock prints and cultural relics. To encourage young and middle-aged painters, personal painting shows exhibiting the work of young and middle-aged artists of Beijing are held regularly. The Invitational Exhibition of Chinese Paintings 99 was staged at the Yan-Huang.

The gallery is active in international art exchanges. Its major exhibitions in this field have included the work of Russian painters, the International Biennial Exhibition of Woodblock Prints 2000, and the Fourth Asian Exhibition of Cartoons China Photo Tour. Fine arts exhibitions from more than 20 countries have been held at the Yan-Huang, including Iran, the Republic of Korea, Brazil, Japan, Belgium, and Bulgaria.

The Yan-Huang Art Gallery is also an academic research institute, and holds symposiums and academic exchange activities annually. In 1993, for example, Doctor Tsungdao Lee and Huang Zhou jointly sponsored a science and art symposium, which prompted widespread social response.

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There's no large-scale official building on the site after the Northern Song Dynasty. The county seat moved under the Jinzi Hill on the southern bank of the Yangtze River Yangtze River tour. Archeologists say that a recent study shows the county official site was hit by flooding and mud-rock flows during the Northern Song Dynasty. After that, the county official site had to move out of Badong. The exact time is not clear but thought to be no earlier than in the Southern Song Dynasty (1127 - 1279).

Nevertheless, Badong had its most prosperous time in the Northern Song Dynasty and thereafter declined. Lu You, a poet from the Southern Song Dynasty, described Badong County China vacation deals in his Travel Notes to Sichuan: "The county is depressed: only some one hundred families live there. The houses are all made of thatch grass, not a single tile."

Li Qingrong, explained that the governors of all dynasties did not support the development of the ethnic economy of the area south of the Yangtze River. Its remote to the Central Plains, closed off by mountains and without convenient traffic facilities. The dwellers were conservative and took business as a debasing activity. Together with the natural disasters -- floods, landslides and mud-rock flows -- the productivity and culture there were far inferior to that developed on the Central Plains.

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Located thirty kilometers northeast of Changping District, the pagoda forest affordable China tours stands on the old site of the ancient Yanshou Temple on the southern slope of Yinshan (Silver) Hill near Haizi Village. During the Liao and Kin dynasties many Buddhist temples were built around Yinshan. It is said that there were as many as seventy-two temples at one time, Yanshou, also called Fahua Temple, built in 1125, the grandest of all. The pagoda forest was actually the cemetery of the monks of the temple.

Today only seven pagodas still stand, five built during the Kin Dynasty and two during the Yuan Dynasty. All five Kin Dynasty pagodas are multi-eaved brick structures on huge Sumeru platforms. The platforms and the first storey of the pagodas are covered by beautiful relief carvings. Under the eaves are brick brackets. From the first storey on up, short eaves, close together, are spaced at between twenty and thirty meters, resembling ordinary pagodas rather than tomb pagodas China Educational tours. The two Yuan Dynasty pagodas are smaller, but each has its own characteristics. One is a multi-eaved pagoda with brick brackets under the eaves. Its inward-curving lines give it a special elegance. The other is a combination of multi-eaved and inverted-bowl styles. It fills a special position in the architectural art of Buddhist pagodas dating to the Kin and Yuan dynasties in the Beijing area.

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Zhang Fei was noted for his loyalty to friends and for his bravery. He met Liu Bei and Guan Yu and became sworn brothers at the Peach Garden China vacation dealsand vowed to combine their strengths and efforts to restore peace and order to the country.

In 221, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei's sworn brother, died in the battle with the Wu State. Zhang Fei, who was called the Tiger General, swore revenge and prepared to attack the state of Wu with his army. He ordered Commanders Zhang Da and Fan Jiang to lead the attack and avenge his brother, under pain of death. The two treacherous officers cut off Zhang Fei's head, intending to surrender to the Wu State. However, they heard of a peace settlement between the states of Wu and Shu, and threw Zhang Fei's head into the river Yangtze River tour.

Legend has it that Zhang Fei appeared in a fisherman's dream and made a request to rescue his head and bury it in the Shu. The fisherman obeyed, and accidentally found a jar of gold when he rescued the head. Then he buried the head on Flying Phoenix Hill and built a temple using the gold he had found to commemorate the bold general.

The story is moving, but after Zhang Fei's death, Shu got weaker. In AD 223, Liu Bei was defeated by Wu and dead in Baidi town. Liu Chan, Liu Bei's son, occupied the Three Gorges for 40 years and had no ambitions to invade the Wu. Because of the special terrain, the Wu also couldn't break it. Until 263, the Wei Kingdom broke the Shu, then defeated the Wu, and unified China. -- What surprised us was the route Wei took was almost the same as the Qin, when it defeated the Ba and Shu 400 years before.

Nowadays, when the national water project conflicted with the Zhangfei Temple, people decided to relocate the temple Educational tours in China. The original Zhang Fei Temple would be below the water line after the Three Gorges project, so it had to be relocated.

The new location is more than 30 kilometers upriver from the old one. It was prudently selected -- the mountain, water and other surroundings are very similar to the old one and near to the town. The relocation steps were also very complicated -- all the wood ware, brick, tiles, poles and stone ware were numbered, moved to the new location and restored.

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Surging Wave Pavilion, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is located near Sanyuan Fang, south Suzhou City China tour deals. It was first built in North Song Dynasty and the private garden of Su Shunqing, a government official. Surging Wave Pavilion is the oldest garden by comparison with any other gardens in Suzhou. The buildings in the garden can date back to 11th century, though they have been repeatedly rebuilt.

Stepping in Surging Wave Pavilion China Educational tours, you can first see a lake around the garden and various strange stone on the bank of the lake. The main scenery in the garden is the man-made hills and waters. Aged-old trees and bamboo groves grow on the hills. The long and winding corridor connect hills and waters. Canglang Ting (Surging Wave Pavilion, a square pavilion), stands atop of a hill.

The main building Mingdao Hall, located at the southeast foot of the hills, is the teaching area of Ming and Qing dynasties. Surrounded by verdant trees, the hall is spacious and looks solemn with simple architectural style. To the south of the Mingdao Hall is Kanshan Pavilion and Yinxin Stone House. Standing in Kanshan PavilionChina Holidays, tourists can overlook the scenery of Suzhou far or near.

Bamboo is the main and traditional plant and one of features in the garden. Now there are over 20 kinds of bamboos. To the north of the Mingdao Hall is Cuilinglong Hall, surrounded by bamboos, Chinese bananas. Next to Cuilinglong is a memorial hall - Five Hundred Sages Hall which houses 594 sculptures of historical figures relating with Suzhou history. From these sculptures, you can learn something about Suzhou history.

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