Visit Fenghua, China
Fenghua is a district in Ningbo, Zhejiang province. It is most famous for being the hometown of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, leader of the Kuomintang. Travelers can visit his former residence, as well as visit the famous Xuedou Temple and other important Buddhist sites.
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Taiwan's senior statesman Koo Chen-fu and his Chinese counterpart Wang Daohan are preparing to meet in Shanghai. They last met face to face at a 1993 summit in Singapore which was the first formal contact between the countries since they split amid civil war in 1949.
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ZHEJIANG PROVINCE, CHINA
MS plane on tarmac;
CU plane wheels;
MS children singing;
MS officials leaving plane;
CU children singing;
MS children singing as passengers from Taiwan and Macau arrive;
PAN to podium and opening ceremony;
Official making speech;
Officers from China's ground forces and air force clapping;
PAN from podium to seated guests;
CU mainland and Taiwanese businessmen;
Ribbon cutting ceremony;
Director of Air Macau cutting ribbon;
Handshake between Ningbo mayor;
Air Macau director and CAAC official;
SOT Zhang Weiwen, Mayor of Ningbo, in Mandarin: The relations between Ningbo and Taiwan is a very close one and the personal intercourse between the two sides is very intensive. The opening of this route will further intensify the existing personal ties and the economic and trade cooperation. It will also make people feel much closer to each other;
XIKOU, CHINA
WS people on bridge crossing Xikou city;
MS people on bridge;
PAN across street to wall of Chiang Kai Shek old house;
CU sign near door saying `Ancestor home of Chiang family';
MS people entering gates;
CU people entering gate;
WS courtyard;
ZOOM to doorway;
WS building;
PAN people reading information;
CU man taking photo;
WS people on tour;
SOT Zhou Lejun, Taiwanese tourist, retired Kuomingtang Army General, in Mandarin: Communism is different from the Three people's principles, Nationalism, Democracy, People's livelihood. Now, the Communist Party is gradually turning to the Socialism with Chinese characteristics which is actually the People's livelihood put forward by Doctor Sun Yat-tsen. This indicates that the two sides are getting closer and closer and help to promote reunification... I just hope that reunification could happen earlier;
PAN people at building;
CU window;
CU ornament;
MS people
PAN to banner;
SOT Zhou Wenhua, mainland tourist, ex-government official, in Mandarin: Now, times have changed and the situation is totally different. For example, we used to consider the USA as the `American imperialist enemy' but now they have become our friend. It's the same thing with Chiang Kai Shek;
MS bed;
CU Chiang Kai Shek bed covered with coins thrown by visitors;
NINGBO, CHINA
MS plane taking off;
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Cihu Mausoleum 慈湖陵寢
Cihu Mausoleum (Chinese: 慈湖陵寢; pinyin: Cíhú Língqǐn), officially known as the Mausoleum of Late President Chiang (Chinese: 先總統 蔣公陵寢; pinyin: Xiān Zǒngtǒng Jiǎnggōng Língqǐn) or President Chiang Kai-shek Mausoleum is the temporary resting place of President Chiang Kai-shek. It is located in Daxi District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan. When Chiang Kai-shek died in 1975, he was not buried in the traditional Chinese fashion but entombed in a black marble sarcophagus since he expressed the wish to be eventually buried in his native Fenghua in Zhejiang province once the Kuomintang (KMT) recovered mainland China from the Communists.
Cihu (慈湖) literally means benevolence lake, and it refers to the eight acre (32,000 m²) lake located near the tomb-site. The lake is divided into two smaller lakes, 5 acres (20,000 m²) and 3 acres (12,000 m²) each with a canal connecting them together. It was formerly called Green Water Lake (Chinese: 碧水湖澤; pinyin: Bìshuǐ Húzé) until Chiang Kai-shek renamed it as Cihu in 1962 because the scenery reminded him of his benevolent mother and his home town, Fenghua. Chiang loved the lake so much that he had an official residence built nearby to architecturally resemble the houses in Fenghua. He also named his favorite residence Cihu, which was converted to his mausoleum upon his death in 1975. Chiang's body lies in the main hall of the residence. The residence was designed by architect Yang Cho-cheng.
The Presidential Burial Place was formerly under the jurisdiction of the Republic of China Ministry of National Defense and guarded by the Republic of China Military Police. Management of the grounds was transferred to the Taoyuan County government in 2007, and the military police were removed. Two ceremonial guards from the armed forces stand at attention at the entrance to the former Chiang residence. It is customary to give a respectful bow. Visitors are not allowed to take photographs inside the mausoleum, a prohibition that doesn't apply to the outside.
Cihu is perennially open daily for visits from 8am to 4pm (though it was closed from December 2007 to May 2008, during the waning months of Chen Shui-bian's administration). Interest in the Burial Place was actually revived this two years as it became embroiled in the then ruling Democratic Progressive Party’s campaign to remove public vestiges of the man many see as a brutal dictator.[3] During those two years, Chiang Kai-shek statues from around Taiwan were relocated to the hillside park near the mausoleum.[3] Prior to the late 1990s, visitors would line up hours for the chance to pay their respects to Chiang Kai-shek (either by bowing three times or saluting before the sarcophagus). Schoolchildren were often bussed in to do the same. At the anniversary of his death on April 5, high-ranking Kuomintang officials would pay homage to the late President in lavish ceremonies. Since democratization of Taiwan during the 1990s, the visitors to Cihu have dwindled in their numbers and the next generation of KMT officials, have visited with less pomp and ceremony. Supporters of Taiwan independence (and pro-independence leaders such as Chen Shui-bian) do not visit the site due to their dislike for Chiang Kai-shek—a leader whom they viewed as one who imposed authoritarian rule on Taiwan.
When Chiang Kai-shek's son, President Chiang Ching-kuo, died in 1988 he was also entombed in a similar fashion in nearby Touliao Mausoleum, Daxi. This is why Daxi has been known as the “township of the Presidents”.[4] In 2004, Chiang Fang-liang, the widow of Chiang Ching-kuo, asked that both father and son be buried at Wuchih Mountain Military Cemetery in Hsichih, Taipei County. The state funeral ceremony was planned for late 2006, but with repeated delays, no ceremony was held or materialized. There was public debate if another national funeral should be held again for the burial in Wuchih Mountain Military Cemetery while fervent supporters of Taiwan independence were against granting honors to whom they view as a dictator. However, President Chen inclined to hold another national funeral (the first to invoke the state funeral law) but one lasting only one day. Chiang Fang-liang and Soong Mei-ling had agreed in 1997 that the former leaders be first buried but still be moved to mainland China in the event of reunification. Soong Mei-ling died in 2003 and was entombed at Ferncliff Cemetery in New York. Chiang Fang-liang died in 2004 and her cremated remains were placed next to her husband's tomb at Touliao.
The tomb was vandalized by the pro-independence activists on 28 February 2018, the 71st anniversary of the 228 incident, and the activists were later arrested. Because of the vandalism, the tomb is now separated by a glass panel for visitors to view the sarcophagus from the outside, therefore the room is no longer accessible to the general public.
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奉化溪口的农家菜馆，蒋介石念念不忘的古早味 Farm Restaurant in Chiang Kai Shek‘s Hometown, Ningbo
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Farm Restaurant in Chiang Kai Shek‘s Hometown, Ningbo
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Chiang Kai-shek (; 31 October 1887 – 5 April 1975), also known as Generalissimo Chiang or Chiang Chungcheng and romanized as Chiang Chieh-shih or Jiang Jieshi, was a politician and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975, first in mainland China until 1949 and then in exile in Taiwan. He was recognized by much of the world as the head of the legitimate government of China until the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Chiang was an influential member of the Kuomintang (KMT), the Chinese Nationalist Party, as well as a close ally of Sun Yat-sen's. Chiang became the Commandant of the Kuomintang's Whampoa Military Academy and took Sun's place as leader of the KMT following the Canton Coup in early 1926. Having neutralized the party's left wing, Chiang then led Sun's long-postponed Northern Expedition, conquering or reaching accommodations with China's many warlords.From 1928 to 1948, Chiang served as chairman of the National Government of the Republic of China (ROC). Chiang was socially conservative, promoting traditional Chinese culture in the New Life Movement. Unable to maintain Sun's good relations with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Chiang purged them in a massacre at Shanghai and repressed uprisings at Kwangtung (Canton region) and elsewhere.
At the onset of the Second Sino-Japanese War, which later became the Chinese theater of World War II, Manchurian warlord Zhang Xueliang kidnapped Chiang and obliged him to establish a Second United Front with the CCP. After the defeat of the Japanese, the American-sponsored Marshall Mission, an attempt to negotiate a coalition government, failed in 1946. The Chinese Civil War resumed, with the CCP led by Mao Zedong defeating the KMT and declaring the People's Republic of China in 1949. Chiang's government and army retreated to Taiwan, where Chiang imposed martial law and persecuted critics in a period known as the White Terror. After evacuating to Taiwan, Chiang's government continued to declare its intention to retake mainland China. Chiang ruled Taiwan securely as President of the Republic of China and General of the Kuomintang until his death in 1975, just one year before Mao's death.Like Mao, Chiang is regarded as a controversial figure. Supporters credit him with playing a major part in the Allied victory of World War II and unifying the nation and a national figure of the Chinese resistance against Japan as well as his staunch anti-Soviet and anti-communist stance. Detractors and critics denounce him as a dictator at the front of an authoritarian autocracy who suppressed and purged opponents and critics and arbitrarily incarcerated those he deemed as opposing to the Kuomintang among others.
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Soong May-Ling conoció a Chiang Kai-shek en 1920. Chiang Kai-shek nació en la localidad de Xikou, distrito de Fenghua, en la provincia de Zhejiang. En 1906 ingresó en la academia militar de Paoting. Un año después, en 1907 se trasladó a Japón, donde, tras ingresar en la Academia Militar del Estado de Japón, acabaría integrando el Ejército Imperial Japonés hasta 1911, cuando volvió a China con motivo del levantamiento de Wuchang, la insurrección que desencadenó el final de la China imperial.
En 1923, Sun Yat-sen forma un gobierno revolucionario en el sur, en la ciudad de Cantón. Allí, Chiang dirigirá la Academia Militar de Whampoa, de la que surgirá un ejército, las Fuerzas Revolucionarias Nacionales.
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Guangzhou, known historically as Canton or, less commonly as Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province, People's Republic of China. Located on the Pearl River, about 120 km (75 mi) north-northwest of Hong Kong and north-northeast of Macau, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port. One of the five National Central Cities, it holds sub-provincial administrative status.
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Hui people | Wikipedia audio article
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Hui people
00:01:54 1 Definition
00:02:02 1.1 Ancestry
00:04:09 1.2 Genetics
00:05:04 1.3 Huihui, and Hui
00:09:41 1.4 Related terms
00:13:44 1.4.1 Zhongyuan ren
00:14:44 1.4.2 Pusuman
00:15:16 1.4.3 Muslim Chinese
00:16:13 1.5 In other countries
00:16:22 1.5.1 Dungan
00:19:10 1.5.2 Panthay
00:19:47 1.6 Official
00:20:14 1.7 Non-Muslims
00:22:30 2 History
00:22:39 2.1 Origins
00:24:56 2.1.1 Converted Han
00:27:04 2.2 Tang dynasty
00:27:50 2.3 Song dynasty
00:29:24 2.4 Yuan Dynasty
00:30:40 2.5 Ming Dynasty
00:34:41 2.6 Qing Dynasty
00:35:33 2.6.1 Muslim revolts
00:40:44 2.6.2 Religious allowances
00:41:52 2.7 Republic of China
00:50:06 2.8 Current situation
00:53:14 2.8.1 Tensions between Hui and Uyghurs
00:55:40 2.8.2 Tibetan-Muslim sectarian violence
00:57:14 2.9 Sects of Islam
00:58:14 3 Relations with other religions
00:59:38 4 Culture
00:59:47 4.1 Sects
00:59:55 4.2 Mosques
01:00:23 4.3 Foot binding
01:00:59 4.4 Cultural practices
01:02:30 4.5 Names
01:03:21 4.5.1 Surnames
01:03:57 4.6 Literature
01:04:50 4.7 Language
01:05:35 4.8 Marriage
01:06:08 4.8.1 Outside marriage
01:09:16 4.9 Education
01:10:10 4.10 Military service
01:15:15 4.11 Politics
01:16:27 5 Outside mainland China
01:18:23 6 Ethnic tensions
01:21:04 7 Notable Hui people
01:26:08 8 Related group names
01:26:30 9 See also
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The Hui people (Chinese: 回族; pinyin: Huízú; Wade–Giles: Hui2tsu2, Xiao'erjing: خُوِذُو; Dungan: Хуэйзў, Xuejzw) are an East Asian ethnoreligious group predominantly composed of Han Chinese adherents of the Muslim faith found throughout China, mainly in the northwestern provinces of the country and the Zhongyuan region. According to the 2011 census, China is home to approximately 10.5 million Hui people, the majority of whom are Chinese-speaking practitioners of Islam, though some may practise other religions. The 110,000 Dungan people of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are also considered part of the Hui ethnicity.
Their culture has distinct differences that developed from the practice of Islam. For example, as Muslims, they follow Islamic dietary laws and reject the consumption of pork, the most common meat consumed in China, and have given rise to their own variation of Chinese cuisine. Traditional Hui clothing differs from that of the Han primarily in that some men wear white caps (taqiyah) and some women wear headscarves, as is the case in many Islamic cultures. However, since the industrialization and modernization of China, most of the young Hui people wear the same clothes as mainstream fashion trends.
The Hui people are one of 56 ethnic groups recognized by China. The government defines the Hui people to include all historically Muslim communities not included in China's other ethnic groups. The Hui predominantly speak Chinese, while maintaining some Persian and Arabic phrases. In fact, the Hui ethnic group is unique among Chinese ethnic minorities in that it associates with no non-Sinitic language.The Hui people are more concentrated in Northwestern China (Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang), but communities exist across the country, e.g. Beijing,Xi'an Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Hainan and Yunnan.