China | Beijing | VR | The Largest Library in Asia: National Library of China（国家图书馆）
As the third national largest library in the world and the largest one in Asia, the National Library of China consists of three areas--the North Area, the South Area and the Ancient Books Library, and it receives about 12,000 visits per day. Its vast collections are housed in several Reading Rooms of different disciplines. Apart from being a quiet-reading space, the Library also has improved the document books delivery service by making good use of the advanced technologies. Notably, the Self-Service Book Return System that allows readers to return books 24/7 is a good example of people-centric service. Being a knowledge center and an information service base. The National Library of China plays a critical role in promoting traditional Chinese culture and passing on human civilization.
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You Can Climb A 'Book Mountain' In This Gigantic Library In China
This library is a book lover's dream come true.
The Tianjin Binhai Library, Tianjin, China.
33,700 square meters. Five levels. Enough shelf space for 1.2 million books.
It was completed by Dutch architecture firm MVRDV and local architects from the Tianjin Urban Planning and Design Institute.
It's nicknamed The Eye.
The angles and curves are meant to stimulate different uses of the space, such as reading, walking, meeting and discussing. Together they form the 'eye' of the building: to see and be seen. - Winy Maas, Co-founder of MVRDV
There's a giant globe in the center of the library. It has an auditorium hidden inside.
The climbable shelving acts as a book mountain.
But there's a catch...
Not all of the books are real.
You can find a lot of books in other reading spaces beyond the main atrium space. There are sections geared for children and education.
The library has become a tourist hot spot since opening in 2017. It begs for the perfect Instagram photo.
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Be a librarian of the National Library of China for a day
Chinese character actually has a very long history and it have changed over time. Interested by the historical progression, Chris Hong from US came to National Library of China to find ancient books and he wished to find out how generations and generations of Chinese spare no effort to pass on those culture heritage.
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'Doctors' for ancient books take residency at the National Library in Beijing
Ancient books are a significant recording of China's time-honored history and culture.
Unlike the forever young digital writings of today, they deteriorate with age, making their conservation process a challenging job. It has to be done in a scientific and standardized way, and one place to check the preservation work of age-old books is the National Library of China in Beijing.
In the Ancient Books Preservation Laboratory located in one corner of the National Library, the technicians are buried in the work of repairing books dating back to hundreds of years.
With the help of brushes, hammers and microscopes, they are more like surgeons operating on patients.
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World reading day: National Library of China promotes great books
Thursday marks World Reading Day. It was established 20 years ago by UNESCO to promote reading, publishing and copyright awareness. The National Library of China in Beijing is taking part by handing out awards for exceptional books and launching a new online class open to the public. CCTV's Stanley Lee tells us more
China Album: The story of Chinese libraries 国家相册：恋恋图书馆
Passion for reading lasts through time! Old photos show the evolution of Chinese libraries #ChinaAlbum
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10 Largest Libraries Of The World
10 Largest Libraries of the World
10. New York Public Library, USA
9. Kiev's Vernadsky National Scientific Library of Ukraine. Ukraine
8. London's British Library. England
7. Frankfurt's German National Library, German
6. St. Petersburg's Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Russia
5. Ottawa's National Library of Canada. Canada
4. Massachusetts' Harvard University Library. USA
3. Beijing's National Library of China. China
2. Moscow's Institute for Scientific Information Russian Academy of Sciences. Russia
1. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. USA
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National Library of China | Wikipedia audio article
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The National Library of China (simplified Chinese: 中国国家图书馆; traditional Chinese: 中國國家圖書館; pinyin: Zhōngguó Guójiā Túshūguǎn) or NLC in Beijing is the national library of the People's Republic of China. With a collection of over 35 million items, it is the largest library in Asia and one of the largest in the world. It holds the largest collections of Chinese literature and historical documents in the world.The forerunner of the National Library of China, the Imperial Library of Peking (京师图书馆; Jīngshī Túshūguǎn), was founded on 9 September 1909 by the government of the Qing dynasty. It was first formally opened after the Xinhai Revolution, in 1912. In 1916, the library received depository library status. In July 1928, its name was changed to National Peiping Library and was later changed to the National Library.
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Incredible Archaeological Discoveries in China
From the largest taoist temple to the remains of the great Buddha, here are some of the most incredible archaeological discoveries in China
Tomb of the Duke of Yi:
Most cultures and civilizations throughout history have made the final resting place of their kings, emperors, aristocrats and heroes an everlasting luxury of memories told in the poetry of bronze and in the solitude of well-crafted stone, from Egypt’s pyramids to Mayan crypts and Persian cemeteries in an attempt to preserve their history from the trials of time and China is no exception. In 1977, the world of archeology was taken by storm when the People’s Liberation army accidently stumbled upon a royal tomb magnificently built sometime around 443 BC in what is now Suizhou, in the region of Hubei China, bearing 22 coffins one of which is believed to bear the remains of the famous Marquis of Yi otherwise known as the Duke of Yi, ancient eye beads, a collection of ritual bronze vessels, weapons and even the earliest examples of Chinese ink writing on bamboo. The tomb was built using large wooden timbers and it’s made up of four chambers laid out according to the structure of Chinese palaces of the day. The northern chamber is the smallest one and containing various military artifacts from swords and armors to chariot wheels spokes, the central chamber is the largest and holds a startling collection of musical instruments including stone chimes, pan flutes and 64 bronze bells or bianzhong bells which cover a range of five octaves, carefully mounted to be struck by up to five people using wooden mallets. Meanwhile, the western chamber has 13 coffins each one bearing the remains of 13 women presumably servants, slaves or wives while the eastern chamber-by far the most fascinating of the four-holds nine more coffins noticeably more luxurious than the rest and it’s in here that experts have found the lacquer coffin in which they believe, the wealthy Duke of Yi was buried.
China’s most ancient palace
4000 years ago, ancient Chinese people were as fascinated as we are now, with luxury, wealth and architectural beauty. According to findings in 2012, archeologists from the Shanxi institute dug out the remains of a palace that took up a breath-taking 130,000 square meters of space, suggesting that this discovery may indicate the beginnings of the capital system in ancient China.
Deciphering The Dunhuang manuscripts
What is it with caves and important archaeological discoveries? On June 25, 1900 a Daoist monk by the name of Wang Yuanlu discovered a series of documents in the Mogao caves of Dunhuang China. Unfortunately, from the year 1907 onwards the monk began to sell some of the invaluable documents to western and Japanese explorers but thanks to the efforts of scholar Luo Zhenyu, most of the remaining manuscripts were preserved and about a fifth of the collection was taken in 1910 to Beijing and is now safe in the national library of China. Scholars have postulated the idea that the cave served as a Buddhist monastic library, others believe the cave was sealed to protect important religious writings from an invading army but regardless of the existing disputes between experts about the cave’s true function, everyone agrees that these 5th century manuscripts hold age-long mysteries that are of invaluable importance to both Chinese cultural identity and history.
Hemudu Site
Another joyful and comically unexpected accident for archeology took place in the summer of 1973 when the Hemudu Site was accidentally discovered by farmers of a small village in Zhejiang province. With an impressive area of 40000 square meters, the site consists of four cultural relics engraved in 4 meter-thick overlapped rocks which date from about 6000 to 7000 years ago, exhibiting the traditions and beliefs of the Hemudu, a Neolithic culture that worshiped the sun and the spirit of fertility.
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