AirAsia | Quanzhou: Unfolding the Charm of Fujian
A grand adventure awaits in Quanzhou. Go on temple runs, food hunts, and more right in Quanzhou.
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Sunset over Xiangong Mountain in Quanzhou
Xiangong Mountain is 25 km from Quanzhou downtown. It boasts tourists attractions including temple, cave, rock and historic and cultural sites.
Tourist attractions in Quanzhou—China
My Trip to Guangzhou, China, 2017 - 122nd Canton Fair
My fourth trip to China, and I find myself in the midst of the Canton Fair once again! This video shows a few of the exhibits, as well as a look around downtown Guangzhou before and after the fair each day.
I also check out the Canton Tower, Baiyun Mountain and Nengren Temple
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The Canton Fair (Chinese: 广交会) is a trade fair held in the spring and autumn seasons each year since the spring of 1957 in Canton (Guangzhou), China.
The Fair is co-hosted by the Ministry of Commerce of China and People's Government of Guangdong Province, and organized by China Foreign Trade Centre.
Its full name since 2007 has been China Import and Export Fair (中国进出口商品交易会), renamed from Chinese Export Commodities Fair (中国出口商品交易会), also known as Canton Fair (广州交易会), which abbreviation is 广交会.
The Fair is the largest trade fair in China . Among China's largest trade fairs, it has the largest assortment of products, the largest attendance, and the largest number of business deals made at the fair. Like many trade fairs it has several traditions and functions as a comprehensive event of international importance.
Wuzhi Shan, Cuiping Hill - A journey into rural China [Episode 7]
Wuzhi Shan, also known as Cuiping Hill, lies in the countryside between Yangshuo and Guilin. Getting there is half the fun, as it's an exploration into rural China through paddy fields and villages. You're likely to see farmers toiling, kids playing in the street and smiles everywhere.
Wuzhi Shan (Cuiping Hill) lies within the town of Putao (which literally translates as grape town in Chinese). The villagers are very welcoming and so are the mountains, which are scattered everywhere.
It's a beautiful part of the world and one which really should be treasured!
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Lama Christie McNally Mainland China Teaching Tour
Highlights from Lama Christie McNally's Spring 2010 Asia Teaching Tour. See Lama Christie and several of her students teach yoga and meditation in Mainland China. Beijing, Xiamen, Guangzhou, and Shanghai
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Tour of China 01: Beijing and Xian HD
My family tour around China, starting in Beijing and Xian
WuYi mountains | Fujian Province | China | GoProHero7 | 2019
Hiking at WuYiShan June 2019
Enduro Tour Northern China - From Beijing to the Trials of Hebei
ShuoHe ancient oldtown @ LiJiang YunNan China
This ancient oldtown is 200 years oldder then LiJiang oldtown. It is about 30mins driving from LiJiang oldtown. It present the original NaXi culture.
Andrei Rochian 6 years in China.JinTai Buddhist Temple on Huangyang Mountain
Andrei Rochian 6 years in China. JinTai Buddhist Monastery; Doumen county China Green Dragon Mountain to the left ,White Tiger Mountain to the right. Dengxian Rock, where the legendary king of Doumen ascended to heaven and become immortal.
China Cultural Centre Fujian Chinese Tea Culture Exhibition Valletta Green Festival 2018
China Cultural Centre Fujian Chinese Tea Culture Exhibition@Valletta Green Festival 2018
Qigong Master from China at Bodhi Heart Sanctuary, Mt Erskine, Penang
Qigong to strengthen your legs as you grow old .. static stance method
Taoist Temples on Wudang Mountain in China
One morning we set out to walk to the top of Wudangshan also known as Wudang Mountain. Here is a short clip of one of the temples we walked through. - Terry Hodgkinson Sifu
Wudang Shan (Mountain) is number one in the hierarchy of sacred Taoist mountains. Monasteries & Buildings on the summit were made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994, and has long been known as a center for Chinese martial arts.
The mountain's rugged peaks covered in old-growth forest, along with its ancient monasteries -- some built to fit the contours of the cliffs, others to mirror them -- are well worth the adventure. The natural setting is so photogenic that it was chosen for background scenes for the internationally acclaimed movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
History
Construction of the Ancient Building Complex started in the Tang Dynasty (618-907). During the reign of Emperor Taizong , the Five Dragon Ancestral Temple was built on Wudang Mountain. In the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), about 33 palaces and structures including the Yuxu Palace, the Grand Purple Cloud Palace, the Yuzhen Palace and the Palace of Harmony were built. Then the grand and magnificent building complex was formed. At present, the extant building complex includes the Palace of Harmony, the Grand Purple Cloud Palace, the South Cliff Palace, the Yuzhen Palace, relics of the Yuxu Palace and the Five Dragon Ancestral Temple, Xuanyue Gate (a huge archway) and the Fuzhen Temple.
Guangzhou (Canton) CityGodTemple
The first part of this video shows Daoist priests performing a ritual for a family. The mother has presumably paid a significant fee to ask for divine assistance with regard to her three children’s educational success. This may be a general request, though it is likely that one or more of her children is currently preparing to take a high school or university entrance exam. The first deity that they worshiped was Wen Chang Wang 文昌王, the God of Culture and Literature, who we “met” above at the Daoist Temple in Hong Kong, where he was likewise worshiped for educational success. Next, they moved on to the City God (the main deity of the temple), which in this case is Liu Yan 劉巖, who was the founder of the Southern Han (Nan Han 南漢) kingdom, which sprang up in the half century between the end of the Tang and the beginning of the Song (907-960 CE). The other deities that were worshiped are Yang Jisheng (a Ming Dynasty official who was martyred for his adherence to Confucian moral values) and Hai Rui (a Ming official who would have been martyred for the same reason had the emperor in question not died before the sentence was carried out). Hai Rui is particularly significant because of a Peking Opera called “Hai Rui Dismissed from Office,” which was written by Wu Han in 1961:
Wu’s play was interpreted by the Gang of Four member Yao Wenyuan as an allegorical work, in which the honest moral official Hai Rui representing the disgraced communist marshal Peng Dehuai, who was purged by Mao after criticizing the Great Leap Forward. According to Yao, the corrupt emperor in Wu’s play represented Mao Zedong. The November 10, 1965, an article in a prominent Shanghai newspaper, “A Criticism of the Historical Drama ‘Hai Rui Dismissed From Office’“ (评新编历史剧《海瑞罢官》), written by Yao, began a propaganda campaign that eventually led to the Cultural Revolution. During the Cultural Revolution, the tomb of Hai Rui was destroyed, Hai Rui’s body dug up and incinerated by Red Guards (the tomb has since been rebuilt). Yao’s campaign led to the persecution and death of Wu Han, as well as others involved in related works, such as Zhou Xinfang for his opera Hai Rui Submits His Memorial (海瑞上疏). (wikipedia.org)
The fact that this temple enshrines a southern ruler who revolted against the imperial authority of the north as well as two officials who stood up to an unworthy emperor and his corrupt imperial court is clearly no coincidence. The implication is that Canton (both the city and the province) is the legitimate center of Chinese culture and values, a claim that is widely shared—and more explicitly stated—by the people of Hong Kong. Let it suffice to say that the Cantonese do not necessarily bow to the wishes of the central authorities in Beijing, for as the saying goes “The mountain is high and the emperor is far away” (山高皇帝遠 shan gao huangdi yuan).
Returning to the temple itself, there are three other significant deities in the video. The first (based on the order in which they appear) is Yue Lao Xingjun 月老星君 (a.k.a. Yue Xia Laoren 月下老人, the “Old Man Beneath the Moon”), who is a kind of Chinese cupid that appears at night and “unites with a silken cord all predestined couples, after which nothing can prevent their union” (wikipedia.org). The second is Cai Bo Xingjun (財帛星君), the God of Wealth, who holds a golden scepter and is especially worshiped during Chinese New Year in the hope of securing prosperity for the coming year (wikipedia.org). Finally, the deity holding the male child is Songzi Zhangxian (送子張仙), literally “Immortal Zhang Who Sends Sons.” According to legend, he protected his children by shooting a fierce Heavenly Dog and is therefore associated with the protection of children, though as his name suggests he is also the deity that one prays to for the birth of a son (wikivisually.com).
Also shown in the video are two large murals, which depict the gods in charge of 28 stars and 24 sectors as well as the Dragon Kings of the Four Oceans, the King of the Land, and the Three Stars (San Xing三星) of Prosperity, Wealth/Status, and Longevity (Fu Lu Shou福祿壽). The scrolls were produced by two famous painters and 30 students over a period of six months.
Donghu People
'''Donghu''' ( ; literally: Eastern foreigners or Eastern barbarians ) was a confederation of Eurasian nomads that was first recorded from the 7th century B C E and was destroyed by the Xiongnu in 150 B C E . They lived in northern Hebei, southeastern Inner Mongolia and the western part of Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang along the Yan Mountains and Greater Khingan Range. The Donghu later divided into the Wuhuan in Yan Mountains and Xianbei in Greater Khingan Range, the latter of which are the origin of the Khitan and Mongols.
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Street Food (China) Epi 6.16 - Expedition 黄山 (part 3) Tunxi 屯溪
The next installment of our expedition to China's Yellow Mountain finds us in the small, tourist town of Tunxi (屯溪). Tunxi is home to a host of local delicacies and Huangshan-related products. Nate and I check out some crafts and FOUR snacks from the street: Songzi Bing 松子饼, Gong Su 贡酥, Mao Dofu 毛豆腐, and Caihong Jiaozi 彩虹饺子. A feast, friends!
Here's a link to the companion video, revealing the contest winner, as well as what Nate and I actually had in our packs
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General Zheng Chenggong Statue.wmv
This was taken on our trip to Quanzhou China in 2010. As you can see in the first picture, he is visible from a long distance, and is very impressive up close.
A statue of Zheng Chenggong, a general of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)
The statue of the national hero riding a horse, which is 38 meters high, 42 meters long and weighs nearly 500 tons. Professor Li Weisi, of the arts college of Xiamen University designed the monument.
Zheng, who was known as Koxinga, was born in Fujian in 1623. He led troops across the Taiwan Strait from Jinmen Island in 1661, and, after a year of fighting, defeated Dutch colonialists who had occupied Taiwan for 38 years.
Designers said that the statue was designed to reflect the historical scene where Zheng, his men and Taiwan compatriots hailed their victory over the Dutch and the recovery of Taiwan.
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The Prince's Voyage (Taizi you)
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The Prince's Voyage (Taizi you) · The Peartree Orchard opera troupe (Liyuan xi) of Quanzhou
China: Chuida Wind and Percussive Instrumental Ensembles
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