The Great Wall is the great miracle in world ancient architecture. In the spring-autumn period, Chu State built up the unclosed city wall for several hundred kilometers. During the period of warring ...
Impression West Lake is one of Chinese top live-action performances strongly featured by the local culture and unique charm of West Lake in Hangzhou. It is nationwide famous for its dreamlike show ...
The Bund along the Huangpu River ia a famous landmark of Shanghai.It is worth traveling when the tourist stay in Shanghai because it will tell you 1930s resplendence of Shanghai---- Paris in orient ....
The Stone Gate at Baoxie Road is located in the Baohe River Reservoir, 17 km north of Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province. The Baoxie Road was a famous passage through Qinling Mountains, with a total ...
Furong Town or Hibiscus Town is located Yongshun County of Western Hunan Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. It started to be famous for a movie named Furong Town as well. Furong Town is an ancient ...
The Giant Buddha of Leshan (aka Dafo) is the tallest stone Buddha statue in the world. It was carved out of a cliff face by an 8th-century monk in southern Szechuan province, near the city of Leshan. ...
Anji Bridge located in Zhaoxian County of Hebei Province was built in the Sui Dynasty (581-618). Anji Bridge is a single span stone arch bridge in China, and it is also the oldest extant bridge of ...
The Three Gorges Museum situates opposite the Chongqing Peoples Hall. It is a public undertaking for the long-term preservation, history education and scientific research in respect of cultural ...
Butterfly Spring is situated at the foot of Mount Shenmo, the first of the peaks of Mount Cangshan the spring rises to form a square shaped pool that is shaded by the dense foliage that lines its ...
Guangzhou Baiyun Mountain is the first among the Eight New Sightseeing Spots in the Sheep City and National AAAA level scenic area. It is also the famous mountain in southern part of Guangdong ...
The Lijiang Scenic Area is the largest karst landscape and tourist attraction in the world. Clear water, green lawn, happy little animals, all the harmonious landscape makes Yangshuo one of the top ...
In Chinese history, he was one of four greatest honest high-rank officials. The others were Ji An of Han Dynasty, Wei Zheng of Tang Dynasty, and Hai Rui of Ming Dynasty....
Po Lin Monastery was built in 1924 and had been known as the Buddha State of the South because the vast construction and beautiful landscape around. It is being the most famous monastery in Hong ...
Longchuan Village has been a place of residence for Hu family for over 1,600 years. It now descends to the 48th generation. Hu talents come forth in large numbers and Longchuan has traditionally been ...
Anji County is a county in Huzhou in Zhejiang with a population of 450,000. Anji County is an ecotourism center in Huzhou, which is much nearer to Hangzhou compared with other similar places such as ...
It is a royal palace site museum located in northeast corner of Changchun, northeast China. Puyi, the Last Emperor of Qing Dynasty China, was living here during the Japanese occupation of northeast ...
Shashi City is located in south-central Hubei Province in central China. It was called Jiang Jin or Xia Shou more than two thousand years ago, about the era of Warring States ancient China. Called ...
At the foot of Longquan Hill, about 17km (10mi) north of Kunming, there is a beautiful place called the Black Dragon Pool (Heilongtan), also known as the Dragon Fountain Temple (Longquanguan). In ...
Bingling Thousand-Buddha Caves is located on the Small Jishi Hill, about 35km (about 22mi) west of Yongjing County in Lanzhou. Being one of the very noted four caves in China, it is the second to the ...
The lake, named Basum-Tso in Tibetan, is a stunning highland lake lying 90 kilometers (56 miles) west of Kongpo Gymdo County. Basum has another Tibetan name, Tsokou, which means green water in ...
Impression Lijiang is the second outdoor production of Zhang Yimou’s debuted open-air performance at the foot of Yulong (Jade Dragon Snow) Snow Mountain in southwest China....
At the foot of Song Mountain where Shaolin Temple as the cradle-land of Chinese Kungfu is located, Songyang Academy is one of Four Well-known Academies in Song Dynasty. It was built in 484 and called ...
Originally Wuyuan belonged to Huizhou of Anhui, and recently it has been separated from Huizhou and became one part of Jiangxi province. Wuyuan is a world-famous village strongly featured by Huizhou ...
The famous Chinese writer Zhu Ziqing (1898 - 1948) once emotionally praised the evening scene of the Qinhuai River, The dim, yellowish lanterns make everything at and near the berth of our boat very ...
The splendid Baoguo Temple is situated in the Ling Mountain at Fenghua, north of Ningbo city, China....
Laoshan Mountain is located on the shore of the Yellow Sea. The highest peak of Laoshan Mountain is 1133 m above the sea level. Overlooking the sea, the mountain is characterized by the imposing ...
Chongwu Ancient City is a special tourist attraction which gathers coastal scenery, historical relics and folk custom together. It is the only well-preserved stone city in China. Located in the ...
The tourism area is located in Nanshan of Sanya City of Hainan Island, 40 kilometers away from the city center. Nanshan Cultural Tourism Area includes Nanshan Buddhist Cultural Park, which is to ...
Baizhang Rock is famous for a special waterfall. Two crags bend towards each other and form a massive hole, which is higher than 40 meters. The inner depth is more than 30 meters....
Splendid China is an attraction at the Overseas Chinese Town, Shenzhen that has scaled down replicas of Chinas historical buildings, wonderful scenes and folk customs. The scale models are in the ...
Established in 1926 and now located at 171 Shenyang Road in Shenyang, Liaoning Province in northeast China. The Palace Museum of Shenyang is one of the two existing ancient imperial palaces in China, ...
The Humble Administrator Garden is the first name in classical gardens at Suzhou. It is located on Dongbei Street in the Old City District, the actual gardening area is about 4 hectares. The ...
Located to the north of Taian City, the Dai Temple is the largest and most complete ancient building complex of Mount Taishan. It used to be the venue where emperors of the past dynasties held ...
Chongshan Temple was initially built in the early period of the Tang Dynasty (618 -907) and the later period of the Sui Dynasty (581-618)....
Dule Temple of Tianjin also called Solitary Joy Temple was built in the early reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty (618-907). It was also an important historic area, and it was said that An ...
Middle-lake Island (江心屿) had been a famous scenic spot in China since 1,500 years ago. At that time there was a saying that Fog and rain in the Spring City, majestic pagodas and houses in the bamboo ...
Wudangshan Mountain scenic area is located in the northwest part of Hubei Province. It is linking eastward with Xiangfan city, a famous cultural and historical city in China, and facing the massive ...
Near Bogda Peak, 110km east of Urumqi, nestles Heavenly Lake. Covering 4.9 sq. km, this crescent-shaped lake deserves its name, Pearl of Heavenly Mountain (Tianshan). With melted snow as its source, ...
CCTV Movie and TV Base is located in the side of Taihu Lake in Wuxi city. It is the first and large-scale film-making and TV program making base, besides it is also the famous destination for ...
Impression Liu Sanjie is a main production with 500 singers, dancers, bamboo rafts and cormorants bids. Impression Liu Sanjie in China is much too famous for its live-action show with the picturesque ...
The academy provides a marvelous agricultural exhibition with special kinds fruit and vegetable such as huge pumpkins, multicolored eggplants, and many, many other odd plants, as well as lovely ...
Three Gorges Dam is the largest and hardest water conservancy project at the most cost of work....
Gezhouba Water Conservancy Project is the first Dam established on the Yangtze River. It is an important component of the Three Gorges Water Conservancy Project....
This national park is comprised of six scenic areas and Tangwan Hot Spring Resort as well as outer-scope six attractions. The scenic area is centralized with Huatinghu Reservoir. This reservoir has ...
Singing Sand Mountain (Mingsha Mountain) located in the southern side of Dunhuang city has total area of about 200 square kilometers. The sand mountain looks like the wave. Once it was called ...
Confucius Temple is said to be built in 478 BC , the next year after Confucius died, and the king of Lu Kingdom changed his former residence to be the memorial temple for him. Since then Confucius ...
As to Palace Museum of China, visitors naturally have too different images, one is Beijing Forbidden City or Palace Museum, and the other is Taipei National Palace Museum. Historically these two ...
Looking like a “wheal stack”, the name is derived from a folk saying “Chop away firewood on the Southern Hill to get the Wheat Stack Cliff build up”. The Maiji Hill enjoys a typical Danxia (a ...
Tiantai Mountain is located in the north of Tiantai County in Zhejiang, China. It is a world-renowned attraction which was acknowledged as National Key Scenic Spot in 1988. It covers an area of 187.1 ...
The earliest teahouse operator in Wuzhen town was said to be a man named Lu Tong who was a native of Nanxun Town. One day, Lu Tong heard of a word said by a tea drinker from Taihu Lake area that ...
Three Gorges Dam project is the worlds largest and grandest water conservancy project. Many of its records break through the world record of water conservancy project. The effectiveness of water ...
Situated on the bank of Wenxing Bridge in South Lake in Jiaxing, Beauty Embraced Garden, a newly built garden, is noted for its cultural relics especially for the stele inscriptions....
The lake, named Basum-Tso in Tibetan, is a stunning highland lake lying 90 kilometers (56 miles) west of Kongpo Gymdo County. Basum has another Tibetan name, Tsokou, which means green water in ...
Among the thousand households in Zhouzhuang water town, about sixty percent of residential constructions here are from late Qing Dynasty and early Nationalist periods....
Ni had been an intellectual and wealthy family in Xitang. Ni Mansion is at the south of Shaoxianggang (Harbor of Burning Incense), it is big, a front corridor and a spacious backyard, as well as ...
If a water village is without bridges is just like an empty bookstore. Cross-river bridges are very essential to ancient water town to Tongli, located to the south of the world-famous Suzhou city....
Founded in 503 with more than 1500 years’ history, Luzhi Baosheng Temple is the first level important historic and cultural site under the state protection. Baosheng Temple is a time-honored temple ...
The Slender West Lake, originally, a natural riverway named Baozhang River, is located in the northwest suburb of YangzhouCity. With continuous harnessing through many dynasties, it gradually became ...
Jiaoshan mountain is located in the Yangzte River, 4.5 kilometers away from the northeast downtown of city. It is a natural and cultural scenic area. It is also called Fuyu Mountain for its ...
Changzhou Asia Cinemas is located the most prosperous crossroad of west section of Yanling Road and Mid Huaide Road with the total area of 6100 square meters....
Nantong museum is the earliest one in China and the cultural site under the state-level protection.Nantong Museum was fabricated by Zhang Jian....
Known as Chenmu (陈墓, The Grave of Concubine Chen) in the past, Jinxi (锦溪) is one of the most attractive water town in eastern China. It is located 23 kilometers to the southwest of Kunshan, where ...
It is said that Bixian Nunnery was Zhu Yingtai’s school in East Jin Dynasty. Zhu Yingtai is the heroine of Liang & Zhu (Butterfly Lovers), one of the four great romantic tales in China....
Lingyan Mountain Scenic Area is located at the foot of Lingyan Mountain. In this scenic area, visitors can see Gusutai of Wu King, Lingyanshan Hall of Bi Ruan who was one of the first-place winners ...
Anciently, Jiangyin was the important military site for enemy’s inland further invasion via Yangtze River. Especially in modern history, it played a great role in inland protection....
Shangri-la means ideal heaven in Tibetan. Tibetan language documents had recorded this word more than a thousand years ago. Shangri-la became famous after the novel Lost Horizon by James Hilton (1900 ...
Fort Hulishan played an important role in military defense in China’s modern history. It is located in the southeast of Xiamen City, quite close to Xiamen University. It was initially built in 1894 ...
Baiyun Cultural City is situated in Dongyang City, Jinhua, Zhejiang. It is a famous scenic spot which consists of many small tourist attractions, such as Guanyin Pavilion, Guanyin Tower, Guanyin ...
Shuanglin temple was firstly established in South Liang dynasty. The respectable monk Fu Da operated its building. It has more than 1500 year’s history. It is famous for its large scale and many ...
Jingsheng Ancient Town is located 12 kilometers to the northeast Lingshi County and southwest to Pingyao Ancient Town in Shanxi Province, northern China. The scenic Mianshan Mountain gives excellent ...
It is also named Yuquan Mountain (玉泉山), Jade Ribbon Mountain and Bailu Peak (白露峰) located in Lanxi. It has a total area of 5 square kilometers and an altitude of 455 meters....
Beijian Bridge (北涧桥) is stacked wooden arcade bridge locating Sixi Town. It was first built in the reign of Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, then constructed in 1803 and rebuilt in 1849....
On the picturesque seaside of Yellow sea, and near to the south part of coastal rare animal natural reserve there is a nation-class rare animal reserve- Dafeng Elk National Natural Reserve....
Fujian Museum is the biggest comprehensive museum in Fujian Province. It is located inside the West Lake Park. The museum was set up in April, 1953. It houses about 50,000 items of cultural relics. ...
Since Jingdezhen succeeded in holding International Ceramic Exposition in 2004, Jingdezhen Ceramic Museum was used for the main venue, but this museum was not the professional exhibition centers, ...
Longmen Ancient Town is the hometown of Sun Quan, the founder of ancient Wu State during the Three Kingdoms Period. He is a hero of his time, and he is famous for his honesty in handling state ...
Traditionally Wuhu was a part of Yangtze River Culture. Wuhu boasts advanced iron metallurgical industry as early as in the ancient times, and earned a reputation of The iron will become steel ...
Bao Gong Ancestral Temple is located by the side of the Bao Gong Lake, in southwestern Kaifeng city. The temple was built in memory of Bao Zheng (999 – 1062), a clean-handed judge and official from ...
The Shang Dynasty is the second feudal dynasty after Xia in ancient China. Yin, located at what now called Anyang in central China Henan Province, was the capital of Shang during its last 273 years ...
The old Japanese-Russian Prison Site is located in Jiguanshan (Cockscomb Mountain) of Yuanbao Fang (元宝坊) in a relatively remove area of Lvshun, Dalian city. Today it is a key tourist attraction in ...
Yungang Grottoes are one of Chinese largest grottoes, equally famous to Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang, Longmen Grottoes of Luoyang and Grottoes of Maijishan Mountain. They altogether are called Four ...
Emei Mountain, a World Natural and Cultural Heritage in China, is located in Emeishan City of Sichuan Province. It is in the southwest of Sichuan Basin. It is in the upstream-section of Yangtze ...
Jiuhua Mountain scenic area is situated in Chizhou of Anhui Province. Jiuhua Mountain is the top-class attraction all around the world and an important international Buddhist holy-land....
Wutai Mountain is located in the northeast side of Shanxi province, which belongs to the north part of Taihang Mountains. It is one of the four great Buddhist Mountains. The other three are Putuo ...
Zhangjiajie scenic area is located in Wulingyuan（武陵源）, Zhangjiajie City, the northwestern part of Hunan Province and the first World Natural Heritage in China. It is well-reputed as “the most magic ...
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