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Khami Ruins National Monument
Khami was developed after the Great Zimbabwe capital was abandoned in the mid-16th century and is of great archaeological interest. Finds of artifacts from Europe and China suggest that Khami was an important trading center for a long time.
Khami Ruins National Monument
Khami was developed after the Great Zimbabwe capital was abandoned in the mid-16th century and is of great archaeological interest. Finds of artifacts from Europe and China suggest that Khami was an important trading center for a long time.
Guya Museum (temporarily closed)
The Gu Ya Museum is located on Machang Road, Hexi District, Tianjin. This museum is the most distinctive. Gu Ya means: elegant and ancient, determined, and able to overcome all difficulties to achieve success. It mainly displays modern guns (these old guns have all been filled with lead and have lost their use value) and Western furniture. Here you can see more than 1,300 kinds of cultural relics, including old guns, American printers, telephones, coffee sets, various Western wine cabinets, filing cabinets, electric fans, flashlights, sugar bowls, Western vases, Western sofas, etc. The most distinctive feature of this museum is that it is both a hot pot restaurant and a museum.
Choirokoitia
The Neolithic site of Choirocotia dates from 7,000 to 4,000 BC and is one of the most important prehistoric sites in the Eastern Mediterranean. The remains and artifacts found at the site provide many clues to the evolution of human societies in this key region. As the site has only been partially excavated, it is an excellent archaeological reserve for future research.
Tianjin Old City Museum
Tianjin Old City Museum is located in the Xu Family Courtyard on Dongmenli Street in the Old City. It was originally the home of Xu Pu'an, the comprador of the British Mercantile Bank. It was built during the Republic of China and has a construction area of 2,400 square meters. The three-courtyard west wing of this traditional residence has been restored as the living room of the old Tianjin people, recreating the living scenes of the people living in the old city. It adopts the Chinese architectural style, with blue bricks and hard roofs. The overall building faces north and south, with Qianzhai Xunmen. The central axis consists of three courtyards, and there are arrow paths on the east and west sides. Its architectural carvings are elegant and exquisite. It is the only well-preserved typical traditional residence with three courtyards and four courtyards in Tianjin city. It now covers an area of 1,381 square meters and a construction area of 711 square meters. When the Old City began large-scale urban transformation, Mr. Feng Jicai and many experts and scholars went deep into the Old City several times to conduct on-site cultural relics inspections, and proposed to transform the Xu Family Courtyard into China's first donated museum-Tianjin Old City Museum. The Old City Museum exhibits more than 3,600 cultural relics donated by the public, including the "official weights" used to weigh grain at Tianjin Canal Transport Terminal in the Qing Dynasty, mahogany "lamp boxes", the boundary monument of the Jiangsu Guild Hall, and a "refrigerator" from the Republic of China period, as well as thread-bound books recording Tianjin folk customs, old records, wooden kettle covers, wooden covers, and stoves, as well as century-old copper beds, table clocks, hand-cranked record players, radios, etc.
Three-faced Guanyin stone statue at Chaoyin Temple
The Three-Faced Guanyin is located in Xidagu (now called Xiangluowan Financial District) on the west bank of the Haihe River in Tanggu District, Tianjin. It was first built in the second year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1404). It was a temple built by local residents. It was originally named "Nanhai Grand Temple" and also known as "Shuangshan Temple". Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty ordered it to be rebuilt and renamed it "Chaoyin Temple" with a plaque inscribed by his imperial hand. It faces the Dagu Haikou and is one of the few temples in the country that sits west and faces east. It is also the only cultural relic open to the public in the southern line of Tanggu District. Chaoyin Temple consists of a three-story main hall, four side halls in the north and south, and two north-south courtyards. It has a Liuxian Pavilion, which enshrines fourteen Buddhas including Guanyin Bodhisattva. It is an approved religious activity site. The existing building was rebuilt in the fifth year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty (1727). It faces west and east and faces the Haihe River. There were originally two courtyards in the front and back. The existing mountain gate, the main hall and four side halls, as well as a Liushan Pavilion and north-south courtyards are still there. The main hall is three rooms wide and one room deep, with front and back corridors, green tiles and hard roofs, and a brick and wood structure. The temple once enshrined the statue of Guanyin of the South China Sea, commonly known as the "Bodhisattva Grandma". It is the only temple left in Dagukou that worships the sea god. It features the sea and ships, and has been endowed with a legendary color for hundreds of years due to the origin of Guanyin Bodhisattva and the legend of Lu Ban's skillful repair of Chaoyin Temple. It also features ancient buildings in the style of the Ming and Qing Dynasties and plaques and couplets that are appreciated by both the elite and the masses. Chaoyin Temple has a long history and a special geographical location. It was once the center of Tanggu's economic, trade, cultural and folk activities. Many people who went out to sea to fish came here to burn incense and worship Buddha in order to seek the protection of the gods. Now, temple fairs are held on the 19th day of the second lunar month (the birthday of Guanyin Bodhisattva), and blessing ceremonies are held in the temple, and there are also yangko performances outside the temple.
Fragrant Hills Park
Xiangshan Park is located at the eastern foot of Xiaoxishan Mountain Range in the northwest suburbs of Beijing, 20 kilometers away from the city, covering an area of 188 hectares and 575 meters above sea level. It is a famous large mountain forest park with royal garden characteristics. Xiangshan Park was built in the 26th year of Dading in the Jin Dynasty (1186), and has a history of more than 800 years. During the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, palaces and courtyards were built here as places for royal tours and residences. In the 10th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, pavilions, towers, palaces and corridors were built here, forming a total of 28 famous scenes in Beijing. Later, a wall was built and named "Jingyi Garden", which was listed as one of the "Three Mountains and Five Gardens" in the west of Beijing. Later, it was burned and looted by the British and French Allied Forces and the Eight-Power Allied Forces. It was opened as a people's park in 1956. After nearly half a century of construction, it has now become one of the ten famous parks in Beijing at home and abroad. Xiangshan Park is rich in precious cultural relics and historical sites, and pavilions and towers are scattered among the mountains and forests like stars. Here is one of the eight scenic spots in Yanjing, "Clear Snow on the Western Hills"; here is the "Biyun Temple" with the architectural styles of the Ming and Qing Dynasties; here is the only wooden gilded "Five Hundred Arhats Hall" in China; here is the "Zongjing Dazhao Temple" where the Sixth Panchen Lama was welcomed; here is the quaint courtyard "Jianxinzhai" with Jiangnan characteristics; here is the Shuangqing Villa, the earliest place where the great man of the century Mao Zedong and the CPC Central Committee lived and worked after entering Beiping; here is the temporary resting place of the coffin of the great man of the century Mr. Sun Yat-sen, the Vajra Throne Pagoda of Biyun Temple. Xiangshan Park has steep terrain, overlapping peaks, abundant springs and lush forests. The main peak, Xianglu Peak (commonly known as Ghost Sees Sorrow), is 557 meters above sea level. There are more than 260,000 trees of various types in the park, and there are more than 5,800 ancient and famous trees alone, accounting for about a quarter of Beijing's urban area. The forest coverage rate is as high as 98%. In recent years, it has been determined by relevant departments as one of the areas with the highest negative oxygen ions in Beijing. In the park, people and nature live in harmony, with birds singing, insects chirping, and squirrels playing in the gullies and forests. It is a place with colorful flowers in spring, cool and pleasant in summer, and covered with snow in winter. Especially in late autumn, 100,000 cotinus coggygria trees are in full swing, magnificent, and have been rated as one of the "New 16 Scenes of Beijing". Xiangshan Park has complete tourist service facilities. For sightseeing, you can take a large chairlift (1,400 meters long, 431 meters high) to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the West Hill and the city walls of Beijing. For eating, the Songlin Restaurant has a beautiful environment, with insects, wild vegetables, and spring water cooking, which is unique. For accommodation, Xiangshan Villa is fully functional and is an ideal place for sightseeing, negotiation, conference, and vacation. Living here, you can take a leisurely walk to the Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Botanical Garden, and Reclining Buddha Temple. A few kilometers to the east is the world-famous Summer Palace. To the south, there are tourist attractions such as Badachu and World Park.
Huangliangmeng Luxian Temple
The Yellow Millet Dream Lvxian Temple is a famous cultural relic and tourist attraction in Hebei Province. It is a national key cultural relic protection unit and a national AAA-level tourist attraction. Lvxian Temple is a Quanzhen Taoist temple based on the Tang Dynasty legend "The Pillow Book". It was built in the early Northern Song Dynasty and covers an area of 14,000 square meters. The main building is a complex of buildings from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is one of the largest and best preserved Taoist temples in northern China. The temple is shaded by red walls, lush green trees, rippling blue waves, and floating green smoke... It has a harmonious and unified style of the quietness of northern Taoist temples and the beauty of Jiangnan gardens, so it is known as the "Penglai Fairyland".
Ritan Park, Chaoyang District, Beijing
The Temple of the Sun is one of the five famous cultural relics and historical sites in Beijing. It was built in 1530 during the Ming Dynasty and was the place where the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties worshipped the sun god. The temple faces west and is surrounded by a circular wall. There are Lingxing Gates on all four sides. There are incense burners and burial pools outside the west gate; there are god storehouses, god kitchens, animal slaughter pavilions, bell towers, and clothing halls outside the north gate. In the 1950s, the Temple of the Sun was turned into a park. Under the personal care of Premier Zhou Enlai, in the early 1970s, mountain cherry trees symbolizing the friendship between China and Japan were planted. A number of scenic spots and scenic areas with unique styles, such as the large-scale "Sun Festival Mural", "Quchi Shengchun", and "Southwest Landscape Scenic Area" built around the 1980s. A group of antique buildings, restaurants, and galleries that are coordinated with classical gardens have been built, which are simple and elegant. In the northwest corner of the park, there is the tomb and memorial room of the revolutionary pioneer Ma Jun. In 2001, it was listed as a patriotic education base in Beijing. After 50 years of renovation and construction, Ritan Park has become a classical landscape garden with national characteristics, covering an area of 20.62 hectares nationwide. It was rated as one of the first batch of high-quality parks in 2002 and was rated as a national cultural relic protection unit in May 2006.
Tianjin Postal Museum
The exhibition area of Tianjin Postal Museum is about 1,500 square meters, divided into four exhibition halls: "Introduction Hall", "Post Office and Other Communication Organizations Hall", "Postal Hall" and "Philatelic Hall". The exhibition content is divided into five stages in terms of time span, namely the ancient post office period, the establishment period of modern post office, the Qing Dynasty post office period, the Chinese Post Office period and the People's Post Office period. The exhibition hall introduces the historical changes of Tianjin Post over the past 100 years through text, real objects, photos, statues and other display methods, and shows the unique cultural charm of the postal industry. Tianjin Postal Museum was built on the site of the Qing Dynasty Post Office (today's No. 111 Jiefang Road, Heping District, Tianjin). This European-style building was once the location of the Customs Post Office and the "Qing Dynasty Post Office Tianjin Bureau" when the Qing Dynasty Customs tried to run the post office. It was formerly known as the "Tianjin Customs Bosi Da Bureau" and was the headquarters of the Customs Post Office at that time. The "Qing Dynasty Post Office Tianjin Bureau" building is a precious architectural relic in the history of modern Chinese postal service and a historical witness to the creation and development of modern Chinese postal service. The collection of Tianjin Postal Museum includes precious cultural relics such as "wheel rut stones" from the Qin and Han Dynasties, "brick paintings" from the Tang Dynasty, "Zhongli Yamen" real mailing envelopes from the early days of modern postal service, and "mail carriages" from the period of China Post, as well as a large number of stamps and philatelic products, including the first set of Chinese stamps such as the Dalong stamps. The exhibition of these cultural relics will make Tianjin Postal Museum the forefront of the country in terms of exhibit content and exhibition scale. Tianjin Postal Museum is also the only industry-specific museum in Tianjin, which will play a positive role in promoting and shaping postal culture and enhancing the image of the postal brand. On October 9, 2010, Tianjin Postal Museum will be officially completed and opened. The completion of the Postal Museum can provide a place for philatelists to visit and learn, and become a new tourist attraction in Tianjin. While shaping the image of Tianjin, the birthplace of modern Chinese postal service, it will also further expand the reputation and influence of China Post at home and abroad in a unique way, and enhance the overall brand image of the postal service.
Beijing Erguotou Liquor Museum
Beijing Red Star Co., Ltd.'s Beijing Erguotou Liquor Museum in Huairou has opened its doors to welcome visitors, adding another attraction to Beijing's industrial tourism. Visitors can learn about the origin of Erguotou through nearly 100 cultural relics in the museum, taste the "new wine" that has just been brewed, and can also experience "drunk" soberly in a specially designed "illusion". Old Beijingers say that there are three joys in the capital: climbing the Great Wall, eating roast duck, and drinking Erguotou. If you don't have all three joys, you can't say you have been to Beijing. Bamboo wine jars, sorghum storage, and the aroma of wine lees that hits you in the face, you will immediately feel a strong breath as soon as you enter the Erguotou Liquor Museum. "If you want to taste the true taste of Erguotou, you must understand the history and production process of Erguotou." Zhang Yumin, director of the museum, introduced to visitors that Erguotou Liquor originated in the Yuan Dynasty according to research and has a history of 800 years. It was developed from Shaojiu (commonly known as Shaodaozi) in northern China. Erguotou was originally just a process of brewing. When brewing wine, the brewing technicians cut off the first pot of cooled wine and the third pot of cooled wine tail, and only take the second pot of wine with the best quality, so it is called "Erguotou". The "Longquan Shaoguo" and "Yiheyong Shaoguo" made with this process have become "famous wines" in the capital during the Qing Dynasty. In order to truly restore the traditional brewing process of "Shaodaozi", the museum has taken great pains, including wine jars from the Ming Dynasty, steaming barrels from the Qing Dynasty... The museum has collected nearly 100 "cultural relics" from the folk and other museums, and restored the scenes in a one-to-one scale, showing the entire traditional brewing steps of Erguotou from grain selection to koji making, fermentation, distillation, and blending, so that visitors can intuitively understand the brewing process of Erguotou, the little-known traditional craftsmanship and the mysterious skill of "picking wine by looking at flowers". In addition to introducing the "Erguotou" craft to visitors through historical objects and scene restoration, the Erguotou Liquor Museum also focuses on service. In the experience area of the museum, visitors can directly participate in brewing and taste the warm "new wine" just extracted from the distiller; in the wine cellar display area, the museum has prepared paper and pens, and visitors can design personalized wine labels for their customized "Erguotou" and send blessings to relatives and friends; they can also go to the "drunken experience area" by themselves and soberly feel the "dizziness" after being drunk. It is understood that the establishment of the Erguotou Liquor Museum is only the first step for Red Star to develop cultural and creative industries. With the construction of other supporting facilities such as special restaurants, Red Star will establish a complete industrial tourism park based on the museum.
Chinese Garden Museum
The China Garden Museum is the first national museum in China with gardens as its theme. It is located at the foot of Yingshan Mountain in Fengtai District, Beijing, and on the banks of the Yongding River. Construction began in 2010 and the museum opened in May 2013. It covers an area of 65,000 square meters and a construction area of 49,950 square meters. It consists of three parts: the main building, the indoor exhibition garden, and the outdoor exhibition area. 28,200 square meters in the main building can be used for exhibitions. As a public welfare permanent cultural institution, the Garden Expo Museum is an international garden culture center that collects garden historical relics, promotes Chinese traditional culture, displays the charm of garden art, and studies the value of gardens. The Garden Expo Museum mainly serves the general public, primary and secondary school students, and domestic and foreign tourists, and takes into account professional garden workers. It will fully display the long history, splendid culture, diverse functions and brilliant achievements of Chinese gardens. The China Garden Museum takes "Chinese Gardens - Our Ideal Home" as its construction concept, aiming to display and inherit the profound Chinese garden art, promote excellent national traditional culture, and witness the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Taoranting Park
Taoranting Park is an urban garden planned, designed and built with Taoranting, a famous scenic spot in Yanjing, in the southern corner of Beijing as its center. The park was built in 1952. Because Taoranting is one of the four famous pavilions in China, the park is named after this pavilion. It covers an area of 59 hectares, of which 17 hectares are water surface. The Cibei Temple in the park was founded in the Yuan Dynasty, also known as Guanyin Temple. In the 34th year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (1695), Jiang Zao, the Minister of Industry who supervised the kiln factory, built a pavilion in Cibei Temple and named it "Taoran" based on the poem of the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi, "Wait until the chrysanthemums are yellow and the wine is ripe, and I will get drunk and be intoxicated with you." The natural scenery here is beautiful, and it has become a place for literati and poets to feast, travel and chant. The park not only preserves historical relics from many dynasties since the Warring States Period and many ancient temples and shrines; it is also a memorial site for revolutionary pioneers such as Li Dazhao, Mao Zedong, and Zhou Enlai who engaged in revolutionary activities.
Tianjin Dagang Olympic Museum
Tianjin Dagang Olympic Museum is one of the twelve members of the International Olympic Museum Alliance and the second Olympic-themed museum in China approved by the International Olympic Committee. The museum was planned, created and directed by Mr. Wu Jingguo, an executive member of the International Olympic Committee, President of the International Boxing Federation and a world-renowned architectural expert. The museum has an open structure. The main building is divided into two floors, which is simple and bright. The glass corridor is more unique, connecting the three exhibition halls, which is the first in the world. Tianjin Dagang Olympic Museum aims to pass on the Olympic culture and promote the Olympic spirit. It hopes to let the public know more about the Olympics by showing the history of the Olympics and precious cultural relics to the public, and to publicize and promote the Olympic spirit of "faster, higher and stronger" and the spiritual concept of participation, fairness and peace. The rich forms of historical facts and fashion, culture and spirit, and education through entertainment allow the general public to feel the passion and eternity of the Olympics!