Chengdu
- As the capital city of Sichuan province of China, is a city
with many faces. On the one hand this is an incredibly modern
and vibrant place, Chengdu has blossomed in terms of affluence
and investment. The traditional industries of Chengdu includes
gold, silver, silk , laquerware which have helped to make this
city one of the most important centers of commerce in China. Chengdu
today has many skyscrapers dominate the skyline. Japanese cars
and western goods are hugely popular and widely available. Chengdu
plays important role in terms of education and culture in China,
which has no doubt been helped this modernization of this city.
Chengdu has a long history as a destination for learned poets
and artists of China to gather and seek inspiration. The great
poet Du Fu, made his home here.Today there are 14 colleges and
an impressive university situated in the city.Thus is became once
one of the most important printing centers in China. Nestled amongst
this affluence and development is another side to Chengdu. Traditional
wooden Chinese architecture that once dominated this city can
still be found in the outskirts although it is fast disappearing.
What does still exist here however in abundance, is a great street
life. Markets and street hawkers fill the streets dealing in everything
you could possibly imagine, from snakes and snails to fortunes
and foot scrubs. Many travelers here are simply killing time or
passing through en route to Tibet. This is however, a very pleasant
city to do just this: feast on some great food, soak up some of
the mellow atmosphere in one of the thousands of tea houses dotted
about the city.
The Thatched Cottage
of Dufu The Thatched Cottage of Dufu, located by the side
of the Huanhua Stream in Chengdu's western suburb. It was the residence
of Dufu, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty when he took refuge
in Chengdu. Du
Fu (712-70 AD),one of China's most famous poets, left home at the
tender age of 20, becoming a court official at the former capital
in Chang'an (near Xi'an). Du Fu's civil service duties did not last
long however, and he was captured by rebels and forced to flee the
city for Chengdu after only a few years. It was in Chengdu, at this
small and simple house, that Du Fu was inspired to write more than
200 poems which are regarded today as masterpieces of realist poetry.
Dufu's Thatched Cottage covers an area of 16 hectares. The Gate,
the Screen Wall, the Lobby, the Hall of Verse History, and the Gong
Bu Temple are lined one by one along the middle axis, flanked by
corridors and other auxiliary buildings. The bronze statue of Dufu
in the Hall of Verse History is broad-minded. The clay sculpture
of Dufu was enshrined in the Gong Bu Temple is very lifelike. Among
and between them are trees and bamboo groves, winding brooks and
linking small bridges.
All these give the place an atmosphere of solemnity, meanwhile a
sense of beauty and grace. Around the hones are bamboo fences and
inside the fences are vegetable and herb plots, easily remind people
of the scenes described in Dufu's poems. While taking a quiet walk
in such a historical and cultural environment, visitors are apt
to be brought back to the ancient times.Marquis
Wu Temple Located outside the Northern Gate of Chengdu,
this 37,000 square-meter temple was built in the sixth century in
memory of Zhuge Liang, prime minister of the Kingdom of Zhu during
the Three Kingdoms Period.
The existing halls on the premises were rebuilt in 1672, or the
11th year of the Kangxi Reign of the Qing Dynasty. The buildings
look imposing with gray tiles and crimson walls. Luxuriant ancient
cypress trees, and thick clusters of bamboo have rendered an air
of sequestered repose to the temple, a national cultural site under
key protection. Panda Breeding Base
The Giant Panda Breeding Research Base is located on the mountain
of Futoushan in the northern suburbs of the city, 18km away from
the town center. The Giant Panda Museum is a unique museum set up
for Giant Panda's in the world, it collects and shows fruits of
human knowledge, review and research on the Giant Panda. The Museum
shows almost 300 rare, fine pictures and scientific , full &
accurate charts about Giant Panda, exhibits literatures and monograph
on Giant Panda's at all times and in different places of the world.
It shows practical specimens of Giant Panda's from fossils to every
part of dissection, dejection and main types of food bamboo etc.
The Museum also built many large zoology scope-boxes with an area
of 300m2, such as remote antiquity as Giant Panda zoology environment,
Giant Panda danger situation, and Giant Panda zoology environment
in Qinling, Liangshan, Xiangling, Minshan, and Qionglai Mountain.
The Museum systematically and completely introduces Giant Panda's
evolvement history, ancient and nowadays distribution, general situation,
condition and research of human to Giant Panda's. This lets people
roundly know Giant Panda's, understand efforts made by our government
to protect and save the animal which is loved by people all of the
world and consciously arose the feeling to love and protect Giant
Panda's and their natural habitat.
Du
Fu (712-70 AD),one of China's most famous poets, left home at the
tender age of 20, becoming a court official at the former capital
in Chang'an (near Xi'an). Du Fu's civil service duties did not last
long however, and he was captured by rebels and forced to flee the
city for Chengdu after only a few years. It was in Chengdu, at this
small and simple house, that Du Fu was inspired to write more than
200 poems which are regarded today as masterpieces of realist poetry.
The Giant Panda Breeding Research Base is located on the mountain
of Futoushan in the northern suburbs of the city, 18km away from
the town center. The Giant Panda Museum is a unique museum set up
for Giant Panda's in the world, it collects and shows fruits of
human knowledge, review and research on the Giant Panda. The Museum
shows almost 300 rare, fine pictures and scientific , full &
accurate charts about Giant Panda, exhibits literatures and monograph
on Giant Panda's at all times and in different places of the world.
It shows practical specimens of Giant Panda's from fossils to every
part of dissection, dejection and main types of food bamboo etc.
The Museum also built many large zoology scope-boxes with an area
of 300m2, such as remote antiquity as Giant Panda zoology environment,
Giant Panda danger situation, and Giant Panda zoology environment
in Qinling, Liangshan, Xiangling, Minshan, and Qionglai Mountain.
The Museum systematically and completely introduces Giant Panda's
evolvement history, ancient and nowadays distribution, general situation,
condition and research of human to Giant Panda's. This lets people
roundly know Giant Panda's, understand efforts made by our government
to protect and save the animal which is loved by people all of the
world and consciously arose the feeling to love and protect Giant
Panda's and their natural habitat. 