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    Grand Canal of China (Yangshuo Discount Hotels)

    The Grand Canal, which cuts a 2,700 kilometre-long course from Beijing in the north to Hangzhou in the south, is extolled as a great water conservancy project of ancient China. It is also one of the l...

    The Great Wall (China Hotel Booking)

    The ancient and imposing Great Wall extends 6,350 kilometres through nine provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. Passes have been built through this artificial barrier at a number of strate...

    Yellow Tiles and Vermillion Walls (Hotels in China, Li River)

    The imperial palaces in Beijing are graced with yellow-glazed tiles and vermilion walls because they looked pleasant and reflected the wealth, dignity and authority of the emperors.The tiles are gener...

    Hutongs of Beijing (Discount China Hotels)

    The alleyways in Beijing are known as "hutong", the transliteration of a Mongolian word because most of the hutongs were a heritage of the Yuan Dynasty which established its capital city in Beijing in...

    Latticed Windows (Private China Tours, Guilin Hotels)

    The latticed windows, as the name suggests, are opened for ventilation purposes. They are graced with artistically appealing patterns. According to historical data, latticed windows were widely used i...

    Aobao (Mongolian Stone Heaps for Worship) (Yangshuo Tours, Guilin Hotels)

    Travellers to Inner Mongolia are impressed by pillbox-shaped heaps that stand singularly or in clusters on the grassland. The local people call them "aobao", and they are built of stone in areas where...

    Embrasured Watchtower and Barbican Entrance (China Hotel Booking, Guilin Tours)

    Standing opposite every city gate of old Beijing was an embrasured watchtower, an imposing and distinctive structure that added tremendously to the landscape of the city in old days. Today, only two o...

    Cave Dwellings (China Tour, Guilin Hotels)

    Many labouring people on the Loess Plateau in northwest China live in caves dug into the mountains. The caves are laid out in rows one atop the other, looking like buildings of multiple floors in the ...

    Eaves Tiles (China Travel, Guilin Tours)

    Eaves tiles are small accessories in classical Chinese architecture fixed at the end of rafters for decoration and for shielding the eaves from wind and rain. Eaves tiles emerged as a culture in their...

    Hakka Castle-Like Dwellings (China Travel Agency, Yangshuo Tours)

    The Hakka people inhabiting southeast China are known for the distinctive style of their dwellings in a variety of castle-like designs. They are round or square, and there are also those in the style ...

    Lingxing Gate (China Tours, Guilin Hotels)

    The Lingxing Gate, also known as Heavenly Gate or Gate of Dragon and Phoenix, was a kind of ancient structure built in different places with different meanings. More often than not they stood in front...

    Passes (China Travel Agency, China Hotels)

    Passes were defence fortifications in ancient China. Born of war, they were built at points of strategic importance. In the early days passes were built of rammed earth and masonry at places easily de...

    Beijing City Gates (China Travel, China Tour Packages)

    In times of yore Beijing consisted of an outer city and an inner city, with the imperial city (otherwise known as Forbidden City, or the Former Imperial Palace) contained in the inner city. Altogether...

    Stupas and Pagodas (Guilin Tours, Yangshuo Tours)

    Stupas appeared in China with the import of Buddhism and, during a long history of well over a thousand years, have become a valued part of the national Buddhist art. "Stupa", a word from ancient Sans...

    Underground Irrigation Tunnels (Guilin Tours, Guilin Hotels)

    In the Hami and Turpan areas of Xinjiang, there is an unusual kind of irrigation system formed by underground tunnels and wells. A system worked out by the people in the light of local climate and top...

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