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Xiangshan, Zhangjiagang
Xiangshan (香山) (Fragrant Hills) is a scenic hill located in the western portion of the city of Zhangjiagang. Geography Located 15 kilometers from the center of the city, it is a very convenient destination for tourists. The hill covers about 4.37 square kilometers and has an altitude of 136.6 meters. It has a wide variety of trees such as ''pinus massoniana'', ''metasequoia glyptostroboides'', bamboo, and several fruit trees. Wild medicinal herbs are also found in abundance. The beautiful natural scenery and rich human resources attract many visitors yearly. Xu xia ke, a famous geologist of the Ming Dynasty, often visited Xiangshan and wrote many poems about it. Through the effort of the government, many scenic spots have been opened to the outside world since 1993, such as Wangjiangting (), Laohuzui (), Caixiangjing (), Taohuajian () and Shengguotan (). In 1995, an investment of 60 million yuan was made in the Xiangshansi (), which covers an area of about 6700 square meters. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fragrant Hills
Fragrant Hills or Xiangshan Park is a public park and former imperial garden at the foot of the Western Hills in the Haidian District, Beijing, China. It was also formerly known as Jingyi Garden or "Jingyiyuan" (靜宜園). It covers and consists of a natural pine-cypress forest, hills with maple trees, smoke trees and persimmon trees, as well as landscaped areas with traditional architecture and cultural relics. The name derives from the park's highest peak, Xianglu Feng (Incense Burner Peak), a hill with two large stones resembling incense burners at the top. Name The syllable ''xiang'' in the Fragrant Hills' Chinese name ''Xiangshan'' refers to incense, not fragrance ''per se''. This name is perhaps derived from the name of the highest peak ''Xianglu Feng'' (香炉峰), literally: "Incense-burner Peak". The bronze-cast incense burner (with remote roots in ritual bronzes) being a common article found in temples. Indeed, incense was also often used as a metonym for tem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhangjiagang
Zhangjiagang (), formerly Shazhou County (), is a county-level city under the administration of Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China and one of the many ports along the Yangtze river. With 1,246,762 inhabitants as of the 2010 census, the city is now part of Jiangyin-Zhangjiagang-Jingjiang built-up or metropolitan area with 3,526,260 inhabitants. Continued growth will encompass the Yangtze River Delta metropolitan region. It borders the prefecture-level cities of Taizhou and Nantong across the Yangtze River, as well as Wuxi to the west. Its total area is 986.53 square kilometers, including a land area of 791.05 kilometers. In the top 100 country-level city list in China, Zhangjiagang ranks the third in 2019, and 2020. Zhangjiagang is named a national civilized city in China in 2020, and this is the sixth time that the city achieves this honor. History Toponym Zhangjiagang is derived from a port in the city, while the port is named after a tributary, Zhangjia. All of them are wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xu Xia Ke
Xu or XU may refer to: People and characters * Xu (surname), one of two Chinese surnames ( or /), transliterated as Xu in English * ǃXu, a name for the ǃKung group of Bushmen; may also refer to the ǃKung language or the ǃKung people * ǃXu (god), the creator god of the ǃKung * Xu, a minor character in the game ''Final Fantasy VIII'' Places * Xu (state) (), a state of ancient China * Xǔ (state) (), was a vassal state of the Zhou dynasty Universities * X University (Toronto Metropolitan University aka Ryerson Polytechnic Institute), Toronto, Ontario, Canada * Xavier University (other) ** Xavier University in Cincinnati, United States ** Xavier University of Louisiana, United States * Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China * Xinjiang University, Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China Other uses * African Express Airways (IATA code XU), a Kenyan airline * X unit (symbol xu), a unit of length approximately equal to 0.1 pm (10−13 m), used for X-ray and gamma ray wavelengths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ming Dynasty
The Ming dynasty (), officially the Great Ming, was an Dynasties in Chinese history, imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol Empire, Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last orthodox dynasty of China ruled by the Han Chinese, Han people, the majority ethnic group in China. Although the primary capital of Beijing fell in 1644 to a rebellion led by Li Zicheng (who established the short-lived Shun dynasty), numerous rump state, rump regimes ruled by remnants of the House of Zhu, Ming imperial family—collectively called the Southern Ming—survived until 1662. The Ming dynasty's founder, the Hongwu Emperor (r. 1368–1398), attempted to create a society of self-sufficient rural communities ordered in a rigid, immobile system that would guarantee and support a permanent class of soldiers for his dynasty: the empire's standing army exceeded one million troops and the naval history of China, navy's dockyards in Nanjin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
