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Sanxingdui Museum is located in Northeast of Sanxingdu archeological site, west of the famous cultural city of Guanghan, on the bank of Jian River (commonly called Yazi River), 40 kilometers (about 24.9 miles) north of Chengdu City. Covering an exhibition area of 4,000 square meters (about 1544.4 square miles), and opened in October 1997 this is an archeological museum with excellent modern facilities. The cultural relics in the museum were mostly unearthed from the Sanxingdui site. In order to know about the museum we should know more about the Sanxingdui site.

Sanxingdui is a cultural relic of the ancient Shu (Sichuan). It is an important archeological discovery which changed the people’s understanding of ancient history and culture. If you want to visit a place to know more about Chinese Shu (Sichuan) culture, make it this one, for the civilization shown by the cultural relics can be called a true wonder.

Taihu Lake, also called Zhengze or five lake is the 3rd largest and one of the  Famous Five freshwater lakes. It occupies the area of water between the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Taihu Lake coversan area of 2420 square kilometers, 68 kilometers from north to south, 56 kilometers from west to east. It is 3 meters higher above the sea level and 2 meters lower than that. The lake connects with other sources, lakes and rivers in the heart of a very large network of water in southern China. Taihu Lake  flows into the river Yangtze at last. Continue reading →

The Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses are the most significant archeological excavations of the 20th century. Work is ongoing at this site, which is around 1.5 kilometers east of Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s Mausoleum in Lintong, Xian, Shaanxi Province. It is a sight not to be missed by any visitor to China.

Upon ascending the throne at the age of 13 (in 246 BC), Qin Shi Huang, later the first Emperor of all China, had begun to work for his mausoleum. It took 11 years to finish. It is speculated that many buried treasures and sacrificial objects had accompanied the emperor in his after life. A group of peasants uncovered some pottery while digging for a well nearby the royal tomb in 1974. It caught the attention of archeologists immediately. They came to Xian in droves to study and to extend the digs.

In the year 64 of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220), Emperor Ming sent a delegation of his men to study Buddhism in the western world. After three years, two eminent Indian monks, She Moteng and Zhu Falan, came back with the delegation. They brought with them a white horse carrying Buddhist sutras and Buddhist figures on its back. This was the first time that Buddhism appeared in China. Continue reading →

Taihu Lake is located in the Yangtze River Delta Center, 55 kilometers east to west, 68 kilometers north to south, across the Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, is China’s one of the five largest freshwater lakes. Taihu Lake is rich in resources of fish, known as “the Big Dipper Golden Sunrise,” “natural fish bank” reputation, its varieties of plum Coilia nasus fish, big silver fish, small silver fish, carp, carp, black carp, grass carp, silver carp , Hua Lian, bream, blackfish, whitefish, red snapper, mandarin fish and other 106 varieties. Taihu many fish, especially the three white lake, Taihu Sambo, Ju Huang Xie Fei, but also the specialty of Taihu Lake. In order to clarify three white, three treasures, and we went to the home floor hotel, ask where the shopkeepers and craftsmen.