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• Chinese Online Class – Zhongdu Imperial City of Ming and Stone Tablets in Imperial Mausoleum

  Date: 2009.01.31 | Category: Chinese Mandarin, Chinese Online Class, Chinese School, Chinese language, Learn Chinese Class, Study Chinese, learn Chinese, learn Chinese online, learn Mandarin online, learn mandarin | Response: 0

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  Zhongdu Imperial City of Ming and Stone Tablets in Imperial Mausoleum

  Zhongdu City of Ming is located at the southern piedmont of Fenghuang Mountain in the northwest of Fengyang County, Anhui Province.

  After Zhu Yuanzhang, Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), ascended to the throne, he established the capital in Nanjing, and took Linhao (today’s Fengyang) as the Zhongdu (middle capital). Zhongdu City was built in the 2ndyear (1369) of the Hongwu reign till the 8thyear of the Hongwu
  reign. Due to a short time of construction, the city had not become the political center, but some of the city planning concepts including the palace arrangement had great influence on the city planning of Beijing.

  Zhongdu City was divided into the outer city, the middle city and the inner city. With a perimeter of 25 kilometers, the outer city has been destroyed. The middle city was the imperial palace, with a perimeter of 6.5 kilometers. The inner city had a perimeter of 3 kilometers, with its walls about
  9.5 meters high. Only the Wumen Gate and a section of walls from the Xihua Gate to the northwest corner are well preserved. The Wumen Gate was the central gate of the inner city. The gate had three arch gateways, with each 5.1 meters wide and 8 meters high. The building constructed above the gate
  has been destroyed.

  At the bottom of the city walls on both sides of the Wumen Gate, the three arch gates and the two wing-buildings was a white stone base of 480 meters long and 160 centimeters high. The base was carved with relief of animal and other decorative patterns, including figures of dragon, phoenix, kylin,
  peony, lotus, andemblem. The base was finely carved and built into various vivid figures.

  Many places in Zhongdu City had carved bricks, such as flying dragon, phoenix, and wave-shaped patterns carved along the streets and on the Donghua Gate, the Xihua Gate, and the Xuanwu Gate. Stone railings and columns built in the palace were also carved with relief and decorative patterns such as
  flying dragon, dancing phoenix and twisted dragon in clouds.

  The Zhongdu City of Ming was one of the most splendid constructions in ancient China. It inherited the artistic tradition of the Song and Yuan period, and created a new style of Ming and Qing period, occupying an important position in the development history of ancient city construction in China.

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• Chinese language – Site of the Xibaipo Central Committee of the CPC

  Date: 2009.01.24 | Category: Chinese Mandarin, Chinese Online Class, Chinese School, Chinese language, Learn Chinese Class, Study Chinese, learn Chinese, learn Chinese online, learn Mandarin online, learn mandarin | Response: 0

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  Site of the Xibaipo Central Committee of the CPC

  The site of the Xibaipo Central Committee of the CPC is located in the Xibaipo Village, Pingshan County, Hebei Province. The Xibaipo Village lies at the east foot of Mount Taihang and is under the Baipo Ridges on the north bank of Xiatuohe River, about 90 miles from Shijiazhuang City. It was the
  headquarters of the Central Committee of the CPC and the People’s Liberation Army from May 26, 1948 to March 23, 1949.

  The current big yard there covers an area of 16,000 square meters, with the big door facing southward. The yard is divided into two parts: the front and the back. In the front yard there is a row of small yards lined up from east to west, which is actually former residences of Zhou Enlai, Ren
  Bishi, Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi and Dong Biwu. The site of the strategy-making room of the Central Military Committee lies in the northwest of Mao Zedong’s former residence. The westernmost part of the big yard was originally the dining hall of the Central institutions. In the northeast part of the
  back yard, there are three cave dwelling-styled buildings, in which lie Zhu De’s former office and living room. The site of the 2nd Plenum of the 7th CPC Central Committee is in the west of the big yard and between the front and back yard. Other buildings include offices of Xinhua News Agency,
  dugouts and so forth.

  In May 1947, a working committee of the CPC composed of members like Liu Shaoqi, Zhu De, and Dong Biwu, moved from northern Shaanxi to Xibaipo. In Xibaipo, a National Land Conference presided over by Liu Shaoqi was held. The conference promulgated the Outline of Land Law of China , which greatly
  pushed forward the Land Reform Movement. On May 26, 1948, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Ren Bishi and all the institutions of the Central Committee of the CPC crossed the Yellow River and finally came to Xibaipo Village. From then to March 23, 1949, Xibaipo was the leading center of Chinese revolution
  and the last command office in rural areas before the Central Committee was relocated in Beiping (today’s Beijing) on the eve of the establishment of new China. In this village, the Central Committee of the CPC and Central Military Committee deployed and commanded the three Liaoning-Shenyang,
  Huaihai and Beiping-Tianjin campaigns, the victory of which provided a basis for the downfall of Kuomintang and Chiang Kai-shek government and the liberation of the whole country. Meanwhile, the 2nd Plenum of the 7th CPC Central Committee was also held here, in which Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou
  Enlai and Ren Bishi delivered important speeches and reports, pointing out the necessity of policy transformation as the nature of the revolution had transformed from New Democratism to Socialism, and providing the orientation of the socialistic revolution and construction of China.

  In Xibaipo Village at that time, leaders of the Central Committee of the CPC and Central Military Committee all lived in ordinary people’s houses with flat roofs, built a bounding wall around, and excavated dugouts within these houses. In 1958, the site was destroyed by water because of the
  construction of Gangnan Reservoir aiming to improve the conditions of Haihe River. In 1971, the big yard of the site of the Central Committee of the CPC was rebuilt on the northern slope in the village, which basically kept its original appearance.

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• Chinese Speaking – Lhoba

  Date: 2009.01.13 | Category: Chinese Mandarin, Chinese Online Class, Chinese School, Chinese language, Learn Chinese Class, Study Chinese, learn Chinese, learn Chinese online, learn Mandarin online, learn mandarin | Response: 0

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  Lhoba

  Lhoba men wear a waistcoat reaching the abdomen and wrap the back with a piece of urus skin. They wear a long gown inside the waistcoat and a round-topped cap made of bearskin or woven with bines, and carry with them arrows and a long knife. They keep hair, of which the part on the forehead
  reaches the eyebrows and the rest is scattered on the back.

  Lhoba women wear a round-collared narrow-sleeved short jacket buttoned down the front, a small piece of cowhide over it, a woolen tube-shaped skirt of colorful lattices reaching beyond the knees and leggings around the whole calves.

  Both men and women like to wear accessories. Men wear necklaces stringed with pine green stones and beads, earrings made of bamboo sticks, and bracelets. Women sometimes wear more than ten or tens of blue and white bead strings, earbobs, silver coins, copper bells, iron chains, steels for flints,
  knives and shells, which may weigh more than ten jin (1 jin = 500 grams) altogether.

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