Hiking up the Yellow Mountains of Huangshan | China Vlog Ep. 15
Summer 2018 China Vlog Episode 15: From Tunxi, we made the journey to the Huangshan Scenic Area, where we spent a day climbing up the Yellow Mountains. We stayed the night at the top of the mountains with the aim of seeing both sunset and sunrise. Before making our way down, we walked around the peak circuit for a short while.
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Every Rock a Universe: The Yellow Mountains and Chinese Travel Writing
The Yellow Mountains (Huangshan) of China's Anhui Province have been famous for centuries as a place of scenic beauty and inspiration, and remain a hugely popular tourist destination today. A golden age of Yellow Mountains travel came in the seventeenth century, when they became a refuge for loyalists protesting the new Qing Dynasty, among them poet and artist Wang Hongdu (1646--1721/1722), who dedicated himself to traveling to each and every peak and site and recording his impressions. Unfortunately, his resulting masterpiece of Chinese travel writing was not printed until 1775 and has since remained obscure and available only in Chinese.
Here Jonathan Chaves presents the first complete translation of Wang's work in a Western language. Wang's newly rediscovered verse is also translated, showing him to be one of the most accomplished poets of his day. Introductory essays explore the history of scholarly and religious pilgrimage to the area, and the role of the Yellow Mountains in the great Neo-Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist revivals of the early Qing period, that is, as the center of a yearned-for spiritual and cultural renaissance.
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黃山 - Huangshan China
黄山位于中国安徽省南部黄山市境内，南北长约40公里，东西宽约30公里，山脉面积1200平方公里，核心景区面积约160.6平方公里，主体以花岗岩构成，最高处莲花峰，海拔1864米。黄山1982年入选第一批国家重点风景名胜区；1986年黄山被评选为中国十大风景名胜之一，且是中国十大风景名胜中唯一的山岳风景区；1990年12月黄山风景名胜区作为一项文化与自然双重遗产被联合国教科文组织列入世界遗产名录；2004年2月入选世界地质公园。
Last two days in Xiamen - Enjoying the botanical garden & beach | China Vlog Ep. 10
Summer 2018 China Vlog Episode 10: For the last two days of our time in Xiamen, we had one final visit to some local businesses before being given free time to relax in the city. I spent an afternoon in the botanical garden and a day on the beach. Whilst at the beach, I also took a quick look around the Hulishan Cannon Fort.
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Chinese Garden at Yangming Spring - Taipei, Taiwan (Full HD)
This video represent the beauty and subtlety of Chinese gardens.
The photos and videos were taken in Yangming Spring, at the core of Yangming Shan in Taipei.
The combination of elements such as water, flowers, plants and a large variety of statues with representation of Lord Buddha, Animals and various other Chinese expressions create a peaceful environment and harmony among them all, suitable for meditation and contemplation.
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[황산/모두투어서포터즈 16기] 하이라이트 (Mount Huangshan)
Yu Garden - The Most Peaceful Place in Shanghai, China
You shouldn't leave Shanghai without visiting the Yu Garden (or Yuyuan Garden). This is a private garden built from the Ming Dynasty, so you will truly enjoy the old architecture with the exquisite layout, beautiful scenery and artistic style.
The entrace fare cost me just 30 rmb.
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Hong Fa Temple - Xian Hu Botanical Garden - Shenzhen - HD - March 2014
Hong Fa Temple on Xian Hu Botanical Garden (Fairy Lake), Shenzhen China
March 2014, 2nd Honeymoon with my lovely wife to Shenzhen China :D
This temple is located on the Highest level on Xian Hu botanical garden, very lovely place and a must visit for Shenzhen travel.
Xian Hu Botanical Garden is accsible by Bus / Taxi from HuangBeiLing Metro Station
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Chinese Tusi heritage sites make it to UNESCO list
The ruins of Chinese Tusi sites have successfully won a place on the UNESCO World Heritage List, at the World Heritage Conference in Bonn, Germany on Saturday. China now has 48 listed World Heritage sites, the second-most after Italy.
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Living with a Chinese family & day trip to Gulangyu Island - Summer Camp 1 Part 1 | China Vlog Ep. 3
Summer 2018 China Vlog Episode 3: The first summer camp was based at a school in the Haicang District of Xiamen. During this week I stayed with a local Chinese family and taught the students about British festivals (Christmas, Easter and Bonfire Night). We also had a day trip to Gulangu Island.
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Yunnan in Southwest China - an ideal place for cycling and hiking. By China Odyssey Tours.wmv
In July 2005, during the ethnic tour in Yunnan, the guide fell off the bike and unluckily got hurt. As the group ascended the mountain, she had to hire a sedan chair to carry her up. Our guests felt sorry for her, but they were also excited to have such a precious opportunity to play a 'sedan-chair' game and try their skills!
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Traditions kept alive at Beijing's Grand View Garden
Thursday marks the traditional Chinese Qingming Festival, also known as the Tomb-Sweeping Day. It is a time for people to remember their ancestors, and also an occasion for outings. At Beijing's Grand View Garden, traditions are honored as people embrace the misty outdoors.
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An evening in Hangzhou | China Vlog Ep. 16
Summer 2018 China Vlog Episode 16: After climbing down from the Yellow Mountains in Huangshan, we travelled on to Hangzhou. During our first evening there, we took a short stroll around Xi Hu (West Lake) and sampled some of the street food on offer. After that, we ...
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Beautiful Chinese Garden Landscape in Singapore
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The art of gardening has, for Chinese, the same sacred regard that writing or poetry. The garden is at the same time, part of your home and playground, a magical place, a cosmos in miniature which seeks to recreate the image of an ideal nature. The garden is a constant compromise between the dimensions aesthetic and symbolic. Beautiful Chinese gardens respond, therefore, a series of codes which, if ignored, result in a partial interpretation of its meaning or what the artist wanted to express.
The history of gardening in China is more than a thousand years. The garden had, in principle, a mystical origin: Zhuangzi so asserted, attributing it to a speech by Confucius in the park mentioned Xiwei, legendary ruler above the Yellow Emperor. The traditional Beautiful Chinese garden symbolizes paradise in the world. According to ancient Chinese legend, this was paradise on the summit of a mountain that was in some distant islands that were in the midst of the sea. There the elixir of eternal youth, which allowed access was immortality. This legend explains the great importance of the mountain, the sea and the islands are in the symbolism of Beautiful Chinese gardens.
The art of Beautiful Chinese gardening took place in three different stages and was refined until the eighteenth century. Western settlers introduced, then the culture of Western gardens. The garden Yuanming Yuan, designed by missionaries French, is the most obvious example of this interference which put also an end to the traditional Chinese gardening. Despite the profusion of them in ancient times, very few traditional Chinese gardens currently exist. Most of them were victims of fires, accidental or provoked. Since the traditional Chinese buildings were built with wood, there remains no vestige even architectural. The influence of Beautiful Chinese gardening could exercise against the Japanese and Korean gardening was soon diluted to develop these, your own aesthetic.
A garden is an element with life. You must verify the same changes that verifies the nature in different seasons and the succession of bloom that accompanies it, as well as the play of light and shade provided by the solar cycle, and the diurnal and nocturnal variations. Through incessant and multiple transformations, the garden is acquiring a new dimension, in which, at every moment, enjoying an ephemeral and fleeting impressions vision of a universe in constant motion.
The garden has, in this way, two spaces, where it is, in this view, the necessary spatial continuity between interior and exterior space. The boundary between artifice and reality is very thin, as evidenced Gardens lama monasteries, who had been assigned the priests, or in rice fields where they worked as farmers.
A Beautiful Chinese garden had to be a reflection of nature and, as already mentioned, the general harmony was far more important than symmetry and order. The fundamental principle of feng shui: less is better, is evident in the gardens: quality prevails over quantity. The Beautiful Chinese garden is not, at all, the exponent of a botanical collection. Trees are planted asymmetrically because themselves constitute a structural element that allows you to create some interesting perspectives embossing, in turn, other garden elements (rocks, water, etc..).
Water and stone are elements of great symbolic value and, also, are the pillars of the aesthetics of Beautiful Chinese gardens. If careful consideration regarding the Chinese conception of the gardens is done, the roots of feng shui and its foundations evidence commonly exposed in large landscaped treaties.
Water is one of the essential elements. Favors by transmitting calm, meditative contemplation. The sound of running water, suitably located, reinforce this feeling. The pond, simple shapes, always trying to preserve the natural harmony, is at the center linking the different elements of the garden. Water also symbolizes latent strength, walking the byways of the land is capable of eroding the strongest rock.
Beautiful Chinese gardens have deep philosophical roots. Natural elements are chosen for their historical, literary or symbolic meaning. The landscape painters and garden art evolved in perfect harmony in China. A garden must reflect two vital aspects. The nature that is represented by trees, rocks and streams that run through the garden designer and representing creation, a creation that should approach the most harmonious way possible, to natural balance.
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59th International Keukenhof flower show promotes China
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Keukenhof, near Lisse, Netherlands - 18 March 2008
1. Mid of windmill through trees in Keukenhof park, location of 59th International Keukenhof flower show, pull out to wide
2-5. Various of flower beds in Keukenhof park
6. Mid of Prince of Orange, Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands walking through park
7. Mid of Willem-Alexander walking
8. Wide interior of stage during official opening
9. Mid of Willem-Alexander with Deputy Mayor of Beijing, Niu Youcheng cutting ribbon to mark official opening of flower show UPSOUND: applause
10. Cutaway of audience
11. Mid exterior of dragon shaped flower bed in grass
12. Mid of sign showing Chinese dragon
13. Close of red tulips, Chinese visitors to garden in background
14. Mid of Chinese visitor walking through garden
15. Set up of Chinese tourist, Wendy Lee
16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Wendy Lee, Chinese tourist:
More and more Chinese people like to come here, I would like to said - er, that is the extension from our culture to overseas, especially in Europe. Therefore I think that's very good for the relationship between two countries.
17. Wide of Chinese installation in garden, bamboo and Chinese pagoda
18-19. Various of red and white tulips
20. SOUNDBITE: (Dutch) Annemarie Gerards, Keukenhof PR manager:
Our visitors are coming from all over the world. We are truly an international park. Very often you hear from our guests saying; 'you didn't see the Netherlands if you didn't see Keukenhof.'
21-22. Various of gardens
23. Mid of gardeners checking development of tulips and other flowers
24. Pull out from gardeners plans to gardner reading
25. Mid of gardener standing over flowers
26. Wide of flower bed
27. Close of computer screen showing garden plans
28. Set of up garden architect, Jaspar Van Der Zon at desk
29. SOUNDBITE: (Dutch) Jaspar Van Der Zon, garden architect:
After the park was closed we started to make plans. Each part of the park we redesigned. According to the new designs, we prepare everything for the plants. We make layouts, lists of the flowers, and colours, and it gets carried out step by step.
30. Close pan of flowers in bloom
31. Close of red tulip
32. Close of red and yellow tulip
33. Close tilt up tulip from step to flower head
34. Close of flowers bloom
35. Mid of water from fountain falling into pond
36. Wide of fountain in pond, gardens in foreground
37. SOUNDBITE: (Dutch) Joeren Jegershouse, Keukenhof guide:
I have found it very nice to work as a guide for the park. It is always different. The park's atmosphere changes over the day. Mornings are different to afternoons and evenings. It's nice to talk with the people about the flowers and park. It's a very pleasant job to do.
38. Wide of the park
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The 2008 Beijing Olympics and Chinese culture are the main theme of this years international flower show in the Netherlands.
Traditional oriental flower beds and installations are highlights of the show.
Netherlands Prince of Orange, Willem-Alexander, opened the 59th International Kuekenhof flower show.
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Around seven (m) million flower bulbs have been planted by organisers' of this year's 59th International Keukenhof flower show, in preparation for the annual spring exhibition at Keukenhof Park.
Located near Lisse, in southern Holland, the historic park covers around thirty-two hectares.
This year, organisers chose the 2008 Beijing Olympics and Chinese culture as their theme.
Guest of honour - Netherlands' Prince of Orange, Willem-Alexander - took a stroll through the garden, which is in bloom.
Later he attended an official opening ceremony where he was joined by Beijing's Deputy Mayor, Niu Youcheng.
The pair cut a red ribbon and declared the flower show open.
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CCTV请您欣赏-云南西双版纳 Xishuangbanna, Yunnan
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西雙版納- 美麗、富饒的西雙版納就如一顆璀璨的明珠鑲嵌在中國的西南邊疆。它給人的印象猶如一幅優美的畫卷。在茂密的原始森林中，野象悠然.
Xishuangbanna, Yunnan 雲南西雙版納.
黄山美 2，美在松， Beautiful Yellow Mountain 2, China Vacation
黄山：世界文化与自然双重遗产，世界地质公园，国家AAAAA级旅游景区，国家级风景名胜区，全国文明风景旅游区示范点，中华十大名山，天下第一奇山。
Huangshan/Yellow Mountain: World Cultural and Natural Heritage, World Geo-park, National AAAAA-level Tourist Scenic Area, National Scenic Area, National Civilized Scenic Area Demonstration Site, China's Top Ten Famous Mountains, the World's most beautiful Mountain.
Shanghai 2 Zhujiajiao, Yu Garden
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