1920's film of China: amazing stone sculptures at Ming Tombs near Beijing
This rare black and white video was taken by American tourists traveling in China in the late 1920's. Here they visit the Ming Dynasty tombs NW of Beijing. Amazing footage of the sacred way leading to the tombs, lined with stone animal and guardian figures. Enormous stone camels, elephants, lions, and horses line the way to the tombs of the Emperors.
The Three Stone Kite Store - Beijing China
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Amazing Cave - Stone Flower Cave (Shihua Dong), Beijing, China
Stone Flower Cave, also known as Shihua Cave or Shihuadong Cave, is a national famous scenic spot and geological park.
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The inside is a fairyland on earth. All of the features are made of stone: fantastic stalactites, stalagmites, curtains and, flowers.
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Crocodile injured by tourists with hurled stones at China zoo
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Temple of Heaven BEIJING CHINA |TRAVEL VLOG
Temple of Heaven is an imperial complex of religious buildings situated in the southeastern part of central Beijing. The complex was visited by the Emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties for annual ceremonies of prayer to Heaven for good harvest.
Is another UNESCO World Heritage Site. The place is accessible by subway. East Gate is just beside the subway station. Through ticket worth 28 RMB allows you to enter Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest, Imperial Vault of Heaven and Circular Mound Altar.
I manage to see the Seven Star Stone, North Animal Killing Pavilion and Long Corridor as well.
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1920's Film of China: A young boy and his Pet Bird near Beijing
This rare film is part of a series documenting the travels of American tourists in and around Beijing in the 1920's. Here they are traveling near the old Imperial Summer Palace in the mountains near Beijing and videotape a young Chinese boy with his pet bird next to a stone lion. Some of the videos in this series show famous architectural landmarks, and some focus on the Chinese people or the tourists themselves.
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CHINA: BEIJING: STOLEN TREASURES/ANTIQUITIES
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Foreign plunder and cultural neglect have contributed to the loss of countless national treasures from historical sites and sacred ruins across China.
Now, powerful, rich groups of mainland entrepreneurs are joining forces and pooling their resources to try and retrieve those valuable artefacts which are surfacing on the international art market.
If famous auction houses can't be persuaded to return the works of art stolen from China, wealthy groups are simply paying whatever it costs to bring home these priceless pieces of history.
Tourists pose for pictures and clamber over the ruins at Beijing's Old Summer Palace.
The ancient monument was built during the reign of the Manchu Emperor Qianlong.
Jesuit missionary friends of the Emperor were commissioned in 1747 to design the Rococo palace, and work as architects for the structure's European-style palaces, surrounded by elaborate fountains and baroque statuary.
Europeans became enemies a century later during the Second Opium War.
British and French troops burnt the wooden Chinese pavilions and temples, leaving only marble facades, some broken columns and traces of fountains.
Many ancient historical relics were looted at this time.
Fountains, here rendered in stone and bronze with human forms and heads of animals from the Chinese zodiac- each spouting water for two hours in turn -were removed by enemy soldiers who made off with five of the animal busts.
These ruins are all that's left of the palace itself.
They attract thousands of visitors each year.
So many tourists visit the monument, that efforts are being made to try and limit the number of people allowed to explore the ruins.
China is proud of its cultural heritage, and many feel that historical treasures plundered by foreign armies during the Opium Wars should be returned.
SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin)
I believe the national treasures should be returned to China. They shouldn't be auctioned.
SUPER: Vox Pop, tourist
SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin)
Not only should we take them back, it's most important to stop them from being taken out of China again. This is important.
SUPER: Vox Pop, tourist
Three of those bronze heads - the monkey, ox and tiger - appeared for sale on the international art market last week in Hong Kong when Christie's and Sotheby's placed the items up for auction to the highest bidder.
The sales caused widespread consternation among many Hong Kong and mainland Chinese.
Scores of demonstrators gathered outside Sotheby's Hong Kong auction house as the relics were being auctioned off inside, and police were called to the scene as scuffles broke out.
The protestors said the antiquities belonged to the Chinese people and had been looted by French and British troops in 1860.
Stepping in to defend the mainland's position and rescue her stolen national treasures is the China Poly Group, an industrial conglomerate with interests in arms, property and telecommunications.
Adding art to its list of interests, the China Poly Group with its strong connection to the People's Liberation Army, has embarked on a purchasing spree to buy back what China has lost to thieves.
The group spent over four million U-S dollars in Hong Kong to purchase the three bronze heads which it intends to place in this special Beijing museum filled with looted Chinese bronzes.
The Poly Group's mission is defined by a museum curator.
SOUND BITE: (Mandarin)
If we only rely on government finances and government protection, it's not realistic. It need more private enterprises and people to join this movement to protect our antiquities. This should be the historical trend.
SUPER CAPTION: Mr. Jiang, Assistant Museum Director
SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin)
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200 Paleolithic stone tools found in S China
About 200 stone implements dating back to the early Paleolithic Age were recently unearthed in south China's Guangdong province.
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Beijing 4K - Walk around the Tian’anmen - China 中国北京天安门元宵节行走视频
The Tiananmen or Tian'anmen, or the Gate of Heavenly Peace, is a monumental gate in the centre of Beijing, widely used as a national symbol of China. First built during the Ming dynasty in 1420, Tiananmen was the entrance to the Imperial City, within which the Forbidden City was located. Tiananmen is located to the north of Tiananmen Square, separated from the plaza by Chang'an Avenue.
The building is 66 metres (217 ft) long, 37 metres (121 ft) wide and 32 metres (105 ft) high. Like other official buildings of the empire, the gate has unique imperial roof decorations.
In front of the gate are two lions standing in front of the gate and two more guarding the bridges. In Chinese culture, lions are believed to protect humans from evil spirits.
Two stone columns, called huabiao, each with an animal (hou) on top of it, also stand in front of the gate. Originally, these installations were designed for commoners to address their grievances by writing or sticking up petitions on the columns. However, the examples in front of the Imperial City were purely decorative and instead connoted the majesty of the imperial government.
The western and eastern walls have giant placards; the left one reads Long Live the People's Republic of China, while the right one reads Long Live the Great Unity of the World's Peoples. The right placard used to read Long Live the Central People's Government for the founding ceremony of the PRC, but after the ceremony it was changed to Long Live the Great Unity of the World's Peoples. Both placards were changed to use simplified Chinese instead of traditional Chinese characters in 1964. The phrasing has significant symbolic meaning, as the phrase used for long live, like the Imperial City itself, was traditionally reserved for Emperors of China, but is now available to the common people.
The reviewing stands in the foreground are used on International Workers Day (May Day) and on the National Day (October 1) of the People's Republic of China.
In front of the stands is the Imperial City's moat, still filled with water but now containing decorative illuminated fountains.
In ancient times, the Tiananmen was among the most important gates encountered when entering Beijing's Imperial City along with the Qianmen, the Gate of China. Proceeding further inward, the next gate is the 'Upright Gate', identical in design to the Tian'anmen; behind it is the southern entrance of the Forbidden City itself, known as the Meridian Gate.
Because of the gate's position at the front of the Imperial City, and historical events that have taken place on Tiananmen Square, the gate has great political significance. In 1925, when China was ruled by the Nationalist government, a large portrait of Sun Yat-sen was hung at the gate after his death. In 1945, to celebrate the victory over Japan, Chiang Kai-shek's portrait was hung.
On July 7, 1949, pictures of Zhu De and Mao Zedong were hung to commemorate the Second Sino-Japanese War. Since then, from the founding date of the People's Republic of China, a portrait of Mao has been hung at the square on October 1. Each year the old portrait is replaced before October 1, the anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. However, on certain occasions the picture has been different. For example, on March 9, 1953, a picture of Joseph Stalin was put up due to his death.
In 2011 Alexander Pann Han-tang, chairman of the Asia Pacific Taiwan Federation of Industry and Commerce, and a close friend of Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou, proposed that the picture of Sun Yat-sen be displayed at Tiananmen Square instead for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China.[7] However this proposal was rejected.
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CHINA: STOLEN RELICS RETURNED
(29 May 2000) English/Nat
A long journey home for three looted bronze animal heads ended in Beijing recently, when the relics were put on display for the public.
The antiques were stolen two centuries ago when British and French soldiers plundered Beijing's Old Summer Palace.
But they were purchased back, for several million dollars, by a Chinese company during auctions in Hong Kong.
Now China plans to launch a global search to recover art items held by collectors overseas but which they consider national treasures.
Chinese and foreign reporters gathered at Beijing International Airport last week to witness the return of three relics from the Qing Dynasty, which presided from 1644 until 1911.
The relics were looted from the Old Summer Palace by invading foreign soldiers a hundred and-40 years ago.
The three antiques, considered to be cultural treasures, are bronze heads of a monkey, a tiger and a bull.
They're now back in Beijing thanks to the buying power of the China Poly Group.
This is an industrial conglomerate with interests in arms, property and telecommunications and a strong connection to the People's Liberation Army.
Although these three are now back, another five heads are still missing and believed to be in the hands of foreign collectors.
Originally there were twelve, representing the twelve Chinese astrological zodiac figures and they would have decorated the imperial garden of the Old Summer Palace - destroyed by French and British troops in 1860.
The China Poly Group paid over two million U-S dollars just for the tiger's head and another two million U-S dollars for the monkey and bull heads.
They had to bid for them at auction in Hong Kong.
The recovered relics will be displayed before the public at the Poly Plaza for one month before they are placed in their art museum.
This houses more than a hundred bronze artefacts collected by the Poly Group from overseas collectors in the past few years.
But when the relics went up for auction in Hong Kong earlier this month they almost caused a riot on the steps of the auction house, Sotheby's.
The demonstrators were protesting because they feared that these and other relics would go to collections outside of China.
Although in the end it was a Chinese company that bought the relics protesters were still unhappy the antiques weren't going directly back to the Chinese government.
Even so, representatives from Sotheby's said the auction was legal.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
In offering these items for sale, Sotheby's has fully observed and complied with all local laws and international treaties. We are very pleased that both lots were purchased by mainland Chinese. Carlton Rochell, managing director of China and Southeast Asia says and I quote, 'We recognize and respect the contrasting viewpoints expressed and we are extremely sensitive to cultural property issues.'
SUPER CAPTION: Peter Cheung, Sotheby's Deputy Director China and Southeast
Asia
But many critics haven't been appeased.
They feel the fact the item were taken from China in the first place is bad enough.
That China has had to bid for them at international auction rooms, they feel, adds insult to injury.
The bronze animal heads were taken from the Old Summer House in the 19th century during the Second Opium War.
British and French troops burnt the wooden Chinese pavilions and temples, leaving only marble facades, some broken columns and traces of fountains.
The Fountains were rendered in stone and bronze with human forms and heads of animals - each spouting water for two hours in turn - but they were removed by the enemy soldiers who made off with five of the animal busts.
Nowadays tourists clamber over the ruins and use them as backdrops for photographs.
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Wild elephant makes round trip across Chinese border
A wild elephant on Saturday surprised Chinese border officials when it turned up at their border checkpoint and carefully stepped over roadblocks to enter Laos. Its trip abroad lasted less than 2 hours. The broadcaster cited local border patrol officers as saying elephants often look for food in neighboring areas during the cold winter months.
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Chinese boy discovers nest of 65 million-year-old dinosaur eggs
A science-loving schoolboy has accidentally discovered a nest of fossilised dinosaur eggs while playing outdoors in China. Experts believe the 11 eggs, each about 3.5 inches long, date back some 66 million years to the late Cretaceous period just before the ancient beasts were wiped out. The third-grade pupil said he initially saw a 'strange stone' in the soil, but realised it could be a dinosaur egg after checking the object closely. Experts confirmed his speculation before excavating 10 more eggs nearby.
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