Blogs from Kaifeng, Henan, China, Asia

So this is not my last Blog enrty but……. I am actually home, back in the US and I still have to tell you all about my visit to Kaifeng, my finals at school (which I passed by the way) and then Shanghai. I will do my best to recount everything but it might take several blog entries to do it. I am so bad at blogging, I commend all those bloggers out there who love doing this. I barely do Facebook, so keeping up with this blog was hard so I am deeply sorry to everyone who was following my adventure to China. Ok now for Kaifeng, this city used to be the capital during the Song dynasty. Let me tell you it was an amazing city. The song dynasty was view as the riches ... read more

Zhengzhou, the city in which I’m staying, has over 8 million people. It’s not a particularly large city by China standards and has a lot of shopping. There are several shopping malls within walking distance, a technology market not far from my apartment, and plenty of clothing and retail stores along the streets. Other than shopping and eating, Zhengzhou doesn’t have much more to offer. I like it because it’s not a town with a lot of foreigners or tourist attractions. It gives me to opportunity to be immersed in the Chinese culture. To get my tourist fix, I have plans to travel to other parts of the country. As you can see, I’ve already been to Beijing. My next trip was to Kaifeng. It’s a small city that isn’t too far from ZZ and I’ve ... read more

KaiFeng, Henan China KaiFeng is a small yet old city in the eastern Henan Province in China. It’s only about an hour and a half from Xuzhou on the fast train. In May, we, along with another friend of ours, decided to take a trip there. Honestly, the only reason we went there was because our friend, Jane, was taking care of the tickets and had done all the research already. So with Jane as our tour guide, we took off hoping for the best, but expecting nothing special. We got to Kaifeng during the day and immediately realized that this town is not accustomed to foreigners. It took a little while, but we came upon our destination. When we went to check in, we were pleasantly surprised to find that the hotel was only 60 ... read more

In Henan, we have four cities called ancient capital cities,they are Luoyang,Zhengzhou.Kaifeng and Anyang. Luoyang is famous for the Longmen caves, Guanlin temple,White horse temple and so on. Zhengzhou is famous for the Shang dynasty,3500 years ago,the king of the Shang dynasty made the capital in Zhengzhou ,so that is why until now ,Zhengzhou has another name "Shang city". Kaifeng is famous as ancient capital for the seven dynasties.Especially,she is famous for the style of the Song dynasty.In Chinese history, Song was divided into two parts,Northern Song and Southern Song.The capital of the Northern Song was Kaifeng.The capital of the South Song was Nan jing.Dongjing was the capital of the Northern song dynasty for 168 years.That is why kaifeng is rich in tourism resources.Anyang is famous for the oracle bone inscription ,the earliest Chinese written ... read more

We made it to take Melinda and her boyfriend to go with us to Kaifeng. The train was sick. It was sooo crowded. I don’t know how but we had to stand about 2 hours before we get to the destination station. It’s the city with the Legendary Judge Bao. The city has more cultural ambience than most developing cities in China. We went around the town then had a lunch at a crowded restaurat. We had to wait a long time to get our seats then shared it with other guests, but for my first time taste of xiao long bao, it was definitely worth it. We went to this tallest pagoda tower. They said it’s the tallest, but I don’t know if the tower was the tallest in the world, in asia, in china, ... read more