Blogs from Henan, China, Asia - page 17

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

MAY 29th,i got one call from my teacher .She wanted me to go back to the college to teach english .Seriously ,i did not know how to teach ,i was a little upset. There were more than ten girls in the class,when i saw them ,i was thinking about my past.It was a little hard ,but it was life . In 2005,i was thinking to be a tour guide.But in my college. there is no history for the english tour guide.i did not want to be the number one,just wanted to do it. So i entered for the examination.But i did not expect that it was so hard .There were so many new words ,i needed to pick up all the new words .Then i had to write guide words by myself. i was tired ... read more

The famous Shaolin temple, located in the Henan province, one of the most populous provinces in China, there is a Chinese saying: "all the style of the Kong Fu had the origin from Shaolin", in fact the Shaolin Kong Fu is very famous, the Shaolin temple always had the image from my mind, a peaceful place, the monks training, old buildings, but it is not like that now, the Shaolin temple is extremely commercial now, it is like a big entertainment park, the place I could find the feeling of old Shaolin is the "the forest of the pagodas", there is the to keep the elevated monks after the death. The Longmen cave, it is one of three main stone cave in China, these caves have the sculptures and paintings about the Buddhism, it is quite ... read more

Well we made it.... We missed the Ferry from Victoria BC Canada to Vancouver due to weather and high winds so we caught a taxi to the Victoria airport with a nice lady named Tara that was on her way to Las Vegas. We ended up paying about $270 CAD for two tickets to Vancouver where we connected to our Hong Kong flight. We were luck enough to get four seats in a row so (we) could get some sleep. Sindy managed to get about 5 hours and I got about 15 minutes... Don't think I will ever want to watch 6 movies back to back again! We had no problem getting from the airport to our hotel via the airport train and then taxi from Kowloon station. Well we then arrived at our (hotel/hostel/prison)...not the ... read more

Meine 11tägiger China-Round-Trip ist beendet und morgen gehts zurueck nach Muenchen. Hier schonmal der Bericht ueber die ersten 3 der 11 Tage. Die weiteren liefer ich dann am nächsten WE nach, weil ich in München erstmal kein Internet hab. In der Woche vom Vatertag hiess es erstmal Abschied nehmen: Ein Abschiedsessen mit den Deutschen, die ich hier kennen gelernt hab, ein zweites mit den 3 chinesischen Studenten, mit denen ich hier viel gemacht hab und ein drittes natürlich noch mit meiner Abteilung und meinem Chef (der uebrigens arrangiert hat, dass unsere Merkels Angy am 28 August hier nach Nanjing kommt). Hatte nicht gedacht, dass ich in der kurzen Zeit so fest Fuss fasse, so dass mir der Abschied wirklich schwer fiel. Erfreulicher war dann der Vatertag, an dem meine Rundreise startete. Mit Seb, Uwe und ... read more