Out door temple of heaven

View from top of the three-tiered stack of white marble over the other main temple buildings. Each tier has nine concentric rings of flag stones, with nine steps between each tier, and similarly significant and auspicious numbers are build into just about everything you can see.

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August 31st 2007
We've got to Tai'an and are starting to get our heads round mid-term survival here. Everything's pretty good and I'm sure we'll enjoy it all. But just for now I want to rewind and write about what we did while we were still in Beijing. On Friday we saw the Forbidden City, and Chris has been working on a post about this. He fell asleep before he could finish it on the night, though, and hasn' ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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