Dragons chasing pearls

This beautiful rock is not native to Beijing. The image is that of dragons chasing pearls in the clouds. Due to the stone's size it was a real challenge to move it to its current home... The technique devised was to ice over the roads in the middle of winter It was moved in the winter, by freezing over the roads and pulling it over 30 km! Never mind the icy roads for the rest of the winter...

Beijing Part 1 :::: 北京一部分

October 13th 2009
About halfway into the fall, the Chinese celebrate two holidays - Mid-Autumn Festival and National Week. The first holiday usually marks a long weekend of eating Moon Cakes (a rich date-filled pastry-ish treat-ish) and family time. The latter holiday marks, for the better part of a week, a mass mobilization of most of China when everyone plays tourist while waving small Chinese flags. This year ... 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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