temple

Longmashan

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June 18th 2010
Wednesday June 16th was Dragon Boat Festival. This festival is on the 5th day of the 5th month of the lunar calendar every year. Seeing as I had the day off from work, it was a good opportunity to see more of the area. A few of the teaching assistants at my school and their university friend (who is Japanese) went to Longma Mountain in the morning. The hike up took somewhere around 2 hours. T ... 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