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Maiji Shan/Mountain rises more than 500 feet into the blue sky.  
   

Maiji Shan/Mountain rises more than 500 feet into the blue sky.

"The Wheat-Stack Mountain", its topography and location attracted Buddhist monks, artisans and artists, who dug out caves, meditated, sculpted and painted over a period of 1,600 years.
#128 Teaching at Taizhou Teachers College, China (Maiji Mountain Caves in Tianshui, Gansu)

December 18th 2010
Tianshui City is the second largest city in Gansu Province of China, and is located about 4 hours S.E. of Lanzhou, the capitol of Gansu, the largest city in Gansu. Tianshui City, a smaller community of some 5 Million inhabitants, is continuing to develop into a more modern city, but still retains much of the flavor of an older Chinese city along the Yellow River. As one of the main settleme ... read more
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Chinese Flag 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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