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Wuhouci Temple.  
   

Wuhouci Temple.

Pretty lanterns.
Visiting Wuhouci Temple...is like re-living my "Dynasty Warriors" days.

February 2nd 2011
And if you've ever played the game, you'd know what I'm talking about. "Wuhou might be translated as 'Minister of War', and was the title given to Zhuge Liang, a famous military strategist of the Shu Kingdom (in which Chengdu was the capital) during the Three Kingdoms Period (220-80 AD) immortalised in one of the classics of Chinese literature, The Tale of the Three Kingdoms. Curiously, Zhuge L ... 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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