Rock Feature

The element of stone (rock) is of great significance to the Chinese people and is one of the key features of a classical Chinese garden. This is despite the fact that its modern equivalent is more likely to be concrete! It represents the body of the earth and is more often in "natural" shapes depicting a miniature mountain or other landform.People love to climb in and around this type of structure, and not only children! Touching stone/rock is considered good luck.

#11 Teaching at Taizhou Teachers College-Two's Company

June 11th 2006
My new colleague Hans (Schneider) has arrived a couple of months early in order to settle in before the start of the new school year in September. We hit it off immediately and have had a number of stimulating conversations about life, the universe and everything. In his first couple of weeks here he has made a big impression on the locals, especially due to his penchant for taking a myriad of pho ... 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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