Yumen Gate

Yu Men Gate

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September 19th 2012
黄河远上白云间，一片孤城万仞山； 羌笛何须怨杨柳，春风不度玉门关。 More than 1300 years ago, a poet wrote this poem to describe the landscape around Yumen. I am not a good translator, meanwhile, you know that the poem is always very difficult to show its feeling in a different language. From the poem, we get the information that the land outside Yumen Gate was ... 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