Beijing (Peking) Opera

Winging our Way Back to Beijing – Tian'anmen Square, Forbidden City and the Beijing Opera

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November 17th 2014
Winging our Way Back to Beijing – Tian'anmen Square, Forbidden City and the Beijing Opera We left our super nice hotel in Wuhan in the dark for our early flight to Beijing. Just as the sun was coming up we passed by hundreds of acres of ponds along the highway where farmers were growing lotus flowers. The flowers and the roots are used in cooking. Cope really got into eating lotus r ... 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