beijing things to do Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/beijing-things-to-do Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:00:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Beijing Guide for Tourist http://travelsfinders.com/beijing-guide-for-tourist.html http://travelsfinders.com/beijing-guide-for-tourist.html#respond Tue, 31 Jan 2017 16:51:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=230450 The Zhaofo Lou Hall is connected by two suspended galleries to the side halls. In the eastern side-hall is a noteworthy bronze Buddha. The gold shield, crown, and pearls with which he was adorned were stolen in 1949. Just a few yards to the west ofthe Lama Monastery is the former Imperial College (open: Tues.-Fri. 8.30am-7.30pm, Sat. and Sun. 8.30am-5.30pm), where the city library is housed today. It was founded in 1287 by Kublai Khan. The college, also attended by foreign students, maintained its educational pre-eminence until the end of the Qing period (1644-1911). The college masters included various Qing

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]]> http://travelsfinders.com/beijing-guide-for-tourist.html/feed 0 Beijing travel guide in Chinese http://travelsfinders.com/beijing-travel-guide-in-chinese.html http://travelsfinders.com/beijing-travel-guide-in-chinese.html#respond Tue, 31 Jan 2017 05:26:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=230302 In China, where there is no differentiation between handicrafts and art in the Western sense, porcelain is something of cultural importance rather than merely a matter of taste. To know a piece of porcelain, its colour, its shape, its sound, to touch the surface, all these experiences are part of the education of a learned man, as the renowned poet Du Fu (see Famous People) testifies in his writings. There are several reasons for this peculiar aesthetic sensitivity. Certainly the Taoist tradition places great emphasis on the mystical relationship between man and nature. Porcelain, a product of earth and fire,

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