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The gate to the government offices built in the 1920s. The writing on top of the gate reads "Fenghuang County" The ancient town of Fenghuang was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List on March 28, 2008, in the Cultural category. This ancient town was regarded as the most beautiful town in China by New Zealand writer Rewi Alley. It ...
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
Western Hunan, also known as "Western Hunan Region" or "Western Hunan", is a collective name for the entire "western region of Hunan" including Zhangjiajie City, Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture, Huaihua City and the western counties of Shaoyang City (Suining, etc.). This area is surrounded by the two mountains of Wuling and Xuefeng and the Yungui ...
Hunan Martyr's Park (simplified Chinese: 湖南烈士公园; traditional Chinese: 湖南烈士公園; pinyin: Húnán Lièshì Gōngyuán) is an urban park and the largest park in Changsha, Hunan, China. [2] Covering an area of 343.3-acre (138.9 ha), the park was constructed and opened to the public in 1953.
Ancient City of Pingyao: Shanxi: 1997 ii, iii, iv A traditional Han Chinese city from the Ming and Qing dynasties. The city is notable for its ancient city walls, which remain largely intact and encircle the old town, and for being the site of one of the first banks in China.812: Classical Gardens of Suzhou * Jiangsu: 1997, 2000 i, ii, iii, iv, v
Fenghuang Village (Chinese: 凤凰村), also known as Ling Xia (岭下) or Fenghuang Ancient Village (凤凰古村), is a historic urban village in Fuyong, Bao'an, Shenzhen, China. [ 1 ] The village was founded by the descendants Wen Tianxiang , a scholar-general in the Southern Song dynasty in the Yuan dynasty .
In the Xia-Shang-Zhou Period, Changsha came under the jurisdiction of an ancient kingdom, Sanmiao (三苗). The Four-goat Square Zun is exhibited in the National Museum of China . In the Shang dynasty (about 1,600 B.C.-1046 B.C.), Changsha was under the jurisdiction of Yangyue ( 扬越 ), which was a branch of Baiyue tribe ( 百越 ).
A 1.5 km 2 [47] town in the center of Yongnian Marsh, [47] first settled during the Spring and Autumn period [48] and serving as the capital of Dou Jiande's and Liu Heita's short-lived principalities of "Xia" [47] and "Handong" [49] during the late Sui, with city walls initially constructed under the Tang and modern construction mimicking the ...