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China
China - Oriental Dragon
China is located in eastern Asia, and is known as The People's
Republic of China. China covers an area of about 9.6 million square
kilometers. With a population of 1.295 billion, it is the world's
most populous nation. China has Han, Zhuang, Manchu, Hui, Miao,
Uygur, Mongolian, Tibetan and 56 other ethnic groups, of which 92%
of the total population is Han. The language spoken is Universal
Chinese, the currency is RMB, and the capital city is Beijing (BeiJing).
History
China is one of the world's ancient civilizations, with a documented
history of 4000 years from the establishment of the Xia Dynasty in
the 21st century BC. China's history continues to the late Western
Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn for the slave, and proceeds
to the Warring States period after the Qin, Han, Han, Three
Kingdoms, Western Jin Dynasty, Eastern, Northern and Southern
Dynasties, Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties, Song, Liao, Jin, Yuan,
Ming, and the Qing dynasty as a feudal society. After the Opium War
in 1840, China was gradually reduced to a semifeudal and
semicolonial society. The 1911 Revolution overthrew the feudal
monarchy, And the Republic of China was established in 1912. The
Communist Party of China was born in 1921. Under the leadership of
the Communist Party of China, the Chinese people experienced Civil
War and the liberation war, and, on October 1, 1949, established the
People's Republic.
National Flag
The Chinese national flag is red and rectangular, with a yellow
five-pointed star decorating the top left and four small stars around
the big star on the right side. The five stars and their
relationship symbolize the revolution under the leadership of the
Chinese Communist Party and the unity of the people. The color red
symbolizes the revolution.
Terracotta Warriors
The Terracotta Army was buried with Emperor Qin Shi Huang in his
Mausoleum. Archeologists unearthed life-like, life-size terracotta
figures. Emperor Qin, who established China's first unified,
centralized feudal state, was buried 37 kilometers east of Xi'an in
the northern foot of Lishan Mountain, a hilly area of 50 square
kilometers. As many as a thousand real-size Terracotta Warriors and
Horses were excavated from three pits. The Terracotta Warriors stood
in the ground, representing the rigorous and powerful military might
of the Qin Empire. The Army is known as "the eighth wonder of the
world."
Cloisonne
In Ming Jingtai, Chinese craftsmen have found a dark blue glaze
material. Because of the glaze over enamel is cloisonne blue, it is
named "cloisonne." The original antique bronze vessels are mostly
cloisonne. The Xuande years, especially, produced the most
exquisite.
Cloisonne involves, first, a copper production system using a tire,
and then a thin flat tire on copper wire marks out the design
patterns. TNext, the pattern is filled with an enamel glaze mosaic
of different colors. This process is repeated until the completion
of sintering, and then the artifact is polished and gold-plated. It
can be said that the cloisonne technique using both the bronze
process and porcelain technology introduced at the same time a large
variety of traditional painting and sculpture techniques, which
comprise traditional Chinesecraft.
Giant Panda
Giant pandas are endangered animals of gentle and naïve temperament,
whose staple food is bamboo. Pandas are distributed in China,
Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu in certain areas of the mountain
forests. After a long history of development, for giant pandas to
survive to this day reflects its tenacious vitality; however,
because of their highly specialized feeding habits and reproductive,
child-rearing behavior, habitat destruction, coupled with the
cyclical flowering and death of their bamboo staplehas been a threat
to the survival of great pandas, resulting in declining numbers of
giant pandas.
China has a fully modern industrial system Throughout the country,
including industries such as iron, steel, chemicals, machinery,
textiles, automobiles, electric power distribution, and others. From
the rapid development of the electronics industry, a new industrial
base in electronic has emerged. China's light industry has a long
history, including food, textiles, household chemicals, and other
categories, each with their own technical advantages. The household
electrical appliance industry in South and East China is most
developed. Light industry takes place in small and medium
enterprises, with nine town enterprises accounting for a large
proportion.
China is a large agricultural country; rural population accounts
for 70% of the total population. The main food crops include rice,
wheat, corn, sorghum, millet, and potatoes. Wheat is mainly
cultivated in the northern provinces, while rice is mainly
cultivated in the southern provinces. Cash crops are cotton, hemp,
sugar, and oil. Of sugar crops, sugar cane is produced in the South,
while the North produces sugar beet; oil crops are rape, which is
widely spread, with yield highest in the South, while peanuts and
sesame seeds are produced in the North, the most concentrated in the
North China Plain. China produces a variety of woods and has a very
rich variety of agricultural products, including tung oil, lacquer,
silk, wax, bamboo, and Chinese herbal medicines that are renowned on
the international market. In livestock-keeping, sheep, cattle,
horses, and other herbivores dominate. The middle and lower reaches
of the Yangtze River water network are the most densely populated
areas, producing fish, including green, grass, silver carp, and
bighead carp to name the famous four freshwater fish, as well as
crucian carp, perch, bream and other valuable fish species. Coastal
fishing grounds are rich in a variety of fish, large and small,
octopus, and squid to name the four major sources of seafood, as
well as shrimp, lobster, sea cucumber, scallop and other valuable
marine products.
There are relatively rich mineral resources in China, as more
than 140 kinds of mineral resources in China have been found to be
helpful, ranking first of 57 proven reserves. At present, coal,
iron, copper, aluminum, pigeons, antimony, molybdenum, tin,
manganese, lead, zinc, mercury and other major mineral reserves are
largest in the world, with oil, oil shale, phosphorus, sulfur and
other minerals also abundant. China's water resources are first in
the world.
China has a long history og highly skilled handicraft. In the
treasure house of Chinese culture, arts and crafts is one of the
gems. Famous arts and crafts include jade carving, ivory carving,
stone carving, wood carving, horn carving, clay sculpture,
embroidery, brocade, lace, carpets, Beijing Cloisonne, northeastern
shell picture carving, feather painting, bamboo, Jingdezhen
porcelain, Yixing pottery, woodblock paintings, silk jewelry,
glassware, Jiuquan Remanbar, Guangxi Zhuang Jin, and Guizhou batik.
The four great Ancient Chinese inventions of paper, printing, the
compass, and gunpowder greatly promoted the development of world
civilization. Chinese medicine is an ancient treasure, with a
complete theoretical system and unique means of treatment. Ancient
Chinese medical writings include those of the famous Chinese writer
Sun Si of the Tang dynasty, the "Prescriptions," and Ming Li Shi
Zhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica." The traditional Chinese art
of calligraphy is also one of its unique charms of the
world-renowned art of ancient China, including famous calligraphers
Wang Xizhi, Yen Chen, and Liu public right.
Golden Monkey
Also known as the snub-nosed monkey, it is distributed in Sichuan,
Shaanxi and other forests in the mountains. With dense and thick
golden hair, length up to more than 20 cm, blue, honest and kind
face, the golden monkey also gave birth to a pair of overturned
Alice's noses and is very likable. Golden monkey mainly eats leaves,
berries, and tender shoots for food. In recent years, China has set
up protected areas for the monkey in Sichuan, Guizhou, Hubei, and
Shaanxi.
Wonderland world - Jiuzhaigou
Legend has it that a long, long time ago, there was a very
courageous God Dago, who ground into the side of the wind and clouds
Hokyo, and gave it to his favorite goddess Wu-Nase, who was an ugly
woman. However, then the devil spread jealousy to make trouble. The
Goddess accidentally broke Hokyo, and its debris scattered in the
world into 114 crystal Zi. Therefore, in Aba Tibetan Autonomous
Prefecture in Sichuan Province, Nanping County, there is a "dream.”
The soul of Jiuzhaigou is water, lakes, springs, waterfalls,
streams, beaches formed in every corner in Jiuzhaigou, and the local
name of these waters is "Hai Zi." Since the bottom sediments have
different plant species, different Hai Zi have a different color.
People are colorful, the haunts of men. Around each Haizi, also, are
a variety of rare trees, flowers, and herbs.
Geography
The topography from west to east can be divided into three steps.
The first step is the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, with an average
elevation of 4000 meters above the plateau on the blossoming
mountain lakes. The second step is beyond the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
to the northeast, down to sea level from a 2000 to 1000 m altitude
basin. The third step is the Mountains, Taihang, Wushan and the
eastern edge of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, with a general elevation
of 500 meters. Hills and plains cross the distribution, while the
coastal plain is at an altitude of 50 meters more than most of the
terrain east and southeast along the river, into the Pacific Ocean.
Guilin
Guilin, a beautiful cave, has been said to be the “best in the
world." Du Xiufeng Gufeng enjoyed the towering "Southern pillar,"
the east cliff of "a purple robe with a golden girdle," a "medium
natural independence" stone. Bordering on it, with panoramic view of
Guilin landscape, ancient poets wrote "Jiangzuo Qing Luo belt,
mountain, such as Jade Hairpin" to describe the beautiful sight.
Guilin is the formation of special local geological conditions, the
dissolution of limestone by water, forming ground floor sculpture of
strange mountains and vast caves.
Huangshan
The Yellow Emperor was said to locate himself in Huganshan City in
self-cultivation for alchemy. With a radius of 250 km, the main
attractions are two lakes, Santan, 24 rivers, 72 peaks, of which
include the Heavenly Capital Peak, Lotus Peak, and, the most famous,
Guangming Ding. Lotus Peak is towering steep, and closely resembles
the initial lotus, its back in full bloom. Jiulong Pu is Huangshan's
most spectacular waterfall, with a green wall hung a thousand yards
above rushing down, especially after heavy rainfalls, when it looks
as if nine White Dragons are in the sky: magnificent. Famous
geographer and traveler Xu of the Ming dynasty traveled the world's
mountains, and lamented: "The Five Sacred Mountains fell down the
mountain, Huangshan Guilaibukan Yue."
Embroidery
Also known as silk embroidery, it is one of the outstanding
traditional handicrafts. The four famous types are Suzhou
embroidery, Yue embroidery, embroidery, and Shu embroidery.
The embroidery needle is introduced into the color line,
according to pre-designed patterns and colors, in silk, cotton and
other fabrics constituting a pattern.
World-famous Suzhou embroidery is known for its fine work, lively
needle, beautiful design, and elegant color . Raw materials of fine
embroidered arts and crafts include hard satin, woven satin,
transparent glass yarn and nylon. Guangdong embroidered with gold
thread over a contour pattern, characterized by diversity in lines,
bright colors, and full of decorative patterns Embroidery is mostly
a male office. Shu embroidery invovles the use of satin and colored
silk,
the main raw material. Clothes lines are full of Kam embroidery,
embroidery lines, double-sided embroidery, and halo-pin, yarn
needle, needle point and other techniques.
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