China Images

China Images

Pictures & Video Links. Updated: 2010.02.03. Link to: www.enjoyingenglish.info

So much to see and so much to do. It’s difficult to know where to start. Chinese traditions, its history, variety, vastness, and breath-taking scenery are unimaginable. Here, we have dipped our toe in the water to bring you some of China’s best, via Picture Galleries and Video Links.

Tour operators will whisk you from Beijing, The Great Wall and Summer Palace, to the Terracotta Army and Shanghai at neck-breaking speed in 9 days or so, that you won’t know what day it is. It’s a good, cost-effective introduction to China, but there is so much more.

On this page we aim to bring you more of what is the real China, and provide links to help you plan future possible travel in this amazing country. AC & WB.

The Summer place: A panorama of the Emperor's summer retreat in winter

The Marble Boat on the grounds of the Summer Palace.	The Seventeen-Arch Bridge	Standing atop the Longevity Hill, the Tower of Buddhist Incense is the highest building in the Summer Palace.	Long Corridor
Hall of Benevolence and Longevity	Tower of lake and mountain views	Bronze Qilin statue inside the Summer Palace.	The Summer Palace in 2003

Hong Kong: from in the east to Central in the west

One of the most densly populated cities in the world; the island and Kowloon skyline from Victoria Peak.

West Lake; Hangzhou - 'the most beautiful place in China'

Sculptures inside Xî Hú	Galloping Tiger Spring	Evening Sunshine over Leifeng Pagoda	A traditional Xî Hú entrance

Xi’an: An Army in Stone

A rank of soldiers. The soldier on the left is missing his head, a result of the fact that the statues were made in pieces and then assembled.	Note how the faces of these two soldiers differ from each other. Each statue was constructed to be unique.	An officer statue (from The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia).	Ranks of terracotta infantrymen.
The warriors were once highly coloured.	The Terracotta Warriors were once exquisitely painted. Today only a handful of statues contain small amounts of paint. Also notice the incredible detail put into the soles of the warrior's shoes (from The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia).	A cavalryman and his mount.	The statues include many of the different military units in the Emperor's army at the time. Here we see a four horse war chariot with mounts (from The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia).

Temples: Yungang Grottoes: Datong - Shanxi Province

The Hanging Temple

Statues inside the temple

Thunder Hall of Hanging temple

Longmen Grottoes:

Louyang - Henan Province

Buddhas & Boddhavistas in the main Grottoe.

Leshan Giant Buddha - Sichuan Province

The Buddha seen from the water	The head of the Buddha	Leshan Buddha seen from ground level	The Giant Buddha seen from above
Giant Buddha seen from stairs	Foot, toes, and toe nails

Magao Caves: Dunhuang - Ganshu Province Over 1,000 years old, 492 Temples, 25km og the religious and cultural crossroad on the Silk Road contain some of the best examples of Buddhist art.

A painting of Xuanzang performing ceremonies for the Buddha

10th century mural from Cave 61, showing Tang Buddhist monasteries of Mount Wutai, Shanxi province

A close-up of the fresco describing Emperor Han Wudi (156 – 87 BC) worshipping two statues of the Buddha, c. 700 AD

A Tang Chinese silk landscape painting depicting a young Sakyamuni cutting his hair

Juizhaiguo: Sichuan Mirror lake and Pearl Waterfall - The Valley of 9 Villages

coming up....mountains

Silk Road on the Sea

You may know the Silk Road, a trade route from west China to the continents of Europe and Africa since China´s Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-220) that got its name from the export of China´s silk. But have you ever heard of a silk road on the sea, which can be dated back even further than the overland one?