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Chinese Architecture

Chinese Architecture is great and profound with a long-standing history as well as the Chinese culture. From the early square or round shallow hole-houses to today’s modern style, many a wonder was built by generations of Chinese in the past 6000 yeas, which are astonishing with superb techniques, exquisite art designs and unique styles. The magnificent ancient Chinese architecture developed to a distinctive school of its own with unique monomer shape and delicate decorations in every part, while the modern Chinese style is developing rapidly with great diversifications base on the traditional style and national spirit and compatible with kinds of modern styles. Numerous symbolized architectures, either the miraculous Great Wall and grand Forbidden City or the modern Oriental Pearl Tower and Bird’s Nest, are erecting majestically in the country with spectacular image and great artistic value.

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Great Wall of China

Functioning as a huge stone and earthen military engineering, the Great Wall (长城, Chang Cheng) is built in different ages of ancient China for defense against different northern nomadic tribes. Twisting and turning for 8851.8 kilometers like a resting giant dragon, the Great Wall traverses North China from the Tiger Mountain of Liaoning Province in the east to the Jiayu Pass (嘉峪关...

Chinese Kung Fu

Far and wide known as Kungfu (功夫) all over the world, Chinese martial art is also called Wugong (武功) or Wushu (武术) at home by Chinese people. It can be seen as an art of attack and defense in which a series of skills and trick are highly emphasized. Being a characteristic martial culture, Kungfu agglomerates the Confucius...