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Everlasting floor is ancient city landmarks

March 9th, 2011Comments off »
DongBaWen interpreted as “millennium generation floor”, naxi language says “wen ancient wheel”, meaning GuanLan make the commanding heights. This is tower five double-hipped roof all timberwork building, high 33 meters, the symbol of the original lijiang naxi nationality autonomous county 33 million people of all ethnic groups. Main pillars 16 root, all is extreme stake in China, is the whole building a column timberwork Romanesque capitals which should pass on the top of the first floor. 22 meters long, reflecting column folk “good things come in pairs, and marriage ShuangRi for auspicious custom of choice. Adopt 16 root, reflecting the naxi dongba general tianzhufeng hieroglyph in nine brothers, split to kaitian the legend of the seven sisters, sustenance naxi children to create the bright future. Behold the finished only by its high precision, whether direct appearance was convinced by China? Whether also in regrets that hidden in solidification melody – architecture in wisdom?
Day of lijiang, quiet and easy, beautiful alone. Although there have been visitors, the ancient city of children still busy with their own lives, could be alone, also can invite you to dance with them. The small Bridges, that piano chess, calligraphy and painting, and the big hospital languid lazy sun – people built town quiet and quaint atmosphere.
Square street is located in GuJie representatives, lijiang ancient city core locations, she is not only a great research center of the ancient city, northwest yunnan area is the fair and commercial center. Square street is a about 4000 square meters of trapezoid little square, five HuaShi spread ground, its streets lined with shops rows. From the four corners of the four main street extended: light righteousness street, directing the street, 51 street, xinhua street, and from the four main splits into many lanes crisscross, cobweb, thus form a square street as the center, the careful step along the street extension and opening-up pattern. Wandering in the square street, the most hook you of eyeball on both side of the street that way dazzling, colourful commodity, diligently seek, always can find to countless touched you small place.
Just think, the ancient streets are so charming, as for that can various ancient bridge? In YuHe river, across 354 Bridges there were famous lock cui bridge, in width, myriad bridge, on the south bridge, saddles bridge, the bridge, were all built in Ming and qing dynasties. For all the bridge in width, is located in the east to 100 meters square street, the Ming dynasty wood’s tusi built the bridge is double orifice arch, arch ring with board rock teams build by laying bricks or stones, more than 10 meters, bridge length of nearly 4 meters wide, bridge deck with traditional five HuaShi slabs, because from river water can see yulong infinite5 peerless reflection, so Blair said it is “enantioselective snow bridge”.
It is greatly small old bridge made plateau dreams town, poetic charms. Do you know how many ancient bridge carrying the story, or moon is coming on LiuShao head, “month about dusk after” caroling, or writes down “birds do not preach clouds letter, clove empty” rain worried “QiChuang, last withered, all people to light that spans disconsolate with spring waters slowly dies, and considerate of these ancient bridge but silently buried deep worry alone. If stroll square street bring you is a surprise, helps column ancient Bridges to you is inexplicable sadness, then everlasting floor will thoroughly succumb to you.

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Beimei preserved ancient traditional culture characteristics

March 3rd, 2011Comments off »
The arduous trip transfer from kunming, finally reached my dream dam beauty. Beautiful beautiful and mysterious dam has deep in my heart took root. The morning sunshine is dazzling also very poison, some companion has no patience, because no see they dream of paradise, see only a small mountain village surrounded by green mountains, I want to come to the people here will have different purposes and vision, so see is also different a scene.
Dusk, the fields of old people and tending carrying gathered the fire, slowly home. So snowfall the aroma from the food everywhere, each casually in the village straggling. In the village children in the square in front of the village, a simple game dozen play the seesaw became them happy paradise; Companion had to wait for the landlord’s dinner eaten, so I grabbed the sunset of sunset for these happy children snapped the feel of the dam beauty.
This is a seemingly isolated from the world of modern civilization, it step-by-step, orderly and division of clarity, position stable relationships. It was a leisurely world, most of the modern civilization achievement, such as planes, cars, electricity, etc. Haven’t affect people to the rhythm of the life, years and age still has with the outside world entirely different scales, people live at ease, they do not have carefree hurriedly hurry; This is one calm world, here’s tied them and, ShunDang and sinless spend your life here
In the dam beauty, castle peak, trees, bamboo, clear water, the village set each other off, In the dam beauty, rice paddies, water wheel, delphiniums, cows and sheep, ducks and geese becomes an interest, In the dam, tunnel sweet beauty ZhuangXiang “organic” lets you enjoy back to reunite long home of taste, In the dam beauty, more play gu bo (grass ball), jump a bamboo pole, swing grinding autumn, hsuan such dense nationality amorous feedings of entertainment call you wander indifferent. The sun had set a day, leaves fall is one year. The whole world is often such things, only in the most remote from the world of mortals blatant, and the most secretive and less people involved in place to hide to cover the world’s big beauty. Ancient and beautiful stockade located on the Banks of exposed to the west of the hillside. Layers of spreading black tiles on the top of the mountain while flax column building, built tall coarse and leafy branches, giant banyan maze of roots naked ground.
Dam beauty, less advent generations to farming is given priority to, vivid embodies zhuang no-till agriculture society male female weave, is unacquainted with dog &chicken, neighbourhood harmonious rural pastoral appeal, they also existing modes of production and life, customs and beliefs and adoration, etc. Are all well preserved ancient traditional cultural characteristics have zhuang. Dam beauty, qifeng newtown.there PingBa quiet, shade, such as cover, a quiet. Ducky dam beauty, like reading a text text but few spectacular refers bestseller, small local scenery, step by step a day. Wander garden, meanwhile, only call time decay, let beautiful and quiet time in veins flowed.
“Lin all water, he gets a mountain. Mountain is small mouth, fang Buddha if there is light. Then shekels, from the mouth into the boat. Extremely narrow, just at the beginning of our; complex line dozens of step, enlightened. Land flat desert, separate houses. Have good farmland beauty peremptory SangZhu genera and broad field of pool. These contacts, is unacquainted with dog &chicken traffic, men and women of dress, sita, such as a stranger; HuangFa ChuiTiao and contented. You need to do is slowly to experience the unique beauty of dam unique beauty, slowly go looking for home in mood and indefatigable wandering bird to Lin of yourself. Suddenly, tao old gentleman that led fetch the historic sentence will once again leap in mind.

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Queenstown, New Zealand to enjoy the stimulation of bungee jumping

January 19th, 2011Comments off »
In 1986, the new zealanders AJHackett invented the first root bungee cord from the Eiffel Tower in Paris and jumping off, and the world began to really focus on up the adventure sports. In 1988, again with friends Henryvan Keith hackett Asch create the world’s first bungee company, and the world’s first profitable bungee diving platforms located in the picturesque Queenstown carvalho labor bridge.
Queenstown, located in New Zealand’s south island is surrounded by southern Alps of a beautiful town. Fifteen thousand years ago, here was glaciers covered with a vast ocean, today it has become holiday leisure tourism paradise.
Actually bungee originated from the south Pacific island vanuatu a rite of passage, hundreds of years to vanuatu man must withstand the test of aloft hanging jump, can be in adulthood, they tied his legs, with a cane from 35 meters above the county ying on jump down, a few inches from the ground when suddenly stops, then the entire villiage men and women, old and young, dancing around him celebrate he successfully passed the test of adulthood.
Yes, that’s the carvalho labor bridge, influenced the world too much eye, 43 metres above sea level, it is not very high, but when you choose from here to dive off the moment, actually has completed a life choices. No need to shout, only need to smile and said to myself: I did.
I don’t believe those iffy its xuan of what a bungee can change your outlook on life, I just with one who experiences identity tell you, that is a very wonderful process, and I can’t use life similar to other experience to describe, I can only say, maybe you will not fall in love with it, but it must make you a lifetime.
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Explore the world’s most strange sculpture

November 11th, 2010Comments off »

Mercury fountain Barcelona Calder

To commemorate the Spanish Civil War, southern Spain by the French captured the city Almaden. Almaden is the world’s largest silver mines of the water.

Toxic liquid mercury from silver and aluminum in the spray tank out of spit to make sculpture move a metal device to form a fountain. Fountain by the American sculptor Alexander – Calder design, served as a dedicated anti-fascist government of the Republic of Spain a gift in 1937 on display at the Paris World’s Fair (which is the opposite of Picasso’s famous painting exhibits, “Gurney Card “). Calder fountain was donated to the Miro Foundation in Barcelona, where the mercury fountain was sealed into the glass box.

Switzerland Ogre Fountain

The legend is different opinions about it, it was a symbol of the Jews that ogre, because the medieval legend of the Jews had a tradition of eating children, but now no one knows its exact meaning.

Although the Ogre fountain looks like a strange modern art, but since 1546 has been, it allows generation after generation of children shudder Berne. Wearing a red and green robes of the Ogre is chewing the baby’s brain, and his backpack were many more waiting for the arrival of the baby doom. Some people think that this statue was a reminder of the Jewish people wary of Bern, as Ogre hat like the Jews of that era were forced to wear the yellow Star of David the same. It is also a god in ancient Greek myth of Cronus, ate their own children to prevent them from usurping the throne. But the most likely is that people want to use the image of the evil witch statue fountain to deter misbehaving children.

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Maldives dreamy underwater restaurant

October 24th, 2010Comments off »

Maldives is a true ocean underwater dining restaurant, a restaurant located in the Hilton Resort, 5 meters below sea level. Outer layer is transparent plexiglass, said that in order to maintain the customer to have a quiet dining environment and the wide field of view, the ocean underwater restaurant allowed a maximum of 14 people dining.

Restaurant for lunch and dinner only, from 11 am to midnight. Customers can enjoy a delicious restaurant, watch the colorful splendor of the marine world. Groups of coral reef fish close to the glass top of wandering the restaurant, where dining atmosphere outstanding. Here is the most expensive meal meals to more than 200 dollars, and the meal simple, the main eating mood.

This unique restaurant called “Ithaa Undersea Restaurant”, the local language means “pearl”, the walls entirely of glass, in the warm Indian Ocean water 5 meters. Underwater restaurant is brightly colored coral reefs encircling, a variety of marine life in coral reefs shuttle. Customers can enjoy a delicious restaurant, watch the colorful splendor of the marine world. When flocks of brightly colored reef fish restaurant close to the transparent walls of travel out of date, customers can not help but send humming.

The restaurant’s designer is a New Zealand company, they used anti-water pressure, a transparent acrylic resin materials produced for the restaurant walls and roof. Restaurant entrance is located at a terminal end of the hut kiosks and the spiral staircase. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake triggered tsunami waves up less than 0.3 meters from the entrance stairs, but did not cause any damage to the restaurant.

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Into the magic Hakka Earth Building

October 20th, 2010Comments off »

Hakka Earthen Round is a model, called the first floor of the world. It came out as the ground of “mushrooms”, as since the days of fall from the sky “flying saucer.”

Earthen strange addition to the role of defense against an enemy, but also shock, fire, theft, and ventilation and lighting is good. The wall thickness, thermal insulation, cool. Earthen flashing the wisdom of their ancestors, earth building grand pattern, it is worth respect. Hakka folk even more intoxicated, the Hakka people from generation to generation, from morning till evening, unity, fraternity, harmony and co-residence of the large family’s unique way of life, honest and simple, good hospitality, hard working folk; traditional culture can be seen, touch, sensible a large number of tourists attracted great interest.

In the mountainous hinterland of Nanjing County, Fujian, a seat rammed earth building decorative typography in a small stream, fields, and the trees set off the foot of the mountain, it is not magnificent, but simple, quiet, thousands of years, towering stand. Cement pit buildings of fine architectural combination of soil, constitute the cultural and natural cleverly into the superb view, giving a strong impact on viewing, it is amazing, is the combination of all the Fujian Earth Building form the most spectacular buildings of soil.

Huaiyuan House is the sixth installment of the national key cultural relics protection units, the building is located in the beautiful scenery and charming Mei Lin Zhenyun Knot area, built in 1909, covers an area of 1130 square meters, construction area of 4520 square meters, floor-based concrete barrier with large pebbles and 3 meters tall building, rammed earth unique formula, Ben Zhu skilled, has a smooth surface without peeling off the external walls. House built an extremely sophisticated and delicate Wufeng Lou building “Sri Lanka is the room”, Indoor couplets Poetry, Diaolianghuadong interpretation of the “One-oriented, plowing the fields at home,” the idea is Taiwanese traditional architecture style and the perfect combination of Chinese Confucian culture outstanding example is the Fujian Earth Building declared “World Heritage” the most beautiful of all bicyclic Earthen round earth buildings.

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