China’s Backbones
Normally when Chinese mention China’s natural landscape, they often refer to it as “Three Eminent Hills and Five Great Mountains”, they are considered as China’s backbones.
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Mt Huashan, a Daoist Mountain in China
Mt. Hua is formed with rocky hills, so the most Daoist temples are built either on the cliff faces or on the hilltops.
» Read moreMysterious Prehistoric Signs on Rocks in a Mountain in Henan
More than 3,000 mysterious signs discovered in Mt Juci (具茨山), of Henan Province, China, are believed to be carved in the rocks by ancient Chinese more than 5,000 years ago, according to researchers from Geophysics and Planetary Science Institute of China’s Science Academy. But so far no one can decode their meaning. Some experts suggest they might be the earlier […]
» Read moreAn Ancient Chinese Tale of Relativity in Time
A firewood collector watching two immortals paying chess in Mt. Lanke in Zhejiang Province – a coloured ink painting by Ming Dynasty scholar, politician and artist Zhang Yining (张以宁 1301-1370) The legend of Mt. Lanke During Jin Dynasty in the 4th century, a guy went to Mt. Lanke collecting firewoods and saw two men playing chess Weiqi (Go) on a stone. Like […]
» Read moreTwo Ancient Chinese Villages in a Deep Mountain
Four Architects from Beijing It was in the mid-1980s, the day two weeks before Chinese New Year. On a dirt road of a remote mountainous area in the backward Anhui Province, four architects from Beijing were jam-packed in a small trailer box drawn by a motorbike. They got up before dawn and spent hours in a queue at the county’s bus station […]
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