Shaanxi

Dynasty. According to the latter one, the ranking of all regions are as follows: 1 Shandong, north of Jiangsu, north of Anhui, east and east-south of Henan(87), 2 circling the Nanyang City, west of the Henan Province till the north of Shaanxi (15), 3 north of Shaanxi to west of Shanxi.(46) 4 Sichuan, north of Yunnan (Jialing River, Minjiang River, 10), 5 Henan Luoyang surroundings. According to the Northern Territory map, the location of the Si State, Yu State and several other places…

perhaps represents the future Buddha before his renunciation of worldly things and while he is still Prince Siddhartha Gautama or, alternatively, the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara. (Standing Bodhisattva) “Standing Buddha” (EO 2730) is a sculpture from Shaanxi province, Yungang cave. It was made during Northern Wei dynasty (386-534) and is made of Pinkish grey limestone. The Buddha is standing peacefully and his hand gesture is a Abhaya Mudrā, which is one hand raised with palm open, the other…

342 miles long (Waldron). The Great Wall is no doubt the largest manmade creation in the world. According to Waldron, the wall passes 156 countries in ten cities or provinces including Liaoning, Hebei, Tianjin, Beijing, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Gansu and Qinghai. The wall contains 723 beacon towers, 7,062 lookout towers, 3,357 wall platforms and 1,026 other ruins…

a film that roots in the realities of Chinese peasants’ life and recent Chinese history, Huang Tu Di (1984) is a film that revolves around a young soldier from the Eighth Route Army’s propaganda department called GuQing who went to the destitute Shaanxi village to collect folk tunes for adaptation by the Party for propaganda and polemical use. As he lives with his assigned family in the village, Gu learns about the hardships of being a peasant and in particular, the dilemma of a peasant young…

Most of the items underground where taken to three different locations Lintong, Xi’an, and Shaanxi, China. Not even one percent of the tomb has been excavated yet. Some scientist fear that clearing out more statues may damage them. They clay items were divided into 3 pits for the three different locations. Pit one was opened to the public in 1976…

being ruled by a new leader in a new dynasty the specialty of the art changed. The Terracotta Army is a collection of Chinese soldiers that was apart the first Emperor of China. “In March 1974, a group of peasants digging a well in drought-parched Shaanxi province in northwest China unearthed fragments of a clay figure—the first evidence of what would turn out to be one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of modern times.” (Lubow). The Terracotta army consist of nearly 8,000 warriors and…

1. Spiral Jetty was created by Robert Smithson in Great Salt Lake, Utah, 1970 from earthwork. 2. The Spiral Jetty is arranged into a spiral shape along the water of the Great Salt Lake. The emphasis of the earthwork draws the viewer into the center of the shape along the spiral, as this part is larger and more filled. The work is arranged in a unified pattern, especially as the textures and colors are all the same throughout the shape. The core of the spiral, as the largest part of the work, has…

Fig. 14. The viaduct bridge takes large area of cultivated land in Yang Po Village of Qian Yang County 3.6. Village infrastructure is backward, the internal function does not satisfy the modern life With the improvement of people’s living standard, residents who living the gully region of the Loess Plateau own more requirements for their life. However the original cave dwellings cannot meet their requirements due to the backward infrastructure, such as communication, water supply, power supply,…

Chinese Geography/ Topography China has a great variety of climate. The vast land expanses of China include plateaus, plains, basins, foothills, and mountains. Defining rugged plateaus, foothills and mountains as mountainous, they occupy nearly two-thirds of the land. The south has some tropical rainforests covering the land. North-west China is covered in vast desert. China has the Himalayan Mountains. Melted snow from the mountains create water for the Yellow River and the Yangtze River.The…

1) Baby Squirrel —> most curious and bold of the animals In This is the Greatest Place!, Baby Squirrel is the most curious and bold of the little animals. It is Baby Squirrel who initially approaches Uncle Builder in the forest, asking him “Sir, are you a woodcutter?” Baby Squirrel follows Rabbit and his friends around for the remainder of the book. Baby Squirrel is also very good at climbing trees, which he does numerous times throughout the story. In China, squirrels (Sōngshǔ; 松鼠) can be…