Category Archives: China World Heritage Tours

Terracotta Warriors travel tips

December 1987, Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum and the Terracotta Warriors were included in the “World Heritage List.”

Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, 35 kilometers east of the territory of Lintong District, Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum is a multi-ethnic history of the centralized state of the Emperor Qin Shi Huang in 246 BC to 208 BC in construction, and also the history of China The first emperor mausoleum. Its huge size, the rich funerary objects emperors tomb of the first home, is the largest imperial mausoleum. According to historical records, Emperor Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum to create this collection of 700 thousand craftsmen, construction time of up to 38 years.

Ling Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum mausoleum area and distinguish between the two parts from the burial area. Cemetery covers an area of nearly 8 square kilometers, the construction, the inner city double, four cone-shaped mound was. Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum mound of the original height of about 115 m, Tomb of the base near the square, shaped like a covered bucket. Top of the flat, stepped back slightly. The existing high 76 meters, 345 meters from east to west, 350 meters from north to south, covering 120,750 square meters and a large number of ground tombs and funerary objects architectural monuments.

Center is placed underground palace mausoleum where Emperor coffin, burial tomb is surrounded by Horses and more than 400 wide and 56.25 square kilometers. Burial pit copper main compensation vehicle, Ma Hang, rare birds and animals pits, barn pits and the terracotta warriors toursand horses pits, etc., over the years has been more than 50,000 pieces of important historical relics unearthed. Excavated in 1980 by a group of two large painted bronze chariots – high vehicles and security vehicles, body found in China is by far the largest and most decorative, structural and systems driving the most realistic and most complete ancient bronze chariots, known as the “Bronze the highest.”

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Great wall travel tips

Great Wall in December 1987 under the “World Heritage List.”

Great Wall of China is the greatest in the history of human civilization construction, which was founded in 2000 years ago, the Spring and Autumn Period, the Qin Dynasty unified China, linked up after the Great Wall. Han and Ming dynasties was once a large-scale construction. The voluminous works, the momentum of the majestic, called wonders of the world. The passage of time, people have changed, and now when you board the former site of the Great Wall, not only witnessed the winding mountain peaks in the majestic Great Wall, among, but also appreciate the quick response to the Chinese nation has created history.

Great Wall in northern China, east Shanhaiguan, west to Jiayuguan, total length of about 6,700 km, known as the Great Wall.

Great Wall’s construction lasted two thousand years, according to China historical sites tourrecords, from the BC VII Jichu Guo building “party city” since the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) a total of more than 20 countries and the feudal vassal dynasty built the Great Wall, which Qin , Han and Ming dynasties, three more than the length of the Great Wall 5 1000 km. If the construction of the Great Wall all the times added together, the total length of more than 50,000 km; if the earth to build the wall brick building a 1 m thick, 5-meter-high walls, the wall can circle around the Earth more than a week.

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