World Heritage Sites in China

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Dunno why Datong ancient city is not UNESCO world heritage site...in the same province

Datong Grottoes is world heritage site, I will introduce it tomorrow. However, Datong ancient city need to apply for UNESCO world heritage site firstly if the local think it's necessary and capable. Every candidate site has only one chance, if it's lost, it lost forever.

In fact, China still has about 40 sites in list as being candidate sites of World Heritage.

 

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8. Shanxi Yungang Grottoes
The Yungang Grottoes 云冈石窟 are ancient Chinese Buddhist temple grottoes near the city of Datong in the province of Shanxi. They are excellent examples of rock-cut architecture and one of the three most famous ancient Buddhist sculptural sites of China. Construction of the grottoes lasts for more than 1000 years. All together, the site is composed of 252 grottoes with more than 51,000 Buddha statues and statuettes. In 2001, the Yungang Grottoes were made a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

 

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Some more pictures of Yungang grottoes.

 

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9. Shanxi Wutain Mountain

Wutai Mountains is a Buddhist sacred site located in Shanxi,surrounded by a cluster of flat-topped peaks. As host to over 53 sacred monasteries, Mount Wutai is home to many of China's most important monasteries and temples. It was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2009. Wutai is one of the temples enshrine both Han Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism.

One part of Wutain mountain

Moutain top

Tayuan Temple

Longquan temple

 

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10. Hangzhou West Lake

West Lake is a freshwater lake in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province in eastern China. It is divided into five sections by three causeways. There are numerous temples, pagodas, gardens, and artificial islands within the lake.

Leifang Pagoda
West Lake has influenced poets and painters throughout Chinese history for its natural beauty and historic relics, and it has also been among the most important sources of inspiration for Chinese garden designers. It was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2011, described as having "influenced garden design in the rest of China as well as Japan and Korea over the centuries"and reflecting "an idealized fusion between humans and nature".

 

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10. Hangzhou West Lake

West Lake is a freshwater lake in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province in eastern China. It is divided into five sections by three causeways. There are numerous temples, pagodas, gardens, and artificial islands within the lake.

Leifang Pagoda
West Lake has influenced poets and painters throughout Chinese history for its natural beauty and historic relics, and it has also been among the most important sources of inspiration for Chinese garden designers. It was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2011, described as having "influenced garden design in the rest of China as well as Japan and Korea over the centuries"and reflecting "an idealized fusion between humans and nature".

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11. Suzhou Classical Gardens

The Classical Gardens of Suzhou are a group of gardens in Suzhou region, Jiangsu province. Spanning a period of almost one thousand years, from the Northern Song to the late Qing dynasties (11th-19th century), these gardens, most of them built by scholars, standardized many of the key features of classical Chinese garden design with constructed landscapes mimicking natural scenery of rocks, hills and rivers with strategically located pavilions and pagodas.
These landscape gardens flourished in the mid-Ming to early-Qing dynasties, resulting in as much as 200 private gardens. Today, there are 69 preserved gardens in Suzhou.

 

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more pictures...

 

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I love mount Hua shan please share some picture of it,thanks.

 

[AndrewJin]

I love mount Hua shan please share some picture of it,thanks.

I prefer this one

11. Suzhou Classical Gardens

The Classical Gardens of Suzhou are a group of gardens in Suzhou region, Jiangsu province. Spanning a period of almost one thousand years, from the Northern Song to the late Qing dynasties (11th-19th century), these gardens, most of them built by scholars, standardized many of the key features of classical Chinese garden design with constructed landscapes mimicking natural scenery of rocks, hills and rivers with strategically located pavilions and pagodas.
These landscape gardens flourished in the mid-Ming to early-Qing dynasties, resulting in as much as 200 private gardens. Today, there are 69 preserved gardens in Suzhou.

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Suzhou is amazing!

 

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12. Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor

The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor (Qin Shi Huang) ( 秦始皇陵 ) is located in Xi'an, Shaanxi province of China. This mausoleum was constructed over 38 years, from 246 to 208 BCE, and is situated underneath a 76-meter-tall tomb mound shaped like a truncated pyramid.The Mausoleum give the world a direct impression of China 2000 years ago and icebergs of mighty ancient Qin empire.

Because of technology concerns, China have not completely decided to start archaeological excavation of the Mausoleum. So far the Terra-Cotta Army funerary grave has been discovered and digged.

I prefer this one

Suzhou is amazing!

unfortunately all videos you shared here I cant open them.

I love mount Hua shan please share some picture of it,thanks.

Hua Shan has not entered into World Heritage Sites list so far.

 

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13. Fujian Tulou

The Fujian tulou 福建土楼 are Chinese rural dwellings unique to the Hakka in the mountainous areas in southeastern Fujian, China. They were mostly built between the 12th and the 20th centuries.

The layout of Fujian tulou followed the Chinese dwelling tradition of "closed outside, open inside" concept: an enclosure wall with living quarters around the peripheral and a common courtyard at the centre. A small building at the center with open front served as an ancestral hall for ancestry worshipping, festivals, meetings, weddings, funerals and other ceremonial functions. Ground floor plan includes circle, semicircle, oval, square, rectangle, and irregular pentagon.

 

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Beauty of Fujian Tulou

Fujian Tulou is a type of Chinese rural dwellings of the Hakka and Minnan people in the mountainous areas in Fujian Province.

From the 12th century to 19th century, armed bandits plagued southern China and the people of Fujian first built strongholds on top of mountains as a defense. These early strongholds later evolved into Fujian Tulou.

The layout of Fujian Tulou followed the Chinese dwelling tradition of "closed outside, open inside" concept: an enclosure wall with living quarters around the peripheral and a common courtyard at the center. A Tulou is usually a large, enclosed and fortified earth building, most commonly rectangular or circular in configuration, with very thick load-bearing rammed earth walls between three and five stories high and housing up to 100 families.

A total of 46 Fujian Tulou sites have been inscribed in 2008 by UNESCO as World Heritage Site.