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• Chinese Class – Niujie Mosque

  Date: 2009.01.31 | Category: Chinese Mandarin, Chinese Online Class, Chinese School, Chinese Tutor, Chinese language, Learn Chinese Class, Study Chinese, learn Chinese, learn Chinese online, learn Mandarin online, learn mandarin | Response: 0

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  Niujie Mosque

  The Niujie Mosque is located on Niujie Street inside Guang’anmen in Beijing. It is the largest and oldest mosque in the city.

  Built in 996 during the Liao Dynasty (916-1125), Niujie Mosque comprises a hall, the Bangge Building, the Wangyue Building and the stele pavilion. The hall’s wall is adorned with Arabic character carvings and various flower patterns. Color drawings on the fascia and the ceiling give the hall its
  unique splendor.

  Shaped like a square pavilion, the Bangge Building, which stands in front of the hall, has a double-eaved gable and hip roof. From the building, a priest reminds churchgoers of the time.

  The Wangyue Building is hexagonal in shape and has a double-eaved, pyramidal roof with decorations rich in Islamic colors. Two stone tablets with Arabic inscriptions and a bronze censer weighing 900 kilograms are kept in the mosque. Such cultural relics date back to the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing
  (1644-1911) Dynasties.

  The Niujie Mosque is the site of the China Islamic Association.

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• Chinese Character – Jichang Garden

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  Jichang Garden

  The Jichang Garden lies in the Xihui Garden on Huishan Street at the east foot of Huishan Mountain in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province.

  Jichang Garden, also known as Qin Garden, was once the site of two monasteries during the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368). In 1506 and 1521 during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), Qin Jin, once the Shangshu of the Department of War (Shangshu was a high official in ancient China), built a garden at the site.
  Later, Qin Yao, Jin’s nephew, inherited the garden. In 1591 Yao resigned from office due to political frustrations and returned home gloomily. To lift his spirits Yao changed the name of the garden to Jichang Garden (to leave the carefree feeling with the garden).

  The present Jichang Garden covers an area of 14.85 mu (1 mu = 1/15 hectare) in a narrow shape stretching from south to north. The garden can be divided into the east and the west. In the east part the main scenery includes the water corridor; in the west, rockeries and forests. The Jinhui Ripple,
  lying in the east, is a narrow pond containing numerous ripples. A square pavilion was built in the pond with a roof of nine ridges and flying eaves. The pond is surround by jagged rockeries. Qixing Bridge and Lang Bridge divide the pond into two smaller ponds in the north. The rockery in the west
  is sculpted to imitate the nine peaks of Huishan Mountain and forms a picture of nine lions. The rockery is 3-5 meters high to match the pond. A gully runs through the rockery where water is channeled from the Huishan Spring. It is said the stream gurgles continuously, whispering the name, Hanging
  Gurgle Gully — a unique landscape in the southern gardens.

  The Jichang Garden belongs to a villa that sits at mountain’s foot, full of natural landscapes. Looking from the garden, one can see Huishan Mountain and Xishan Mountain in the distance. It is a representative southern garden with overlapping rockeries, lakes and pagodas.

  During the 100 years between the 23rd year (1684) of the reign of Emperor Kangxi and the 49th year (1784) of the reign of Emperor Qianlong, the emperors made 12 inspection tours to the area south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. They paid a visit to the garden every time without
  exception, leaving countless poems, articles, tablets and couplets there. Emperor Qianlong even built a similar garden at the eastern foot of Wanshou Mountain at the Summer Palace and named it Huishan Garden (renamed Xiequ Garden in 1811). Two stone tablets with imperial writings by the two
  emperors are kept at the Jichang Garden to this day.

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• Chinese Pinyin – Datun Tusi Manor

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  Datun Tusi Manor

  Datun Tusi Manor is located at the foot of Dahuang Mountain, 80 kilometers northeast of Bijie County, Guizhou Province.

  Built in 1821 during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Datun Tusi Manor was the residence of Tusi Yu Xiangyi (the ruler of the Yi ethnic minority). The present manor has been expanded by later generations.

  Sitting in the east and facing the west, the manor was built with the mountain in mind. The front of the residence is low and flat, while the back gradually inclines. The manor is surrounded by a two-meter-high brick wall along which are six earth blockhouses at eight to 12 meters in height. The
  arrangement of the manor can be divided into three sections: the middle part, with a main hall that is five bays wide, side halls and a center room; the left side has a garden with a living hall behind it with three rooms built in a row. The ancestral hall of the Yu family is located behind the
  living hall. The three-bay-wide hall has a double-eaved gable and hip roof with a pond in the yard. A bridge named Wind Rain Bridge was constructed over the pond with two rectangular parterres on both sides. A kitchen was also set up in the rear with three small flowerbeds on the right side.

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