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“You have no wish to visit any other mountains after viewing the Five Mountains.”*
Photo of Buddhist Temple of the Sea of Wisdom. Summer Palace, Beijing, China
To most of the western world, China has always been a mystery, a teeming mass of people in crowded cities, threatening to expand over its borders impelled by its own growth. In fact, while the Han Chinese are the majority of the population, there are over fifty officially recognized ethnic…
In many ancient cultures and religious traditions, rulers and elite members of society not only had wives, they also had concubines. Concubines normally served a dual purpose – to increase a man’s prestige through his capacity to produce children and, of course, limitless opportunities to indulge in sexual desires.
The Summer Palace in Beijing – first built in 1750, largely destroyed in the war of 1860 and restored on its original foundations in 1886 – is a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design. The natural landscape of hills and open water is combined with artificial features such as pavilions, halls, palaces, temples and bridges to form a harmonious ensemble of outstanding aesthetic value. The five most beautiful wallpapers and photos. more http://dorpenstedennederland.blogspot.nl…
The Forbidden City was the Imperial Palace in the center of Beijing. It consists of more than 90 palaces. Artwork for the game Ten Suns.
