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• Chinese Class – Xiantong Temple

  Date: 2009.01.24 | Category: Chinese Mandarin, Chinese Online Class, Chinese School, Chinese language, Learn Chinese Class, Study Chinese, learn Chinese, learn Chinese online, learn Mandarin online, learn mandarin | Response: 0

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  Xiantong Temple

  The Xiantong Temple is located in the north of Taihuai Town, Wutai Mountain, Shanxi Province.

  Wutai Mountain in Shanxi Province is one of the most famous five Buddha locations in China and the largest and oldest one of the five. The Xiantong Temple, originally named Dafulinjiu Temple, was first built in the Yongping reign of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220). It is the ancestor Buddhist
  temple in Wutai Mountain. According the History of Qingliang Mountain, Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534) rebuilt it and expanded it into twelve courtyards, with a garden in the front, so it was also called Garden Temple. It is renamed to the Great Huayan Temple in the reign of
  Wu Zetian in the Tang Dynasty (618-907). The temple was further expanded in the period of the Sui (581-618) and Tang Dynasties, and twelve courtyards were built around the temple with pagodas in the front. It was reconstructed by Emperor Taizu in the early years of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644),
  and was conferred a stele that reads the Great Xiantong Temple by the emperor. It was after the repair in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) that it formed the large scale we see today.

  The temple has an area of 80,000 square meters with more than 400 constructions of different types, most of which were built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are chains of mountains and old cypresses around the temple. Taking up an area of more than 8 hectares, the constructions have a
  compact layout. There are seven halls in the axis, respectively, the Kwan-yin Hall, the Bodhisattva Hall, the Great Buddha Hall, the Wuliang (Amita) Hall, the Qianbo Wenshu Hall, the Copper Hall, and the Sutra Storing Hall. All types of constructions are located on both sides of the axis, such as
  wing-rooms, side halls, stalls, meditation rooms, abbot courtyard houses, and monks’ rooms, altogether more than 300 rooms. The Great Buddha Hall has a double-eave gable and hip roof, with corridors around and inward shrinkage in the corners. The front eaves are decorated with patterns of dragon
  and phoenix, with beautiful shape and skillful engraving.

  The Wuliang Hall is built of bricks, with seven bays in width and four bays in depth. It follows a wood-like style. Amita Buddha is enshrined in the hall. The Huayan Sutra Pagoda preserved here is an invaluable treasure. The pagoda is composed of a white damask silk with 5.7 meters in length and
  1.7 meters in width, resembling a seven-layer pagoda, with circular balustrades, bending studs, dougong (wooden square blocks inserted between the top of a column and a crossbeam) and splendid eaves. The 80-volume Huayan Sutra is written on the white damask silk in regular scripts. Xu Dexing of
  Suzhou City spent 12 years writing the sutra with 600,043 characters in the Kangxi reign.

  The Copper Hall, three bays wide and 5 meters high, has a double-eave gable and hip roof. The body of the hall is proportionally harmonious with skillful cast and bronze gelding. The decorative patterns in the foreheads of the columns and the lattice works between the windows are gilded with
  copper. Ten thousand golden small josses are enshrined in the hall. There are two copper pagodas of 8 meters high cast in the Ming Dynasty, with josses cast on the surfaces. They are delicate and beautiful. The imposing Bell Tower in front of the temple gate is cast in the Tianqi reign of the Ming
  Dynasty, with copper bell weighing 5,000 kilograms hanging inside. The ring of the bell can reach all over the mountain and linger for a long time.

  Because the Xiantong Temple is the largest and oldest temple among the temples in Wutai Mountain, it is also called the Ancestor Temple. Pilgrims usually pay a formal visit to the Xiantong Temple first.

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• Learn Chinese – Site of the Xi’an Incident

  Date: 2009.01.24 | Category: Chinese Mandarin, Chinese Online Class, Chinese School, Chinese language, Learn Chinese Class, Study Chinese, learn Chinese, learn Chinese online, learn Mandarin online, learn mandarin | Response: 0

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  Site of the Xi’an Incident

  The site of the Xi’an Incident is located at No. 69, Jianguo Road, Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province. Xi’an Incident Museum stands on the site.

  In 1936, the Japanese Imperialists continued to expand their invasion to China. Chiang Kai-shek Government took non-resistance policy and continued with the civil war. Even worse, Chiang Kai-shek sent the Northeast Army led by Zhang Xueliang and the 17th Army led by Yang Hucheng, which were both
  then in the front line fighting against the Japanese army, to attack the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army in Shaanxi-Gansu area. With the influence of Nationwide Anti-Japanese United Battlefront initiated by the Communist Party of China and the anti-Japanese atmosphere among the Chinese
  people, the two patriotic generals, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, ceased fire with the Red Army and demanded Chiang Kai-shek to cooperate with the CPC to fight with the Japanese army. In early December of 1936, Chiang Kai-shek went to Xi’an in person to supervise the anti-communist war. On
  December 12, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng went to his dwelling place and launched a mutiny. They detained Chiang Kai-shek and forced him to resist the Japanese invasion. This is the well-known Xi’an Incident, also called Double-12 Incident. The incident shocked China and the whole world. The
  Communist Party of China took a peace-making attitude and handled the incident perfectly in the interest of the Nation. As a result, the incident secured the second cooperation between the Communist Party and the Kuomintang.

  The site of Xi’an Incident, originally the residence of General Zhang Xueliang from September 1935 to December 1936, was built in 1932, covering an area of 11 mu (15 mu = 1 hectare). Three three-storeyed brick-and-wood-structured western-style buildings are lined up from east to west. The building
  in the east was used for dealing with confidential affairs, which was once a temporary residence of the Communist party delegates, Zhou Enlai, Qin Bangxian and Ye Jianying, during the period of the Xi’an Incident. The one in the middle was the office building for lieutenants, with living rooms, a
  conference hall and so on in it. Most of the conferences and negotiations were held in the middle one in the process of peacefully resolving the Xi’an Incident. The one in the east was the living place of Zhang Xueliang. There are other structures like bungalows for security guards and batmen,
  tennis courts and parking lots in this site.

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• Speak Chinese – Tu

  Date: 2009.01.13 | Category: Chinese Mandarin, Chinese Online Class, Chinese School, Chinese language, Learn Chinese Class, Study Chinese, learn Chinese, learn Chinese online, learn Mandarin online, learn mandarin | Response: 0

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  Tu

  Young men of the Tu ethnic minority wear a terai laced with brocade, a small-collared long robe with tilted front, a black or purple waistcoat over the robe, a long embroidered band around the waist, trousers with a big crotch, and leggings with black upper part and white lower part. Old men wear
  a hat decorated with a piece of blue cloth in the shape of a horn, which can be rolled up or put down, a long robe, a black waistcoat over the robe, white trousers and black shoes.

  Women’s clothes are more colorful than men’s. Their usual costume is a short jacket with buttons down the side. The jackets have sleeves made up of cloth in the five colors of the rainbow: red, yellow, green, violet and black. In addition, they tie a long, wide colorful band around the waist,
  sometimes add a black, purple or laced blue waistcoat, and wear a bright red plaited skirt with a white lace. They wear sections of trouser legs below the knees, and embroidered shoes. Old women do not wear jackets with sleeves in five colors, nor colorful embroidered waistbands. For unmarried
  women, the trouser legs below the knees must be red, as the color is an indication of marital status.

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