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#北京 #中國 #China #Beijing | #紫禁城 #ForbiddenCity #May2025 | #ForbiddenCityDairies – #ChineseIntangibleCulturalHeritage Special Exhibition Zoo in the Palace Museum – All Things Harmoniously Born   #文華殿 # Wenhua Hall  ………………..

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On July 19th 2023 , the multilingual website of the Forbidden City Palace Museum- Beijing, China, People’s Republic of China was officially released at the Digital Cultural Tourism Development Forum of the 2023 China Internet Civilization Conference! The website covers five languages: English, French, Russian, Japanese, and Spanish, and will meet the needs of audiences with different languages.

[On April 30, the “ All Things Harmoniously Born “ The Palace Museum’s new exhibition invites you to visit the Zoo in the Forbidden City – Palace Museum ]

—Special Exhibition of Animal-Themed Paintings from the Palace Museum” was launched at the Wenhua Hall Painting and Calligraphy Gallery of the Palace Museum. The exhibition is fully supported by the Hong Kong Jockey Club and exclusively donated by the Public Welfare and Charity Research Institute. This exhibition is the first time that the Palace Museum has concentrated on displaying its rich collection of animal-themed paintings. It carefully selected 63 sets of 117 precious works from the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, covering multiple categories such as birds, livestock, grass insects, and scales. Famous artists gathered, many schools, and diverse techniques. “All things are born in harmony, and all are nurtured to grow.”

This exhibition is not only a response to the artistic pursuit of “observing the world and all things and making life” by painters of all dynasties, but also a profound revelation for the current construction of ecological civilization. Welcome everyone to enter the exhibition hall of the Wenhua Hall Painting and Calligraphy Gallery to appreciate the living creatures of all creatures under the brush and ink of famous artists of all dynasties, and experience the beauty of harmonious coexistence between humans and animals!

#Palace Zoo# From April 30 to June 29 2025 , come to the Forbidden City-  Palace Museum to see the #All Things in Harmony exhibition! Huang Quan’s “Rare Birds Sketches” scroll, Zhao Mengfu’s “Bamboo and Hoopoe” scroll, Lang Shining’s “Wan Jixi” scroll and other heavyweight exhibits are on display in the Wenhua Hall exhibition hall. Let’s appreciate the various styles of brushwork and feel the beauty of harmonious coexistence between humans and animals

Images and visuals are from – Forbidden City –Palace Museum Beijing- China –People’s Republic of China…..

#中國 #中華人民共和國 #China #PeoplesRepublicOfChina |#CCTV #November 2022 |#航拍中國 #航拍中国 #AerialPhotographyOfChina #AerialChina | # 重慶 #Chongqing you never know how magical the mountain city is? “Going to the sky” Chongqing rail transit will also through “residential buildings”

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Currently for the Month of November 2022 CCTV China Central Television has been running a yearlong in the making  Aerial view documentary of views of China with stunning drone videography documentary detail the whole lives of the Numerous Cites of China, People’s Republic of China on multiple layers recording the real face of China presently.

Contents of this issue: Chongqing is located in the southwestern region of my country, with more than 90% of the mountainous area, hence the name “Mountain City”. Our journey starts from the mother city of Chongqing, exploring how the cableway can shape the three-dimensional transportation; we go to the flyovers with different styles and encounter the masterpieces of space utilization masters; finally we follow the train and gently get into a building.

The fourth season of “Aerial Photography China” does not come to Chongqing once! You never know how magical the mountain city is? “Going to the sky” Chongqing rail transit will also drill “residential buildings”

“Aerial Photography of China” (the fourth season) shows the beautiful scenery of the land of China, evokes the nostalgic situation, and embodies the ideological and artistic conception of history and culture. It presents Beijing, Guangxi, Qinghai, Hubei, Hong Kong, Tibet, The natural ecology, cultural landscape, and economic and social development of 11 provincial-level administrative regions including Macao, Liaoning, Taiwan Province, Chongqing, and Henan show the image of China, Chinese culture, Chinese spirit, and Chinese governance in the new era, so that “Aerial Photography of China” The series of documentaries has become the first large-scale series of documentaries in the history of Chinese documentaries to cover the whole country from the air and record the real face of China at present.

本期内容：重庆位于我国西南地区，山地面积超过90%，因而得名“山城”。我们的旅程从重庆母城开始，探寻索道如何塑造立体交通；前往风格迥异的天桥，邂逅空间利用大师的杰作；最后跟随列车一起，轻轻钻进一栋大楼。

《航拍中国》（第四季）展示中华大地的绝美物境，勾起魂牵梦绕的乡愁情境，具现历史文化的思想意境，共呈现北京、广西、青海、湖北、香港、西藏、澳门、辽宁、台湾、重庆、河南等11个省级行政区的自然生态、人文景观、经济社会发展面貌，展现新时代的中国形象、中国文化、中国精神、中国之治，从而使《航拍中国》系列纪录片成为中国纪录片史上首个从空中覆盖全国、记录当下中国真实面貌的大型系列纪录片。

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#中國 #中華人民共和國 #China #PeoplesRepublicOfChina #4KHDR #CitywalkingTour | #RecShanghai #October2022  #November2022 #上海 [4K HDR] Walking 上海复兴路in the former Shanghai French Concession in autumn, Fuxing Road ……

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It’s Late October 2022 1540 Hours Beijing time during this month week of the former Shanghai French Concession in autumn, walking along West Fuxing Road and Middle Fuxing Road West Fuxing Road 复兴西路, Blackstone Music Plus 黑石M+ Sinan Mansions 思南公馆

West Fuxing Road 复兴西路Fuxing West Road (formerly known as Baisaizhong Road Route Gustare de Boissenzon) is an east-west road in Xuhui District, Shanghai, China. West Fuxing Road starts from Middle Huaihai Road (formerly known as Xiafei Road) in the east and ends at Huashan Road (formerly known as Haige Road) in the west. It is an important street in the western section of the former French Concession in Shanghai, China People’s Republic of China ……. Featuring Environmentally Along the road is a high-end residential area. Initially, the municipal planning only allowed the construction of western-style houses on this road section, and stipulated that it was a pure residential area, and no Class A business premises were allowed. Therefore, the entire road section is composed of garden houses and apartments, and the architectural style is Art Deco art. Decorative. The streetscape is highly green, and the road is full of French phoenix trees. The trees are shady and the environment is elegant. It is the favorite living area of ​​Shanghai literati.

Notable Historical buildings along the road

Maggie’s Apartment, No. 24 Fuxing West Road

Huile Jingshe (Weile Apartment), No. 34 Fuxing West Road

Rose Villa, Lane 44, Fuxing West Road

Monastery Apartment , No. 62 Fuxing West Road ( Hunan Sub-district Office )

Shanghai Real Estate Research Institute, Building 3, No. 193 Fuxing West Road

Fuxing West Road 293 Fuxing Xili

The office of the French Concession Road Administration at the junction of Fuxing West Road and Huashan Road

M+ Sinan Mansions 思南公馆 Locatingly Sinan Mansion is the only project in the center of Shanghai, China, aimed at the preservation and protection of garden houses. It has 51 historic garden houses, and at the same time brings together independent garden houses, vertical garden houses, and inner courtyard Various architectural styles such as independent garden houses, row buildings, verandah buildings, new-style lanes, garden lanes, and modern apartments are the concentration of modern residential buildings in Shanghai.

It covers an area of ​​about 50,000 square meters, with a total construction area of ​​nearly 80,000 square meters. There are boutique hotels, serviced apartments, corporate mansions and commercial areas inside. It is a century-old classic building and former residence of celebrities along Huaihai Road. It has become the center of Shanghai. It is the most distinctive scenery integrating humanities, history and fashion.

Located Sinan Mansion is located in the core area of ​​Puxi, Shanghai, with a total area of ​​50,000 square meters. It is adjacent to Fuxing Park, Chongqing South Road in the east, Sinan Road runs through it, Sun Yat-sen’s former residence in the north, and Zhou Mansion, the Shanghai Office of the Communist Party of China is adjacent to it. In addition, Liu Yazi, Mei Lanfang and other celebrities in modern history have lived here successively.

At the same time, Sinan Mansion has its own characteristics with Huaihai Road in the north, Xintiandi in the east, and Tianzifang in the south, providing a variety of leisure methods and different experiences, which more vividly reflects the beauty and harmony of urban life. Huangpi South Road Station of Metro Line 1 and Xintiandi Station of Line 10 are within walking distance….

Rec Shanghai is about his walking, driving, riding running around views of China – People’s Republic of China sharing his immersive experiences in his video hope you could have a pure view about China today, sharing some 4K UHD videos to show pure China daily scenes for you I shoot in Shanghai and other locations in China. Let’s walk around China together… BEST VIEWED ON 2160px60 with the Volume turned on way up for immersiveness immersion…

#中國 #中華人民共和國 #China #PeoplesRepublicOfChina #4KHDR #CitywalkingTour | #RecShanghai #October2022 |#蘇州 [4K HDR] Walking around The Venice of the Orient Seven-mile #Shantang Street, #Suzhou  东方威尼斯 苏州七里山塘到虎丘…

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It’s Early  October 2022 1620 Hours Monday  Beijing time during this month week of the Suzhou Walking through Suzhou exploring the Explore the Venice of the Orient, the water city of Suzhou, Seven-mile Shantang….. In which Suzhou is only a least One Hour away from Shanghai, Hangzhou by High speed Rail.

蘇州 Suzhou, a city west of Shanghai, is known for its canals, bridges and classical gardens. The Humble Administrator’s Garden, dating to 1513, contains zigzag bridges over connected pools and islands. The Lingering Garden features ornate viewing pavilions and the Crown of Clouds Peak, a striking limestone rockery. Tiger Hill is home to the 7-story, leaning Cloud Rock Pagoda at its summit. ……Suzhou, referred to as “Su”, was known as Gusu and Pingjiang in ancient times. It is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province. As of 2021, Suzhou has 5 districts and 4 county-level cities under its jurisdiction, with a total area of ​​8,657.32 square kilometers, a built-up area of ​​477.63 square kilometers, and a resident population of 12.7483 million. In 2021, the city’s GDP will be 2,271.83 billion yuan….  

Suzhou is located in East China, the south-eastern part of Jiangsu Province, and the middle of the Yangtze River Delta. It is located between 119°55′-121°20′ east longitude and 30°47′-32°02′ north latitude. It is an important part of the Yangtze River urban agglomeration. It borders Shanghai in the east; Jiaxing and Huzhou in Zhejiang in the south, Taihu Lake in the west and adjacent to Wuxi, and the north and Nantong face each other across the Yangtze River. The terrain of the city is low and flat, with plains accounting for 54.8% of the total area, about 4 meters above sea level, and hills accounting for 2.7% of the total area. Suzhou has a subtropical monsoon oceanic climate with four distinct seasons and abundant rainfall. It grows rice, wheat, rapeseed, and produces cotton, sericulture, and forest fruit…. Suzhou is one of the first national historical and cultural cities with a history of nearly 2,500 years. It is one of the important birthplaces of Wu culture and has the reputation of “paradise on earth”. The representative of Chinese private gardens – Suzhou classical gardens and the Suzhou section of China’s Grand Canal are listed as world cultural heritage by UNESCO….

山塘街 Shantang Street is located in the northwest of the ancient city of Suzhou , Jiangsu Province, east to Changmen , the “first -class and second-class rich and romantic place” in the red dust, and west to Tiger Hill, “the first scenic spot in Wuzhong”. It is called “Qili Shantang to Tiger Hill”.

In the Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi was appointed as the governor of Suzhou. He dredged the northwest river outside the city of Suzhou and excavated it into the Shantang River. The ancient street built beside the river was called Shantang Street, and there were ancient buildings along the street. Most of the ancient buildings are buildings in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.

In 2010, Shantang Street was awarded the title of “Model Unit of Chinese Cultural Heritage Protection” and was named “Famous Street of Chinese History and Culture

Also known as Seven-mile Shantang is a street in northwestern Gusu District, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. The street connects Changmen in the east with Huqiu in the west, with a total length of about 3,829.6 meters, or a little more than seven li or traditional “Chinese miles… “

Rec Shanghai is about his walking, driving, riding running around views of China – People’s Republic of China sharing his immersive experiences in his video hope you could have a pure view about China today, sharing some 4K UHD videos to show pure China daily scenes for you I shoot in Shanghai and other locations in China. Let’s walk around China together… BEST VIEWED ON 2160px60 with the Volume turned on way up for immersiveness immersion…