In this long narrative poem, the author narrates the love tragedy of xuanzong and Yang guifei in the anshi rebellion with concise language, graceful image, narration and lyric combination. Tang xuanzong and Yang guifei were all figures in history. The poet did not stick to history, but by a little shadow of history, according to the legend of the people at that time, the singing of the neighborhood degenerated into a twists and turns, which was very touching. As the stories and characters in the poem are artistic, they represent the complex and true human beings in reality, so they can ripple in the hearts of readers throughout the ages.

The beauty of huaqing pool impresses visitors during the day. In the evening, a large live-action historical drama called “song of everlasting sorrow” was staged here to feast the eyes of tourists. The drama tells a touching love story between xuanzong (618-907) and his favorite concubine Yang yuhuan. Their love story happened in huaqing pond more than a thousand years ago.

The song of everlasting sorrow is set in lishan mountain, jiulong lake, pavilions, palaces, willows and lake water. Advanced sound and light technology and specially designed stage successfully realized the integration of history and reality, nature and culture, earth and wonderland, making the performance more magnificent and true.

Song of everlasting regret is a long narrative poem created by bai juyi (772-846), a famous realistic poet in the tang dynasty. Now, the captivating poem has been adapted into a one-scene, 10-scene historical drama that tells a love story divided into four parts: falling in love, inseparable couples, leaving lovers, and a reunion in wonderland.

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With the goal of attracting global finance, the Shanghai world financial center has a first-class financial center function that can showcase financial talents, cultural and art exhibitions and information from all over the world. It’s more of a hot spot for tourists, with viewing platforms and the park hyatt.

It provides a perfect and extensive view along the huangpu river in Shanghai. The 750 square meter (about 897 square yards) sightseeing hall is also suitable for exhibitions. There are cafes, bars and souvenir shops.

The guardrail at the 97F window provides a place to take photos. The open skylight ceiling is unique in design. Fine, if the weather is fine

This is a corridor 55 meters (60 yards) long. When you walk on the floor made of transparent glass, you can see the top of the Oriental pearl tower just ahead, just like you walk on the roof of jinmao tower. Traffic, pedestrians and even the whole city seemed far away below.

The park hyatt has a great view of the city. The lobby of the hotel is on the 87th floor, with a cocktail bar. Overlooking the city from the 91-story restaurant at 100 century avenue, it attracts all the senses, with a perfect view of the nearby jin MAO tower, the Oriental pearl tower, pudong, and many of Shanghai’s iconic buildings.

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The 88-story Jin Mao tower was completed in 1999. It stands 420.5 meters (about 1,380 feet) tall and covers 2.3 hectares (5.68 acres). The skyscraper’s architect, Adrian d. Smith, skillfully combined elements of traditional Chinese culture with the latest architectural styles of the time, making it one of the best built buildings in China.

The building includes modern offices, a luxury five-star hotel, the grand hyatt Shanghai, exhibition halls, banquet halls, observation decks and entertainment facilities on the following floors: the first and second floors form a spectacular and bright business lobby; Office rooms from 3 to 50 floors; The 51st and 52nd floors are mechanical and electrical facilities centers with limited staff; Floors 53 to 87 are reserved for the grand hyatt hotel, floor 86 is the exclusive club for hotel guests, floor 87 is the hotel restaurant; The 88th floor, the tallest, is the observation deck of the tower, which can hold 1,000 people at a time.

This tower has the best elevator. The two direct lifts travel at 9.1 meters (nearly 30 feet) per second, from the ground floor to the 88th floor in just 45 seconds. There are five or six elevators on every 10 floors, reducing waiting times to 35 seconds even during rush hours.

The tower has a six-story annex containing exhibition halls, meeting rooms, a multipurpose hall, a grand ballroom and an entertainment center.

The tower’s basement is a three-story car park that can hold 800 cars and 2,000 bicycles. The parking lot is equipped with 360-degree surveillance cameras as a security feature of the building.

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A picturesque natural landscape. Daocheng Yading’s most distinctive natural scenery makes it worthy of its nickname — a photographer’s paradise. In addition to the three holy mountains covered with perpetual snow, vast meadows, colorful forests and bright blue lakes create an Eden away from the hustle and bustle and the outside world. In autumn, Daocheng Yading will become a fascinating painting in shades of red, orange and yellow, making this season the most popular.

Visiting Daocheng Yading is a visual feast. Religion and culture. In Daocheng Yading, there are many temples, such as Gongga langjiling temple, Bangpu temple, Xiongdeng temple and so on, which have a long history of hundreds of years. It is also rich in religious sects, most notably the nymphs and the kagyu sects. Most of the temples are located in quiet places, and few people come. You can see old buildings, beautiful Buddha statues and elegant murals. Listening to the chanting of monks helps purify our restless souls. During the festival, local families will worship buddhists and offer butter lamps and other food for prayer.

Daocheng Yading bears an Alpine Climate of monsoon types with a longer winter, shorter summer and great day-night temperature difference. The best time to visit Daocheng Yading is April, May, September and October. From April to May, the flowers of sorts are in their full bloom and the sacred mountains are more splendid and bright. From September to October, Daocheng Yading is a multicolored sea.

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The ancient town of anren has a long history. It was built as early as AD 620. It belongs to Giongzhou, Jiannan province. It is also called the Town of Chinese Museums because it enjoys more than 40 old mansions and more than 30 museums, among which Liu’s Manor, Jianchuan Museum Cluster and mansions in three ancients streets are most famous. Featured architectures involving solemnity, elegance and appropriateness make Anren Ancient Town the Cultural Essence of Architecture in Western Sichuan.

Walk into the ancient town of anren, and witness the antique streets, the houses on both sides of the street are blue bricks and tiles, brick and wood structure, plank pavement, the ancient town of anren presents the former manor old street building Chinese characteristics, during the wei liu mansion, hundreds of huaku, tall and spacious, preserved very perfect. In the garden buildings, the buildings are symmetrical, pavilions, rockery and waterside pavilion, winding corridors, rattan flowers, fragrance, the environment is very quiet. After dozens of steps, to anren middle school a hundred acres of campus, see the classrooms, houses dotted, school buildings row upon row, campus trees, flowers in full bloom, there can accommodate thousands of people auditorium and pavilion ten zhang bell tower, leaving more than half a century old campus of the beautiful shadow, has become a Chengdu university, training thousands of talent! Became one of the highest universities of Dayi.

Main Attractions

Liu’s Manor

Liu’s Manor contains former residence of the big landlord Liu Wencai in south area and his brother Liu Wenhui’s new mansion in north area. Nowadays, Liu’s Manor Museum is Liu Wencai’s former residence while Western Sichuan Folk-custom Museum refers to Liu Wenhui’s mansion.

Liu’s Manor Museum, is mainly made up of Xu Hall, Employers’ Hall, Living Scenes of Liu Wencai, Clay Sculptures of asking rents, and Cultural Treasure Hall where 20 thousand cultural relics and large amounts of literature information are kept. These collections combined with distinctive manor make a great contribution to learning and researching on the economy, culture, Sichuan warlord history and folklore in semi-colonial and semi-feudal China. In other words, Liu’s Manor Museum shows an epitome of old china or a section of the history of China social development.Liu Wenhui’s Mansion, with a size of approximately 50 thousand square meters equivalent to five football fields, is the largest-scale mansion in the plentiful mansions. In fact, Liu Wenhui never lived there because the gorgeous mansion was built just to depict his high status.

Jianchuan Museum Cluster

Covering an area of 500 mu, Jianchuan Museum Cluster (or Jianchuan Museum) is the largest folk museum in China invested by Mr. Fan Jianchuan. There are over 8 million collections here, including 404 Class-One National Treasures. With the theme of “collecting warfare for peace, collecting lesson for future, collecting disaster for stabilization and collecting folk-custom for inheriting”, Jianchuan Museum Cluster is hailed as National 4A Scenic Spot, Patriotism Education Base, National Culture Industry Demonstration Base and Forest Park of Relics and Museum. What’s more, Log Angeles Times even praised it as an example of “the increasing openness about the way recent history is viewed in China”

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Out of the house, whenever the night when walking in the street, my thoughts will fly, but always miss chengdu from time to time. It seems to go to many places, are not back to chengdu, sitting on an ancient bench, eating a bowl of steaming hot noodles, a moment, time solidified in the streets of chengdu, solidified in the steaming hot above.

Those who have been to chengdu or have never been to chengdu; Grown in chengdu, or rushed through chengdu; Hard to deny, chengdu this land, has his unique temperament.

In a hurry, there will be a way home, my way home, destined to be in chengdu.

DAY 1: exploring the ancient capital, chengdu engraved with time

If a thousand years of flowing water in chengdu, the flow of the romantic charm of the literati, the melancholy of the coquettish scholar, the wars in The Three Kingdoms of shu, the homesickness of the wanderer. Chengdu, also like a thousand years of the ancient edge, linked to the ancient and modern thoughts of how many people, just to stop to look at her beautiful smile.

The first day in chengdu, it is better to experience chengdu’s past, from here into chengdu, close to chengdu.

Mottled time, the original | yuan Yang house in old chengdu

The yuyang house in hongwa temple is one of the most fashionable and ancient places in chengdu.

This is the old residential area, looking very shabby, but also very beautiful and real.

DAY 2: dream back to chengdu, the tantalizing night of jinli

The wooden doors are quiet, the lattice Windows are quiet, the tiled houses and carved eaves are quiet. The water is here, the light is here, the moon is here.

The quiet life into the luggage, a person standing alone in front of the jinli, looking around the sky and the side of the green, a long lane from the ancient call, covered tea blowing out of the thick classical charm, colorful drapery in the wind around sway.

Go in, with a suit of ancient jinli, back to the Ming dynasty a period of time, or The Three Kingdoms an inn, coming and going face, eyes through the clouds of the past.

The wall of time, the road of time, dusty alley, ancient shop, moored in chengdu slow light and shadow, winding courtyard, street, water bank, lake, lotus pond, still in a sigh. Here, the fragrance of flowers qin run state of mind, stop, rest, sunshine always follow in the side.

The path twists and turns, the bluestone brick all the way forward, the red lacquer wood door slatted door, exposed a piece of sichuan opera flower face, a clear and refreshing singing, stretched out the long time in jinli.

DAY 3: eastern suburb memory, the intersection of nostalgia and fashion

To give you a reason to come to chengdu,

Endless delicacies, hot pot, string, cold touch, pot chicken…

Endless beautiful scenery, jinli, wide and narrow alley, nine-eyed bridge, wuhou temple…

There is also a place called eastern suburb memory.

Walking in the park, street graffiti can be seen everywhere, and various painting styles are sprinkled on the walls in a way that young people like. Through the rich picture creation, it conveys the once brilliant industrial civilization of the eastern district of chengdu, the life, work, spiritual strength and thoughts of that generation. But also to the world to see its new life and future.

This is the real chengdu, a magical place combining modern and classica

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