China's World Heritage

2021/04/29

At the 39th UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting, China's "Tusi site" was successfully listed in the World Heritage list through deliberation. So far, China has 48 world cultural heritage sites, ranking second in the world in number.

From the 13th century to the early 20th century, the three dynasties of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties of China carried out the "Tusi system" in the southwest minority areas, and the central government appointed the governor as the "Tusi ". The remains of Tusi City and the government buildings were the administrative and living centers of Tusi.

Including Hunan Yongshun Tusi City site, Guizhou Xizhou Hailongtun site, Hubei Tangya Tusi City site and other Tusi heritage. These are the management wisdom of ancient China as a unified multi-ethnic country, which is unique to the multi-ethnic areas in the southwest mountainous area.

Silk Road ," Silk Road "was created in ancient China, the ancient commercial road to Asia, Africa and Europe, is the main channel of economic, political and cultural exchanges between East and West. Its original function was to transport ancient Chinese silk, known as the "Silk Road ".



The Grand Canal, which consists of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the Sui-Tang Canal and the East Zhejiang Canal, is 2700 kilometers long and spans more than ten latitudes. It spans the southeast coast of China and the Great Plain of North China, connecting the Yellow River, Huaihe River, Yangtze River, Qiantang River and Haihe River. It is the first and largest canal in the world.


Yunnan Red River Hani terrace cultural landscape, Hani people created a miracle of farming civilization, according to more than 1300 years of history. The south bank of the Red River Yuanyang, Green Spring, Jinping and other counties terrace scale is huge, only Yuanyang County on the territory of 190000 mu. The abundance of water, the moist air, and the variability of fog make valleys and terraces implicit and vivid.






Xinjiang Tianshan 1760 km long, accounting for 3/4 of the total length of Tianshan, across the entire territory of Xinjiang, across Kashgar, Aksu, Yili, Boltara, Bayinguleng, Changji, Urumqi, Turpan, Hami and other nine prefectures and cities, is a unique symbol of Xinjiang geography.





The Chengjiang fossil area of Yunnan Province, located in the Chengjiang biota near the Tianshan Mountain of Chengjiang Mountain in Yunnan Province, vividly reproduces the spectacular marine life landscape and the original characteristics of living animals 530 million years ago.





Inner Mongolia Yuandu City site, located in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous region Xilingol League Zhenglan Banner government seat 20 km northeast, the north bank of the Lightning River. This prairie capital, which was established by the northern riding nation of our country, is regarded as the product of the perfect combination of the farming culture of the Central Plains and the nomadic culture of the grassland, and is called by historians as the "capital of Pompeii ".




Hangzhou West Lake, located in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province,Hangzhou West Lake Cultural Landscape, adhering to the concept of the unity of nature and man , has become a famous oriental cultural lake in more than ten centuries. Its landscape elements are particularly rich, design techniques are particularly unique, history is particularly long, cultural connotation is particularly profound.




The Danxia landform in China is mainly distributed in Taining, Fujian Province, Xinning, Hunan Province, Renhua, Guangdong Province, so on. It is a unique geomorphological feature and unique red landscape, such as "rose-colored clouds" or "deep red glow ". Its main composition is red sandstone and conglomerate, which reflects the sedimentary environment of continental lake basin under dry and hot climate.






Henan Dengfeng "ends of the earth" ancient buildings. Among them, the Shaolin Temple complex, the Eastern Han Dynasty three que and Zhongyue Temple, Songyue Temple Tower, Huishan Temple, Songyang Academy, Xingtai Temple, a total of 8, a total of 11, after the Han, Wei, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, is the largest span in Chinese history, the most types of buildings, the most rich cultural connotations of the ancient buildings.



Shanxi Wutai Mountain and Zhejiang Putuo Mountain, Anhui Jiuhua Mountain, Sichuan Emei Mountain and other five mountain names echo, known as the four famous mountains of Chinese Buddhism. Known as "Golden Wutai, Silver Meimei, Copper Putuo, Iron Jiuhua ", and Nepal's Lumbini Garden, India Deer Wild Garden, Bodhi Gaye, the body of Naga and the world's five Buddhist holy places.





Jiangxi Sanqing Mountain, Sanqing Mountain with its unique granite stone columns and peaks, rich granite modeling stone and a variety of vegetation, far and near changes in the landscape and shocking climate wonders combined to create a unique aesthetic effect of the world landscape.




Fujian Tulou, as a pearl in the oriental civilization, has a long history, various kinds, large scale, exquisite structure, complete function and rich connotation. It is called "Oriental Castle "," World Architectural Wonder "," World Mountain and Mountain Architecture example ".





Guangdong Kaiping Diaolou and ancient village, located in the southwest of the Pearl River Delta, Kaiping Diaolou peak period has more than 3000, the existing 1833, its number, architectural ingenuity, style diversity, in the domestic and even international local architecture is rare.





Karst, a karst landform in southern China, refers to the geomorphology developed on carbonate rocks dominated by limestone and dolomite. China Karst, composed of Shilin, Guizhou Libo and Wulong, Chongqing, has a large area, various landforms, representative and rich biological ecology.






Henan Anyang Yin ruins, Yin ruins is the late Shang Dynasty capital ruins, is listed as one of the "100 archaeological discoveries "in China in the 20th century.



Sichuan giant panda, the habitat of Sichuan giant panda is the largest and most complete panda habitat in the world, and it is also the most abundant plant area in all temperate regions of the world except tropical rain forest. 

                                                                     


Macao historical city is in China, Macao historical city is the oldest, largest, the most complete preservation, the most concentrated preservation of the East and West style of the coexistence of buildings.






Yunnan's "three rivers parallel flow" and "three rivers parallel flow" is a rare natural geographical landscape in the world. Because of its unique geological structure, Eurasian Mainland is the most abundant biodiversity and beautiful and magical natural landscape, and is the only unique world wonder in the region.





If you want to learn more about and visit these China's World Heritage sites. Then you must learn Chinese well in order to travel in China.


Edited by Baoyang from Shanghai Beihaimandarin










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