Part fourteen in a fifteen-part series “You have never been to China until you’ve climbed the Great Wall,” Chairman Mao once declared. By that definition, the twelve days we’ve spent in the country thus far don’t qualify. I can see Mao’s point, though: it would not feel like a trip to China unless we visited…
/PRNewswire/ Strolling through the history of the Great Wall, we are now writing a new chapter of culture. The "Mountain and the Moon at the Juyong Pass" in.
Recently, inheritors of intangible cultural heritage from Anji county in Zhejiang province lit rows of bamboo lamps along a section of the Great Wall in Beijing, lighting up its gate towers, parapets and beacon towers.
The Ming Culture Festival, a public festival that recreates cultural scenes from China s ancient Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), kicked off recently at the Great Wall s Juyong Pass, which is located in Beijing s Changping district.
57-year-old Yuan Jianqin has spent most of her time on excursions along since her retirement, and making records of, the Datong section of the Great Wall.