Following the 6.2-magnitude earthquake that hit Jishishan county in the Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Northwest China’s Gansu Province, on Monday, the Bingling Temple Grottoes, part of China’s first batch of cultural relic sites and located near the disaster’s epicenter, saw several stones get knocked loose and fall to the ground, according to the site’s official WeChat account on Tuesday.
Following the 6.2-magnitude earthquake that hit Jishishan county in the Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Northwest China s Gansu Province, on Monday, the Bingling Temple Grottoes, part of China s first batch of cultural relic sites located near the disaster s epicenter, saw several stones get knocked loose and fall to the ground, according to the site s official WeChat account on Tuesday.
The Palace Museum is building a 100,000-square meter new exhibition hall in Beijing’s suburbs. This is exciting news for global visitors and especially for enthusiasts of Chinese culture and history, which will be able to enjoy the Palace Museum treasures at a more spacious and modern venue in the near future, observers told the Global Times on Friday.
More historical secrets from the Wudang Mountains, home to a famous complex of Taoist architecture handed down from one dynasty to another, have been uncovered by Chinese archeologists, who have excavated more than 1,000 cultural relics at the site.
China s 900-year-old wood arch bridge known as the Wan an bridge built in the Song Dynasty (960-1127) in Pingnan county, East China s Fujian Province, has been marred by fire on Saturday night.