中国文化概况-12.ppt

The major landmarks are Potala Palace, Jokhong Monastery, Norbulingka, Barkhor Street and Gandan Monastery. Potala Palace The Potala Palace is located on the Red Hill to the west of old Lhasa. The old Potala Palace was built in the 7th century. At that time, Song Tsan Gam Bo (松赞干布) established Tubo (吐蕃) Kingdom in Tibet and Lhasa was the capital. When the emperor of the Tang Dynasty sent Princess Wencheng (文成公主) to marry him, Song Tsan Gam Bo decided to build “a city to show glory” and started to build the Potala Palace on the Red Hill, but it was destroyed later in a war. The present Potala Palace is 119 meters high with 13 floors. The entire building is made of stone and wood with walls being three meters thick on average. The palace also has a large collection of sculptures, murals, scriptures and other valuable cultural relics. Nanjing Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu Province, is an important central city on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. It is a transportation and telecommunication hub (中心) in east China, and the second largest international trading port after Shanghai in the Yangtze River Delta. Important sights in Nanjing include: the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, Xuanwu Lake, Confucius Temple, Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s Mausoleum, a Ming Tomb, Linggu Monastery and Zijinshan Observatory. Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge Designed by Chinese and constructed with local materials, the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge was opened to traffic in October 1968. It is a double-decked bridge with a four-lane, 4,589-meter-long highway and 6,772-meter-long double railroad tracks. Confucius Temple The Nanjing Confucius Temple, lying in the south of Nanjing, is for consecrating and worshipping Confucius, the great thinker and educator of ancient China. The Confucius Temple was built during the Song Dynasty and expanded in The East Jin Dynasty. In the area surrounding the temple, residential houses, pavilions, teahouses and inns sprawl in picturesque disorder along the Qinh