Mausoleum scenic area

Dr. Sun was born in Guangdong province of China on November 12, 1866, and died in 1925 in Beijing, China. On April 23, 1929, the Chinese government appointed He Yingqin to be in charge of laying Dr. Sun to rest. On May 26, the coffin departed from Beijing, and on May 28, it arrived in Nanjing. On June 1, 1929, Dr. Sun was buried there. Sun, considered to be the "Father of Modern China" both in mainland China and in Taiwan, fought against the imperial Qing government and after the 1911 ... View Detail

Presidential palace

The Presidential Palace in Nanjing, China, housed the Office of the President of the Republic of China before the republic relocated to Taiwan in 1949. It is now a museum, the China Modern History Museum. It is located at 292 Changjiang Road, in the Xuanwu District of Nanjing.The Presidential Palace could be thought of as Nanjings version of the Forbidden City in Beijing with it once being home to emperors and political leaders. The palace was also the base for Dr Sat Yun Sen when he led the ... View Detail

Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall

The Memorial for compatriots killed in the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Forces of Aggression is the Memorial Hall for the people killed in the Nanjing Massacre by the Japanese army in and around the then capital of China, Nanjing, after it fell to the Imperial Japanese Army on December 13, 1937. It is located in the southwestern corner of Nanjing known as Jiangdongmen, near a site where thousands of bodies were buried, called a "pit of ten thousand corpses".The Memorial Hall for ... View Detail

Ming Tomb

Located at the southern foot of Mount Zijin in the eastern suburb of Nanjing, is the burial site of Zhu Yuanzhang (1328-1398, reigned 1368-1398), the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty. It is an architectural masterpiece that represents the paramount craftsmanship of the Ming Dynasty.With an area of 3 square kilometers, the mausoleum is within the boundaries of a national park containing Dr. Sun Yat-sen's mausoleum. The park covers an area of 31 square kilometers. Construction of the tomb ... View Detail

Jiming Temple

The Jiming Temple is a renowned Buddhist temple in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. It is one of the most antique temples in Nanjing.[1] The temple is located near the Xuanwu Lake in central Nanjing. Jiming Temple is located in the northeastern part of Nanjing City. It was built first in the Southern Tang Dynasty and then in the Song Dynasty. The existing Temple was built in the Ming Dynasty. With Xuanwu Lake at the back, Jiming Temple faces the Purple Mountain to the east. Inside the temple are Guanyin ... View Detail

Ming city wall (China Gate)

Ming City Walls in Nanjing was initiated by the first Ming Dynasty emperor-Zhu Yuanzhang to solidify his newly-established capital in Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). The whole project took over 30 years and consists of 4 parts: From the outside first there is Outer City, Inner City, Imperial City and Palace City. For the protection neglect and time erosion, the Outer City, Imperial City and the Palace City (the centre of the four walls) are no long in existence. The City Wall we mean and see today is ... View Detail

Ming Palace Ruins

Ming Palace in Nanjing, present day Jiangsu province, China was the 14th century imperial palace of early Ming Dynasty.Ming Palace is considered the blueprint for Beijing Palace, which consists of the Imperial City and Palace City but commonly referred to as the Imperial Palace. Ming Palace is situated in the southeast of Nanjing City. Originally the palace was Zhu Yuanzhang's imperial palace during the Ming Dynasty , but destroyed during the reign of the Qing Dynasty . Prior to crumbling to ... View Detail

Yangshan timber monument

Yangshan Gravestone, also known as Xiaoling Gravestone, remains in the northwest corner of Tangshan Town(famous for its natural hot spring resort), the eastern suburbs of Nanjing. This spot had been an ancient quarry ever since the pre-Ming dynasty period.In 1405, in order to sing the praises of his father Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor Zhu Di decreeded to collect thousands of artisans nationwide to dig three huge timber monuments in Yangshan hillside. Yangshan Gravestone which was excavated ... View Detail

Practice two ling

After the fall of the Tang dynasty at the end of the 9th century, the area around Nanjing was part of the kingdom of Wu. In 937 Xu Zhigao took control of the area, changed his name to Li Bian and established a dynasty named after the Tang and commonly called the Southern Tang. The empire covered modern day, Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Fujian and Hunan provinces, with its capital at Nanjing. The tomb of Li Bian, who died in 943, and his son Li Jian, who died in 961, are found about ten miles south ... View Detail

Jinghai Temple

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