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This was in a market area in Baoding, when we were on our way to have some clothes made. I personally love the smell of places like this, where they sell herbs and dried stuff.
I actually saw many of these signs in Beijing. People lighting fireworks in inopportune places must be a serious problem. I actually arrived in Baoding at around 9:30 AM and did witness an impromptu fireworks display there.
Ancient Lotus Pond Garden was first built in the early years of the Yuan Dynasty (1277 A.D.). It used to be called Xiang Xue Garden (Fragrant Snow Garden). The main part of the garden is the lake that is covered with blossoming lotus plants during the summer. Some small and exquisite pavilions are built around the lake. Located in Baoding, Hebei province, the Ancient Lotus Pond Garden is one of the oldest classical gardens still in existence in China and ranks among China's top ten historical gardens.
Western Han Dynasty(206 BC – 8 AD)
Unearthed From Mancheng Han Tomb,Mancheng Country,Baoding City ,Hebei Province
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河北保定满城汉墓出土
I never finished posting photos from last fall's trip to China...with friends...two of whom were here last evening, seeing the 500 + photos that I did post. I am going to attempt to finsih posting there photos...there are many...I'll do them in batches, as usual....don't feel you need to comment on them !
Editng will be minimal !
This lot is from a wonderful place that none of us had ever evenheard of...so I will add some info from Wikipedia, as I go along.
from Wikipedia :
" The Dazu Rock Carvings (Chinese: 大足石刻; pinyin: Dàzú Shíkè) are a series of Chinese religious sculptures and carvings, dating back as far as the 7th century AD, depicting and influenced by Buddhist, Confucian and Taoist beliefs.
Listed as a World Heritage Site, the Dazu Rock Carvings are made up of 75 protected sites containing some 50,000 statues, with over 100,000 Chinese characters forming inscriptions and epigraphs. The sites are located in Chongqing Municipality within the steep hillsides throughout Dazu County, located about 60 kilometers west of the urban area of Chongqing. The highlights of the rock grotto are found on Mount Baoding and Mount Beishan.
The carvings were listed as a World Heritage Site in 1999, citing "…their aesthetic quality, their rich diversity of subject matter, both secular and religious, and the light that they shed on everyday life in China during this period. They provide outstanding evidence of the harmonious synthesis of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism."
The earliest carvings were begun in 650 AD during the early Tang Dynasty, but the main period of their creation began in the late 9th century, when Wei Junjing, Prefect of Changzhou, pioneered the carvings on Mount Beishan, and his example was followed after the collapse of the Tang Dynasty by local and gentry, monks and nuns, and ordinary people during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period (907-65). In the 12th century, during the Song Dynasty, a Buddhist monk named Zhao Zhifeng began work on the elaborate sculptures and carvings on Mount Baoding, dedicating 70 years of his life to the project.
Off limits to visitors for many years, the carvings were opened to Chinese travelers in 1961 and foreign visitors in 1980. Until 1975 there was only a muddy path between the town of Dazu and the main cluster of carvings. The isolation helped keep the art unharmed during the massive anti-religious vandalism of the Cultural Revolution. "
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We found this site to live up to its billing as a World Heritage Site....we were all constantly amazed at what we saw.
Portrait of the Buddhist monk and sculptor Zhao Zhifeng who created the great cycle of rock carvings at Baoding Shan, Dazu County, South west China, 1179 - 1249 .
Kind of like the Capitol, except if the people had no involvement in deciding who gets to work there.
Stressed by the lack of inspiration over the past few days, I resorted to the stress balls. They made an interesting subject just before bed.
...that lives in the bottom of my sock and underwear drawer:
Boxes and bags of jewelry, dead watch, pool ball, Baoding balls, mirror, spiral bobby pins, readers, cleaning cloth, small map-covered box, rosary, Moo cards, note cards from my going away party, toothpick umbrella, chap stick.
Baoding balls are really neat, I have a few pairs. My favorite pair have the dragon and the phoenix on them and they chase each other as they roll across your hand.
punishment by dismemberment was intended to be an additional deterrent. Other figures in the display depicted beheading, death by a 1000 cuts, incarceration in a cage and application of heavy yolks.
Taken about 20 miles outside Beijing. This went on for several minutes, so at 300 km/ hour speed, that means miles of ground was covered in smog so thick you couldn't see 10 feet away. My phone said the weather was "mostly sunny".
Baodingshan Cliff Carvings, Mount Baoding (Precious Summit), Chongqing, China, 26 April 2009. Created in 1174-1252 under the supervision of Zhao Zhi-feng, an extensive series of Dazu rock carvings (over 6,000) and cave temples reflect a variety of Buddhist doctrines, Confucian ethical and Taoist theories in the Song Dynasty. The remoteness and inaccessibility of this site meant it was unknown to the outside world until the 1980’s and luckily it escaped the destruction of the Cultural Revolution when so many religious and cultural sites were destroyed.
Repetitively rotating his Baoding balls during the ride on the number 7 MTS bus.
San Diego, USA ~ June 27, 2013.
Located in the Lianchi District of Baoding, formerly the Nanshi District, this is one of the most prestigious historic sites in the city.
From roughly 1730 to 1911, the city of Baoding served Imperial China as the seat of government for the now defunct Zhili Province. It was home to the governor, and his massive retinue of civil servants. Baoding was home to the provincial governor's office, a grand library, and a lovely garden notable for its lotus ponds. These reminders of Zhili Province are preserved and have been open to the public for educational and recreational purposes.
Another of a series of stone carvings at Baoding Shan, Dazu County showing punishments like "knee-chopping" and very simple aggressive manoeuvers such as this.
Virūpākṣa is one of four guardians of the temple of the Mancheng Tombs. One of the Four Heavenly Kings ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Heavenly_Kings )
Mancheng District is located in western central Hebei Province in the eastern foothills of the Taihang Mountains. It is administratively part of the prefecture-level city of Baoding, of which Mancheng is a northwestern suburb.
Mancheng is the site of the Han Dynasty tombs of King/Prince Liu Sheng and his wife Dou Wan.