Ming Cities Wall Ruins Park
Topped with saplings, trees and healthy head of vegetation, the last surviving slice of the Ming Inner City Wall runs along the length of the northern flank of Chongwenmen Dongdajie, attached to a slender and pleasnt strip of park. Levelled in the 1950s to facilitate transport and compromise the legacies of earlier dynasties, the city wall is perhaps Beijing's most conspicuous chunk of lost heritage. A Beijing Travel to this site will make you know much about ancient Beijing.
South of Beijing Train Station, the park runs from the former site of Chongwen Men (one of the nine gates of the inner city wall) to the Southeast Corner Watchtower (opposite). You can walk the park's length, taking in its higgledy-piggledy contours and the interior layers of stone in parts of the wall that have collapsed. The restored sections run for 2km, rising to a height of around 15m and interrupted every 80km with buttresses extending to a maximum depth of 39m. The most interesting sections of wall are those closer to their original and more dilapidated state and some of the bricks have bullet holes. You can find a further section of original, collapsing wall if you follow Jianguomen Nandajie north of the Southeast Corner Watchtower. The dishevelled wall runs to your left as you walk north up Jianguomen Nandajie. Take a left onto Beijingzhan Dongjie where yuou can see the wall come to a halt as it meets the pavement.
Summer Palace
Ancient Jin dynasty, Wanyan Liang lived in Beijing city and Beijing started to be regarded as the Jin Dynasty capital from February 24, 1122–December 15, 1161 CE. Today’s Longevity Hill was named as Gold Mountain because the emperor had a palace was built on the hill. During Qianlong Period, the Mountain was changed name as Longevity Hill in order to celebrate his mother’s 60th birthday in 1752. From then on, people like to name the mountain Longevity Hill until today.
Beside of the Longevity Hill, Kunming Lake is also a good viewpoint in Summer Palace which is located in the side of Longevity Hill. Kunming Lake in Summer Place is a man-made project and plays an important in the royal garden all the way. Summer Palace in China has a hard history and a bad period during the end Qing dynasty. 1860 war in Beijing, the great Summer Palace was buried in the war and a lot of treasure lost from then on. The site of Qingyiyuan is today’s Old Summer Palace only rest ruins. Both Old Summer Palace and Summer Palace are located in Beijing Haidian District; the transportation conditions are very convenient. To read relate books about Summer Palace, people can learn more things about the great royal constructions.
Datong
Datong is located in northern Shanxi Province, it is a few hundred kilometres west by rail from Beijing. Datong is one of the twenty-four famous historical cities in China and it is rich in historical relics and natural beauty. It is one of the popular city for China City tours.
The most majestic spot in Datong must be the Yungang Grottoes situated 16 kilometers to the west of the city center of Datong. It is a collection of shallow caves. There are more than 50,000 carved images and statues of Buddhas and bodhisattvas within these grottoes, ranging from 4 centimeters to 7 meters tall. Most of these icons are around 1000 years old. The other historical sites including the Nine-Dragon Wall, the Huayan Monastery, the Shanhua Temple, the Hanging Temple and so on. Most of the historical sites in this region date to the Tang and Ming dynasties, but the Hanging Temple dates to the Northern Wei dynasty (386-534). They all show the air of majesty and grandeur.
The Mount Hengshan must be the most famous natrual sceneries which located about 60 kilometers to the south east of Datong city. The peculiar wood-structured Hanging Monastery on the cliff at the foot of Mt. Hengshan gives a breath-taking view of Chinese architecture. Yanmenguan Pass within the Hengshan Mountain range is one of the three important passes through the inner line of the Great Wall in Shanxi section. A visit to Hengshan will be an impressive experience!