For the last few days, Beijing is very warm and sunny. Today I have an afternoon stroll through the alleys in the south of the historic area of Beijing. My itinerary goes as: Baoguosi Temple (a flea market), and Dashilan Area.
On Jan. 23rd, I got a chance to visit the Great Wall at Mutianyu section, and in the afternoon, I was in the Forbidden City again. That was a very nice day, not windy at all, and the sky was blue, the snow was still there.
About 2 hours ago, Apple just released their first so called IPAD, it is about 9-inch tablet, starting price at $499, 16G, for 3G products charge another $130 more, the new toy will be in the market in 60 days…
I am sure, there will be another rush for this.
For more detail, check the engadget site here, or just go to Apple’s site here.
Chinese character are very independent from each other, most of them have specific meaning, if we check the ancient dictionary, we had more than 10,000 characters, but most of them just stay in the dictionary, they were dead!
Today we use just about 3000 characters for most of the daily use, it is also pretty good enough for most of the academic works, but how to express ourselves properly in sense of modern life, how to say, for example, “internet” in characters? instead of creating new characters, modern Chinese is prone to put characters together mostly for new meanings, and by this way, every year some new words come out.
Today let’s see two Chinese characters.
This is my second time to the park, this time I took some more photos with snow. I walked through the park from west to east, as it was a very cold day, this way kept me a little more warmer with the strong wind went from my back. The park is free as a public park, but to climb up the wall, you will need to go to the ticket office at the east end, it is in the arcade way, the arcade was the passage way for the old railway which connected Beijing and Shenyang in the north-east of Beijing.
Click here for more my last visit to this place. The place is very close to the subway station at the Chongwenmen.
1-The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Beijing (宣武门天主堂), also known as Nantang (南堂, the South Cathedral), is an historic Roman Catholic Church located in Beijing. It was built by Italian missionary Matteo Ricci in the early 17th century, as the oldest Catholic church in Beijing, it was damaged many times by earthquakes and fires, the present Baroque style dates from 1904.
At the southern end of the Ming Tombs area is a large memorial archway called Pailou. Built in 1540, it is now a monumental construction, built of white marble with five arches. Six rectangular pillars support it with beautiful bas-relief carvings (lions, dragons, lotus flowers). It is 14 metres hith and 28.86 metres wide.
A visit to the Ruins of Yuanmingyuan after the first snow of 2010.
The Line 1 of Beijing Subway was constructed in 1969, it was the first urban subway system in China, the system has 9 lines right now, and connects 147 stations around the downtown and suburb area of Beijing.
