What are the World Heritage Sites in China?

China's world heritage includes the Great Wall, Mogao Grottoes, the Forbidden City in Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, Terracotta Warriors and Horses Pit and Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site.

Great wall 1

The Great Wall, also known as the Great Wall of Wan Li, is an ancient military defense project in China. It is a tall, solid and continuous long wall, which is used to limit the enemy's actions. The Great Wall is not a simple isolated wall, but a defense system with the wall as the main body and a large number of cities, obstacles, pavilions and landmarks.

2. Mogao grottoes

Mogao Grottoes, commonly known as Thousand Buddha Cave, is located in Dunhuang at the western end of Hexi Corridor. Founded in the pre-Qin period of the Sixteen Countries, after the Sixteen Countries, Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, Five Dynasties, Xixia and Yuan Dynasties, it has formed a huge scale, with 735 caves, 45,000 square meters of murals and 24 15 clay sculptures. It is the largest and richest Buddhist art site in the world.

3. The Forbidden City in Ming and Qing Dynasties

The Forbidden City in Beijing is the imperial palace of China in Ming and Qing Dynasties, formerly known as the Forbidden City. It is located in the center of Beijing's central axis and is the essence of ancient court architecture in China. The Forbidden City in Beijing is centered on three halls, covering an area of 720,000 square meters, with a construction area of about10.5 million square meters. There are more than 70 palaces and 9000 houses. It is one of the largest and best-preserved ancient wooden buildings in the world.

4. Qin Shihuang Mausoleum and Terracotta Warriors Pit

The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor is the cemetery of the first emperor in the history of China, also known as Lishan Mausoleum. Terracotta Warriors and Horses Pit is the burial pit of Qin Shihuang Mausoleum, which is located at1500m east of the Mausoleum. Its scale is large, there are many burial pits, and its connotation is rich, which is the crown of emperors' tombs in past dynasties.

5. Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site

Zhoukoudian Site Museum is located at the foot of Gulong Mountain in Zhoukoudian, Fangshan District, southwest of Beijing. It is a museum of ancient human ruins, which was founded in 1953. 1929, Pei Wenzhong, a paleoanthropologist from China, unearthed the first complete skull fossil of Peking man in Gulong, which shocked the whole world.

Baidu Encyclopedia-China World Heritage