The Four Beauties, The Four Famous Schools, Do You Know What Other "Four Greats" There Are In China?

China's Four Famous Buddhist Mountains

Wutai Mountain: located in Wutai County, Shanxi Province, is the place of Manjushri Bodhisattva

Emei Mountain: located in the city of Emeishan, Sichuan Province, is the place of Pratyekabuddha

Putuo Mountain: located in the city of Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province, is the place of Guanyin Bodhisattva

Jiuhuashan: located in Qingyang County, Anhui Province, is the place of Jizang Bodhisattva

Chinese The Four Major Fishes of Freshwater Aquaculture

The Green Fish, Grass Carp, Silver Carp, and Bighead Carp

The Four Great Masterpieces of Chinese Classical Literature

Dream of the Red Mansions, Journey to the West, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and Water Margin

The Four Most Famous Gardens of China

The Summer Palace of Beijing

The Summer Palace of Chengde in Hebei Province

The Humble Administrator's Garden

The Humble Administrative Garden

The Humble Administrative Garden

The Humble Administrative Garden of Suzhou

Liuyuan Garden in Suzhou.

The Four Great Academies of Ancient China

Bai Lu Cave Academy on Wulao Peak in Mount Lu, Jiangxi Province;

Yuelu Academy in Changsha, Hunan Province;

Songyang Academy in Songshan Mountain, Henan Province;

Yingtianfu Academy in Shangqiu County, Henan Province;

The Four Great Beauties in Ancient China

Xishi, Yang Guifei, Diao Cicada, and Wang Zhaojun

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China's Four Great Inventions:

Papermaking, Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing with movable type

China's Four Great Embroideries:

Su Embroidery in Jiangsu Province

Xiang Embroidery in Hunan Province

Guangdong Cantonese Embroidery

Sichuan Sichuan Shu Embroidery

China's Four Famous Inkstones

Tuanshi inkstones in Duanxi, Guangdong Province;

Sheyan inkstone from Shexian County, Anhui Province;

Taohe River inkstone from southern Gansu Province;

Chengyi inkstone from Luoyang, Henan Province.

China's Four Great Ancient Cities

Langzhong, Sichuan;

Lijiang, Yunnan;

Pingyao, Shanxi;

Shexian, Anhui.

China's four major cuisines:

Lu Cuisine, Sichuan Cuisine, Su Cuisine and Cantonese Cuisine.

China's Four Great Folk Legends

The Legend of the White Snake

The Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden

Meng Jiangnu

China's Four Great Plum Orchards:

Wuhan Donghu Mushan Plum Orchard

Meihuashan Plum Orchard of the Zhongshan Mausoleum in Nanjing,

Shanghai Dianshan Lake Grand View Garden Plum Garden in Shanghai,

Hushan Plum Garden in Wuxi

China's Four Great Ancient Buildings

Yueyang Tower, Tengwang Pavilion, Yellow Crane Tower, Penglai Pavilion

China's Four Great Freshwater Lakes

Dongting Lake, Poyang Lake, Taihu Lake, Hongze Lake

China's Four Great Brocades

Marble brocades in Chengdu, Yun brocades in Nanjing, Song brocades in Suzhou, and Zhuang brocades in Guangxi

Chinese brocade

Chinese brocades of Chengdu, Yun brocades in Nanjing, Song brocades in Suzhou. Zhuang brocade of Guangxi

China's four major basins:

Tarim Basin, Junggar Basin, Qaidam Basin, Sichuan Basin

China's four major municipalities:

Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and Chongqing

China's four major highlands:

Tibetan Plateau, Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, Loess Plateau and Inner Mongolia Plateau

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The Four Heroes of the early Tang Dynasty were Wang Bo, Yang Jiong, Lu Zhaolin, and Luo Binwang. Wang Bo's "Preface to Tengwang Pavilion", Yang Jiong's "Military March", Lu Zhaolin's "Ancient Ideas of Chang'an", and Luo Binwang's "Winging Cicadas in Prison" are all famous essays, which have been passed down through the ages and are popular among the people. They were rich in talent, but extremely unfortunate. Wang Bo died at the age of twenty-six, Yang Jiong only lived to forty-three, Lu Zhaolin sank into the water of Yingshui in despair and illness, and Luo Binwang had no idea of his fate. The four great poets were ill-fated and discriminated against. And the great poet Du Fu fairly commented, "Ercao's body and name are extinguished, and it is not costly for the river to flow through the ages."

The Drunken Master Pavilion in Chu County, Anhui Province, the Tao Ran Pavilion in Beijing, the Ai Evening Pavilion in Changsha, Hunan Province, and the Huxin Pavilion in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, are known as China's "Four Famous Pavilions".

Drunken Weng Pavilion:

Located in Langya Mountain, Chu County, Anhui Province, the Northern Song Dynasty, Qingli six years, Ouyang Xiu was relegated to Chuzhou as a governor, called himself "Drunken Weng", this pavilion will be "Drunken Weng Pavilion".

Taoranting:

In Beijing, the first family altar, for the Qing dynasty Kangxi thirty-four years of the Ministry of Public Works, Jiang Zao built, is now open for the Taoranting Park.

Ai Evening Pavilion:

Located in Hunan Changsha, halfway up Mount Yuelu, it was built in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. Formerly known as the Red Leaf Pavilion, also known as the Love Maple Pavilion, located in Yuelu Mountain, Qingfeng Gorge, the pavilion sits west to east, surrounded by mountains on three sides, the ancient maple in the sky. The pavilion was built in the 57th year of the Qianlong reign in the Qing Dynasty (1792) by Luo Dian, the head of Yuelu Academy. Later, according to the intention of Bi Yuan, the governor of Hunan and Guangdong, the pavilion was renamed as Aiyeon Pavilion after Du Mu's poem "stopping the car to love the evening of the maple forest, the frosty leaves are redder than the flowers in February". The original wooden structure was changed to brick at the beginning of Tongzhi (1862-1870). The pavilion is simple and elegant, with a square plan, a side length of 6.23 meters and a height of 12 meters. Inside the gold column round wood Dan lacquer, the outer eaves column four, by the whole square granite processing and become. Pavilion roof heavy eaves four poncho, save pointed roof, four wings corner edge far stretching high warping, covered with green glazed tiles. The front forehead vermilion gilt "love evening pavilion" plaque, Mao Zedong in 1952 should be the president of hunan university LiDa about the title.

Huxin Pavilion:

Located in the center of Hangzhou West Lake on a small island, also known as the Zhenlu Pavilion, was first built in the thirty-first year of the Ming Jiajing, Wanli rebuilt and renamed Huxin Pavilion.

Jiuhua Mountain temples, incense smoke, is a good man and woman pilgrimage to the holy land; Jiuhua Mountain scenery, pleasant climate, is a tourist resort. In China's four great Buddhist mountains, Jiuhua Mountain is the only one, with "incense A world", "the first mountain in the southeast" of the double laurel and famous at home and abroad.

Mount Emei is one of the four great Buddhist mountains in China, located in south-central Sichuan, the southwest edge of the Sichuan Basin Emei territory, about 160 kilometers from Chengdu, seven kilometers southwest of Emeishan City. High out of the five mountains, the show of the world. Among the famous mountains in China, Emei can be said to be one of the highest, with the highest peak, Wanfo Deng, at an altitude of 3,099 meters. The mountain extends in the north-south direction and stretches for 23 kilometers, covering an area of 115 square kilometers. For a long time, Emei Mountain has been famous for its beautiful natural scenery and fabulous Buddhist wonders. She is ancient, elegant and magical, lofty and charming. Its mountain range stretches and twists, thousands of rocks and ravines, waterfalls and streams, strange and elegant, so there is "Emei world show" of the beauty of the name. December 6, 1996 included in the "World Natural and Cultural Heritage List".

Wutai Mountain, the first of the four famous Buddhist mountains in China, is located in Wutai County, Shanxi Province, 230 kilometers south of Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, and 48 kilometers north of Wutai Mountain Railway Station.

Wutai Mountain consists of five peaks in the east, west, south, north and center, with a ring base of 250 kilometers. There are two kinds of temples: the Green Temple, which houses monks, and the Yellow Temple (a Tibetan Buddhist monastery), which houses lamas. There used to be 360 temples in Wutai Mountain, and by 1956 there were still 124 of them, of which 99 were Green Temples and 25 were Yellow Temples. Pursat Deng Temple, where the legendary Manjushri Bodhisattva resides, is the first of the Yellow Temples in Wutai Mountain. There are more than 40 temples in existence.

Wutai Mountain is the dojo of Manjushri Bodhisattva, and Taihuai Town is the place with the highest concentration of temples, with temples one next to the other; Hiantong Temple, Tayuan Temple, Pursatsu Deng Temple, Shushu Temple, and Luohou Temple are also known as the five major Zen forests in Wutai Mountain.

Putuo Mountain is one of the four great Buddhist mountains in China, as well as a famous island scenic tourist destination.

Putuo Mountain has a lot of scenic spots and excursion points, mainly: Puji, Fayu, Huiji three major temples, which is the largest of the more than twenty preserved temples and nunneries. Puji Zen Temple was built in the Song Dynasty, for the mountain enshrines Guanyin's main temple, building a total area of about 11,000 square meters. Fayu Zen Temple was built in Ming Dynasty, which is built on the basis of the danger of the mountain, with layers and layers of buildings, surrounded by ancient trees, extremely quiet. Huiji Zen Temple was built on Fodingshan Mountain, also known as Fodingshan Temple.

Yellow Crane Tower, the original site in Hubei Wuchang Snake Mountain, Yellow Crane Tower, is said to have been built in the Three Kingdoms, Wu Huangwu two years (A.D. 223), in the long river of history, the Yellow Crane Tower through the vicissitudes of life, repeatedly destroyed repeatedly built, endless in the world, can be proved to be up to more than 30 times. Yellow Crane Tower was destroyed the last time is the end of the Qing dynasty Guangxu ten years (1884 AD) in August, due to the Hanyangmen Dongjiapo residents outside the house fire, the wind and fire, and affected the building, and soon the ancient building into ashes, only thousands of catties of Baojie copper building tripod one.

Yueyang Tower is located in the ancient cultural city of Yueyang, ancient name of Yueyang, "Baling", is located in the northern part of Hunan Province, the smoky Dongting Lake and the Yangtze River stretching for thousands of miles in the confluence of the name of the three famous buildings in the south of the Yangtze River, Yueyang Tower is located in the water alongside the city of a city of the ancient west gate. Yueyang, mountains, water, building all ready, picturesque, numerous places of interest. The beauty of the Yueyang scenery, concentrated in the Dongting Lake and clock in Yueyang a building. Yueyang Tower, Junshan as the center and the composition of the Baling scenery, known far and wide, known as "Dongting world water, Yueyang world building" and renowned, worthy of "Dongting world water, Yueyang world building". Yueyang Tower in Yueyang, Wuchang's Yellow Crane Tower, Nanchang's Knee King Pavilion, collectively known as the "three famous buildings in Jiangnan". Yueyang Tower stands on the east shore of Dongting Lake, Yueyang City, the west gate on the city wall, west of the smoky Dongting Lake, north of the rolling eastward of the Yangtze River, the light of the building shadow, reflecting each other, known as "Dongting the world's water, Yueyang world building," the reputation of China's famous tourist attractions.

Tengwang Pavilion looms large on the Ganjiang River, is a sound through the past and present, the reputation spread at home and abroad of the ancient famous Pavilion, known as "the first building on the West River".

Tengwang Pavilion was named after Li Yuanying, the king of Teng, who built it. Li Yuan Ying, the 22nd son of Tang Emperor Li Yuan, Tang Emperor Li Shimin's brother, Zhenguan thirteen years (639 years) in June, was appointed King of Teng, and then moved to Hongzhou (Nanchang) as Governor. He did nothing else in Nanchang. Only in the Tang Yong Hui four years (653 years) in the west of the city on the banks of the Gan River to build a building for the residence, this building is "Tengwang Pavilion".

"The falling sun and the lonely rushes fly in unison, the autumn water **** the long sky a color" is the early Tang poet Wang Bo in the Tang Emperor Gaozong Shangyuan two years (675 years) wrote "Tengwang Pavilion Preface" in the sentence. For thousands of years, the Pavilion because of the preface of the name, the preface to the Pavilion, adding much to the Nanchang stream.

Tengwangge since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, so far there have been 1,300 years, in this long history of iteration of the abolition of the Xing up to 28 more than the 29th construction of the foundation stone was laid in 1983, the completion of the Chung Yeung Festival in 1989.

Reconstruction of the Tengwangge is located in the Gan River and the Fuhe River at the confluence of the old channel, covering an area of 4.3 hectares. The back of the city, near the river, on the verge of Nanpu, facing the western mountains, the view is wide, from the Tang Dynasty Pavilion site is only more than a hundred meters, not lost in Wang Bo, "Tengwang Pavilion Preface" in the mood. The reconstruction, the use of the Song Dynasty style, highlighting the back of the city near the river, magnificent and peculiar momentum. Pavilion height of 57.5 meters, three layers of dark seven layers, plus two layers of base a **** nine layers, glazed green tiles, gilt eaves, carved screen, vermilion lacquered corridors and columns, simple and elegant, spectacular. The main cabinet on the north and south sides with "pressure river", "Yicui" two pavilions, and the main cabinet. Outside the main pavilion, there are gardens, rockeries, pavilions, lotus ponds and other buildings, whether from the height, volume, area or from the architectural style, Tengwang Pavilion can be listed as one of the country's major classical pavilion buildings.

Penglai Pavilion is located in the west of Yantai City (an hour's drive), located in the north of Penglai City, Danya Mountain, and the Yellow Crane Tower, Yueyang Tower, Tengwang Pavilion, and called the country's four famous buildings. According to the documents, the Tang Dynasty, here will have built the Dragon King Palace and Mida Temple; Song Dynasty, in 1061, by the county magistrate Zhu Zhu about the construction of Penglai Pavilion for people to visit; Ming Wanli seventeen years, that is, in 1589, governor Li Dai in the vicinity of Penglai Pavilion to handle the addition of a number of buildings; 1819, the love of the governor of the Zhi Yang Fenchang and the Chief of the General Liu Qinghe and presided over the expansion of Penglai Pavilion with its current scale.

Below the Penglai Pavilion has a beautifully structured, peculiar shape of the Immortal Bridge, that is the myth of the Eight Immortals crossing the sea place; the east side of the Palace of the Qing Dynasty, Lvzu Hall, Puzhao building and Guanlan Pavilion; the west side of the Pavilion to avoid the wind, the Queen of Heaven (commonly known as Niangniang Hall), the theater and the Dragon King's Palace. These pavilions are staggered heights, and Penglai Pavilion, collectively known as "Penglai Pavilion". "Penglai Pavilion" is an area of 32,800 square meters, construction area of 18,960 square meters of the huge ancient building complex (*** there are more than 100), building pavilions and pavilions distribution is appropriate, architectural gardens reflecting each other, each due to the terrain, coordinated and spectacular, the mountains and the sea is blue, the breeze is pleasant, and then became famous throughout the world of the famous tourist areas. 1982 The State Council announced the water city and Penglai Pavilion for the national key cultural relics protection units.