Are there any pictures and information about the great ancient creations of China?

1, the Forbidden City

The Forbidden City in Beijing is the royal palace of China during the Ming and Qing dynasties, formerly known as the Forbidden City, located in the center of the central axis of Beijing, is the essence of ancient Chinese palace architecture.

The Forbidden City of Beijing, centered on the Three Great Halls, covers an area of 720,000 square meters, with a floor area of about 150,000 square meters, more than seventy palaces of various sizes and more than 9,000 houses. It is one of the largest and best-preserved wooden structures of ancient buildings in the world.

The Forbidden City in Beijing in the Ming Emperor Yongle four years (1406) began construction, the Nanjing Imperial Palace as the blueprint for the camp, to Yongle eighteen years (1420) was completed.

It is a rectangular city, 961 meters long from north to south and 753 meters wide from east to west, surrounded on all sides by a 10-meter-high wall, with a 52-meter-wide moat outside the city. The buildings in the Forbidden City are divided into two parts: the outer court and the inner court.

The center of the outer court is the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the Hall of Central Harmony, and the Hall of Baohe, collectively known as the Three Great Halls, where the country's great ceremonies are held. The center of the inner court is the Qianqing Palace, Jiaotai Hall, Kunning Palace, collectively known as the latter three palaces, the main palace where the emperor and the empress reside.?

The Forbidden City in Beijing is known as the world's top five palaces (Versailles in France, Buckingham Palace in Britain, the White House in the U.S. and the Kremlin in Russia), is a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction, was listed as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units in 1961; it was listed as a world cultural heritage in 1987.?

2. Dujiangyan

Dujiangyan is a World Heritage Site (listed as "World Cultural Heritage" by UNESCO in 2000), a World Natural Heritage Site (Sichuan Giant Panda Habitat), a National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit, a National Scenic Spot, and an AAAAA Grade National Tourism scenic spots.

Dujiangyan is located in the west of Dujiangyan City, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, situated on the Min River in the west of the Chengdu Plain, and was first built at the end of the reign of King Zhaowang of Qin (about 256 to 251 B.C.).

It is a large-scale water conservancy project built by the father and son of Li Bing, the governor of Shu County, on the basis of the excavations made by the former Tie Ling, consisting of water diversion fish mouths, Flying Sand Weir, Baobuokou and other parts, and has been playing the role of flood control and irrigation for more than 2,000 years, which has made the Chengdu Plain the "Heavenly Capital" with thousands of miles of fertile land and droughts from the people.

To date, the irrigation area has reached more than 30 counties and cities, an area of nearly 10 million mu, is the world's longest, the only surviving, still in use all the time, with no dam diversion as the characteristics of the grand water conservancy project, cohesion of the ancient Chinese working people hard work, bravery, wisdom of the crystallization.

Dujiangyan Scenic Area mainly includes Folongguan, Erwang Temple, Anlan Suoqiao Bridge, Yubi Pass, Lidu Park, Yubi Mountain Park, Jade Maiden Peak, Lingyan Temple, Puzhao Temple, Cuiyue Lake, and Dujiangyan Water Conservancy Project.

On August 13, 2018, the 69th International Executive Council of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID), held in Saskatoon, Canada, the plenary session of the Executive Council announced the 2018 (fifth) World Heritage List of Irrigation Engineering. Among them, China's Dujiangyan and other four projects all declared successfully.

3, Zhaozhou Bridge

Zhaozhou Bridge (赵州桥), also known as Anji Bridge (安济桥), commonly known as Dashi Bridge (大石桥), is a stone arch bridge across the Xiao River (洨河) in Zhao County (赵县) of Shijiazhuang City (石家庄市), Hebei Province (河北省) of China, constructed by Sui Dynasty master craftsman Li Chun (李春). It is the world's oldest surviving single-hole frank-arc, open-shouldered stone arch bridge, with the largest and most well-preserved span.

The Zhaozhou Bridge was built from the 15th year of Kaihuang of the Sui Dynasty to the first year of Daye of the Sui Dynasty (595-605 AD).

4, Terracotta Warriors

Terracotta Warriors, that is, the Terracotta Warriors of Qin Shihuang, also known as the Terracotta Warriors or the Terracotta Warriors, the first batch of the national key cultural relics protection units, the first batch of China's world heritage sites, is located in today's Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, Lintong District, the Mausoleum of the Qin Shihuang, 1.5 km east of the Terracotta Army in the pit.

The Terracotta Warriors and Horses are a category of ancient burial sculpture. In ancient times, human martyrdom was practiced, and slaves were subordinate to the slave masters during their lifetime, and after the death of the slave masters, the slaves had to be buried as martyrs for the slave masters. Terracotta warriors and horses were made in the shape of soldiers and horses (chariots, horses and soldiers).

On March 4, 1961, the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang was announced by the State Council as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

In March 1974, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses were discovered.

In 1987, the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor and the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Pit were approved by UNESCO to be included in the World Heritage List and known as the "Eighth Wonder of the World", and have been visited by more than 200 foreign heads of state and government, which has become a golden business card of the glorious civilization of China's ancient times, and is known as one of the top ten rare treasures of the ancient tombs in the world. Ancient Tomb one of the rare treasures.

5, Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal

Being-Hangzhou Grand Canal is the world's longest mileage, the largest project of the ancient canals, but also one of the oldest canals, with the Great Wall, Canal and known as the three great projects in ancient China and used to this day, it is one of the great projects created by the ancient Chinese working people, and it is one of the symbols of the status of Chinese culture.

The Grand Canal starts from Yuhang (now Hangzhou) in the south and goes to Zhuo County (now Beijing) in the north, passing through the four provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong and Hebei and the cities of Tianjin and Beijing, and passing through the five water systems of the Haihe River, the Yellow River, the Huaihe River, the Yangtze River and the Qiantang River, with a total length of about 1,797 kilometers.

The canal has played a great role in the economic and cultural development and exchanges between the north and south regions of China, especially in the development of the industrial and agricultural economy of the areas along the route.?

The canal was dug by the state of Wu in the Spring and Autumn to conquer the state of Qi, and it was greatly expanded in the Sui Dynasty and passed through to the capital city of Luoyang and Zhuo County, and it was rebuilt in the Yuan Dynasty when it was abandoned in Luoyang and taken to Beijing. The excavation has a history of more than 2,500 years.

In 2002, the Grand Canal was included in the "South-to-North Water Diversion" Eastern Route Project, and on June 22, 2014, the 38th World Heritage Conference announced that the Grand Canal Project had been successfully inscribed on the World Cultural Heritage List, making it China's 46th World Heritage project.

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