Quanzhou Travel Guide, China Destinations, Travel Guide To Chinahttp://www.chinatravel.com/rssRSS-BoardSELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1001) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCQuanzhou Museum of Overseas Communications HistoryMon 12 Sep 2010 18:20:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/fujian/quanzhou/attraction/quanzhou-museum-of-overseas-communications-history/Built in 1959, the Quanzhou Maritime History Museum has three feature exhibition halls: 'Quanzhou Harbor and Ancient Overseas Relations,' 'Quanzhou Religious Stone Sculptures,' and 'Quanzhou Bay Ancient Ships.' Quanzhou Maritime History Museum displays historical facts and artifacts, such as the maritime activities of Quanzhou for the past two thousand years, Zheng Hes expedition to the western seas during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, data on Chinese people going abroad, commercial trade, the bl...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 6092) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCZhangjiao VillageThu 5 May 2010 20:39:00 GMTlavender0108http://www.chinatravel.com/fujian/quanzhou/attraction/zhangjiao-village/The Zhangjiao Village is located in Tuling Town, which is attached to Quanzhou City, Fujian Province. The village is a stone-built paradise. While walking in the peaceful and quiet village, beautiful scenery will appear in your field of view, just like exquisite oil paintings unfolding in front of you and exemplified by a cloud of end-to-end colorful stone-houses in an overlapping array. These houses are called Shi Cuo by local people (Shi means stone, Cuo means laying). They began to be constru...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 245) AND (ServiceType = 35) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCYongchun Paper Knitted PictureTue 29 Dec 2008 20:53:00 GMThttp://www.chinatravel.com/fujian/quanzhou/product/yongchun-paper-knitted-picture/It is traditional folk handicrafts uniquely owned by Yongchun County. It is developed from Chinese paintings. They are paper knitted pictures after being mounted and stuck together. The paper knitted pictures have a wide range of subject matters and diversified content, which almost covers everything ranging from humans, stories through landscapes, flowers and birds to all the wild animals and all the birds of heaven. As early on as more than one hundred years ago, the pictures were exported to ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 248) AND (ServiceType = 35) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCSilk Flower LanternTue 29 Dec 2008 20:51:00 GMThttp://www.chinatravel.com/fujian/quanzhou/product/silk-flower-lantern/The folk flower-lantern is a superb product of an elegant design and a unique artistic style. The variety includes the polygon ball lantern, palace lantern, twin fish lantern, flower basket lantern, etc. They were once presented to national guests as diplomatic gifts with a good reputation at home and abroad....]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2849) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCNumber One Scholar StreetTue 29 Dec 2008 20:47:00 GMThttp://www.chinatravel.com/fujian/quanzhou/attraction/number-one-scholar-street/The Number One Scholar Street, a street characteristic of cultural tourism, is a pedestrian street. The street is adjoined to Zhongshan Road on the west end and south to the East Street. In the middle section of the street is Xiaomiao Taoist Temple with ruins characteristic of Quanzhou. The whole length of the Number One Scholar Street is about 500 meters. With a pleasant ambience, the street specializes in artifacts of tourist culture. The whole street is composed of there blocks. The first bl...]]>Chou Fresh Food RestaurantSat 28 Dec 2007 13:43:00 GMThttp://www.chinatravel.com/fujian/quanzhou/restaurant/chou-fresh-food-restaurant/Renxi Seafood Restaurant of QuanzhouSat 28 Dec 2007 13:43:00 GMThttp://www.chinatravel.com/fujian/quanzhou/restaurant/renxi-seafood-restaurant-of-quanzhou/Shigu White Duck Soup Store of YongchunSat 28 Dec 2007 13:43:00 GMThttp://www.chinatravel.com/fujian/quanzhou/restaurant/shigu-white-duck-soup-store-of-yongchun/SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2848) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCAncient Chengtian Temple of South Fujian (Minnan)Sat 28 Dec 2007 13:43:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/fujian/quanzhou/attraction/ancient-chengtian-temple-of-south-fujian-%28minnan%29/ From the end of Damo in the South Tang Dynasty to the beginning of Zhongxing(957一958 BC), the temple was built and preliminarily named “South Chan Temple”. In the fourth year of Jingde’s reign in the North Song Dynasty, it was given the name of “Chengtian Temple”. Its scale is only second to Kaiyuan Temple. It is one of the three largest forests in South Fujian. Since there are two characters “Yuetai” glittering with gold on the horizontal plaque of the vestibule to the temple, the temple was ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 246) AND (ServiceType = 35) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCAnxi Oolong teaSat 28 Dec 2007 13:43:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/fujian/quanzhou/product/anxi-oolong-tea/ It is between red tea and green tea. It is a half-fermentation tea, which not only has the sweetness of red tea, but also has the cleanness of green tea. It also contains unique natural fragrance of flowers, tastes sweet and fresh. After drinking you will feel the fragrance stays among the mouth and teeth and that sweetness lingers at the bottom of the throat. Iron kwanyin Buddha stamp the crown of the Oolong tea and has been accredited as the quality products by the national light industry de...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1005) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCChongwu Ancient CitySat 28 Dec 2007 13:43:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/fujian/quanzhou/attraction/chongwu-ancient-city/ It is a city famous for fighting pirates along the southeast coast in ancient China and a key historic and cultural site under the protection of the government. Chongwu peninsula led an important part in the coastal defense of ancient China. Since the 20th year of Hongwu’ reign in Ming Dynasty, construction of city defense had been conducted all the time and troops had stationed there and drilled to take precautions against pirates. There were originally guard post, Ramp-Platform,...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 251) AND (ServiceType = 35) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCDehua CeramicsSat 28 Dec 2007 13:43:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/fujian/quanzhou/product/dehua-ceramics/ Dehua is one of the three largest ceramic cities of China. In the Song Dynasty, the products sold well in the overseas markets. The white porcelain fired in the Ming Dynasty is transparent all over the body like ivory, and therefore it is called “ivory white”. It is accredited as the products of the oriental art in Japan and Europe. The variety of Dehua porcelains includes: Jian white porcelain, Gao white porcelain, Pu white porcelain and newly developed gemstone yellow, Jian red porcelain, re...]]>Fried crab chowder Sat 28 Dec 2007 13:43:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/fujian/quanzhou/food/fried-crab-chowder/SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 250) AND (ServiceType = 35) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCHui’an Stone CarvingSat 28 Dec 2007 13:43:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/fujian/quanzhou/product/hui%e2%80%99an-stone-carving/ Hui’an is always called “the hometown of stone carvings” with a long history. The existent figured relieves in the tomb of Wangchao, the elder brother of Wang Shenzhi in the Tang Dynasty has a history of more than one thousand years. The large dragon column of the Dragon Mountain Temple in Taibei, the blue stone building of the Artesian Spring Temple on the Drum Mountain, ornamental column in front of the Zhongshan Tomb in Nanjing and the stone columns of the grand people’s conference hall in ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 999) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCKaiyuan TempleSat 28 Dec 2007 13:43:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/fujian/quanzhou/attraction/kaiyuan-temple/ Kaiyuan temple covers an area of 780,000 square meters. Built in the second year of Chuigong of Wu Zetian’ reign in the Tang Dynasty (686BC), so far it has got a history of more than 1300 years. It is a key Buddhist temple and historic and cultural site under the protection of the government. Kaiyuan temple is most famous for its twin Pagodas, The eastern one is called 'Nation Protecting Pagoda' (Zhengguo ta), and the western, 'Merits and Longevity pagoda' (Renshou ta). They are over 40 mete...]]>Lingshui Preserved RadishSat 28 Dec 2007 13:43:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/fujian/quanzhou/food/lingshui-preserved-radish/SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1003) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCLuoyang BridgeSat 28 Dec 2007 13:43:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/fujian/quanzhou/attraction/luoyang-bridge/ The Luoyang Bridge is the earliest stone beam bridge striding over the sea existent in our country. Located over the Luoyang River, it is the beginning of foundation on raft of world bridges. It is also a key historic and cultural site under the protection of the government. The Luoyang Bridge is formerly called “Wan’an Bridge”. Cai Xiang, a satrap of Quanzhou in the Song Dynasty, was in charge of the construction of the bridge. The project took seven years from the fourth year of Huangyou’s r...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2850) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCPalace of TianhouSat 28 Dec 2007 13:43:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/fujian/quanzhou/attraction/palace-of-tianhou/ The palace of Tianhou is also called the palace of Tianfei. It was built in the 2nd year of the reign of Qingyuan (1196). The government often held ceremony of sacrifice to the sea for ocean-going commercial vessels. Ma Zu, named Lin Moniang, is a female civilian on Meizhou Island in the North Song Dynasty. It is said that when she was born, there were a room of fragrance and a splash of auspicious light. For her whole life, she did good deeds and relieved distress among the poor and guide vil...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 249) AND (ServiceType = 35) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCPuppet headSat 28 Dec 2007 13:43:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/fujian/quanzhou/product/puppet-head/ The art of Quanzhou Puppet head enjoys a reputation in the whole world. The products of the master Jiang Jiazou stamp the crown of the carvings of the puppet head. Jiang left more than 280 kinds of works, which are under the protection of the government as the first-class cultural relics. ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2853) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCQingjing TempleSat 28 Dec 2007 13:43:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/fujian/quanzhou/attraction/qingjing-temple/ The Qingjing Temple is the earliest and oldest Islamic temple of the Arabic architectural style existent in our country. Located in the middle section of the Tumen Street in the Licheng District, it is a key historic and cultural site under the protection of the government. The temple was built in the second year of Xiangfu in the reign of Dazhong in North Song Dynasty(1009BC, the 400th year according to the Mohammedian calendar)and renovated in 1309 BC by Ahmed from Iran. The templ...]]>