http://www.chinatravel.com/rssRSS-BoardSELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 128) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 26 Aug 2008 4:40:00 GMTswaklhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/lanzhou/attraction/yellow-river-mother-sculpture/The sculpture named Mother of Yellow River is the most rare and precious of its kind in China. It was sculpted that a mother with long hair and lean body is lying on the floating river caressing her baby in her arm. The mother is radiating blissful joy and amiability, while the child bears an innocent smile. It is such an artwork to express appreciation from the local people to the Yellow River as a mother nourishing generations after generations of Chinese people....]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 125) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 26 Aug 2008 4:37:00 GMTswaklhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/lanzhou/attraction/white-pagoda-hill-park/The fabulous White Pagoda was said to be built in honor of a famous Tibetan Lama, who died from sever illness on his way to meet Genghis Khan founder and emperor of the Yuan Dynasty at Lanzhou City. The pagoda is seven-storied octagonal shaped with a height of 17 meters. The ivory tower is delicately decorated with eight carved figures of Buddha allover and iron reins hanging under all corners of eaves. The White Pagoda Hill Park occupies an area of more than 8,000 square meters. There are thr...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 127) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 26 Aug 2008 4:34:00 GMTswaklhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/lanzhou/attraction/waterwheel-garden/Giant ancient waterwheels, made in the Ming Dynasty, were used for irrigation of the farming fields along the Yellow River in ancient Lanzhou City. The Lanzhou waterwheel was quite a famous invention of ancient China, and it was named Heaven Wheel, Fan Wheel, Irrigative Wheel and Tiger Wheel at different times of the history. Hence the Waterwheel Garden was built to honor the invention of this ancient irrigation instrument. A typical waterwheel has a diameter of 16.5 meters. During the floodi...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 3285) AND (ServiceType = 16) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 30 Jul 2008 1:14:00 GMTorchidhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/lanzhou/restaurant/xiangmanlou-restaurant/When Xiangmanlou Restaurant is mentioned, everyone who has ever been there will praise it highly as the best restaurant selling delicate Lanzhou Cuisine at low price. The chef of Xiangmanlou Restaurant Yan Keru is renowned in the Long Cuisine circle. The dishes feature natural, nutritive, delicate and tasty with strong Lanzhou local flavor. Its specialties are Hot and Spicy Sleeve-fish, Braised Tofu with Almond, Braised Pork with Cherry Juice and Pork with Soy Sauce. There are always too many cu...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 3283) AND (ServiceType = 16) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 29 Jul 2008 22:12:00 GMTorchidhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/lanzhou/restaurant/dazhong-food-alley/Dazhong Alley, featuring in the Silk Road local specialties, has a long history. Visitors not only can enjoy the Lanzhou local delicacies, but also the specialties along the Silk Road. The best restaurants featuring hand-pulled noodles with beef are located here. There are too many restaurants with strong Lanzhou local flavor to be completely counted, among which, Huidou Wang is really noted. Every local people know it. It is characterized with a kind of soya-bean milk, but it is made of grey be...]]>Tue 29 Jul 2008 21:34:00 GMTorchidhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/lanzhou/restaurant/lanzhou-delicacy-street/SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 5832) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 28 Jul 2008 4:21:00 GMTorchidhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/lanzhou/attraction/five-springs-mountain-park/Five Springs Mountain Park is located within the Five Springs Mountain at the foot of the Guanglan Mountain. The park is well-known for its tranquil and beautiful scenery with lush forest, gurgling springs, a lot of ancient temples. Wuquan means five springs in English and it got the name from the five springs in the here namely, Ganlu, Juyue, Mozi, Hui, Meng. This area has became a resort for the rich over 2,000 years ago. The Park has an area of 10,500 square meters and houses more...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 130) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 28 Jul 2008 3:54:00 GMTorchidhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/lanzhou/attraction/binglingsi-thousand-buddha-caves/Lying in Yongjing County with half a day's distance from Lanzhou via car, Bingling Thousand Buddha Caves is one of the best-preserved collections of Buddhist cave art in all of China. The ride from Lanzhou is pleasurable with vast corn fields, improbably fertile soil among riverbeds and distinctive red-caly banks carved by the incessant river current. There are 183 grotto niches displaying 679 stone figues and 82 caly figures in addition to more than 900 square meters of murals. The highe...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 124) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 28 Jul 2008 3:38:00 GMTorchidhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/lanzhou/attraction/gansu-provincial-museum/ Covering a construction area of 180000 square meters, Gansu Provincial Museum exhibits a large variety of cultural relics ranging form natural specimens to historical articles and revolutionary relics of the Red Army’s Long March via Gansu, particularly a 4-meter-tall and 8-meter-long fossil of the Yellow River Ancient Elephant and a copy of the mural on bricks of the inner-wall of the tombs of Wei and Jin Dynasties moved from Jiayuguan Pass.  The museum boasts 75000 cultural relics, of which...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 4756) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 28 Jul 2008 3:34:00 GMTorchidhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/lanzhou/attraction/golden-heaven-temple/ The temple was built by the King Shuzhuang in the 1^st year of Emperor Jianwen (1400), Ming Dynasty. It covers an area of 54 ares. There are four building complexes including Yuantan Si and Xixin Taoist in the east, Thunder Pavillion in the center and Yinwu Si in the west, Yuhuang Pavillion and Lao Tzu Hall in the north Jiuyang Hill. Originally there were 36 pagoda trees planted in Tang Dynasty which were called “36 thunder generals”. Nowadays, only 3 of them and 3 cypress trees of o...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1200) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 28 Jul 2008 3:18:00 GMTorchidhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/lanzhou/attraction/zhongshan-bridge,-the-first-bridge-over-yellow-river/Zhongshan Iron Brdge roots in the 5th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1372 A.D.) It was built as a float bridge in 7 miles west of Lanzhou made by Feng Sheng who was a lord of Song. Until the 9th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1376 A.D.), lord of Wei, Deng Yu moved the float bridge 10 miles west of city and called it Zhengyuan Bridge. In the 18th year of Hongwu of Ming Dynasty (1385 A.D.), Yang Lian, commander of defence army, moved the bridge to where the bridge locates today. Today, th...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 4755) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 28 Jul 2008 2:57:00 GMTorchidhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/lanzhou/attraction/chenghuang-temple/Chenghuang Temple was built in Song Dyhasty for commemorating General Jixin of Han Dynasty. So it is alo called Jixin Temple. After rebuilt in Ming Dynasty it was renamed Chenghuang Temple. Unforunately it was badly destroyed by fire in Qing Dynasty, then rebuilt as the layout we can see today. The total area of the temple is 12000 square meters and built area of 4000 square meters. Three gates are martyr, and second gate is theater hall of roll roof is at the north and double eaves main hall is...]]>Mon 28 Jul 2008 2:50:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/lanzhou/food/baisui-(longevity)-chicken-/SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 4754) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 28 Jul 2008 2:40:00 GMTorchidhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/lanzhou/attraction/lanshan-park/ Stretching for over 10 kilometers from the lowest Pipa Valley to the highest Three Terrace Pavillion, the park covers an area of 5200mu(346.67 hectares) with an elevation of almost 500meters above sea level. With a grandeur pavilion standing on top of it, the Three Terrace Pavillion is the summit building to the south of Lanzhou. It is an artificial forest park in the city. The way starting from the Longwei Hill and ending at the Three Terraced Pavillion is 3 kilometers long, which is noted fo...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1831) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 28 Jul 2008 2:31:00 GMTorchidhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/lanzhou/attraction/xinglong-mountain/With 70 ancient temples and pavilions and 24 scenic spots scattered all over the moutain, Xinglong Mountain has become one of the resorts of Buddhism and Taoism. SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 4753) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 28 Jul 2008 2:16:00 GMTorchidhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/lanzhou/attraction/green-corridor-along-binhe-road/Along the Binhe Road, visitors may enjoy a series of scenic spots such as the Yellow River, the Statue Pingshaluoyan (wild gooses dwelling on sands), the Statue Bolang(fighting waves), the ancient Silk Road, the Statue of Mother Yellow River, the Statue of the Pilgrimage to the West, Zhongshan Iron Bridge, White Pagoda Hill Park, Waterwheel Garden, etc.When the ancient sheepskin rafts dotted the Yellow River, it often reminds the visitors of the ancient practice ofboasting on t...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1653) AND (ServiceType = 35) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 28 Jul 2008 2:04:00 GMTorchidhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/lanzhou/product/hookah-/Hookah appeared in Lanzhou in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, with a history of more than 300 years. It is well-known for its threadlike shape, joss incense, and pleasant taste and considered to be the First Hookah in China....]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1649) AND (ServiceType = 35) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 28 Jul 2008 1:24:00 GMTorchidhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/lanzhou/product/tao-inkstone/It is considered to be one of the three most famous inkstones in Chinese history. (The other two are the Duan Inkstone in Guangdong and the Hui Inkstone in Anhui.) The inkstone comes from a place called Lama Cliff in Taoyan Township, which is about 50 kilometers northeast of Nizhuo County in Ganshu. The dark green ones are regarded as the first class. Today, the inkstone is produced with modern technology. Some are carved and decorated with flowers, dragons, lions, tigers, and other lucky things...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1651) AND (ServiceType = 35) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 28 Jul 2008 1:18:00 GMTorchidhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/lanzhou/product/lanzhou-earthen-pot/This is a kind of pottery originated from the late Stone Age, with a history of more than six thousand to ten thousand years. There are earthen pot, jar, tank, kettle, and fire pot. Some are rather big, some can be quite small. They are solid and easy to handle. The earthen pot produced by the Agan Town and Leitanhe are said to be the best in quality. ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1650) AND (ServiceType = 35) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCSun 27 Jul 2008 23:02:00 GMTorchidhttp://www.chinatravel.com/gansu/lanzhou/product/jincheng-babao-melon-carving-/This is also a traditional carving handcraft in Lanzhou. Here the melon is hollowed out and carved into different paterns and shapes. The carved melon can be used to hold foods such as white fungus, candy, sugar, or fruits such as pineapple, orange, cherry, lichi, and waxberry....]]>