http://www.chinatravel.com/rssRSS-BoardSELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 779) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 6 Jan 2009 2:38:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/henan/kaifeng/attraction/da-xiangguo-temple-%28temple-the-chief-minister%29/A Brief Chronology of the Temple's Name The original edifice which was modified into the first Xiangguo Temple - but under a different name - was a private residence, the house of Lord Xinling of the Kingdom of Wei (CE 220-265) during the Three Kingdoms (CE 220-280) period (the other two kingdoms were the Kingdom of Shu (CE 221-263) and the Kingdom of Wu (CE 229-280)). 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Actually his home town was quite close ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 5968) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 3 Nov 2008 10:22:00 GMTliubinjustdoithttp://www.chinatravel.com/henan/kaifeng/attraction/shanshangan-guild-hall/Located on Xufujie Street in the downtown area of Kaifeng city, the Shanshangan Guild Hall has a history of over 200 years. It is actually one of the best-preserved ancient guild halls in China nowadays. In spite of the frequent floods from the Yellow River as well as other disasters this ancient city has experienced in history, the remaining part of the Shanshangan Guild Hall, however, has always been very well protected and quite original. As a small exquisite courtyard, the Shanshangan gui...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 5970) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 3 Nov 2008 10:19:00 GMTliubinjustdoithttp://www.chinatravel.com/henan/kaifeng/attraction/yanqing-temple/Situated in the northwest part of Kaifeng city, Yanqingguan Daosim Temple has a long history of over 800 years. This temple was built to commemorate Wangchongyang, who was the founder of Quanzhenjiao, which was actually a sect of Daosim and the theories and scriptures of which combined thoughts of Buddihsm, Daosiom and Confucious together. Wangchongyang was born in the year 1112 and died in 1170. He was living in a time when there were wars everywhere in China and many people lived in a...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 5971) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 3 Nov 2008 10:02:00 GMTliubinjustdoithttp://www.chinatravel.com/henan/kaifeng/attraction/kaifeng-museum/Situated on the bank of Baogong Lake in the western part of Kaifeng city, Kaifeng Museum was first built in March, 1962 and then rebuilt in 1986. It covers an area of 16,000 square meters, while the main building covers over 5,000 square meters and includes 13 exhibition halls. There are as many as 50,000 pieces of ancient relics, paintings and crafts as well as another 50,000 different precious books in this museum. As long as people come into the main building on the first floor, the...]]>Tue 3 Nov 2008 9:46:00 GMTliubinjustdoithttp://www.chinatravel.com/henan/kaifeng/attraction/iron-pagoda/Tue 3 Nov 2008 9:13:00 GMTliubinjustdoithttp://www.chinatravel.com/henan/kaifeng/attraction/po-pagoda/SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 4480) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 3 Nov 2008 8:57:00 GMTliubinjustdoithttp://www.chinatravel.com/henan/kaifeng/attraction/temple-of-yu-the-great/East of Temple of Yu the Great is Memorial Temple of Three Saints which once housed the statues of Li Bai, Du Fu, and Gao Shi and in the Ming Dynasty the statues of poets Li Mengyang and He Jingming were added. West of the temple is Shuide(Flood Control Achievements) Memorial Temple built in the memory of those who did great contribution to flood control. In the front of the temple is Imperial Calligraphy Tower where hangs a horizontal board Gong Zai He Luo inscribed by Emperor Qianlong. No...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 781) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 3 Nov 2008 8:37:00 GMTliubinjustdoithttp://www.chinatravel.com/henan/kaifeng/attraction/millennium-city-park/This park was constructed according to the famous painting Going Upriver for Qingming Festival by the Northern Song Dynasty painter Zhang Zeduan. It reproduced everything painted in the painting by the ratio of one to one. So it is a large-scale historical and cultural theme park following the Song Dynasty style. 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