http://www.chinatravel.com/rssRSS-BoardSELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2593) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCThu 4 Jan 2012 20:16:00 GMTlotusbluehttp://www.chinatravel.com/jiangsu/suzhou/attraction/jinxi-ancient-town/Jinxi has become famous for more than 2,000 years and created magnificent prehistoric culture 5000 years ago. In Spring and Autumn Period, there was much dispute between Wu Kingkom and Yuen Kingdom. Before He Lu, the king of Wu ordered Wu Zixu build an ancient city Suzhou, Jinxi had already become a market town. It's said that when Lin'an was made the capital of Southern Song Dynasty, the Emperor Song Xiaozhong's beloved concubine Chen became obsessed with the natural beauty of Jinxi and she de...]]>Sat 29 Jul 2011 1:57:00 GMTfadrihttp://www.chinatravel.com/jiangsu/suzhou/restaurant/changood-hot-pot/Sat 29 Jul 2011 1:54:00 GMTfadrihttp://www.chinatravel.com/jiangsu/suzhou/restaurant/grandma-restaurant/SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1354) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCThu 5 May 2010 20:57:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/jiangsu/suzhou/attraction/zhouzhuang-water-town/Zhouzhuang has a history of more than 900 years, and it has been called The Water Land since ancient times. The streets runs along the river and the houses are constructed beside the water, which is very typical for the Jiangnan area. In 2003, Zhouzhuang was awarded Cultural Heritage Protection Prize by the Asian-Pacific department of UNESCO, and in the same year it became one of the Famous towns of history and culture of China. Attractions The beauty of Zhouzhuang lies in her many scenic and...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 251) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCThu 5 May 2010 20:56:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/jiangsu/suzhou/attraction/tongli-ancient-town/This ancient town is surrounded by water on its four sides and contains five lakes: Tongli Lake, Jiuli Lake, Yeze Lake, Nanxing Lake, and Pengshan Lake. Buildings sit next to the water, giving the area its name, Small Oriental Venice. Tongli's main features are plentiful water and bridges, buildings from the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, celebrities, and refined scholars. Tongli is famous for small bridges, flowing water, and households. Attractions Tongli's major attractions are a garden...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 239) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 31 May 2009 22:06:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/jiangsu/suzhou/attraction/canglang-pavilion/The Suzhou garden known as Cang Lang Ting (Surging Waves Pavilion*) has the longest history, and the deepest cultural roots, of all of Suzhou's justly famous classical gardens (aka scholar gardens). Covering an area of roughly 10,000 square meters, or 2 1/2 acres, the simple and tranquil garden is designed in a seemingly unsophisticated manner, yet this exquisite garden is a product of careful refinement and deliberate planning, for it is built in the best Chinese tradition of 'man imitatin...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 5769) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCFri 23 Apr 2009 0:20:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/jiangsu/suzhou/attraction/humble-administrator-garden/The Garden of the Humble Administrator, located in Dongbei Street in the city of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, is a traditional landscape garden in the style of the south Yangtze River region. It features streams, ponds, bridges, and small, man-made islands that are covered in bamboo plants. The main pond comprises roughly 3/5 of the entire garden, with the result that the main pond is part of any particular view of the garden. It seems obvious that the garden's creator wished that the pond play a p...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1852) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCSat 17 Apr 2009 1:59:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/jiangsu/suzhou/attraction/garden-of-master-of-the-nets/Wangshiyuan, or Garden of the Master of Nets, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, is a garden like no other. Originally built as a humble fisher's garden, it apparently possessed a quality even then which commanded respect, and which inspired its future private owners to not only protect it, but to continue to hone it so as to transform what began as a diamond-in-the-rough into the polished gem that it eventually became, and which is preserved in that remarkable state today, thanks to the foresight of the...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 241) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCThu 18 Feb 2009 23:45:00 GMTshirllohttp://www.chinatravel.com/jiangsu/suzhou/attraction/panmen-gate/Panmen Gate has a history of 2,500 years and is a well preserved ruin of the ancient city of Suzhou. From the top of the gate, you can see the Wumen Gate Bridge and the Auspicious Light Pagoda. Together, they are known as the Three Scenes at Panmen Gate. Panmen Gate, built in 514 BC, was one of the Eight Gates of Suzhou ancient town. It was originally named Coiled Dragon Gate for the wooden dragon over the city gate to symbolize power and to ward off its enemies. It was renamed Panmen (winding...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 25) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCFri 16 Oct 2008 12:28:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/jiangsu/suzhou/attraction/lion-grove-garden/Lion Grove Garden (Shi Zi Lin) is one of the four famous gardens of the city of Suzhou in Jiangsu Province. It was originally built in 1342 in the 2nd year of the reign (CE 1341-1368) of Emperor Zhizhen during the Yuan (CE 1279-1368) Dynasty. According to existing records, Shi Zi Lin was built by a prominent monk by the name of Tian Ru together with a group of fellow Zen students in honor of their master, Chan Zhong Feng, primarily as a temple with surrounding garden grounds. It was originally n...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1382) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCFri 18 Sep 2008 21:29:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/jiangsu/suzhou/attraction/lingering-garden/Majestically beautiful Lingering Garden is one of the four renowned gardens in the immediate vicinity of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, and in fact, one of the most famous gardens in all of China. In 1997, Suzhou's Lingering Garden, together with other classical gardens of Suzhou, was officially registered as a World Cultural Heritage Site. Lingering Garden was originally constructed under the name of East Garden as a private garden (all gardens were private in feudal China, of course, either being t...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1429) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCThu 17 Sep 2008 22:55:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/jiangsu/suzhou/attraction/silk-museum/It is sometimes said of the city of Suzhou in Jiangsu Province that the city has historically not only been a major cultural hub for the region, it was also once the silk capital of China, as if the two are somehow not interrelated; the fact is that Suzhou's prominence in matters of culture and politics as well as in matters of industry and trade, at least beginning with the Sui (CE 581-617) Dynasty, is directly related to the city's prominence as the silk capital of China: it was the immense we...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 3452) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCThu 17 Sep 2008 22:52:00 GMTcactushttp://www.chinatravel.com/anhui/suzhou/attraction/min-ziqian-ancestral-temple-and-tomb/Sitting in north and facing south, Master Min's tomb is 6 meters tall and the diameter is 40 meters. There are two other tombs beside it, which are said to be tombs of Min Ziqian's two brothers. They are 2 meters tall and the diameters are 24 meters. The total area of the tombs is 6,400 square kilometers. There are a lot of pines and cypresses around the tomb. Pines around Min's Tomb is one of the Eight Scenic Spots in Suzhou. The construction of Min's Ancestral Hall was started in the Song Dyna...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1842) AND (ServiceType = 35) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCFri 4 Sep 2008 4:12:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/jiangsu/suzhou/product/su-brocade/Suzhou Song Brocade, well-known for its magnificent color, delicate patterns and softness, Nanjing Yun Brocade, Sichuan Su Brocade are honored as the most famous brocades in China. Suzhou Song Brocade started at Five Dynasties (907-960), and developed prosperously until Song Dynasty, especially after the empire Songgaozong moved the capital to the south of china, which transferred the national political and cultural center to the south of the Rangtze River. In order to satisfy the cultural need,...]]>Fri 4 Sep 2008 4:08:00 GMTnancyhttp://www.chinatravel.com/jiangsu/suzhou/food/boat-dessert/Suzhou during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Sozhou was known as the Oriental Venice due to the rivers and the water canals in the city. Since the boats were the chief means of transportation within Sozhou, boats of all descriptions such as large flat-bottomed junk, lightship, fast boat, touring boat, variety-show boat, etc. used to be plying through ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 5661) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCFri 4 Sep 2008 3:57:00 GMTnancyhttp://www.chinatravel.com/jiangsu/suzhou/attraction/suzhou-opera-museum/Suzhou Museum of opera, located in Zhangjia Lane in Suzhou City, is a Chinese local museum of art and history. Its a provincial heritage conservation unit. It was prepared to be constructed in 1982, and completed in 1986. The design of it is perfectly-thought-out. The opera stage consists of front stage and back stage as well as two stands, all of which make it the most delicate of Suzhous surviving stages. The construction is the blend of Shanxi characteristics, and Suzhou features. It has fou...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 24) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCFri 4 Sep 2008 3:51:00 GMTnancyhttp://www.chinatravel.com/jiangsu/suzhou/attraction/grand-canal/Grand Canal is the earliest and longest canal in the world. It is about 1,700 kilometers long. It has played a great role in the economic and cultural communication and the development between the north and south of China. Known as one of the oldest canals, the Grand Canal along with the Great Wall are considered as two great exploits well-known to the whole world. It is a wonder created by ancient people, and has become a spirit wealth passed down from generation to generation. It is an import...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 252) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCThu 13 Aug 2008 2:33:00 GMTgunnarhttp://www.chinatravel.com/jiangsu/suzhou/attraction/luzhi-ancient-town/Luzhi Town has a well deserved reputation as the Number One Water Town of China. When people enter into the ancient town, they will be impressed by the clear water, the peaceful environment and the scenic spots and historical sites that are spread all over the town. Although many of the historical sites has been through hardships over the course of history, they still remain in a very good shape. For example the Baosheng Temple, built in 503 AD, has over 1500 years history but where the nine...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 3448) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 12 Aug 2008 23:53:00 GMTgunnarhttp://www.chinatravel.com/anhui/suzhou/attraction/huangcang-valley/Huangcang Valley, or the Emperor Hideout Valley, is a part of the Shandong Hills, running from north to south, with a highest altitude of 374 meters and an average altitude of 100 to 300 meters. The hilltops are quite flat and the hillsides are relatively steep. The valley was once called Huangsang Valley (which means Yellow Mulberry Valley) because there are many yellow mulberry trees growing on the hills. But the Emperor Liu Bang, or Gaozu, of the Han Dynasty once hid there in order to escape ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 246) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 12 Aug 2008 23:18:00 GMTgunnarhttp://www.chinatravel.com/jiangsu/suzhou/attraction/tiger-hill/Tiger Hill, located in the northwestern part of Suzhou, and has a history of over 2500 years. Tiger Hill was originally named Haiyong Mountain. According to historical documents, the Emperor of Wu, He L, was buried there, and a white tiger stood on his grave three days after that. Thus it got its name, Tiger Hill. It has long been such an attractive place for tourists. After going there, Su Dongpo, a great poet in Song Dynasty, praised it like this, it is a great pity to come to Suzhou without v...]]>