http://www.chinatravel.com/rssRSS-BoardSELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 4668) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCSat 9 Jan 2009 11:44:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanxi/datong/attraction/mt%2e-hengshan/Mt. Hengshan, also variously called Ziyue, Hengzong or Changshan Mountain, lies some 60 kilometers south of the city of Datong, Shanxi Province. The mountain, whose highest peak reaches an altitude of 2017 meters, is the northernmost of the 'Five Sacred Mountains of China', or 'Wu Yue', as they are called by the Chinese, in recognition of the mountains' link to Taoism. Mt. Hengshan has historically been a venue for Taoist activities, though it has not always been possible to pursue these activi...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1454) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCSat 9 Jan 2009 11:39:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanxi/datong/attraction/datong-locomotive-works-railway-museum/Datong Locomotive Works was established in 1984, a somewhat late date, perhaps, to commence the production of steam-powered locomotives, since diesel and electric locomotives were already beginning to appear in China. But coal-fuelled steam locomotives had been the backbone of China's industrialization since 1952, so there was no lack of adherents of steam who were eager to point out the advantages of using the energy form which the country had in greatest abundance, namely, coal. The locomotive...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1233) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCSat 9 Jan 2009 2:15:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanxi/datong/attraction/yingxian-wooden-pagoda/Yingxian Muta, or Yingxian Wooden Pagoda, built in 1056 during the Liao (CE 916-1125) Dynasty, is located in the village of Yinxian in Shanxi Province, about 70 kilometers south of the old Liao Dynasty capital city of Datong. Yingxian Muta is the oldest all-wood pagoda in China, and the highest all-wood pagoda in the world, standing at 67.31 meters and with a base diameter of 30.27 meters. By comparison, Yingxian Muta is some 30 meters higher than the famous White Pagoda in Beijing's Beihai Park...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1232) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCThu 31 Dec 2008 18:12:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanxi/datong/attraction/hanging-monastery/The Hanging Monastery at the foot of Heng Shan (Heng Mountain, aka Henshan Mountain), Shanxi Province, is located some 5 kilometers south of the village of Hunyuan, and about 65 kilometers southeast of the largest regional city, Datong. Although Henshan Mountain is one of the Five Sacred Mountains of Taoism/ Daoism, the Hanging Monastery is in fact a Buddhist temple.* However, the Hanging Monastery, which is Hengshan Mountain's principal attraction, pays homage to Confuciansim and Taoism as well...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1224) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 30 Dec 2008 1:05:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanxi/datong/attraction/yungang-grottoes/The Yungang Grottoes are carved out of sandstone cliffs on Wuzhou Mountain, located near the city of Datong, Shanxi Province. The Yungang Grottoes were dug over a span of forty years (CE 453-493), during the Northern Wei (CE 386-533) Dynasty, which was part of the Northern (CE 386-588) Dynasties period of the Northern and Southern (CE 386-588) Dynasties period (note that while the Northern Dynasties period spans the entire Northern and Southern Dynasties period, the Southern Dynasties period doe...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 628) AND (ServiceType = 15) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCThu 15 Oct 2008 1:39:00 GMTnancyhttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanxi/datong/shop/sipailou-street/Situated in the downtown of Datong city, Sipailou Street is one of the popular and relatively well-known streets. Many malls, shops and wholesale centers line along the street. You can buy not only the high-price and high-quality goods but also the low-cost products there. Sipalou Street offer many local products including carpets, porcelain, woolen clothing, furs, and many leather goods, attractive silk dolls and artistically designed copper hotpots. Clothings at every pricecan also be bought h...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 627) AND (ServiceType = 15) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCThu 15 Oct 2008 1:38:00 GMTnancyhttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanxi/datong/shop/daxi-street/With a very long history, Daxi Street is one of the busiest streets in Datong city. All kinds of stores stand along the road sides. There are some supper malls like Zhongxing Shopping Mall, East Shopping Mall, Huafeng Shopping Mall, Qingyuan Shopping mall and so on. With very high- tech facilities, these big shopping malls not only provide people the best goods but also the best services. Besides there are also some other small stores, like shoes stores, clothing stores, hair salons and some sma...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1582) AND (ServiceType = 35) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCThu 15 Oct 2008 1:32:00 GMTnancyhttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanxi/datong/product/yungang-silk-doll/Yungang Silk Doll is remarkably similar in shape and spirit to human being. In Ming and Qing daynasties, Yungang people had kept a habit to buy silk or clay dolls for good luck. After the Liberation, clay dolls were eliminated. Meanwhile, the silk dolls are becoming more and more popular. The silk dolls in Yungang are commonly made of ghatpot, silk, brocade, muslin and so on. With these materials, these silk dolls are very gorgeous....]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1584) AND (ServiceType = 35) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCThu 15 Oct 2008 1:31:00 GMTnancyhttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanxi/datong/product/guangling-paper-cut/Guangling Paper-Cut is famous for its rich content, exquisite craftsmanship, bright color, distinctive flavor of life and local style. For more details on Chinese paper cut see http://www.chinatravel.com/facts/chinese-arts/chinese-folk-papercut.htm...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1958) AND (ServiceType = 35) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCThu 15 Oct 2008 1:28:00 GMTnancyhttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanxi/datong/product/datong-coal-carving/Datong is the second largest city in Shanxi, and is known as the coal capital because of the developed mining industry in the region. In the long history of dealing with coal, people in Datong not only burn coal for warm but have created an art out of it. Coal carving originates in Datong city, Shanxi province. The raw material of coal carving is coal gangue. Coal carving as a new art first appeared in 1998. The themes involved in the coal carvings focus on Datong's culture taking the Big Buddh...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1957) AND (ServiceType = 35) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 14 Oct 2008 21:49:00 GMTnancyhttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanxi/datong/product/corn-husk-plaited-articles/Corn husk plaited articles, as it name suggests, are made of corn husks. The Datong people are so cleaver that they make the corn husks into various useful and beautiful products like tea-cup cushions, automobile cushion, mats and so on. Because of corn husk plaited articles are of good elasticity and air permeability, they are very popular....]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1956) AND (ServiceType = 35) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 14 Oct 2008 21:46:00 GMTnancyhttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanxi/datong/product/artistic-porcelain/As early as 1400 years earlier, Datong has been famous for producing potteries. It was recorded in Tang and Song dynasties, Datong had developed ''Ci Lei'' (a kind of weapon) which was used in wars. Nowadays, there are still many pottery factories in Datong. They mainly produce some pottery kitchen utensil like cups, dish wares, bowls, tea pots. Their products are renowned for being fashion, original, beautiful and with high quality. They are the best choices as gifts. The potteries produced ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2985) AND (ServiceType = 16) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 14 Oct 2008 21:19:00 GMTnancyhttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanxi/datong/restaurant/datong-delicacy-town/Datong Delicacy Town is the typical local-style chain restaurant in Datong city, Shanxi province. It is situated in the North Street of playground city offering Shandong cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, Szechuan cuisine, Beijing cuisine and Shanxi cuisine. The opening time is from 9am to 11pm. If you would like to taste the snacks from all over the country, especially Datong special snack, come to this restaurant. You can enjoy Sliced noodles, Shaomai, Wandou noodles, Hunyuanshu soybean, Cool powder ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2987) AND (ServiceType = 16) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 14 Oct 2008 21:17:00 GMTnancyhttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanxi/datong/restaurant/grandma-lin%e2%80%99s-flavor-restaurant/This restaurant mainly provides wheaten foods and local flavor dishes. The most famous three dishes there are roast lamb leg, roast potato, and roast lamb shoulder. The surface of its roast lamb leg is renowned for being crisp and sweet. Sometimes, the restaurant offers customers some foods for free depending on seasons, like roast potato in cold winter and green bean soup in hot summer. It not only has delicious but not expensive foods but also has pleasant and clean surroundings. It is a good ...]]>Wed 14 Oct 2008 21:12:00 GMTnancyhttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanxi/datong/food/pea-noodles/Wed 14 Oct 2008 21:05:00 GMTnancyhttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanxi/datong/food/guangling-dried-bean-curd/Wed 14 Oct 2008 21:00:00 GMTnancyhttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanxi/datong/food/datong-instant-boiled-lamb/SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 5972) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 14 Oct 2008 20:40:00 GMTnancyhttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanxi/datong/attraction/yanmenguan-pass/Yanmenguan Pass, which is also called Xijing Pass, is located at the Ridge of Gouzhu Mountain of northwest Dai County. It is 20 kilometers away from Dai County. Because of its special geographical location, in ancient times, Yanmenguan Pass was regarded as a key military fortress which all states were eager to occupy. Yanmenguan faces to high plateau area in the north, Xinding Basin in the south. For thousands of years, it is famous for being important, dangerous, and also great. After the empe...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 5973) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 14 Oct 2008 20:38:00 GMTnancyhttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanxi/datong/attraction/drum-tower/Drum Tower, which is 18.33 meters long from east to west, 14 meters wide from north to south, and 20meters high, is located in the cross road of south Danan Street. It was built in Ming dynasty and underwent several renovations during the Qing dynasty. This building has three storeys. The first storey is built of bluestones, and the second and the third storey are built of wood and bricks. Around the main body of the tower, there is a wooden corridor on each storey for people to overlook the sc...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 3342) AND (ServiceType = 16) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 7 Oct 2008 23:10:00 GMTlifeng http://www.chinatravel.com/shanxi/datong/restaurant/xiaonan-street/In the downtown of Datong city, Food Street attracts many people including local people and travelers, which makes Xiaonnan street become a popular and famous street in Datong. In this street, you can taste not only cuisines from all over the world but also the orthodox local food such as Shaomai, Hunyuanshu soybean, Beer in Yungang, Cool powder of taste, Youzhagao, Rinse mutton, You wheat, The day lily, Yangza, Beishi, Potatoes and Buckwheat. You can enjoy these special foods in the Kunlun rest...]]>