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Ningbo is one of China's oldest cities, with a history dating to the Jingtou Mountain Culture in 6300 BCE and Hemudu culture in 4800 BCE. Ningbo was known as a trade city on the Silk Road at least two thousand years ago, and later as a major port for foreign trade.
Ningbo is one of China's oldest cities, with a history dating back to the Hemudu culture in 4800 BC. Once known as Mingzhou (明州), Ningbo was known as a trade city on the Silk Road at least two thousand years ago, and then as a major port, along with Yangzhou and Guangzhou in the Tang dynasty; thereafter, the major ports for foreign trade in the Song dynasty.
Chinese name Location Designation Image Liuhe Pagoda: Liuhe ta 六和塔: Hangzhou: 1-72 Baoguo Temple: Baoguo si 保国寺: Ningbo: 1-90 Tomb of Yue Fei: Yue Fei mu 岳飞墓: Hangzhou: 1-176 Feilai Feng Grottoes: Feilaifeng zaoxiang 飞来峰造像
Tianyi Ge Historic District is located in the middle and western part of the historical street of Yuehu West Street in the old city of Ningbo. In the cultural undertakings of the feudal Chinese in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644 AD), Wen Yuan's "Tiangong Parterre" has been incorporated into Tianyi Ge and transformed into "East Garden" as part of ...
After its mid-19th century restoration by Ningbo's guild of Fujianese merchants, it was acclaimed as one of the most beautiful temples in China and was used by the merchants as their guildhall. It was destroyed in 1949 as the Communists were fighting the Chinese Civil War , and suffered further harm during the Cultural Revolution , but was ...
The Old Bund (simplified Chinese: 老外滩; traditional Chinese: 老外灘; pinyin: Lǎo Wàitān; Ningboese: lau 2 nga 3 thae 1), originally known as the North Riverbank (Chinese: 江北岸; pinyin: Jiāngběi'àn; Ningboese: kaon 1 poh 4 nge 3), is a waterfront area in Jiangbei District, Ningbo. The Old Bund is on the north bank of the Yong ...
The Hemudu culture (5500 BC to 3300 BC [1]) was a Neolithic culture that flourished on the Chinese coast, just south of the Hangzhou Bay in Jiangnan in modern Yuyao, Zhejiang, China. The culture may be divided into early and late phases, before and after 4000 BC respectively. [2] The site at Hemudu, 22 km northwest of Ningbo, was
Wall detail, made of old tiles. Ningbo Museum was designed by Wang Shu, the first Chinese citizen to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2012. The design is a conceptual combination of mountains, water and oceans. design through decorations made from old tiles and bamboo.The Eastern China Sea and the Siming mountains surround the Museum and are referenced in its design and construction.