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UNESCO describes the South China Karst as "unrivalled in terms of the diversity of its karst features and landscapes". [1] The huge karst area of South China is about 550,000 km 2 in extent. The karst terrain displays a geomorphic transition as the terrain gradually descends about 2000 meters over 700 kilometers from the western Yunnan-Guizhou ...
Aerial China (Chinese: 航拍中国), also known as Bird's-eye China, is a Chinese documentary television series showcasing the country's landscape via only aerial videos. . It aimed to consist of a total of 34 episodes and cover all of China’s 23 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities and two special administrative regio
Geography of China; Continent: Asia: Region: East/Southeast Asia: Coordinates: 1]: Area: Ranked 3/4: • Total: 9,596,960 [1] km 2 (3,705,410 sq mi): • Land: 97.2 [1] %: • Water: 2.8 [1] %: Coastline: 14,500 [1] km (9,000 mi): Borders: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Myanmar, India, North Korea, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Laos, Mongolia, Nepal, Russia, Tajikistan, Vietnam: Highest point: Mount ...
The origin of Guilin Scenic Area: It is said that the landscape of Guilin was created by the goddess Chang'e. [ 15 ] Returning the Pearl after Testing the Sword ( 试剑还珠 ): This story involves the old Dragon King in the Crystal Palace of the Fubo Pool next to Fubo Hill and his dragon pearl placed in Reed Flute Cave .
Chinese landscape painting timeline. Shan shui painting first began to develop in the 5th century, [1] in the Liu Song dynasty. [2] It was later characterized by a group of landscape painters such as Zhang Zeduan, [3] most of them already famous, who produced large-scale landscape paintings. These landscape paintings usually centered on mountains.
The Cleveland Painting is one of the Cleveland Museum of Art's oldest dated Chinese painting, acquired in 1933. [2] It depicts the misty riverscape of the Yangtze Delta . [ 2 ] As a result of the turmoil during the Jin-Song war, Mi Youren fled the scene where upon the encounter of the landscape, he painted this piece on September 11, 1130.
Early Snow on the River (Traditional Chinese: 江行初雪圖, Pinyin: Jiāng xíng chūxuě tú) is a Chinese landscape painting created by artist Zhao Gan (趙幹) created in the 10th century, during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
The classic Chinese perspective of three planes is evident - near, middle (represented by water and mist), and far. Unlike earlier examples of Chinese landscape art, the grandeur of nature is the main theme, rather than merely providing a backdrop. [3] A packhorse train can barely be seen emerging from a wood at the base of a towering precipice.