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Maps are also available as part of the Wikimedia Atlas of the World project in the Atlas of China. Pages in category "Maps of China" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Looking at the map, every reader will initially think that Wuhan was an ancient city of China. After realizing their mistake, they'll just wonder why such unhelpful, misleading information was included on a historical map in the first place, esp. given that the confluence of the Han and Yangtze R. must have had a settlement at the time with a ...
The map is thought by sinologist J.J.L. Duyvendak to have been part of the library of Mao Kun, a collector of military and naval material, who might have acquired it while he was the governor of Fujian. [3] The map was included in Wubei Zhi edited by his grandson Mao Yuanyi, and therefore had been referred to in the past as the "Wubei Zhi chart ...
The Stone Sentinel Maze was an array of rocks and boulders thought to be conjured by Zhuge Liang based on the concept of the bagua. The formation was located on Yufu Shore (魚腹浦) by the Yangtze River near present-day Baidicheng , Chongqing , China , where supposed ruins of the array exist.
Map of China is a 2008 sculpture by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. [1] The sculpture has been reported as resembling a park bench or tree trunk, [2] but its cross-section is a map of China. It is four metres long and weighs 635 kilograms. [1] It is made from wood salvaged from Qing Dynasty temples. [2] [3]
Diyu (traditional Chinese: 地獄; simplified Chinese: 地狱; pinyin: dìyù; lit. 'earth prison') is the realm of the dead or "hell" in Chinese mythology.It is loosely based on a combination of the Buddhist concept of Naraka, traditional Chinese beliefs about the afterlife, and a variety of popular expansions and reinterpretations of these two traditions.
Tudigong temples are common across China, Tibet, Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong. A shrine to a Tudigong within the entrance gate of Tai Wai Village , a walled village of Hong Kong. In Chinese, Spirit houses are called 土地神屋 or Tudigong House, representing a link between the concept and the concept of a Tudigong temple dedicated to a ...
East Asia blank map China/Japan/Korean peninsula as a SVG file: Date: 1 August 2008, 02:13 (UTC) Source: China-Manchukuo-map.png; East Asia area blank CJK.svg; Author: derivative work: Emok; China-Manchukuo-map.png: ErnstA, User:Kingruedi; East Asia area blank CJK.svg: Eurodollers; Other versions