Luoyang Museum Guide

Plan your Luoyang Tour? Visiting Luoyang Museum is highly recommended. The location of Luoyang Museum has changed three times, originally built inside Guanlin Temple in 1958, and in 1970s moved to the city center of Luoyang and now located south of Luohe River in the southern Luoyang. The new Luoyang Museum was open to the…

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Guanlin Temple Guide

Plan your Luoyang Tour? Guanlin Temple is not to be missed. Different from White Horse Temple, it is not a Buddhist temple. Instead it is a temple dedicated to Guanyu (160AD-219AD), a famous general in later Eastern Han Dynasty (25AD- 220AD) and early Three Kingdoms period (220AD-280AD). “Guan” refers to Guanyu himself; “Lin” here means “tomb”….

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Yin Xu Travel Tips

Plan your Henan Tour? If you are interested in Chinese history and archeology, a visit to Yinyu is worth your time exploring. Yin Xu, literally “Yin Ruins”, is the remnants of Yin, the last capital of China’s Shang Dynasty (1559BC-1046BC) and also China’s first ancient capital, proven by written documents. The Yin Xu archeological site…

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Nanjiecun: A Last Mao-style Collective

Are you going to visit Zhengzhou on your Henan tour?  A side trip 128km down south to Nanjiecun Village is quite unique since Nanjiecun is the last enclave of the Mao-style collective in a sea of socialist market economy with Chinese characteristics.  It is an anachronism, a quaint ,  lovable oddity and a Maoist Disneyland in the competitive market economy in…

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Guoliang Village Travel Tips

Plan your Henan tour? If you like to have a beautiful adventure tour, a trip to a village known as Guoliang is highly recommended.  When I write this post titled as “Guoliangcun Travel Tips”, I feel somewhat stressed since there have been already plentiful articles regarding Guoliangcun ( Guoluang Village ) on the internet if you google…

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