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Shiyan; The Truck making City Guarding China’s Holiest Taoist Mountain

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Monks at Wudang's Golden Peak still light incense at 1,612 metres, on one of the steepest summits in the Taoist canon; Mi Fu, a Song dynasty painter, is said to have called this range the foremost mountain under heaven. 武当山金顶海拔一千六百一十二米,僧人至今仍在此焚香祈福,是道教名山中地势最为险峻的峰顶之一;相传宋代书画家米芾曾赞誉这座山为"天下第一山"。 The...
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Xiangyang; A City with Walls that Held off Kublai Khan for 6 Years

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Seven divisions under Yu Jin drowned outside Fancheng in 219 AD, when a sudden flood sent the Han River over its banks; Guan Yu, watching from higher ground, seized his chance, forced a surrender and doomed a rival general...
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On this Day in Chinese History; 7 September

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This day, 7 September, in 2000, the heads of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council held their very first meeting in New York, turning a profound page in the history of the United Nations. President...
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Ezhou; the Three Kingdoms Capital that Gave Up the Name Wuchang

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Sun Quan renamed this city Wuchang in 221 AD, founding the Kingdom of Wu here and later proclaiming himself emperor within its walls in 229, before moving his capital to Jianye, present-day Nanjing, that same year; the name Wuchang...
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Jingmen; Home to a 2,300-Year-Old Copy of Laozi’s “Tao Te Ching”

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Nine kilometres south of the tomb at Guodian lie the ruins of Ying, capital of the ancient state of Chu for four centuries; in 1993, workers opened a nearby Warring States burial and found bamboo slips bearing the oldest...
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On this Day in Chinese History; 6 September

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This day, 6 September, in 1991, the Supreme Head of State of Malaysia, Sultan Azlan Shah, paid a state visit to China at the invitation of Chinese President, Yang Shangkun. It was the first official visit to China by...
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On this Day in Chinese History; 5 September

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This day, 5 September, in 1988, when Deng Xiaoping met with Czechoslovak President, Gustav Husak, he made the important assertion that “science and technology are the primary productive forces” for the first time. Deng pointed out, “The world is...
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Xiaogan; the Only Prefecture-level City in China Named for Filial Piety

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Every Saturday afternoon, a free opera performance draws a small crowd into a pavilion inside Dong Yong Park, retelling a story that gave the city its name; most in the audience have heard it before, and come back anyway. 每逢周六下午,亭中都会上演一场免费的地方戏,吸引不少人前来观看,讲述的正是这座城市名字的由来;台下大多数人早已听过这个故事,却依然一次次前来。 The...
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About Me

Editor-in-Chief of The Nanjinger, Frank Hossack, is a multi-award winning Radio/TV host and voice-over artist who has worked in China for the past 32 years. Frank has also written for Time magazine, the Wall Street Journal and The Times, appeared on the BBC and LBC, and been cited by CNN, China Daily and the New York Times, among many others.
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