Hutong People in Beijing.
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Wednesday, September 10, 2025
China - Beijing - Hutong People
Hutong People in Beijing.
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
China - Xinjiang - Kizil Buddhist Caves
Monday, July 14, 2025
China - Gansu Province - Mogao Caves
Sent by Han Tong from P.R. China.
China - Chongqing Province - Dazu Rock Carvings
Sent by Han Tong from P.R. China.
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
China - Liaoning Province - Shenyang
The Impression of Shenyang.
The Charm of Shenyang Landscape
Sent by David from Shenyang in Liaoning Province, China.
Shenyang, formerly known by its Manchu name Mukden, is a sub-provincial city in China and the provincial capital of Liaoning province. It is the province's most populous city with a population of 9,070,093 as of the 2020 census, also making it the largest city in Northeast China by urban population, and the second-largest by metropolitan population (behind Harbin). The Shenyang metropolitan area is one of the major megalopolises in China, with a population of over 23 million. The city's administrative region includes the ten metropolitan districts, the county-level city of Xinmin, and the counties of Kangping and Faku (read more).
China - Jiangsu Province - Zhouzhuang Town Exploration Guide
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA - KUNSHAN
ZHOUZHUANG TOWN EXPLORATION GUIDE
Sent by Monna from Kunshan in Jiangsu Province, China.
Zhouzhuang (Chinese: 周庄; pinyin: Zhōuzhuāng; Wu: Tseu-zaon) is a water town known for its canals in Jiangsu province, China. It is located within the administrative area of Kunshan, 30 km southeast of the city centre of Suzhou.
Zhouzhuang is a popular tourist destination, classified as a AAAAA scenic area by the China National Tourism Administration. It is noted for its profound cultural background, well preserved ancient residential houses, and elegant watery views. A 2017 article in the Smithsonian Magazine described Zhouzhuang as "the most famous and most commercialized ancient water town in China," noting that its architecture "dates back more than 900 years, with about 60 original brick archways and 100 original courtyards." It has also been called "Venice of the East".
CNN ranked Zhouzhuang the third most beautiful water town in China in 2017 and included it in its 2019 collection of Asia's 13 most picturesque towns (read more).
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
China - Guandong Province - Pan Tang Ancient Village
With a history of more than 900 years, Pan Tang Ancient Village, is the only remaining intact of Qing Dynasty rural settlement in Guangzhou. There are also many historical and cultural landscapes nearby, such as Renwei Ancient Temple, Litchi Bay, Wen Tower, etc., as well as intangible cultural heritage such as Cantonese Opera, three carvings, one color, on folkecological parke embroidery, and martial arts. It is the most Guangzhou.
I have no idea who sent this postcard from China.
In the southern city of Guangzhou, there is an ancient village called Pan Tang, with a history that dates back at least 900 years. On the first day of the Chinese New Year, locals perform lion dances to bring blessings of happiness, health and prosperity.
Despite being on the banks of a popular lake, the remarkable heritage of the village has largely gone unnoticed in the modern era. But that's slowly changing (read more).
China - Guangdong Province - Huacheng Square
Huacheng Square is known as Guangzhou's "city living room". It is the largest sqaure in Guangzhou, bringing together the tallest and most. beautiful buildings in Guangzhou, and a new skyline of Guangzhou.
I have no idea who sent this from China.
Huacheng Square, or Flower City Square (Chinese: 花城广场), is the largest city square in the city of Guangzhou. The square is situated on the city axis in Zhujiang New Town, covering an area of 56 hectares with Haixinsha Island to its south and Huangpu Avenue to its north. Guangzhou Opera House, Guangdong Museum and Guangzhou Library[2] are also located around the square.
Underneath the whole area are the Guangzhou APM line with its 4 stations, as well as the Mall of the World shopping center with many connecting tunnels to the other malls, BRT bus stations and metro stations (read more).
China - Beihai Park
Beihai Park.
Sent by Rocky from Beijing, China.
Beihai Park is a public park and former imperial garden immediately northwest of the Forbidden City in Beijing, China.
First built in the 12th century, Beihai is among the largest of all surviving Chinese gardens and contains numerous historically important structures, palaces, and temples. Once part of the Imperial City, it has been open to the public since 1925. As with many of Chinese imperial gardens, Beihai was designed to imitate renowned scenic spots and architecture from various regions of China, particularly Jiangnan around the Yangtze Delta. Various aspects of the park evoke the elaborate pavilions and canals of Hangzhou and Yangzhou, the delicate gardens of Suzhou, and the natural scenery around Lake Tai with its famously porous stones. Beihai Park itself is now reckoned one of the masterpieces of Chinese gardening and landscaping (read more).
China - Hemu Village
Hemu Village.
Sent by Roy from Suzhou in China.
Hemu Village is one of the three extinct Tuva villages in China. The superb beautiful and serene natural scenery has won it “Paradise for Photography” and “A Private Land of Gods”. It is most famous for oil painting like autumn scenery, when unique Tuva wooden houses are decorated by dreamy mists and extensive golden birch trees (read more).
Saturday, May 10, 2025
China - Splendid G20 Members - Kruger National Park
KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, SOUTH AFRICA
Sent by Wang Jian fron Nanning, China.
The G20 Summit in 2016 was held on September 4th and 5th in Hangzhou, China. The theme of the Summit is to build an innovative, invigorated, interconnected and inclusivve global economy (read more).
Thursday, April 17, 2025
China - Bei Hai Silver Beach
Bei Hai SIlver Beach, Beihai City, Guangxi Province.
Sent by Jack from Shanghai, P.R. China.
All the sands here are high quality quartz sands, the silver shining light shows when it is under the sunlight, therefore, it’s like a beach of silvers.
Friday, March 14, 2025
China - Sun Tower and Moon Tower of Sanhu Lake
Sunday, January 19, 2025
China - Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City
Saturday, June 16, 2012
China - Temple of Heaven : an Imperial Sacrificial Altar in Beijing
Temple of Heaven (which lists into WCI in 1998).
Locates at Chongwen District, Beijing, the place for Ming and Qing emperor to offer a sacrifice to heaven and pray for harvest.
Sent by Zhang, a postcrosser from Nanjing, China.
This is from UNESCO : The Temple of Heaven is a masterpiece of architecture and landscape design which simply and graphically illustrates a cosmogony of great importance for the evolution of one of the world's great civilizations. Its symbolic layout and design had a profound influence on architecture and planning in the Far East over many centuries. Furthermore, the legitimacy of the feudal dynasties that for more than 2,000 years ruled over China is symbolized by the design and layout of the Temple of Heaven.
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
China - Yunan Province - Shangri-La County
Shangri-La County, Yunan Province.
Sent by A-_-Ding, a postcrosser from China.
This is from Wikipedia : Shangri-La (Xamgyi'nyilha) County is a primarily Tibetan county in northwestern Yunnan province, Southwest China and is the location of the seat of the Dêqên Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
he county was formerly called Zhongdian County (Chinese: 中甸县 Zhōngdiàn Xiàn) but was renamed in 2001 after the fictional land of Shangri-La in the 1933 James Hilton novel Lost Horizon, in an effort to promote tourism in the area. The local Tibetan population previously referred to it by the name Gyalthang, which is the Tibetan name forJiantang Town (建塘镇 Jiàntáng Zhèn), the county seat.
Shangri-La has a humid continental climate (Köppen Dwb), with influences from the monsoon and the high elevation. Winters are chilly but sunny, with nighttime lows often dropping below −15 °C (5 °F), while summers are cool, with daytime highs of around19 °C (66 °F), and feature frequent rain; more than 70% of the annual precipitation is delivered from June to September. Except during the summer, nights are usually sharply cooler than the days. Despite the dryness of the winter, the small amount of precipitation is generally sufficient to cause major transportation dislocations and isolate the area between November and March.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
China - Beijing - Suzhou Street
Suzhou Street, The Summer Palace, Beijing
Sent by Jiani, a postcrosser from Shanghai, China.
"Over 60 stores extend from North Palace Gate entrance into a street about 300 meters (328.1 yards) in length. Along the Back Lake, the street design imitates the ancient style of shops on the banks of rivers in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, that is, taking the running water of Back Lake as the street and its banks as a market. The area served as an entertainment place where Emperors and concubines could feel as if they were strolling on a commercial street. When the royals went there, eunuchs and maids of honor would playact as peddlers, customers and shop assistants to mimic market activities.
Built during the reign of Qianlong (1711-1799), it was burned down by Anglo-French allied force in 1860. Until 1986, it was rebuilt and in 1990 it was opened to the public. Today's market includes stores such as dyers, souvenir shops, drugstores, banks, shoe stores, teashops, and hockshops, with clerks dressed in Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) costumes."(Source)
Saturday, March 31, 2012
China - Couplet

In Chinese poetry, a couplet is a pair of lines of poetry which adhere to certain rules. Outside of poems, they are usually seen on the sides of doors leading to people's homes. A special, widely-seen type of couplet is the spring couplet, used as a New Year's decoration that expresses happy and hopeful thoughts for the coming year.
Sent by Heather, a postcrosser from Shanghai, China.
This is from Wikipedia : A couplet is a pair of lines of meter in poetry. It usually consists of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter.
While traditionally couplets rhyme, not all do. A poem may use white space to mark out couplets if they do not rhyme. Couplets with a meter of iambic pentameter are called heroic couplets. The Poetic epigram is also in the couplet form. Couplets can also appear in more complex rhyme schemes. For example, Shakespearean sonnets end with a couplet.
Rhyming couplets are one of the simplest rhyme schemes in poetry. Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales are written in rhyming couplets. John Dryden in the 16-17th century and Alexander Pope in the 18th century were both well known for their writing in heroic couplets.
Because the rhyme comes so quickly in rhyming couplets, it tends to call attention to itself. Good rhyming couplets tend to "explode" as both the rhyme and the idea come to a quick close in two lines.

Thursday, March 29, 2012
China - Qingdao - The Former Site of the Governor-General Administration (German Administration)
Monday, March 5, 2012
China - The Spirit of Xue Daqing Jingshen (学大庆精神)

Designer: Ha Qiongwen (哈琼文)
1965, June
Study the spirit of Xue Daqing jingshen (学大庆精神)
Publisher: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe (上海人民美术出版社)
Size: 77x50.5 cm.
Call number: BG E13/950 (Landsberger collection)
Sent by zhoubingchen, a postcrosser from China.
The Daqing oilfield, in the cold north-east of China, becomes the national example for industrial development. Workers obtain a high production, inspired by Mao Zedong's thoughts (see the book in the coat pocket). "Iron Man" Wang Jinxi, the drill operator pictured here, becomes a model in his own right.(Source)
