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READ YOUR EMAIL FROM GAIL in CHINA |
Pictures from Gail coming soon.
Click the download button below to read your email. |
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the Lee Family |
My cousin Gail left April 1, 2008, flying from California to China.
Here's part of her 1st email to you. Read the rest down this page at "Cousin Gail talks about her Granddaughter's school in China".
My daughter and her family are living in China now. They'll be there until 2009.
Adam, Dannen & Cameryn left for 3 years in Qingdao, China on Thursday, August 10, 2006.
Here's a good link to lots of China pictures:
www.benoa.net/china/greatwall/index.html
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Model of original summer palace |
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Shanghai's Yu Yuan Garden |
Yuyuan is a 400 year old classical Chinese garden in the Old Town of Shanghai, not far from the Bund. Pan Yunduan spent twenty years and all his savings building it to please his parents in their old age.
Explore the garden through three Java panoramas, sounds and still images.
www.thechinaguide.com/shanghai_yuyuan/index.html |
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Natl. Geog. pics from China |
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Gail left for the Forbidden City April 1st |
The Forbidden City was the former Imperial palace which was the home to twenty-four Chinese emperors over 491 years between 1420 and 1911.
Each corner of the Forbidden City has a unique corner tower. Below is seen the moat surrounding the palace which is 3,800 metres long and 52 metres wide.
Intruders were discouraged by guards in watchtowers with bow and arrows. Legend has it that the emperor gave craftsmen only nine days to design the corner towers. With still no ideas after eight days, the craftsmen were sitting in a teahouse hoping for an idea. An old peddler selling a cricket cage approached them and was quickly sent away. But he smiled and said, "Look closely, this is no ordinary cricket cage." In fact it was finely crafted and had 9 beams, 18 columns and 72 ridges. It was taken as the model for the towers. The peddler was actually master craftsman Lu Ban who became an immortal.
www.thechinaguide.com/forbidden_city/forbidden_city_virtual_tour.html |
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A Palace with 9,999 rooms? |
The Forbidden City was the former imperial palace which was the home to twenty-four Chinese emperors over 491 years between 1420 and 1911. The Forbidden City is now known as the Palace Museum and is open to Beijing's visitors.
The palace is 960 metres long and 750 metres wide. It has 9,999 rooms - a room being the space between four pillars.
The well guarded palace is surrounded by a moat 3,800 metres long and 52 metres wide. Intruders were discouraged by guards in watchtowers with bow and arrows.
Below is an interactive map. Once completely loaded you can roll your mouse down the centerline of the Forbidden City map to view pictures of that area. Pressing and holding the mouse will return to the map for reference.
www.thechinaguide.com/forbidden_city/index.html |
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ASSIGNMENT |
www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-08/11/content_6022497.htm
9 stops on your trip:
Beijing
The Great Wall
The Forbidden City
Qingdao (on the Yellow Sea)
(where the Lees are for 3 years)
Giant panda reserve
Shanghai
Hong Kong
Giant Buddhas
Temples
Click the DOWNLOAD button for ASSIGNMENT details. You have a printout hanging at your desk.
Your 18 sentences
(IN YOUR OWN WORDS)...
THEY SHOULD BE put into a WORD DOCUMENT WITH different (and colorful) CHINESE FONTS for each of the 9 places....
You'll need a CHINESE WATERMARK.
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Use the maps to find these NINE stops |
YOU MUST FIND the all NINE STOPS ON YOUR TRIP.
You must have pictures of ALL NINE for your MOVIEMAKER ASSIGNMENT..but...never, NEVER get your pictures from my website...they won't have the right resolution for the moviemaker show. Instead, go to the links I've given you and get your pictures there.
9 stops on your China trip:
BEIJING
THE GREAT WALL stretches over approximately 6,508 km (4,000 miles)[3] from Shanhaiguan in the east to Lop Nur in the west, along an arc that roughly delineates the southern edge of Inner Mongolia, but stretches to over 6,700 km (4,160 miles) in total.
THE FORBIDDEN CITY (where is it?)
QINGDAO (on the Yellow Sea) where Gail's daughter and family live.
SHANGHAI
HONG KONG
GIANT PANDA RESERVE
GIANT BUDDAS
TEMPLES |
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Here's a website written in Chinese with great pictures |
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What is the current time and temperature in China right now? |
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China at a Glance...click below for lots of info |
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Click the download button |
This has China facts in one spot. |
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TIME magazine archive of China |
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The Great Wall of China |
It is a Chinese fortification built from 3rd century BC until the beginning of the 17th century, in order to protect the various dynasties from raids by Mongol, Turkic, and other nomadic tribes coming from areas in modern-day Mongolia and Manchuria.
Several walls were built since the 3rd century BC, the most famous being the Great Wall of China built between 220 BC and 200 BC by the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi (this was located much further north than the current Great Wall of China built during the Ming Dynasty, and little of it remains).
The Wall stretches over an amazing 3,948 miles.
Here's a great virtual tour of the great wall to help you understand more.
www.thechinaguide.com/great_wall_of_china/index.html
NOW USE GOOGLE EARTH AND FIND THE GREAT WALL NOW.
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Great Wall ...click link below for map |
www.chinahighlights.com/greatwall/map.htm
The Great Wall stretches over approximately 6,508 km (4,000 miles)[3] from Shanhaiguan in the east to Lop Nur in the west, along an arc that roughly delineates the southern edge of Inner Mongolia, but stretches to over 6,700 km (4,160 miles) in total.[4] At its peak, the Ming Wall was guarded by more than one million men.[5] It has been estimated that somewhere in the range of 2 to 3 million Chinese died as part of the centuries-long project of building the wall.[6]
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This link shows how to write in Chinese. |
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The best pictures of China |
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can you find the chicken head? |
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WORLD ATLAS is the greatest |
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Click below for a map with which you can interact. |
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Cousin Gail talks about her Granddaughter's school in China |
Click here for Qingdao No. 1 International School of Shandong Province
www.qiss.org.cn/
Click the download button below to read the letter Cousin Gail wrote to you.
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Great Wall is about 4,000 miles long |
The Great Wall of China (simplified Chinese: 长城; traditional Chinese: 長城; pinyin: Chángchéng; literally "Long wall") or (simplified Chinese: 万里长城; traditional Chinese: 萬里長城; pinyin: Wànlǐ Chángchéng; literally "The long wall of 10,000 Li (里)"[1]) is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in China, built, rebuilt, and maintained between the 5th century BC and the 16th century to protect the northern borders of the Chinese Empire during the rule of successive dynasties. Several walls, referred to as the Great Wall of China, were built since the 5th century BC. The most famous is the wall built between 200 BC - 220 BC by the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang; little of it remains; it was much farther north than the current wall, which was built during the Ming Dynasty in the 15th century.[2]
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CHINESE MUSIC |
Here's a link to music from Kymbre:
music.ibiblio.org/pub/multimedia/chinese-music/
If you want your own Chinese music to use in your Moviemaker show, just Google in "China Music"
Then you'll "copy shortcut" and save to your desktop. From there, you can insert into your show. |
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Try this link to learn more |
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2008 Beijing Summer Olympics |
Try to fit the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics into your Moviemaker show...
en.beijing2008.cn/
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When you get to the link below, find China in the Middle Ages and click on it. |
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Here's a FREE ONLINE TRANSLATOR: |
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GIANT PANDA RESERVE BELOW: |
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_panda |
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You might be interested in this link:
ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/05/china/architecture/girard-photography?email=Focus_04252008
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