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Day 1. The visit to the Tianamen and the Forbidden City would require the better part of a full day. and to hire a local guide for this place should be reservation at here

Day2. The Great Walland the Ming tomb

Day3. The old and new summer Palace.

Tianamen (Gate of Heavenly Peace) Square天安門廣場

The Tinanamen Square together with the Monument to the People's Heroes (1958) is the center of the city.

Forbidden City (Palace Museum)故宮博物院

Entrance from the southern Meridian Gate (Wumen) is preferable. Ticket can be purchase at the small building at the side of the gate. There is a cloakroom where you can deposit your luggage for YMB 2, for extract 20 cents they can actually transport that luggage to the north gate in an hour so that you don't have to carry it around.

Through the Wumen and passing the five white marble Golden River Bridges (Jin Shui Qiao) is the Gate of Supreme Harmony, Hall of Supreme Harmony and Hall of Preserving Harmony

The Great Wall長城－八達嶺，居庸關，慕田峪

The great wall was built from 800 B.C, following the unification of the Qin Dynasty, Emperor Qin Shi Huang di begin to join up various smaller walls. The Wall extends from the Liadongg peninsula in the East to Lintao in the west and stretches over 6,000 km. Today, most visitor visit the Badaling, Jugogguan Pass and the Mugianyu section of the Great Wall. The Badaling pass is located about 70 km northwest of Beijing. This was built in 1368 and large portion is well preserved. Major estored work was done in 1993.

Local tourist bus is available where a daily trip to Badaling and Ming Tomb cost YMB45. Departure is from the bus station just opposite the Qianmen Gate. (See picture). You paid for the ticket on the bus which departs every half hour during weekends and holidays. The last bus departs at 10:30am.

Entrance fee to the Badaling Great Wall is YMB25. Entrance fee to the Jugogguan Pass is YMB35

The Ming Tombs (Shisanling)明陵

The Ming Tombs is located around 50km north of Beijing City.The local tour above will stop by the tomb. You have to buy the entrance ticket yourself.

Temple of Heaven (Tiantan) Park天壇

Temple of Heaven is located south of the Qiamen (前門) was originally built in the year 1420. This is the place where the emperor came each year in the first Lunar Month to pray for good harvest. The main building is the Qiniandian (Hall of Good harvest) which was rebuilt in 1890 after the original was destroyed by lightning in 1889. The building is 38m height with a diameter of 30m and built without using a single nail.

Over the other side of the Cinnabar Starway Bridge is the Vault of Heaven surrounded by the Echo Wall (回音壁). The Vault of Heaven was first built in the year 1530. The echo wall would create echoes even to very tiny voices. Visitor who clap hands on the third stones in front of the temple could hear thee echoes (三音石)

Transportation by taxi from Qiamen is YMB10. Opening 6:30am to 6:00pm but no admission after 5:30pm.

Summer Palace (Yiheyuan)頤和園

The summer Palace is located at the north west part of the city, near the Beijing University

Garden of Perfection and Light (Old Summer Palace)圓明園This is located just half kilometer from the Yiheyuan. The garden was built in 1709 and destroy 1860 by the British and French troops. Antique shops (Liulichang Street)琉璃廠大街

You can buy picture and material for Chinese paintings as well as modern antiques. Please beware that real antiques are only allowed export out of China with proper documents. The place is most conveniently accessed by taxi from Qiamen.

Western Hills (Xi Shan)西山八大處

Planning

The information of China can be obtain from the official Beijing Travel Association,Beijing government website, You will also find Arriving Beijing by Plane, to relevalant information here. There are more material from the  lonely planet on Beijing

Arriving in Beijing by air

International visitor will be arriving at the new Beijing International Airport. The travel time on taxi to downtown Beijing is around 30 to 45 minutes. Average cost is between YMB90 to YMB130 by taxi.

Arriving at Beijing by railway

Visitor that visit other cities will probably travel on rail and will be arriving at the new Beijing Railway Station. The Beijing station is actually located within the city. If your hotel is located within city, the total cost of taxi to the hotel should be around YMB30 only.

Getting around

Taxi is convenient and inexpensive means of travelling within Beijing. Price started from YMB10 and taxi are available at YMB1.2, YMB1.6 and YMB2.0 per kilometer depending on the quality of the taxi, the price is clearly marked on the windshield outside the backseat.

In this trip we travel within the city and most of the time the cost is YMB20 to 30. Considering that one trip on the subway cost YMB3 (for both adult and child), you might as well take the taxi if you have several person and just travelling between scencery spots within city.

While the taxi meter should all be equipped with printer for receipts, we do find that occassionaly some taxi driver will declare the meter had problem and try to negotiate a price, this is illegal. To avoid problem, point to the meter and ask if they can print a receipt before you board the taxi. (Tips: Ask for a receipt by pointing to it after your first trip, keep this and show to the taxi driver next time before you board the taxi)

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Mood: Exciting for the Spring Festival Day
Listening to: To opening arms New days of the comming year

　by Bertrand Russell

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a waywa document.write;

rd course over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.

　　I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy—ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of my life for a few hours for this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness—that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what—at last—I have found.

　　With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine…A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

　　Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

　　This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.

　　吾之三愿

　　贝特兰·罗素

　　吾生三愿，纯朴却激越：一曰渴望爱情，二曰求索知识，三曰悲悯吾类之无尽苦难。此三愿，如疾风，迫吾无助飘零于苦水深海之上，直达绝望之彼岸。

　　吾求爱，盖因其赐吾狂喜——狂喜之剧足令吾舍此生而享其片刻；吾求爱，亦因其可驱寂寞之感，吾人每生寂寞之情辄兢兢俯视天地之缘，而见绝望之无底深渊；吾求爱还因若得爱，即可窥视圣哲诗人所见之神秘天国。此吾生之所求，虽虑其之至美而恐终不为凡人所得，亦可谓吾之所得也。

　　吾求知亦怀斯激情。吾愿闻人之所思，亦愿知星之何以闪光……吾仅得此而已，无他。

　　爱与知并力，几携吾入天国之门，然终为悲悯之心拖拽未果。痛苦之吟常萦绕吾心：受饥饿之婴，遭压迫之民，为儿女遗弃之无助老叟，加之天下之孤寂、贫穷、苦痛，具令吾类之生难以卒睹。吾愿穷毕生之力释之，然终不能遂愿，因亦悲极。

　　吾生若此而已，然吾颇感未枉此生；若得天允，当乐而重为之。

Translation by Kjun

If there be righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. When there is order in each nation there will be peace in the world.

 

你早！/早上好！
Good morning!

Hello！Good morning!
Sentence: 你早！/早上好！

Explanation to the sentence:

你早！/早上好！refer to say "good morning".

Dialogues in real life:

(1)A official enter into the office in the morning. He will say to his colleague:
A:你早！
Good morning!
B:早！
Good morning!

(2）A teacher starts a lesson .He will say:
A:同学们，早上好！现在开始上课。
Good morning, students. Now we start our lesson.
B:老师，早上好！
Good morning, teacher!

(3)Two neighbors meet in the stairs.
A:早上好！上班去呀？
Good morning. Are you going to work?
B:早上好！是呀，上班！
Good morning. Yes, go to work!

练习 Exercises:

完成下列对话 Finish the following dialogues：
(1) 学生: _______，王老师。
老师: 早。

(2)[6.00PM, an announcer say hello to the listeners]
announcer: _______，听众朋友。

If you have any question about this idiom, please send usa mail at foto6@tom.com, or you can deliver the question online. We'll be happy if you've made progress in your Chinese!

Regards

kjun