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The Han-Wei Imperial City
The location of Han-Wei Imperial City
of Luoyang is about 15 kilometers east of Luoyang. It
backs on to the Mangshan Hill and faces the Luo River
in the south. It was created as the capital for the
Eastern Han, Cao Wei, Western Jin and the Northern Wei dynasties for 334 years. Today, part of the ancient
city wall can still be seen on the Yi River plain where
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The Hangu Pass of the Han Dynasty
The Hangu Pass of the Han Dynasty is
located 500 meters east of the downtown of Xin'an County,
Luoyang. It was built by General Yang Shi in the reign
of Emperor Wudi of the Western Han Dynasty. The pass
platform is 9 meters high, 25 meters wide and 20 meters
deep. On the platform, there is an arched pass of 7
meters high and 4 meters wide. Here was the key pass
to Chang'an (today's Xi'an) in ancient times. |
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The Mausoleum of Emperor Guangwudi of the Han Dynasty
Located in Baihe Township, Mengjin County
20 kilometers north of Luoyang, the mausoleum is a tomb
for Emperor Liu Xiu, the first Emperor of the Eastern
Han Dynasty. It consists of the mausoleum yard and a
memorial monastery covering an area of 66,000 square
meters. The mausoleum lies in the middle of the yard,
290 meters high and 50 meters in perimeter. Besides,
there are five tablets inscribed |
respectively in the
Song, Yuan, Ming and Sui-Tang period. As the cypress
smell of apricot, so they are called apricot-cypresses,
which are the only trees of their kind existing in China
today. |
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The Baiyuan Garden
The Baiyuan Garden is located on the
northern slope of Xiangshan Hill to the south of Luoyang.
It is built in honor of the Tang poet Bai Juyi. The
garden, including Bai's tomb, combines the charm of
different gardens in both the north and China and is
a typical representation of horticulture in this region. |
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The Tomb of Fan Zhongyan
The tomb of Fan is located on the slope
of Wan'Anshan Hill, Pengpo Township, Yichuan County
to the southeast of Luoyang. Fan Zhongyan was a well-known
politician, militarist and a man of letters of the Northern
Song Dynasty. The tomb yard consists of Fan's own tomb
and several other tombs for family, his mother, his
sons and grandsons. It occupies about 4 hectares of
land with over a thousand age-old |
cypress trees planted.
The large scale of Fan's tomb is quite rare in history. |
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The Nativity of Xuanzang
The Nativity of Xuanzang is
in Chenhe Village of Gousi Town, Yanshi County, Henan
Province. As a famous monk of the Tang Dynasty, Xuanzang
was a great traveler, translator and Buddhist as well
as a cultural notability in the world history. |
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