Qiang Village in Jiuzhaigou by Tina

September09

Tour in Jiuzhaigou, you will certainly impressed in the natural sceneries which enjoy a high fame as the most fairy land under the heaven. However, apart from the natural landscapes, there is one mysterious village also deserves your visit. It is just the Qiang Village.

Qiang Village in Jiuzhaigou

Layout of Qiang Village
As one of Chinese ethnic groups, Qiang people lived in the natural Jiuzhaigou area. With the steep mountain as the background, this village shows unique terrific and delicate. They are different from shapes, decorations with typical Qiang ethnic culture. Especially after enjoying the charming sceneries, come here, you will have mixed into the deep culture. Once entry, you will find you have entered into a magic palace. Almost each village is decorated with white stones. In the Qiang people, the white stones are regarded as the holy stone. The most attractive is the blockhouse. Because of the establishment of these blockhouses, this whole village shows more third dimension. You can step on the top to feel the panorama view of the whole scenery. Also, you can enter into one house to deep enjoy the local life style. No matter which method you try, a kind of marvelous feeling will surround you.

History Feature
According to the history records, early in the 2000 years ago, the Qiang Village was formed. During that time, the blockhouses still could be found. Because of the unique location surrounded by mountains, local people lived by the local materials. So you can see the main building materials of their houses are the stones. In addition, this village is located in the natural landscapes with fresh atmosphere. The tourists here will praise for the unique breathtaking environment. Each house connects with each other creating a terrific mountain house scene.

Local Life
For the unique location, local ethnic groups cultivated unique life style. From the dressing style to the eating, life habits, there is much difference with the Han people. They have their own festival and food. What the most attractive is the natural life environment created the sincere heart and laborious hands. Just enjoying a fully relaxed with them, you will be impressed by their honesty.

Jiuzhaigou is full of fairy tales, come for appreciating, it is very luxurious experience!

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Terracotta Warriors from Rudiment to Masterpiece by Jack

August13

So majestic project! How they were done like modern days? What is the material? So many questions have been added into the hot topic about the formation of Terracotta Warriors. Now, I will lead you walk into this historical mystery.

Terracotta Warriors

Building Material
For the long year researching and discovering, experts have found that the material used to mould the terracotta warriors and horses is the yellow earth. This kind of material is sourced from the mausoleum. During the Qin Dynasty when building this majesty project, this yellow earth is very easy to obtain. It is certainly that it is the ideal material for the adhesive quality and plasticity. For the earth underwent, people would remove the impurity keeping them fine and pure. In addition to this, a certain amount of white grit including the sand, mica and feldspar was added. The temporary workers added the grit to the earth to strengthen mechanical properties allowing the terracotta warriors and the horses to be easily shaped.

Lifelike Figure Creation
Recent years, the experts have reconstructed the techniques for making the warriors by repeatedly observing, comparing and researching the figures. For the process of the head making of Terracotta Warriors, the head making process is the hardest project. First, workers should build the general layout of the head and then applied several layers of mud to get different shapes facial shapes. At last, they will create the eyeballs, noses and face appearances, etc. For the body making of Terracotta Warriors, worker would mold from the top to the bottom. First they would pay attention on the foot molding the square shape. Then they paid attention on the legs and the short pants. In order to make the muscles lifelike, the workers would do some detailer repair.

Firing of Terracotta Warriors
After the figures finished, they would be put into the fire. They are all fired in kilns. During that time, in order to be well ventilated, Qin workers will leave the holes in the figures in ideal position. Just like this, these small parts could be fired appropriately. Apart from this, experts found that figures were out head over heels during firing. They are done by this for the upper pat is heavier than and lower part.

For the formation of masterpiece, there are too many smart behaviors and ideas added. AS the world reputable heritage, they have mixed too much treasure!

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Sparkling Lake and Potted Beach in Jiuzhaigou by Rose

August04

'Oh, I have never seen such fairy land under the heaven.' it is very familiar to hear such sentence illustrate the breathtaking beauty of Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area. However, to be a smarter Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area, have you explored its essence treasures? Now, I will lead you walk into them.

Jiuzhaigou

Heaven-made Sparkling Lake
The Sparkling Lake in Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area is also called the Sparkling Pool with measuring about 2,187 meters high and 9 meters in deep. It is just located between the Two Dragon Lake and the Wolong Sea. The big feature of this lake is that the water is always presenting mirror appearance. Surrounded by dense trees and plans, this lake showed more vigorous and sparkling. For the fresh visitors coming here, they will have common feeling that this lake is just like a crystal pearl dropping in the green colors. What the most dazzling moment will be in the morning when the mist faded, the surface of this lake will be decorated with sparkling stars. It seemed that this lake is firing and dancing. So, it got the name of Sparkling Lake. During summer, this lake will be dotted by wide-diversity flowers. Adding the morning dewdrops, it is just like the heaven-made spot. If you came here, you should have a detail appreciation to the Sparkling Acacia Waterfall. Although it is the smallest waterfall in Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area, it will arouse typical poem feeling dancing in the green areas.

Mysterious Potted Beach
Another treasure in Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area will be the Potted Beach. Just hearing the name, there will be a charming pictures appearing in your mind. It is the first potted beach after entering the Jiuzhaizhou Scenic Area. The whole scenery here is just like a grand bonsai full of life and strength. Its special formation is root in the calcification. So, the calcification is the important base in the natural scenic spots of this valley. Potted Beach formed soft formation with various trees and plants without any man-made decoration. Combined with the nature and environment, they harmoniously formed the typical charming scenery. Someone said that this beach is created by the heaven. Each scenic spot inside perfectly showed their vigorous and lifelike features. Just for the advanced location, just entering into this valley, tourists could find vivid figure.

For the breathtaking sceneries of Jiuzhaigou, these two spots could be regarded as the big decoration in its natural features!

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