What Is Feng Shui?
As Asian culture becomes more popular in the United States, the ancient Chinese method of creating a harmonious environment, feng shui, is also gaining ground.
Wind and Water
Pronounced "fung shway," feng shui literally means "wind and water." Its roots are 5,000 years old.
Feng shui seeks to promote prosperity, good health, and general well being by examining how energy, qi, pronounced "chee," flows through a particular room, house, building, or garden.
Yin and Yang
Feng shui considers yin, feminine and passive energy, and yang, which is masculine and hot. It also looks at the five elements - water, fire, wood, metal, and earth, and the external environment.
The points on the compass, with eight separate directions - north, northeast, east, southeast, south, southwest, west, and northwest - are also important.
A feng shui expert, known as a geomancer, will consult an individual's Chinese horoscope to figure out what is best for that person and use complicated mathematical calculations from the ancient I Ching, (Book of Changes), to determine what aspects of the house are out balance.
Flexible Applications
Feng shui can be used to decide the location, construction, and architectural features of buildings, the placement and style of furniture, colors and decorating schemes, and the location of plantings, paths, and other outside features. By creating a more pleasing atmosphere, feng shui has been credited with improving family communication, restoring employee cooperation, and increasing a store's sales.
The principles can be applied to any style of building or decorating, not just to Chinese or Asian modes.
A Royal Secret
When China was under imperial rule, feng shui was a secret, known only to a handful of astronomers and scientists commissioned with maintaining the health, wealth, and power of the court.
Imperial palaces and cities were planned according to feng shui, which became a principle of classical Chinese architecture. Beijing’s Forbidden City is an example. A spectacular complex of palaces, administrative buildings, and temples arranged around a series of courtyards, the Forbidden City was the capital of China during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Commercial Feng Shui
But today, feng shui is available to everyone. Banks, hotels, houses, and even several new communities in Hong Kong have been planned according to feng shui. Many Chinese use feng shui to improve business.
by http://www.beijingfeeling.com
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Friday, August 8, 2008
What is Feng Shui?
What Is Feng Shui?
As Asian culture becomes more popular in the United States, the ancient Chinese method of creating a harmonious environment, feng shui, is also gaining ground.
Wind and Water
Pronounced "fung shway," feng shui literally means "wind and water." Its roots are 5,000 years old.
Feng shui seeks to promote prosperity, good health, and general well being by examining how energy, qi, pronounced "chee," flows through a particular room, house, building, or garden.
Yin and Yang
Feng shui considers yin, feminine and passive energy, and yang, which is masculine and hot. It also looks at the five elements - water, fire, wood, metal, and earth, and the external environment.
The points on the compass, with eight separate directions - north, northeast, east, southeast, south, southwest, west, and northwest - are also important.
A feng shui expert, known as a geomancer, will consult an individual's Chinese horoscope to figure out what is best for that person and use complicated mathematical calculations from the ancient I Ching, (Book of Changes), to determine what aspects of the house are out balance.
Flexible Applications
Feng shui can be used to decide the location, construction, and architectural features of buildings, the placement and style of furniture, colors and decorating schemes, and the location of plantings, paths, and other outside features. By creating a more pleasing atmosphere, feng shui has been credited with improving family communication, restoring employee cooperation, and increasing a store's sales.
The principles can be applied to any style of building or decorating, not just to Chinese or Asian modes.
A Royal Secret
When China was under imperial rule, feng shui was a secret, known only to a handful of astronomers and scientists commissioned with maintaining the health, wealth, and power of the court.
Imperial palaces and cities were planned according to feng shui, which became a principle of classical Chinese architecture. Beijing's Forbidden City is an example. A spectacular complex of palaces, administrative buildings, and temples arranged around a series of courtyards, the Forbidden City was the capital of China during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Commercial Feng Shui
But today, feng shui is available to everyone. Banks, hotels, houses, and even several new communities in Hong Kong have been planned according to feng shui. Many Chinese use feng shui to improve business. by http://www.beijingfeeling.com
As Asian culture becomes more popular in the United States, the ancient Chinese method of creating a harmonious environment, feng shui, is also gaining ground.
Wind and Water
Pronounced "fung shway," feng shui literally means "wind and water." Its roots are 5,000 years old.
Feng shui seeks to promote prosperity, good health, and general well being by examining how energy, qi, pronounced "chee," flows through a particular room, house, building, or garden.
Yin and Yang
Feng shui considers yin, feminine and passive energy, and yang, which is masculine and hot. It also looks at the five elements - water, fire, wood, metal, and earth, and the external environment.
The points on the compass, with eight separate directions - north, northeast, east, southeast, south, southwest, west, and northwest - are also important.
A feng shui expert, known as a geomancer, will consult an individual's Chinese horoscope to figure out what is best for that person and use complicated mathematical calculations from the ancient I Ching, (Book of Changes), to determine what aspects of the house are out balance.
Flexible Applications
Feng shui can be used to decide the location, construction, and architectural features of buildings, the placement and style of furniture, colors and decorating schemes, and the location of plantings, paths, and other outside features. By creating a more pleasing atmosphere, feng shui has been credited with improving family communication, restoring employee cooperation, and increasing a store's sales.
The principles can be applied to any style of building or decorating, not just to Chinese or Asian modes.
A Royal Secret
When China was under imperial rule, feng shui was a secret, known only to a handful of astronomers and scientists commissioned with maintaining the health, wealth, and power of the court.
Imperial palaces and cities were planned according to feng shui, which became a principle of classical Chinese architecture. Beijing's Forbidden City is an example. A spectacular complex of palaces, administrative buildings, and temples arranged around a series of courtyards, the Forbidden City was the capital of China during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Commercial Feng Shui
But today, feng shui is available to everyone. Banks, hotels, houses, and even several new communities in Hong Kong have been planned according to feng shui. Many Chinese use feng shui to improve business. by http://www.beijingfeeling.com
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Beijing Road and Subway Construction
Beijing Road and Subway Construction.
Before 1949,there were few thoroughfares in the city of Beijing except in some downtown areas.Most of the streets were muddy roads.There were only 5 buses and 49 tramcars for the whole city.Since the founding of the People's Republic,priority has been given to road building.The 40-kilometer-long(25-mile-long) Chang'an Avenue(Everlasting Peace Avenue),is the main boulevard running from east to west through the center of the city.The Ring Roads and highways to different directions were built and contributed greatly to the area??s transport capacity.
Before 1949,there were few thoroughfares in the city of Beijing except in some downtown areas.Most of the streets were muddy roads.There were only 5 buses and 49 tramcars for the whole city.Since the founding of the People's Republic,priority has been given to road building.The 40-kilometer-long(25-mile-long) Chang'an Avenue(Everlasting Peace Avenue),is the main boulevard running from east to west through the center of the city.The Ring Roads and highways to different directions were built and contributed greatly to the area??s transport capacity.
Friday, July 25, 2008
Beijing Olympic
Friday, July 25, 2008
Birth of an Olympic Superpower
Category: News and Politics
Birth of an Olympic superpower
Exactly 100 years ago a Chinese YMCA lecturer had a dream - that one day China would host the Olympic games. That dream is now about to come true.
Olympic Dreams
China and Sports, 1895-2008
The modern Chinese word for, sport, tiyu, didn't exist until the 1890s and that late 19th-century Chinese attitudes towards the body and physical training "were ambivalent, to say the least . . . Chinese elites generally considered sports undignified - a robust body was not consistent with the idea of the cultured gentleman". But as the Chinese empire crumbled and morale was crucially undermined by the country's defeat in the Sino-Japanese war in 1895, Chinese people became convinced that their nation was a "sick man" whose body needed to be strengthened through a regime of rigorous physical exercise. Sun Yat-sen, China's first president, declared that "If we want to make our country strong, we must first make sure our people have strong bodies."
Nationalists stressed the need for shangwu or "warlike spirit", and Avery Brundage, later president of the International Olympic Committee, wrote in the 1930s that as a result of physical fitness being neglected, "The highly intellectual citizens of China have allowed themselves to be plundered by their own bandits for generations."
China's contact with the emergent Olympic movement was slow and hesitant, and although a national Olympic committee was formed in 1922, China did not participate in an Olympiad until 1932. Its team in Los Angeles consisted of just one man, Liu Changchun, a sprinter, and he was only dispatched at the last minute due to money problems. China took part much more enthusiastically in the notorious 1936 Berlin Olympics, sending 69 athletes, but failed to win a single medal. Xu devotes little attention to these games and says even less about the 1948 London Olympics, at which the penniless Chinese team stayed in a primary school and cooked their own meals.
Mao Zedong, in his first published article, declared that "Physical education . . . should be the number one priority." But the Communist party had little awareness of the Olympics when it came to power in 1949, and it took some time for the new government to realise that one of China's three IOC members had chosen to remain on the mainland rather than flee to Taiwan. At the urging of the Soviet Union, China made a last-minute application to participate in the 1952 games in Helsinki, but its delegation arrived just one day before the closing ceremony. The delay was largely caused by the "two Chinas" dispute that continues to haunt the Olympics to this day.
China first became an Olympic powerhouse at the Los Angeles games in 1984, when it won 15 golds. At the Athens Olympics in 2004 it came second only to the United States.
HTTP://WWW.BEIJINGFEELING.COM
Birth of an Olympic Superpower
Category: News and Politics
Birth of an Olympic superpower
Exactly 100 years ago a Chinese YMCA lecturer had a dream - that one day China would host the Olympic games. That dream is now about to come true.
Olympic Dreams
China and Sports, 1895-2008
The modern Chinese word for, sport, tiyu, didn't exist until the 1890s and that late 19th-century Chinese attitudes towards the body and physical training "were ambivalent, to say the least . . . Chinese elites generally considered sports undignified - a robust body was not consistent with the idea of the cultured gentleman". But as the Chinese empire crumbled and morale was crucially undermined by the country's defeat in the Sino-Japanese war in 1895, Chinese people became convinced that their nation was a "sick man" whose body needed to be strengthened through a regime of rigorous physical exercise. Sun Yat-sen, China's first president, declared that "If we want to make our country strong, we must first make sure our people have strong bodies."
Nationalists stressed the need for shangwu or "warlike spirit", and Avery Brundage, later president of the International Olympic Committee, wrote in the 1930s that as a result of physical fitness being neglected, "The highly intellectual citizens of China have allowed themselves to be plundered by their own bandits for generations."
China's contact with the emergent Olympic movement was slow and hesitant, and although a national Olympic committee was formed in 1922, China did not participate in an Olympiad until 1932. Its team in Los Angeles consisted of just one man, Liu Changchun, a sprinter, and he was only dispatched at the last minute due to money problems. China took part much more enthusiastically in the notorious 1936 Berlin Olympics, sending 69 athletes, but failed to win a single medal. Xu devotes little attention to these games and says even less about the 1948 London Olympics, at which the penniless Chinese team stayed in a primary school and cooked their own meals.
Mao Zedong, in his first published article, declared that "Physical education . . . should be the number one priority." But the Communist party had little awareness of the Olympics when it came to power in 1949, and it took some time for the new government to realise that one of China's three IOC members had chosen to remain on the mainland rather than flee to Taiwan. At the urging of the Soviet Union, China made a last-minute application to participate in the 1952 games in Helsinki, but its delegation arrived just one day before the closing ceremony. The delay was largely caused by the "two Chinas" dispute that continues to haunt the Olympics to this day.
China first became an Olympic powerhouse at the Los Angeles games in 1984, when it won 15 golds. At the Athens Olympics in 2004 it came second only to the United States.
HTTP://WWW.BEIJINGFEELING.COM
Rivers and Reservoirs
http://www.beijingfeeling.com
Beijing Rivers and Reservoirs
There are three rivers running through the North China Plain,the Chaobai River,as well as the Northern Grand Canal.Of the three,Yongding River runs the longest course across the area,where it flows more than 180 kilometers(112 miles) out of its tatal length of 650 kilometers(miles).There are also 83 reservoirs in Beijing area.The best known of them are :the Miyun Reservoir(1960),the Guanting Reservoir(1955),the Huairou Reservoir(1958).
Beijing Rivers and Reservoirs
There are three rivers running through the North China Plain,the Chaobai River,as well as the Northern Grand Canal.Of the three,Yongding River runs the longest course across the area,where it flows more than 180 kilometers(112 miles) out of its tatal length of 650 kilometers(miles).There are also 83 reservoirs in Beijing area.The best known of them are :the Miyun Reservoir(1960),the Guanting Reservoir(1955),the Huairou Reservoir(1958).
Monday, July 21, 2008
Beijing Relligion
http://www.beijingfeeling.com
The religious practices and folkways of people in Beijing are entirely based on the principle of freedom of worship,where Buddhism,Lamaism,Taoism,Islam,Roman Catholicism,and Protestantism are all prevailing at parity.Monasteries,Taoist temples,mosques,and churches are scattered in the city.Among all these institutions the best knownare Guanghuasi(Temploe of Universal Enlightenment),Guangjisi(Temple of Universal Alms),Yonghegong(Lama temple),Baiyunguan(the Taoist Temple of White Cloud),and the like.
The religious practices and folkways of people in Beijing are entirely based on the principle of freedom of worship,where Buddhism,Lamaism,Taoism,Islam,Roman Catholicism,and Protestantism are all prevailing at parity.Monasteries,Taoist temples,mosques,and churches are scattered in the city.Among all these institutions the best knownare Guanghuasi(Temploe of Universal Enlightenment),Guangjisi(Temple of Universal Alms),Yonghegong(Lama temple),Baiyunguan(the Taoist Temple of White Cloud),and the like.
Beijing Population
http://www.beijingfeeling.com
The population of Beijing has grown rapidly since 1949.The Fivth nationalcensus carried out in 2003 found Beijing contains 13,820,400 population.Migrants,particularly seasonal laborers,have been on the rise since the opening policy was put into effect in 1978.At present,Beijing owns a floating poputation of about three million a year.With a huge population over 14 million today,Beijing has become the third largest city in China,next to Chongqing(30 million) and Shanghai(16 milllion)and remains one of the most densely populated cites in the world.
The composition of Beijing's population consists oAf 56 nationalities with the Han retaining about 96% of the whole and Muslims,Manchus,and Mongolians being next in sequence.As for the life expectancy,in general,permanent residents of Beijing have attained to the age of 74,about twenty years longer as compared to that of 1949.
A,so birth control was taken up after serious consideration by the government in 1978.Now,the family planning principle of 'one family,one child' has become a basic national policy.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
The City of Beijing
http://www.beijingfeeling.com
Situated at a location 40 degrees north latitude and 116 degrees east longitude,the city of Beijing is backed by mountainous areas to the north and west and overlooks the North China Plain to the south and east.The city lies at an average elevation of about 43 meters(140 feet) above the sea level,with the Yanshan Mountains the western one,both of which converge at Nankou Pass.
The city covers an area of 16,800 square kilometers(6,490 square miles),38 percent of which is flat land while the rest is mountainous area.Its highest point,2,303 meters(7,556 feet) above sea level,is found on top of Lingshan,in the district of Mentougou.
The city stands more than 180 kilometers(112 miles) northwest of the Gulf of Bohai.It is divided into 16districts and 2 counties.
Beijing enjoys a moderate continental climate that is typical of the most of the Temperate Zone where the four seasons are distinct.Spring in Beijing is often dry and windy.Summer is usually hot and rainy.Autumn is fine and mild and is the best season of the whole year.Winter is sometimes severely cold with little snow.The amount of precipitation averages about 600-700mm(24-27 inches),with most of the annual total falling from July to August.The frost-free period is 185-200 days.
Situated at a location 40 degrees north latitude and 116 degrees east longitude,the city of Beijing is backed by mountainous areas to the north and west and overlooks the North China Plain to the south and east.The city lies at an average elevation of about 43 meters(140 feet) above the sea level,with the Yanshan Mountains the western one,both of which converge at Nankou Pass.
The city covers an area of 16,800 square kilometers(6,490 square miles),38 percent of which is flat land while the rest is mountainous area.Its highest point,2,303 meters(7,556 feet) above sea level,is found on top of Lingshan,in the district of Mentougou.
The city stands more than 180 kilometers(112 miles) northwest of the Gulf of Bohai.It is divided into 16districts and 2 counties.
Beijing enjoys a moderate continental climate that is typical of the most of the Temperate Zone where the four seasons are distinct.Spring in Beijing is often dry and windy.Summer is usually hot and rainy.Autumn is fine and mild and is the best season of the whole year.Winter is sometimes severely cold with little snow.The amount of precipitation averages about 600-700mm(24-27 inches),with most of the annual total falling from July to August.The frost-free period is 185-200 days.
A short history of Beijing
http://www.beijingfeeling.com
More than three thousand years ago,a city,or rather a citadel,appeared near the very site of present-day Beijing.Settlers grouped into tribes,which,in turn,strove their way toward a preliminary statehood.The first recorded city was called 'Ji'.It was later conqured by state called 'Yan',and the city was made the capital of the conqueror.Yet the exact founding date of the city of Ji had been a topic of argumentation among historisans for many years because of the lack of detailed records until it was recently dated 1045BC.In 1995 a series of celebration events were dedicated to commemorating the city's 3,040th anniversary.
Owing to its strategic position,the city of Ji remained crucial as a key point in North China through dynasties.In the course of about 1,000 years from the Empire of Qin(221-209BC) to the Sui and Tang dynasties(581-905AD),it was consecutively a major trading center and a place of strategic importance.Ever since the 10th century,the city had been decided on as the capital of the Liao,Jin,Yuan,Ming and Qing dynasties until 1911.
Beijing Layout
City Layout
Beijing is located at 3956'N and 11620' E, covers an area of 16,808 square kilometers, Two-thirds of it are mountains areas encircling the western northern and eastern sides of the city. The center of the city is 43.71 meters above the sea level. Main rivers include the Yongding River, the Chaobai River and the North Canal.
Beijing, including the urban and the suburban areas and the nine counties under its administration, is located in the northeastern corner of China, roughly the same latitude as New York City. Beijing municipality has a total area of 16,800 sq km (6552 sq mi). roughly the size of Belgium.
Beijing has 10.6 million permanent residents and over 3 million transient populations.
The permanent residents of Beijing come from all of China's 56 ethnic groups. The Han nationality accounts for 96.5% of the total. The other 55 ethnic minorities claim a population of more than 300,000, most of them are from Hui, Manchu, and Mongolian nationalities.
Though it may not appear so in the shambles of arrival, Beijing is a place of very orderly design. Long, straight boulevards and avenues are crisscrossed by a network of lanes. Scenic spots are either very easy to find if they're on the avenues, or impossible to find if they're buried down the narrow alleys (hutongs).
Encircling central Beijing today are a First Ring Road, a Second Ring Road, a Third Ring Road and a Fourth Ring Road, as well as a fifth one and the sixth.
There are ten districts and eight counties under the jurisdictive of Beijing. The ten districts are Dongcheng, Xicheng, Chongwen, Xuanwu,Chaoyang, Haidian, Fengtai, Shijingshan, Mentougou and Fangshan Districts and eight counties are Changping.Shunyi, Tongxian, Daxing, Pingnu, Huairou,Miyun and Yangqing counties.
beijing feeling tour
Who We Are
Beijing Feeling is a Beijing Tour Agency and an online operator in China. The main job of Beijing Feeling is offering you happy China Tours. Our desire is to bridge the culture gap between China and you. From Beijing Day Tours to Tailor-Made Tours, our consultants offer you with all kinds of Beijing local service and China tours.
Why Choose Beijing Feeling
Beijing Feeling provides you with a fast, sincerity, flexibility and reliable response to what your wants and requirements in China. We have complete local service waiting for you that make you a convenient China tour. We have been following the tenet of “high-quality service”. Beijing Feeling has built a reliable team. Our China Tailor Making Tours will assist you to host your travel. Travel is not a journey to kill time. Travel is process to discover yourself. Whether travel create you or you create travel, go Beijing Feeling China Tours for discover your way.
Our Mission:
From Beijing Feeling to Feeling China
Our Motto:
Feeling China，Easy come Easy go
Beijing Feeling Ideas for Your Way:
Would you like to be the Pioneer to let our China Experts to design a tour according to your own interests and start your CHINA TOUR?
You can meet new friends who share the same interests with you.
You can travel in your own interested way to you choosing destination.
And, what’s more, you don’t have to do anything except that to E-mail us. Our tour consultant will provide your idea to Your China Tour.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
