Have a Heavy Shopping in Grand Pacific Mall !

Open since December of 2003, Grand Pacific Mall is presently one of the largest mall in Beijing (the capital of China).

Grand Pacific Mall is located in the central business area, with a good business environment and excellent services. The mall is well designed with world-class equipment, including lighting systems, audio equipment, elevators and bathrooms. Above all, the mall is home to many international-level brands, fashionable and trendy elements and the best service, which makes
The Grand Pacific Mall has a large variety of cuisine services, including both featured Chinese food and world famous brands like Pizza Hut, KFC, Haagen Daz, Fruit Fishing, Bread Talk, CHAMATE,  Tous Les Jours, LeJazz, Jiajingxuan Restaurant, Kyo-Nishi Restaurant and  Starbucks. These food services meet the needs of different customers.

How About Have a Cherry Picking Tour in Beijing This Summer

This past Saturday morning I had the pleasure of attending Beijing’s Haidian District’s 19th annual Sijiqing Cherry Picking Festival. The event featured eleven different types of cherries native to the area in the city’s largest cherry orchard, a quiet place on the outskirts of Beijing. The morning kicked off with a short ceremony before opening up the orchard for all to branch out and pick their favorite cherries.
I recommend the event for anyone who hasn’t experienced it, especially anyone with children. The event coincides with International Children’s Day and provides a particular thrill for the kids with other events for them to partake in. Just be prepared for the Chinese equivalent of the paparazzi to scramble to get a photo of you assisting your exceptionally cute child in snagging a cherry.
The festival’s preceding ceremony included a speech by several district officials, followed by a gift exchange by a group of local children to symbolize harmony among children. Meanwhile, you could visit the display table to sample the variety of cherries which were being offered. I dropped by to investigate the assortment. While to the untrained eye some cherries appeared identical, the tastes were indeed distinctive. The cherries carry names such as the Red Lantern and the Early Red Jade and varied from a dark violet red, to scarlet, to pink, to yellow. And if you are not a connoisseur of cherries in the slightest, you can at least marvel in the aesthetically pleasing quality of cherries which all can agree upon. My personal trip to the test tasting table included an interview with the local news team which made my day complete even before the picking was

underway.
The cherries were abundant and the orchard was plenty big to spread out and not get crowded—such circumstances are hard to come by in Beijing. With selections for those who prefer sweet cherries or even those (like me) who prefer sour, the search for the tree with the perfect tasting cherries was on. While there were plenty of low hanging fruit for all the little tykes, some of the best clusters involved a little climbing or the use of a latter which made the event even more entertaining and introduced a teamwork aspect into the process.
 It appeared that all had success filling their baskets with plenty of cherries but if you weren’t able to fill up your basket enough during the picking then there were also boxes of cherries for purchase following the festival. While the ceremony is held at the beginning of June, the weather at the orchard was surprisingly pleasant. The trees provided shade and the rhythmic breeze made it pleasurable. However, I would recommend bringing along a bottle of water to keep hydrated.
This short and sweet festival provides a splendid time for those looking to get involved in a bit of the cultural activity that Beijing offers. If you are in town this time of year, you should check it out. The atmosphere is pleasant, the people are cheerful, and the cherries are ripe.

The Palace Museum In Beijing City

The Palace Museum, former home to the 24 Ming and Qing emperors, is also known as the Forbidden City. Completed in 1420 during the Ming Dynasty, it occupies a total space of more than 720, 000 square meters. Apart from the complex of immovable palace buildings, the Palace Museum houses over 1.5 million items or sets of relics. Over 8,000 of them are designated as first-class relics. They fall into the

following categories: paintings, calligraphy, rubbings from tablets, inscriptions, sculptures, copperwares, porcelain, textile or embroidery, jade or stone wares, gold or silver wares, jewelry, lacquerworks, enamel wares, carvings, miscellaneous handiworks, stationery, daily appliances, clocks and instruments, imperial seals and certificates of the conferring of titles, religious relics, weapons carried by guards of honor, ancient books, and foreign relics.
Ancient architectural relics and other cultural relics fall into 25 categories, which are further divided into 69 sub-categories. Those used for government affairs and daily life are displayed in their original places; such works of art as porcelain, paintings and calligraphy, jewelry, clocks, stone drums, and bronze wares are kept in special halls. There are also halls for short-term exhibitions. The museum is open to the public all year round.

Chongqing Dazu Rock Carving - the Eternal Art in China

Maybe you have visited the Longmen Grottoes and the Yungang Grottoes, but have you enjoyed the tour to Chongqing and see the Dazu Rock Carving Buddha? Famous for the North Dunhuang and South Dazu, the Dazu Rock Carving sits at the Dazu County of Chongqing. After the reform and open in China, the surround of Dazu carvings was built with roads, so the invasion from abroad and the inner the Great Cultural Revolution had no chance to destroy it. During 800 years, the carvings were protected very well, the various statues in different sizes also are best preserved. I come here to wash my heart and pray for peace for our family.

Dazu Rock Carving is not only a spot, but also the general title of the grottoes bas-reliefs on precipices in Dazu County, these grottoes are distributed in east, west, south and north in this county, and the Baodingshan, Beishan, Nanshan, Shimenshan and Shizhuanshan grottoes are the symbols of the Dazu Rock Carvings with a certain size, most valuable and elegant carvings. Dazu carving was created in the late of Tang Dynasty, but thrived in Song Dynasty, focuses on the Buddhist statue, also Confucianist statue and Taoist statue coexist, is the outstanding work of grotto arts in later period. It is hard to imagine the craftsmen and ancestors have such skillful technology and attainments. The characteristic of Dazu carving is it is extremely close to life, every Buddha figure has the sign of common people, and dimly reveals the gradual trend of Chinese religions.

Baodingshan Carvings

The most famous statue in Baodingshan Mountain is the Thousand-Hand Kwan-yin Statue, it is the real Kwan-yin with thousand-hand. These hands seem like the peacock spreads its tail skillfully distributed in the cliffstone which covers an area of 88 square meters, and all hands are different, with no one identical. Come to Baodingshan Mountain, never miss the pinnacle of Dazu Rock Carving in Song Dynasty - Yuanjue Cave. In the entrance of the cave, there is a doughty stone lion, and various statues in cave were carved subtly, their clothes seem like the silk and the bases seem like the woodcarvings. The high Huayan Three Statues stand close to the cliff, the skillfully mechanical structure let the stone tower standing on the hand of Manjusri still stands there after thousand years.

The lunar February 19, June 19 and September 19 in every year, they are the time for grand Baoding Pilgrim Association, and the devotees to the Buddha from different places of China come to here to worship Buddha. But if you like the quiet environment, you have chance to avoid the crowds. Dazu County also aperiodically holds the Dazu Rock Carvings Festival, if you are lucky as me you would enjoy the large performance of dancing and singing besides the grand carvings during the tour here.