Xuzhou
School: Xuzhou Senior High School
Introduction
Location: The city lies in Jiangsu , an east coastal province of China .
Population: 1,000,00
Urban Area : 200 sq km
Climate : Climate of the city is quite pleasant, neither scorching hot in summer, nor bitter cold in winter.
Transportation: Xuzhou is at the junction of Beijing-Shanghai Railway and Longhai Railway, serving as a vital transportation hub in China . It takes only about 3 hours' driver to Qufu, hometown of Confucius. Passenger trains from Xuzhou can reach Beijing , Shanghai , Guangzhou , Nanjing and many other major or medium-sized cities. Guanyin Airport has been designed and completed with international standard. Airliners fly to 13 cities as follows: Beijing , Shanghai , Guangzhou , Shenzhen, Haikou , Kunming Xiamen, Chengdu , Chongqing , Wuhan , Nanjing , Hefei and Lianyungang . The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal also passes the city.
History and Culture: Xuzhou
One of China's renowned historical and cultural city, Xuzhou is located in northern Jiangsu Province . Traces of the culture of the Qin and Han dynasties can be found everywhere there, especially the rocks covered with portraits of the Han Dynasty, the terracotta warriors and horses of the Western Han Dynasty, a jade suit sewn with silver thread, and the ruins of an underground city. Xuzhou features such tourist attractions as the terracotta warriors and horses of the Western Han Dynasty, Yunlong Mountain , museums, Yunlong Lake , tombs of the Han Dynasty in Dongshan Mountain , and the Quanshan Mountain Forest Nature Reserve.
The Terracotta Warriors and Horses of the Western Han
Unearthed from seven pits in Shizi Mountain of Xuzhou in 1984, the clay figures of warriors and horses are another Important archaeological find after those of the Han Dynasty brought to light in Yangjiawan of Xianyang and those found in the mausoleum of the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty in Lintong of Van. Analyses reveal that they were buried underground as funeral objects with a dead king of State Chu. |
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