29th December 1997
This is Shirley and Xing’s first time to China.
We joint a Day Tour to Shenzhen to see 2 main tourist locations: Splendid China 錦繡中華 and Culture Village 民俗文化村.
Shenzhen City is just across the border of Hong Kong City. The journey is less then an hour by bus. We are in a group of less then 20 non-Chinese speaking Asian a few of them from India.
Though there are many interesting things to see in these two tourist locations but all of us were in a rush because the whole morning gone wasted by the tour guide who took the whole bus lot unnecessary to a local souvenir market and a shopping mall.
This is Shirley and Xing’s first time to China. But I have been here once in 1991 myself.
“Splendid China Miniature Park” and “China Folk Culture Village” are two separate tourist park opposite to each other separate by a highway.
In Splendid China Miniature Park are models of famous places and buildings in China.
Touring the miniature park is like touring whole China in a couple of hours.
Opposite Miniature Park is the second park Chinese Folk Culture Village that displays scenery and historical architecture of traditional Chinese culture.
Though both parks are both about China. One theme on China's ethnic groups and the other theme on famous sites and architectural heritage.
One article I read descript visitors as following:
“ ..... It seems that men and boys prefer looking at the detailed scaled models and learning about Chinese architecture and geography while women seem to prefer seeing the costumes of ethnic groups in China and visiting the various houses and the portrayal of ethnic village life….”
This exactly happen to our family when we visited the 2 parks. From the following photographs you can see Xing (the boy) and me spend more snap shoots on minature architecture while Shirley enjoyed dressing up as a native Chinese.
龍門石窟大佛像 The Longmen Grottoes (lóng mén shí kū 龍門石窟)
Dragon's Gate Grottoes.
Photo above : Image on top is miniature we visited. Image inserted below (web photo) is the real Grottoes in Luòyáng City in Hénán province.
The Longmen Grottoes is one of the three greatest grottoes of China. The site was inscribed as one of the World Culture Heritage in 2000 .
亭樓關門之滕王閣 Tengwang Pavilion
Remark :
In 2003, Splendid China merged with the Chinese Folk Culture Village to form Splendid China Folk Village (锦绣中华民俗村 Jǐnxiù Zhōnghuá Mínsú Cūn).
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