Dr. Mark Nan Tu

There is an old saying that: who has never been to the Great Wall is not a true man. I will add that who has been to the Great Wall is a fool. The Great Wall that most of the tourists visited are a few sections of the wall that are repaired beyong recognition. However, The Jiankou Great Wall is not same as others. It is in the original unrepaired state. It winds through mountains. I climbed to this section of the Great Wall from both sides of the mountain.

Having lived in Beijing several years, when my friends came here. I took them to visit the Great Wall. I always take them to visit the Mutianyu Great Wall, because there were fewer visitors than the other more famous ones such as the BaDalin Great Wall. When President Clinton visited China, he also visited the MutianYu Great Wall. The Great Wall was built meanderingly in the mountains, and, the MutianYu Great Wall was repaired well. There is the cable car to the top of hill. Cause of few visitors, I took my friends there several times. I went there late in the afternoon where I didn

A friend recommended a tour book to me in recently. There were the introductions of Fahai Temple and Tianyi Tomb in the west of Beijing City. I had visited many places in Beijing since I had lived in here three years ago. But I didn

The Fragrance

The eunuch Tianyi Tomb is on the west side of Beijing, SiJingShan, only 20km from the city. It has the largest eunuch tomb complex and a memorial to eunuchs. The main tomb was built to salute the life of eunuch Tian, who served three generations of Ming emperors. He is the only eunuch who enjoyed grave complex similar to that of the Ming Emperors’ Tombs: a sacred way with sculptures of horses, elephants, etc., and underground graves.
In the compound, there is a Beijing Eunuch Museum where one can learn all the history and stories of Chinese eunuch.

I went to Ba Da Chu