China Trip 5- Lingguang Temple (Temple of Diving Light )

This morning after breakfast then we go to visit the famous temple named Lingguang Temple or the Temple of Diving Light which is the most prominent of the temples in the Badachu Park ( Eight Great Sites ) at the
foot of Beijing 's western hills.This temple was built between 766-779 during the Tang Dynasty, it is best known for its Dabei courtyard, a water-lily festooned gold-fish pool and pagoda.
After Buddha  Sysakyan\muni passed away, the creation left two tooth relics, one of which was brought
to Sri Lanka by his disciples ,other brought to Pakistan and then to Xinjiang, China  In the middle of 5th
century ,the prominent monk "Fa Xian" travelled here and took the tooth relic back to the capital of Qi
dynasty ,after was sent to Chang'an and later was moved to Beijing and was preserved of Lingguang Temple
in 1071.
The Stupa which kept the tooth relic is up to 51 meters high and has 13 layers.Its base was constructed with
whited marble,reaching 2.7 meters above the ground within the hall of the temple is a seven-story structures and the Buddha tooth relic is now preserved in one meter high pure gold gagoda inside.

More people come to visit this temple daily and because the park's natural beauty has long made it a
magnet for people seeking tranquility.

Then we visit the gate ,it was built as a fortress and have all around the city.

This is the picture of this important main gate when first built. The king will come out from this gate every times to do flighting,it was tortuitous and believed that they will win to the enemy.

China Trip 4 - Great Wall

The third moring comes... it's the time to climb up to The Great Wall ..one of seven wonderfull place in the world...

The Great Wall or called as the "Long Wall of Ten Thousand Li" ,it was built by Wei in 408 BC to defend
their kingdom against the Qin, Its vestiges,conserved in the centre of China,antedate by many years the walls built by the Kingdoms of Qin,Zhao and Yan against the northern barbarians around 300 BC,Beginning in 200 BC ,Qin Shi Huang,the founder of the Empire of the Ten Thousand Generations, undertook to restore and link up the separate sections of the Great Wall which had been built in the 3rd century BC. and which stretched from the region of the Ordos to Manchuria.

The Great Wall is totall long 6.350 kmtrs.the body of wall high about 7 meters and wide 6 meters.

Then we go for lunch at Mongolia Hot Pot Restaurant

After lunch ,we visit the wax model meseum ,they don't allow to take photo. There are many rooms collect the story of histoy totally 276 years since Ming altogether important situations during these Kingdoms.

Then drop for awhile to see Olympic 2008 stadium which is like a bird's nest model created by Germany architect ,it's opened for Olympic in China since 2008.

This is the bird building

And the guide take us to the tea building for drink real best Chinese tea ...

Along the road walking to Dr.Tea building....

                       The girl do special tea and let us test ,good tea and good smell ,there are so many kind of teas show in the shop for us to buy...

Above is the old man with his tricycle is watching us...

And evening comes, we have dinner tonight at Tibet restaurant...

After dinner, we go to Wang Fu Jing Centre which is the night shopping area.There are more brand name shops in this area... joyful shopping really.