Re: Old Water Town Luzhi

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Hello Xiao Man and Xiao Lon of Luzhi:<P>

 

I have scanned some of my photos taken at Luzhi:<p>

 

<a href="http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?

msg_id=009def">Click here for : Old water town Luzhi</a> taken with

my large camera.<p>

 

B&W pictures taken with my tiny Minox EC are not processed yet,

when I have time to develop the negatives, I shall scan them

and post a follow up

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Luzhi is listed as " The Ancient Venetian Township in South of Yangtse River --Luzhi " in United Nation World Heritage Commitee World Heritage Tentative List.

 

http://whc.unesco.org/archive/2004/whc04-28com-14ae.pdf

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Home town of Tang Dynasty poet Lu Gui Mon<div></div>

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Baoshen Temple Museum<p>

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Baoshen temple is more than 1500 years old.<P>

It was completed in the second year of Tianjian in Liang Dyasnty (503AD). Baoshen Temple reached its peak in Song dyasnty, with five thousand halls and one thousand monks

covering half of the town, considered an equal to the Linyin Temple in Hangzhou<p>

 

19 century world reknown author Wang Tao wrote a chapter "Listening to the Sound of Pines of Baoshen Zen Temple" in his book A "Pictorial Travelog" (1890). At that time, Baoshen Zen Temple was till quite large, as seen in the illustration<p>

 

Baoshen temple was destroyed and rebuilt several times. The current

entrance gate was reconstructed in the 1930s according to its Qing dynasty stlye <p><div></div>