Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses is a very famous tourism spot in Xi’an, China. They are real-life-size clay figures buried with Qin Emperor, the first empire of the ancient China. It’s a masterpiece from more than 2000 years ago and one of the Eight Wonders of the World.
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We hiked on the Great Wall, yay! I’ve been wanting to go there for years, and finally, this time I made it.
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I know that the invention of modern computers was based on numerous tools that came before it, but I didn’t realize that the abacus was one of them.
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I appreciate the effort of bringing more public transportation. The thing is, the current transportation system (buses, freeway, etc) planned and implemented years ago is falling behind. It’s reaching its capacity. Or can I say, when the system was planned, nobody expected the traffic situation can have significant changes AFTER the system was implemented?
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Yanbin I had a really nice 7ish-mile hike in the China Camp State Park, Marin County, north of San Francisco. As a Chinese, I’m naturally very curious about where the name of “China Camp” came from.
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We visited a lovely museum called Marin Museum of Bicycling (Mountain Bike Hall of Fame) in Fairfax, Marin County, CA. Little did we know, the mountain bikes were born right here in Marin!
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I just came back from a wonderful vacation in China. It’s been two years since I saw my loved ones face to face last time. Home sweet home! I miss everything: my family, friends, life styles, foods and many others.
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