Stroll through ancient towers and famous pavilions

Author: Sun Jianhua
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Publishing Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book includes 98 of the most representative ancient pagodas in mainland China. The book adopts a layout design model centered around each target ancient pagoda, providing customized historical, geographical, and tourism background information, as well as practical tour guides, maps, photographs, and illustrations for each pagoda. The book is divided into two parts: Sketching Famous Ancient Pagodas in China and Exploring Famous Ancient Pagodas in China. The Exploring section, as the main part of the book, is organized into eight chapters based on China's regional divisions. The purpose of this book is to help readers gain a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding of China's rich, vast, and outstanding human and natural tourism resources in the rapidly developing Chinese tourism, leisure, and holiday consumption market. The China Themed Tourism Guide Series introduces over 2,999 famous scenic spots in China from two major tourism resource categories—natural and cultural—and four directions—ancient sites, landscapes, temples, and classic travel routes—covering 24 basic tourism themes. The series includes nearly 50,000 scenic spots. "Strolling Through Famous Ancient Pagodas" is the most exquisite and systematic introduction to the tourism resources of China's famous ancient pagodas to date. It is a portable illustrated travel encyclopedia guide. Whether as a decision-making manual for planning your travel itinerary, a tour guide during your journey, a travel album to revisit scenic spots after your trip, or even as a gift for friends and family and a collectible book, "Strolling Through Famous Ancient Pagodas" is undoubtedly your best choice. "Strolling Through Famous Ancient Pagodas" will guide you through 98 of the most unique and precious historical ancient pagodas in China, allowing you to witness their true appearance and touch their artistic personalities and historical characteristics. The book provides comprehensive practical tourism information for 98 ancient pagodas in China; showcases and provides specific photographs for each pagoda; prepares a tour guide map for each scenic spot; introduces the geographical distribution of the six major types of ancient pagodas in China (tower-style, upturned eaves style, (Jingangbaozuo-style), stupa-style, pavilion-style, and other composite styles); offers tourism and consulting information for each scenic spot; and guides you to the railway, air, road, and water transportation methods to each famous city.