zhangye Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/zhangye Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:00:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Grottoes of Maijishan Maijishan Shiku http://toursmaps.com/grottoes-of-maijishan-maijishan-shiku.html http://toursmaps.com/grottoes-of-maijishan-maijishan-shiku.html#respond Wed, 01 Feb 2017 11:15:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=230769 The museum’s exhibits include ceramics, some of which date from Neolithic times. The most famous item is the bronze sculpture “Flying Horse from Gansu”, with its hoof resting on a bird. It comes from a tomb from the Eastern Han period (24-220) which was discovered in 1969. In the north of the city stands Baitashan, named after the seven-storey 17m/56ft high White Pagoda, which was erected on the summit under the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) and subsequently rebuilt in the middle of the 15th c. From here there is a superb view. Together with the sacred buildings surrounding it, the pagoda

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