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The Unesco Scientific, Educational and Cultural Organization has recognized China's Test of Paint and the Eight Kingdoms Temple as a World Cultural Heritage in 1994.

Try Son Trang and Ngo Thanh Mieu - World Cultural Heritage in China

Ti Try Son Trang is a very famous forest park for Chinese royalty, located in Chengde District, Hebei Province, China. The original name of the paint is Heat Ha Hanh Cung , who at that time was often called Thua Duc Ly Cung (palace for the king to rest).

The painting was built from 1703 to 1792, spent three kings of Khang Hi, Ung Chinh and Can Long. The area of ​​the paint in Thua Duc is twice that of Di Hoa Vien, eight times that of Beihai Park. Painting page consists of two main sets of palaces and gardens. The palace area consists of four stylish architectures with four bows: Chinh Cung, Dong Cung, Tung Hac Trai and Van Hao Tung Phong. Landscape garden area includes landscape of lakes, mountains, ornamental gardens . Besides, there are many long-term electricity, pagodas, shrines and inns on the site.

Not only is a palace for the king to rest, Son Trang is also the place where the king and his mandarins consult the country, so this is also the second political center under three generations of King Kang Hi, Ung Chinh and Can Long. The religious architectural complex in Son Trang brings together the architectural art lines of the very special ethnic Man, Han, Mong and Tibetan peoples.
In the past, Chengde was a town called Heat Ha. It only became famous when King Khang Hy Thanh went to visit the North to discover that this land had a very beautiful natural scenery, temperate air so King Khang Hy decided to choose this place to build palace and vacation in summer.

Son Trang is built on a large area, 5.64 million square meters with winding walls around 10 km long. This vast painting complex has been built for 90 years, when completed immediately it becomes a place famous for its grandeur, scale and beautiful architecture. Son Trang has now become the Royal Museum and is a place to keep the legends of the Qing emperors.

The pond and lake area is 496,000 square meters, with the embankments and small islands dividing this area into 8 lakes of different sizes. The plain is located at the foot of the 607,000 square meter mountain with three zones: the east has a dense wooded garden called Van Thu Garden - where kings often have oats, enjoy fireworks, dance music ; the west has grasslands for horse racing; There are many temples in the north. The largest hilly and mountainous area with an area of ​​4.435 million square meters has hundreds of castles and temples scattered on the slopes and valleys. Son Trang is a place of accommodation, work handling and organizing ceremonies, meeting the ambassadors of the countries of the Qing emperors. Currently, this area is repaired and built a large stage for visitors to enjoy art shows and perform stories about the Qing kings.

Located in the northeast of Son Trang, the resort is 8 large pagodas (also known as the Outer Temple of Mieu) surrounding Son Trang as 8 because the starry siege the moon - a symbol of solidarity and friendship. among peoples in Chinese territory. The magnificent temples have a combination of Han and Tibetan architecture. The largest and most beautiful Buddhist temple among the 8 temples here is Putuo Zongcheng - built in 1767-1771 to celebrate the Sixth Century of Qianlong King.

Putuo Zongcheng in Chinese means ' Polata palace' , as it was modeled after the Polata palace in Tibet. Putuo Temple Zongcheng is an architectural complex located within an area of ​​220,000 square meters, with a harmonious combination of Han and Tibetan architecture. The entrance to the temple is a tower of Tibetan architecture, built of white brick with 3 gates to the arch with the Chinese architectural roof. In front of the door was a pair of stone lions sitting. Inside the entrance is a communal house with 3 stone stelae engraved by the writer of Qianlong King. One of the three steles records the reason and the process of building the temple. North of the temple is a white tower, built according to the architecture of Tibetans, there are 5 small Lama towers on the top with 5 colors: black, white, yellow, blue and red - representing 5 other sects. together.

The main part of Putuo Zongcheng Temple is the adjacent red and white architectural buildings. The large tower with red walls in the middle is called 'red tower', 'white tower ' with white walls in the West and East. The red tower consists of 5 floors, located at the end and highest in this architectural complex that looks very majestic. In front of the red tower, there are 6 alcoves, 6 Buddha statues. Inside the tower, four walls of each floor have small wall niches with gilded wooden Buddha statues. There are more than 1,000 large and small Buddha statues placed in the alcoves. White towers are often the home of monks. Putuo Zongcheng Temple is not only a place of worship and a festival, but also a place where emperors hold meetings with the envoys. The temple displays a lot of artifacts such as statues, ceramic objects, religious objects of Tibetans . Today, Putuo Zongcheng Temple is the place for the main cultural festivals of the local people.

Next to it is Pho Ninh Pagoda in the north of Son Trang. The pagoda was built in 1775 simulating the architecture of a Tibetan temple combining Chinese and Indian architecture. The pagoda is famous for the statue of Buddha with thousands of hands, thousands of eyes carved with the largest wooden parts of pine, wood, and fir. Buddha statue 22 meters tall, weighs 110 tons. Thua Duc also possesses the most majestic passage of the Great Wall of the Great Wall: the Kim Son Linh section. This field is preserved intact. You will see the brick walls with autographs from ancient times, the watchtower with a strange shape and eyes out to see the mountains of the same message and the far reaching city. Chengde also has Mulan grass - the largest royal hunting ground in the world. Summer is cool, visitors can ride horses, find mushrooms, play on grass. Winter grassland is a great place to hunt and ski.

With architectures classified into masterpieces along with their cultural and historical values, China's Test of Paint and Eight-Eight Kingdoms were recognized as a World Cultural Heritage in 1994 by Unesco. So far, this heritage is still one of the most popular attractions in China.