Whether you are a history-loving traveler or an enthusiast of natural landscape, you will never get tired of the Great Wall-one of the seven wonders in the world. Here are some famous Great Wall sections for you to choose.
Jiankou Great Wall
Location: Huairou District, North of Beijing, China
Opening Hours: All day
Jiankou Great Wall includes the Southern Line and the Northern Line. Mountains in the Southern Line are extremely steep. This section of Great Wall is almost straight up and down, maintaining the steepest section of Beijing Great Wall. If you like adventure, don't miss it!
Simatai Great Wall
Location: Gubeikou Town, Miyun County, Beijing, China
Opening Hours: 8: 00-18: 00 from April to October
8: 00-17: 30 from November to next March
This well-preserved and undeveloped site possesses the most charming scene of the Great Wall. With the breath-taking landscape surrounding the glorious Great Wall, Simatai is the best choice for photographers.
Jinshanling Great Wall
Location: Luanping County, Chengde, Hebei Province, China
Opening Hours: 8: 00-17: 00 daily
Jinshanling Great Wall is famed for enjoying sunrise view. Although Jinshanling Great Wall has opening hour limitation, but this is flexible. Visitors can enter the scenic area at around 3: 00 am to wait to see sunrise.
Juyongguan Great Wall
Location: Changping District, Beijing, China
Opening Hours: 8: 00-17: 00 from April to October
8: 30-16: 00 from November to next March
Enlisted in the World Heritage Directory in 1987, Juyongguan Great Wall is a national cultural protection unit. And Juyongguan Pass is one of the three greatest passes of the Great Wall of China. The other two are Jiayuguan Pass and Shanhaiguan Pass.
For 83 years, Betty Grebenschikoff believed her best friend from Germany was dead. But just a few weeks ago, there she was, standing in a hotel room.
At the age of nine, they shared a tearful hug in a Berlin schoolyard when their families were forced to leave the country because of World War II. They both thought that would be their final hug. But after more than eight decades apart, the two women, who are now 92 years old, embraced once again.
The survivors of the war had searched for each other for years, collecting and seeking information from anyone who might know something. They had no luck, mainly because both women changed their names later in life.
It was not until an indexer (检索程序) from a nonprofit organization founded by Steven Spielberg, which preserves information of these survivors, noticed similarities in their information that the two women are linked together. For the first time, Grebenschikoff who lives in Shanghai now, got to know what happened to her long-lost childhood best friend: Wahrenberg and her family went to Santiago, Chile, where she still lives today.
With the help of the organization, the two women and their families reconnected on the Internet. Talking in their native German, they promised to meet in person, and one year later, they finally did.
As Grebenschikoff went to meet Wahrenberg at her hotel room, they hugged for the first time in 83 years. "It was as if we had seen each other yesterday," Grebenschikoff said."It was comfortable. "Wahrenberg had the same feeling, "It was very special that two people, after 83 years, still love one another." The women spent four days together. They went shopping, shared meals and, mostly, talked for hours - making up for the lost time. "We're not the girls we used to be when we were 9, that's for sure, but we kept giggling like we were little kids." Grebenschikoff said. "It was such a joy for both of us."
This year sees the third edition of Zhu Yujie's group female art exhibition, a project hosted annually with the aim of offering more opportunities to women artists. The exhibition Metaphor and Gaze opened in Shenzhen's La Vie Art Center, on Feb 27.
"Women artists still have relatively fewer opportunities to show their works at art museums and galleries, and few group exhibitions concentrate on female topics, " Zhu says, "Only by constantly exhibiting works by female artists and writing about these artworks, can they be known by more people and be written into art history. "
The exhibition contains videos, paintings, and performance by 17 female artists. According to Zhu, the title Metaphor and Gaze is about artists expressing women's real desires, confusion and anxieties from different perspectives, and exploring the love, healing and growth shared by humans.
"In these unique times of the pandemic (疫情), we have had new life experiences and understandings, and I increasingly realize that art is the best medium to break down barriers and to bring people together. And for artists, their creation and thinking never stop," Zhu says. "In art history, the images of women are often just objects to be gazed at. In our exhibition, women are the subject of creation. "
Zhu says that she feels an increasing amount of people are supporting female art. While she overcame various difficulties hosting previous exhibitions with a limited budget, this year she was invited by Xiao Yu, founder of La Vie Art Center, who provided the place.
The art center is an industrial space with rough concrete walls, which, according to Zhu, contrasts with the fixed impression of women being frail, and allows the artists to communicate with the viewers through powerful artworks.
The exhibition also features a reading room section entitled Writing Her Power- Women's Situation and Writing, displaying books from 20 publishing houses on themes including female power, self-identity and relationships. Zhu says that books have played a major role in her learning.
After circling Earth for six months, the three crew members of China's Shenzhou XIII mission have departed from the Tiangong space station and returned to the mother planet on Saturday morning, finishing the nation's longest manned spaceflight.
Zhai Zhigang, who was the mission commander, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu breathed fresh air for the first time after the half-year space journey as ground recovery staff opened the door of their reentry capsule (返回舱) at 10: 03 am.
Medical service workers on the site told China Central Television that the astronauts are in good condition. Carrying the mission crew, the Shenzhou XIII spacecraft left from the Tiangong station at 12: 44 am. In the last hours of their stay inside the Tiangong, the astronauts worked with ground controllers to adjust the station, sending some experimental data back to Earth and sorting out materials.
The crew has set a new record for China's longest spaceflight, almost doubling the previous record of 92 days created by their colleagues in the Shenzhou XII mission who travelled with Tiangong from mid-June to mid-September last year.
During the Shenzhou XIII mission, the astronauts carried out two spacewalks that totaled more than 12 hours. They tested components on the station's robotic arm and used it to practice spacewalk. Wang took part in the first spacewalk on Nov 7, becoming the first female Chinese spacewalker.
The crew members also carried out two science lectures from the space station for Chinese students. In one experiment, Wang used a Bing Dwen Dwen toy, the popular mascot (吉祥物) of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games, to display how objects fly in weightless environment. The space-based lessons marked the start of the Tiangong Class series, China's first space lecture series that aims to popularize space science and inspire youngsters to pursue their "science and space dreams", according to the manned space agency.
Feeling confident in yourself is a long battle that requires a lot of self-reflection and acceptance. Once you reach a state of confidence in yourself, it can be easy to slide into arrogance (自大)Your confidence will be received much better if you always stay humble. Improve your self-confidence by making a list of your strengths. Everybody is good at something, and although it may be hard to see for yourself, you have your own qualities that others don't have. To value your own self-worth, make a list of your talents or skills that you are proud of.
Realize that other people will have different opinions, and that's okay. Have confidence in knowing that your own beliefs are sound, but stay humble in realizing that other people also have opinions and hold different beliefs. Have discussions with people around you, but don't expect to convince them of anything.
Understand that your value does not decrease the value of others. Having confidence means that you realize your own self-worth, but it does not put you above other people. Recognize that other people are also struggling and trying to find confidence in themselves.
Look for ways to improve your life while still staying grateful for what you have. Think about how your life has changed and improved over the last months or even years. Remind yourself that everything in your life that you have right now was once a goal of yours that you meant to accomplish.
A. Stay grateful to yourself.
B. Confidence and humility are contradictory.
C. Set goals while being content with what you have.
D. Keep it around to reflect on anytime you are feeling negative about yourself.
E. You won't be able to convince everyone you know that your opinions are right.
F. You are absolutely allowed to love yourself, but do so without putting others down.
G. Therefore, realizing how to keep your humility and confidence in balance is essential.
Zhi Yueying is a village teacher who has been working for almost four decades. When Zhi Yueying, then 19, went to the1Niyang village in Yichun city, Jiangxi province, to work as a village teacher in 1980, villagers 2 if she was going to stay long. After all, a number of voluntary 3 had arrived before, but all had 4 soon after. Zhi, though, was there for more than thirty years, before going to a more remote village school in the mountains.
Over the past four decades, Zhi has devoted herself to rural5. She is a recipient of China Central Television's Touching China awards that recognize the most 6 role models in 2016. She was also 7 as a model poverty fighter by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council earlier this year.
Born in Nanchang city, Jiangxi, in 1961, Zhi wanted to become a teacher since childhood. She 8 to work as a teacher at the primary school in Niyang village after graduation, despite her mother's strong9Located amid the mountains, the village was very poor and far from any town. Villagers had to 10 in the mountains since there was no road. Moreover, local people needed to go downhill to11 daily necessities. "I had never walked on a mountain road before, so in the beginning, I walked much more 12 than others, sometimes I was left behind too much and was scared to tears," says Zhi.
But she gradually 13 to her life there. She has a profound understanding of the importance of education in the mountains. Over the years, Zhi taught the students and14 them, since many of them were "left-behind" children whose 15 migrated to other places to work. More than 1, 000 students of hers have left the mountain area, and created a better life for themselves.
With perfect splits in the air, a man in black jumps high and shows different poses before landing on the ground gracefully. Sometimes, he either carries a bright red silky fan while dancing wears a shirt with long white flowing sleeves while spreading his arms like wings in the air. His dance is eye-catching, often (attract) crowds that take pictures and ask what he is doing.
He is Ma Jiaolong, who has been making and sharing short videos of (he) as a Chinese dancer and choreographer (编舞) in London since 2020. He has performed at the city's parks and iconic landmarks. These videos have made him a web celebrity currently has no less than 5 million (follower) on Douyin, a major short-video platform in China. "I (simple) considered that as a way of capturing memories of my life. I (surprise) because I didn't expect that the videos would go popular. The good part of being recognized is to introduce Chinese classical dance to a (wide) audience, "says the 35-year-old.
Chinese classical dance, the experienced dancer says, (combine) movements of martial arts, as well as traditional Chinese operas and focuses portraying different characters through subtle movements, such as hand gestures and eye contact.
After graduating from university, I decided to become a pilot and fly commercially. I chose a flying school which had a good reputation, enrolled and joined a class of six other trainees. We completed our ground school, where we were taught all the information we would need to fly an aircraft safely. The basics included the controls of the aircraft, its instruments and the rules we would have to obey while in the air.
Our instructors were all professional pilots and were very knowledgeable but also very strict. It was difficult for them to accept inaccuracy, so we were required to get Straight-A's in each test. It was explained to us that we could not afford to make an error as it could cost lives, so, to get my license, I doubled my efforts, learning the meaning of the word "thorough".
Later we had 10 hours of hands-on lessons in an exact model aircraft, a "simulator". My instructor sat next to me, watching my every move, always with a serious look. Sometimes I thought he over-reacted to my small mistakes.
The time arrived for us to take to the air for the first time. My instructor was an experienced pilot having flown big jets but was nearing retirement. As we went to take off, he pointed out the control tower and told me there was always a person on duty there for emergencies. I nodded firmly, but I never thought there was a chance I would have to call him on the radio.
We were away from our airfield and practising basic turns at about 6, 000 feet. Everything was going smoothly. Suddenly, my instructor started to shake and he put in his hand on his chest with his head falling forward. Thankfully, in control of the aircraft at that time, I steadied the aircraft and turned to look at him anxiously. He seemed to be unconscious. Our lives were in danger, and I had to put aside my uneasiness. It flashed into my mind that situations like this had been covered in ground school.
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Armed with what I had learned, I quickly became much calmer.
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Lying on the bed in the hospital, my instructor opened his eyes and saw me sitting beside him.
