The Bund
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Posted:Feb 6, 2010 4:02 am
Last Updated:Feb 7, 2010 3:07 am 5008 Views
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Bund is the word only using in Asia country.But not so many people to know the word if you from Eur or another country. because i was working and living here right now. i want to introduce the bund to you here .
The Bund, also called the Zhongshan Dong Yi Lu (East Zhongshan 1st Road), is a famous waterfront and regarded as the symbol of Shanghai for hundreds of years. It starts from the Baidu Bridge, which is at the connecting point of the Huangpu River and the Suzhou Creek, to the East Jinling Road and winds a 1500 meters (less than one mile) length. Walking along the Bund, which is at the west shore of the Huangpu River, the Oriental Pearl TV Tower can be seen on the opposite side and also the Jin Mao Tower. Being one of the Top Ten Shanghai Attractions, the Bund is a really beautiful and special place which is worth visiting. The newly-built Flood Control Bank takes the function of preventing the oversize flood; the square with the statue of Marshal Chen Yi is an open air podium which gives new views of the Shanghai Plaza Culture; the Cenotaph which stands on the man-made island is a monument of people's heroes; the riverside greenbelt, the Electronic Waterfall Bell, and the Great Mural Carving are all representatives of the Bund. The most famous and attractive sight which is at the west side of the Bund are the 52 various buildings of different architectural styles including Gothic, Baroque, Romanesque, Classicism and the Renaissance.
History of the Bund
Before the 1840s, the Bund was a muddy narrow lane with tall reeds. After Shanghai was established as the trading port in 1846, a street was paved there and the bank was reinforced. Then, rows of commercial buildings were constructed. As the UK Concession, the Bund is the starting point at which Shanghai walked into the modern times. It was the centre of Shanghai's politics, economy and culture hundreds of years ago, consulates of most countries and many banks, businesses and newspaper offices were settled there, and that's why we have these art-like buildings. Although they were not designed by the same person or built in the same period, the architectural pattern is similar. Among the earliest banks established on the Bund, the most powerful ones are Jardine Mathrson & Co., Dent & Co. and David Sasson and Sons Company invested by Great Britain, and Russell & Co. sponsored by the United States. In 1868, today's Huangpu Park was set up there. At that time, it was named Bund Park, which is the oldest park in Shanghai. Until July 1st, 1928, the park started to be open to Chinese people. By 1930, the layout of the Bund had been formed.
On September 30, 1995, the Bund History Museum was opened. The museum collected many historical pictures as well as some representative literatures and tangible objects. It shows the 150 years' developing history of the Bund.
Brief Introduction to the Famous Buildings on the Bund
The current East Wind Hotel on the Bund was founded up at the site of the exclusive Shanghai Club. It's a typical British classical architecture. It owned the longest bar counter at that time in a length of 110.7 inches.
The Grecian igloo was the past HSBC Building. Built in 1923, the British people once said it's the most splendid building from Suez Canal to Bering Strait.
Today's Peace Hotel once was the famous Sasson House. It's a ten-storied building, 77 meters high. In the past, it was the tallest building on the Bund. In 1992, Peace Hotel was entitled the World Famous Hotel.
In order to make these architectures known by people, experts and scholars write nameplates for them both in Chinese and in English. Hereunder are the 25 famous old buildings on the Bund:
Built in Currently Used by Original Name Designer
1913 China Pacific Insurance Co. Ltd.McBain BuildinMoorhead&Halse
1910 East Wind HotelShanghai Club BuildingT. Tarrant
1922No.3 the Bund (originally No.4 the Bund)Union Building
Palmer & Turner Group, P & T
1925 No.5 the Bund The NKK Building Lester, Johnson&Morriss
1897 No.6 the Bund The Russell & Co. BuildingGabriel James Morrison+ F. M. Gratton
1908 Bangkok Bank Public Company LimitedThe Great Northern Telegraph Company Building
Atkinson&Dallas Architects and Civil Engineers Ltd
1916 SHIATZY CHEN The China Merchants Building Company
Atkinson&Dallas Architects and Civil Engineers Ltd
Jun. 23, 1923 Shanghai Pudong Development Bank
HSBC Building Palmer & Turner Group, P&T
Dec. 19, 1927 Shanghai Customs The Customs House
Palmer & Turner Group, P&T
1948 Shanghai Municipal Trade Union Council
The Bank of Communications Building C.H.Gonda
1910 Foreign Exchange Trading Center Russian Asiatic Bank
Becker&Baedeker
1924 China Merchants Bank The Bank of Taiwan
Lester, Johnson&Morriss
1924 AIA.China North China Daily News Building
Lester, Johnson&Morriss
1922 No.18 the Bund Chartered Bank Palmer & Turner Group, P&T
1908 South Building of the Peace Hotel Palace Hotel
Gabriel James Morrison+ F. M. Gratton
Sep. 5, 1929 North Building of the Peace Hotel
Sasson House Palmer & Turner Group, P&T
1937 Bank of China Bank of China Building
Palmer & Turner Group, P&T + Lu Qianshou
1924 Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK,LTD. Palmer & Turner Group, P&T
1920 Agricultural Bank of China Yangtze Insurance Building
Palmer & Turner Group, P&T
1922 No.27 the Bund Jardine Matheson Building
R S Stewardson + H M Spence
1920 Shanghai Media & Entertainment Group Glen Line Building
Palmer & Turner Group, P&T
1914 China Everbright Bank Banque de l'Indochine
Atkinson&Dallas Architects and Civil Engineers Ltd
1873 Peninsula Hotel General Consulate of Britain
Grossman & Boyce
1934 Shanghai Mansion Broadway Mansions
Shanghai Land Investment Company
1907 The Gutzlaff Signal Tower
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Chou Dou Fu
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Posted:Feb 5, 2010 6:19 am
Last Updated:May 2, 2024 11:39 pm 4557 Views
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Maybe some people will ask me what is the Chou Dou fu? Chou Dou Fu is its Chinese name in Pin Yin.its name is A strong smelling preserved bean curd. it is very very cheap and local food in china. you could find it everywhere in china.
The fermented bean curd smells like smelly and eat joss-stick, some people to it respect but far of, some people will then eat it to be a kind of habit.
You could try if you have a chance come here and you want to challenge yourself 
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Thanks
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Posted:Feb 3, 2010 6:41 am
Last Updated:Feb 16, 2010 6:04 am 4979 Views
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Thanks for you to read my blog here. i have read all your message here. thanks !!!
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love poem
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Posted:Jan 30, 2010 4:24 am
Last Updated:Feb 3, 2010 6:30 am 4670 Views
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no easy to find the true love in the world.
share some wonderful poem here with you:
If you were a teardrop;In my eye,
For fear of losing you,I would never cry
And if the golden sun,Should cease to shine its light,
Just one smile from you,Would make my whole world bright
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A poem ---- HOW TO KNOW YOUR TRUE FEEL FROM HEART
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Posted:Jan 27, 2010 6:30 am
Last Updated:Jan 28, 2010 5:02 am 4519 Views
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Today i want to write down a poem from me. wish you like it !
His palm have some crass tender
He always be my side when I need
These sad tears got collapsed from you
Thanks for his selfless dedication
If I still meet you that day
Please don¡¯t remind the sopor aeternus of story from us
Something doesn¡¯t not face you directly will be in safe
You don¡¯t have a right to shaken my world
I should be happy when I get a right person to take care
He never make me cry
I feel so weird when I was try to close to love
Slow and slow lose all temperature
I was try to make everything be clearly in my world right now
He think I am his whole world
But sometimes love is kind and cruel
How I could love him same as I love you before
If I really meet you that day
I will not tell you about him
I will not tell you about everything from him
All thing will be period
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Happy Australia Day to you all!
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Posted:Jan 26, 2010 6:20 am
Last Updated:Feb 3, 2010 6:32 am 5084 Views
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Today is Australia Day.
Similar to the 1 October celebrations for Chinese people, Australia Day is when the first British colony landed in Sydney Cove in 1788.
In Australia many people celebrate with lots of fireworks, a day off work, picnics in the parks and at the beaches, and big dressed up ferry races across Sydney Harbour. Beer and wine sometimes makes it in there too . Lately, Australia Day has also become a day for giving of awards to special Aussies and honouring the native people who have lived on the land for over 40,000 years.
Below for those interested is a brief outline of the history of this day.
And for any Indian nationals, Happy 60th Indian Republic Day (1950-2010) also
HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA DAY: TIMELINE
Before 1770 - Aboriginal peoples had been living for more than 40 000 years on the continent we now know as Australia. At least 1600 generations of these peoples had lived and died here.
Europeans from the thirteenth century became interested in details from Asia about this land to the south. From the sixteenth century European cartographers and navigators gave the continent various names, including Terra Australis (Southern Land) and New Holland.
1770 - Captain James Cook raised the Union Jack on what is now called Possession Island on 22 August to claim the eastern half of the continent as New South Wales for Great Britain.
1788 - Captain Arthur Phillip, commander of the First Fleet of eleven convict ships from Great Britain, and the first Governor of New South Wales, arrived at Sydney Cove on 26 January and raised the Union Jack to signal the beginning of the colony.
1804 - Early almanacs and calendars and the Sydney Gazette began referring to 26 January as First Landing Day or Foundation Day. In Sydney, celebratory drinking, and later anniversary dinners became customary, especially among emancipists.
1818 - Governor Macquarie acknowledged the day officially as a public holiday on the thirtieth anniversary. The previous year he accepted the recommendation of Captain Matthew Flinders, circumnavigator of the continent, that it be called Australia.
1838 - Proclamation of an annual public holiday for 26 January marked the Jubilee of the British occupation of New South Wales. This was the second year of the anniversary's celebratory Sydney Regatta.
1871 - The Australian Natives' Association, formed as a friendly society to provide medical, sickness and funeral benefits to the native-born of European descent, became a keen advocate from the 1880s of federation of the Australian colonies within the British Empire, and of a national holiday on 26 January.
1888 - Representatives from Tasmania, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia and New Zealand joined NSW leaders in Sydney to celebrate the Centenary. What had begun as a NSW anniversary was becoming an Australian one. The day was known as Anniversary or Foundation Day.
1901 - The Australian colonies federated to form the Commonwealth of Australia. The Union Jack continued as the national flag, taking precedence over the Australian red and blue shipping ensigns gazetted in 1903.
Melbourne was the interim federal capital. The Australian Capital Territory was created out of New South Wales in 1908, the federal capital named Canberra in 1913, and the Parliament House opened there in 1927.
1930 - The Australian Natives' Association in Victoria began a campaign to have 26 January celebrated throughout Australia as Australia Day on a Monday, making a long weekend. The Victorian government agreed with the proposal in 1931, the other states and territories following by 1935.
1938 - While state premiers celebrated the Sesquicentenary together in Sydney, Aboriginal leaders met there for a Day of Mourning to protest at their mistreatment by white Australians and to seek full citizen rights.
1946 - The Australian Natives' Association prompted the formation in Melbourne of an Australia Day Celebrations Committee (later known as the Australia Day Council) to educate the public about the significance of Australia Day. Similar bodies emerged in the other states, which in rotation, acted as the Federal Australia Day Council.
1948 - The Nationality and Citizenship Act created a symbolic Australian citizenship. Australians remained British subjects.
1954 - The Australian blue ensign was designated the Australian national flag and given precedence over the Union Jack. The Australian red ensign was retained as the commercial shipping ensign.
1960 - The first Australian of the Year was appointed: Sir Macfarlane Burnet, a medical scientist. Other annual awards followed: Young Australian of the Year, 1979; Senior Australian of the Year, 1999, and Australia's Local Hero, 2003.
1979 - The Commonwealth government established a National Australia Day Committee in Canberra to make future celebrations 'truly national and Australia-wide'. It took over the coordinating role of the Federal Australia Day Council. In 1984 it became the National Australia Day Council, based in Sydney, with a stronger emphasis on sponsorship. Incorporation as a public company followed in 1990.
1984 - Australians ceased to be British subjects. Advance Australia Fair replaced God Save the Queen as the national anthem.
1988 - Sydney continued to be the centre of Australia Day spectacle and ceremony. The states and territories agreed to celebrate Australia Day in 1988 on 26 January, rather than with a long weekend. Aborigines renamed Australia Day, 'Invasion Day'. The Bondi Pavilion protest concert foreshadowed the Survival Day Concerts from 1992.
1994 - Celebrating Australia Day on 26 January became established. The Australian of the Year Award presentations began alternating between Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Brisbane.
2001 - Centenary of federation. The National Australia Day Council's national office had returned to Canberra the previous year. In 2001 the Council transferred from the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts to that of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Australians' growing familiarity with the Australia Day holiday led the Council to focus on shaping their awareness of its significance and meaning.
2004 - The presentation of Australia Day awards ¡ª the focus of Australia Day ¡ª became fixed in Canberra.
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To be friend
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Posted:Jan 24, 2010 4:01 am
Last Updated:Feb 10, 2010 4:26 am 4421 Views
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Tomorrow my ex-bf's good friend will go back American . thank you for he telling me about his feeling about me. thank for for he let me know i am pretty smart good and cute. that is really so happy to hear what people to think of me. but i think he and me to be good friend with each other better than we be a couple to each other.
Thank you ! Thank you for everything let me know you and be friend with you
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what is love
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Posted:Jan 23, 2010 1:45 am
Last Updated:Feb 3, 2010 6:33 am 5283 Views
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" love " is great and sweet word in the world. but what is love? it could easy to make each other close more and more ? during these days my ex-bf' good friend come to visit me, just yesterday i just know he like me before the first time meet me when my ex-bf introduce me to everybody/ wow ....
i was didn't know about that.but i think my heart told me i cannot accept the love from him. because i just think we are not right the person. i need a person really care and love me make me feel in safe. but i canot feeling anything like that way from him.
during these days we was met each other and he doesn't often to talk a lot. i don't like that....
anybody could tell me what should i do?
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lalala...
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Posted:Jan 21, 2010 6:07 am
Last Updated:Jan 22, 2010 11:16 pm 4463 Views
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Today is crazy day for me. because i was woke up at 7am and go to govement office to pick up the company things at 9am , later go back office around 11:30am, at the same time leave office to visa office at 12am. come back again and eat lunch almost 1:30pm.start HR meeting from 2pm until 5pm. pretty tired and crazy today.
but now i was get home and writing my blog the feeling so cool and good!!!
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travel(1)
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Posted:Jan 20, 2010 4:18 am
Last Updated:Jan 23, 2010 1:39 am 4395 Views
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If you like to travel and you want to know a lot of place and culture from china. please follow me to enter to a wonderful trip here.this is the place i want to introduce to you here as below:
Temple of Marquis Wu or the Wuhou Memorial Hall, which is located in the south of Chengdu, is a famous historical site dedicated to the memory of both Liu Bei (161-223), Emperor of the Kingdom of Shu in the Three Kingdoms period (220-280), and Zhuge Liang (181-234), Prime Minister of the kingdom. Zhuge Liang (181-234) was not only a great statesman and military strategist but also the hero of the novel Sanguo Yanyi (the Romance of the Three Kingdoms). The temple was originally built by Li Xiong of the Western Jin dynasty (265-316AD), 400 years after Zhuge Liang's death, and rebuilt in the Qing dynasty with a total area of 37000 square meters.
The whole complex faces south direction with the first gate, second gategate, second gate, hall of Liu Bei, corridor, and hall of Zhege Liang sitting on the central axis, in which hall of Liu Bei is the highest and greatest one. A board hung above the first gate reads "Han Zhaolie Temple" (Zhaolie was a title given to Liu Bei posthumously). In spit of this, the temple is commonly known as Wuhou Memorial Temple (Zhuge Liang was conferred on the title of Wu Xianghou after his death).Stepping into Hanzhaolie Temple, the visitors can see a tablet corridor on either side. The west tablet corridor displays the Tongming Tablet which is seldom visited by people.
In the east tablet corridor, the Tongtang Tablet, composed by the famous Prime Minister Peidu in Tang Dynasty, written by the renowned calligrapher Liugongzhou (the brother of Liugongquan); engraved by the great stonemason is called "Three Perfect Tablet", because its article, penmanship, engraving were made all by famous men. Passing through the hallway, in both sides there are corridors with 14 lifelike statues, these are the corridors for the civil and military officials of Shu. The civil officials' corridor in the east is headed by Pangtong, while the military officials' corridor is headed by Zhaoyun. Temple of Marquis Wu is a memorial temple in honour of Zhugeliang (181-234A.D.), Wuxianghou, Prime Minister of Shu in Three Kingdoms Period. It began to build the temple at the end of Western Jin Dynasty and take shape in Tang Dynasty. Early in Ming Dynasty, the Temple was merged with Hanzhaolie Temple, which is in honour of Liubei(161-223A.D.). It has got rebuilding in 1672(the 11th year of Kangxi Period of Qin Dynasty). It has been over 1500 years till now.
The memorial temple, dignified and simple in style, houses 47 statues of Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang and other civil officials and senior generals of the kingdom. The temple is furnished with many inscribed stone tablets, the most famous being the Tablet of Triple Success of the Tang dynasty (618-907) with its text by Prime Minister Pei Du, calligraphy by Liu Gongchuo and carvings by Lu Jian. In the shrine there are 47 historic figures and sculptures of the Shu Kingdom, some 40 steel and stone tablets, more than 30 plaques and dozens of ancient tripods, incense burners, bells, drums and other relics.Today, the temple of marquis Wu is not only a museum for people to know the history of three kingdoms, but also a good place for resting and visiting.
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