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Bukui Mosque

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Bukui Mosque is also called Worship Mosque, which is a Islamic ancient building with Chinese national characteristics. It's located at 1 Liaomao Hutong of Jianhua District.

It covers 4,312 m2, with the building area of more than 2,000 m2. The Mosque is divided into two parts of east and west. The East Mosque was built by Islamic Qadim Sect Muslims in the 23rd year of Kangxi's Reign in Qing Dynasty (1684). There were five thatched cottages at the beginning, which were frequently rebuilt and expanded afterwards. The west Mosque was built by Islamic Jeholinev Sect Muslims in the 2nd year of Xianfeng's Reign (1852). There were 60 thatched cottages at the beginning, which were renovated afterwards. The distribution of the East and West Mosque is similar with each other, both are palace brick and wood construction. The main building is composed of Big Hall (Worship Hall), Kiln Hall and Arch. The auxiliary buildings are Entrance, Halls, Dean Room, Lecture Hall, Shower Room and Funeral Room, etc. The area of the East Mosque Big Hall is 374m2, the area of the West Mosque Big Hall is 173m2, which could hold 450 people for worship. The Big Hall faces west. There is a square-built canopy burou in front of the hall with connected flying eaves and colorful rafters. Several Tupidanthus-like arches are set off by 6 big red pillars. A horizontal plaque of Tasmi in Arabian is hanged on the main gate with a stele of Zealous for Common Weal hanged on its left. 20 hinge doors are engraved with musical instruments, chess, painting and calligraphy, flowers in four seasons and exquisite decorative patterns. Brick carvings are engraved on the two fastigiums inside the Big Hall. The Kiln Hall consists of pagoda base, pagoda body and pagoda top. East Mosque Kiln Hall is a 3-storeyed square pagoda style, with 4 golden characters of Tian Fang Jie Jing carved on the face of the stone carvings; the middle storey is entirely built with bricks with patterns of pillars, teeth and running fret shape. There are 9 round brick carvings on each face, with Holy Lord names and Holy Lord Images. A gilded copper gourd with 1.9-m height and 0.9-m diameter is inlaid on the Lotus Jeweled Seat of the pagoda top, and there are 40-cm-long crescent ornaments, which are symbols of “Variable Moon and Stars” for Islam. The Islamic building combine's lotus, gourd and crescent are very rare in China. The West Mosque Kiln Hall is a 2-storeyed building. A hexagonal tin ornament that is 1-m-high and 0.5-m-diameter, semi-round in middle and bowl-shape in bottom is inlaid on the brick carving Lotus Seat on pagoda top. The rare manuscript of Alcoran , Explanatory Notes of the Four Books the 8 th year of Xiangfeng's Reign (1858) Edition and other ancient books re collected in the Mosque. The East Mosque and West Mosque were combined in 1958. The Mosque was ranked as the Municipal-Level Cultural Relics Protection Unit and was rebuilt in 1980. It's ranked to be the Provincial-Level Cultural Relics Protection Unit and was named as Bukui Mosque in 1981.


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Cemetery of Soviet Union Red Army Martyrs

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Cemetery of Soviet Union Red Army Martyrs is located at the north of Ang'angxi Railway Station, Qiqihar City, which was built on August 15, 1949, to commemorate and recall the former Soviet Union Red Army soldiers who gloriously died in August 1945 in China. The south-north length of the cemetery is 122m, the width is 60m, and the cemetery covers 7,320㎡ . The cemetery mainly consists of 1 Soviet Union Red Army Martyr Monument and 16 martyr graves. The cemetery is buried with totally 126 Soviet Union Red Army Martyrs.

The Soviet Union Red Army Martyr Monument is seated at the eastern part of the cemetery, it's 8m high, a statue of a Soviet Union Red Army soldier with a steel helmet on his head and a submachine gun on his back is standing on the top of the monument, holding high an ensign in a bravely forwarding position. The foundation of the monument has 5 steps of stone stairs, and there are relief sculptures of the Soviet Union Red Army in the northeast liberation battle on the surroundings of the foundation. The national emblem of Soviet Union is respectively sculpted on the eastern and western sides of the monument body, the epigraphs of The Soviet Union Red Army martyrs who died for the liberation of northeast from the oppression of the Japanese imperialists are eternally immortal! and Those Soviet Union people who sacrificed for the liberation of the northeastern people from the Japanese imperialist shackles will never be forgotten by the Chinese people! are enchased on the monument.

Some people voluntarily come to the cemetery to pay respect to the martyrs every year and to commemorate their sacrifices for the Anti-Fascist World War and for the liberation of northeastern people from the cruel oppression of the Japanese imperialists. Now the cemetery has become the base for patriotic education. It's ranked to be The Municipal Level Cultural Relic Protection Unit by Qiqihar Municipal Government in 1987.


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Angangxi Ancient Cultural Relics

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Angangxi Ancient Cultural Relics belong to relics of New Stone Age, which was around 6,000 or 7,000 years ago. It consists of 39 sites and relics points, which is distributed on various sizes of sand hills of the middle and lower reaches of Nenjiang River, together with lowlands, swamps and lakes. There are a lot of relics in these cultural relic sites, which have provided important foundations for the study of the culture of fishing and hunting people in northern prairie of China. A Russian railway staff was the first to discover a New Stone Age relics nearby Angangxi in 1928; The famous Archaeologist Liang Siyong performed a 4-day archaeological unearth at the place where was 1.5km south of Wufu Railway Station of Angangxi in 1930, and he unearthed large amount of small pressed and carved stonewares, potteries and bone wares, etc; Liang Siyong published a 44-page and nearly 70,000 words large-scale archaeological unearthing report Pre-history Relics of Angangxi in 1932, which had attracted extensive attention from scholars at home and abroad. From then on, the original cultural genre that the extensive distribution of mostly small pressed and carved stonewares alongside the banks of middle and lower reaches of Nenjiang River in Songnen Plain was called Culture of Angangxi, which occupied an important position in Chinese and World Ancient History and was recorded by General History of China, General History of World and Dictionary of Chinese Historic Interests. Angangxi Relics have become the prominent representative of culture of the fishing and hunting people in northern prairie of China. All famous historians Guo Moruo, Fan Wenlan and Lv Zhenyu have highly commented this. After liberation, governments at various levels have organized many scientific and salvation unearthing on the relics with very abundant cultural relics archaeological achievements achieved. It's praised as Banpo Clan Village Site in the North. Angangxi Relics was nominated to be National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit by the State Council in 1988, which was ranked into the 8 th Five-Year-Plan Protection Plan of the National Bureau of Cultural Relics.


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Bright Moon Island

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The former name of Bright Moon Island is Sishui Island, which is located in the center of Nenjiang River 7km northwest to the urban area of Qiqihar City. It's a naturally-formed river center island surrounded by water on four sides, with the total area of 766ha.

In the 15th year of the Republic of China (1926), the civil organization Wanshan Council built Wanshan Temple on the island (former name Zhongling Guyuan), which consists of 4 diamond archaizing buildings; Jade Emperor Pavilion (Yuhuangge) is a Chinese hip-and-gable double-storey dodecagon upturned eaves building, there is the statue of Jade Emperor on the upper storey and the statues of Ci Hang and Lv Dongbin on the lower storey; Baiyang Pavilion is a hexangular pavilion, with the statue of Buddha Maitreya inside, with statues of Wenchang the Great Emperor and Zhenwu the Great Emperor on left and right side respectively with the Four Heavenly Kings standing beside them; Sanxing Pavilion is symmetric with Baiyang Pavilion, with the statues of happiness, wealth, longevity and star inside and with the Four Guardian Warriors respectively beside them; Sanqing Pavilion is against Jade Emperor Pavilion, which is a two-storeyed pavilion, with five statues of the gods of gold, wood, water, fire and earth on the upper storey and the main statues of Supreme Lord Laozi, Primus and Tongtian Jiaozhu, the statue of Randeng Taoist on the left and the Jieyin Taoist on the right, and the twelve disciples respectively standing on both sides.

The Municipal Government designated Bright Moon Island as the tourist area in 1980, and repaired the Wanshan Temple. The former Sanqing Pavilion was changed into Jade Emperor Pavilion, where the statues of Jade Emperor, Golden Stella Taibai and Heavenly King Li were oblated; the former Baiyang Pavilion was changed into Ruyi Pavilion, where the statue of five children playing with the Buddha Maitreya was oblated; the former Sanxing Pavilion was changed into Happiness and Longevity Pavilion (Fushou Pavilion), where the statue of God of Longevity was oblated; the former Jade Emperor Pavilion was altered into the unique sculpt dodecagon 2-storeyed pavilion-River-watching Pavilion.

In September of the same year, the Wanshan Temple was ranked to be Municipal-level Cultural Relic Protection Unit. The Governor Chen Lei of Heilongjiang Province visited the island in July 1983, and cheerly inscribed the name Bright Moon Island, which became sisters with the Sun Island of Harbin. 12 archaizing buildings were newly-built in 1984 including Octagonal Cloud Whisking Pavilion, Quadrangular Fragrant Grass Pavilion, Hexagonal Moon-Watching Pavilion, Bright Moon Island Decorative Gateway, Mini Railway Station, Yingbin Building, Moon Palace Restaurant and Bright Moon Villa Hotel, etc. Nearly 50,000m2 cement road was newly built to connect different pavilions. The Municipal Government transferred and rebuilt the provincial-level cultural relic protection unit Martial's Mansion to Bright Moon Island Landscape Area in 1999, which was a triple yard and four units archaizing building, covering 4,000m2. The blue bricks and green tiles and bright red pillars looked majestic and spectacular. Bright Moon Island is endowed with a unique geographical environment, with different sceneries in four different seasons. The green water, blue sly, dense forests, fragrant grass, ancient temple, sand hills, oasis, jade pavilions, birds and flowers on the island are setting off with each other. The island has very abundant animal and plant resources. The animals on island including pheasant, swan, owl, hare and grass snake, etc.

The wild plants on island including malus baccata, large-fruited Chinese hawthorn, mulberry, elm and Chinese scholartree and so on. The age of the eldest hawthorn tree is above 300 years and the age of the Chinese scholartree rare in northeast is above 100 years as well. There are 31 varieties of 560,000 trees plus the pine trees, poplar trees, willow trees and sugar maple trees planted in the recent years. There are more than 20 traditional Chinese herbal medicines on the island as well. Now, the first scene visible is the bathing ground with clear water and fine sands after embarking the island by taking ferry, and then the distant view of the undulating landform, the bushiness, the meandering grassland and the blooming flowers. The temples and pavilions, carved beams and painted rafters, colorful rafters and upturned eaves, and the resplendent and magnificent human sights are more than the eye could take in. The visitors could look round to the scenery of the entire island by taking the mini train; the visitors could view the custom and situation of the people living on banks of Nenjiang River, the oasis and billows and dense forests by taking the yacht.


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