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Shijiazhuang Tangshan Qinhuangdao Handan Xingtai Baoding Zhangjiakou Chengde Cangzhou Hengshui Langfang Zhaozhou Bridge (Anji Bridge) Longxing Temple, Zhengding Shanhaiguan The Mountain Resort and its Outlying Temples Putuo Zongcheng Temple Jinshanling Great Wall Eastern Qing Tombs Wahuang Palace Baiyangdian Western Qing Tombs Ding Kiln Dajingmen Jimingyi Yuxian Cangzhou Iron Lion Hengshui Lake Shengfang Puning Temple Tangshan Earthquake Memorial Park Cizhou Kiln Xing Kiln The Grand Canal at Cangzhou Zhengding Ancient City Laolongtou Beidaihe Xiangtangshan Grottoes Guangfu Ancient City Bian Que Temple Zhili Governor's Office Wuqiao County Wuqiang County

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Chengde

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Jinshanling: Where the Great Wall Keeps Its Bricks

Jinshanling runs 10.5 kilometres along a ridge in Luanping County, Chengde, with five passes, sixty-seven towers and three beacon towers. Ming builders began it in 1570. Its first stretch has been returned to something like its original state; toward Simatai the wall is left to weather.

Puning Temple and the Wooden Bodhisattva of Chengde

Puning was finished in 1759, four years after Qing armies defeated the Dzungars. Its halls combine Chinese and Tibetan plans, and its main pavilion holds a gilded wooden Avalokiteshvara assembled from five kinds of timber, 110 tonnes in weight and more than twenty metres high.

Putuo Zongcheng: The Potala Rebuilt for a Birthday

Between 1767 and 1771 the Qianlong emperor raised a temple north of his Chengde summer palace, modelled on the Potala in Lhasa. Its red platform, gilded roofs and white terraces were built to mark two imperial birthdays and to receive envoys from the empire's frontiers.

Chengde Mountain Resort and the Temples Beyond Its Wall

Qing emperors left Beijing each summer for a walled valley in Chengde, where a palace, lakes and a grassland were laid out over eighty-nine years. Beyond the wall stand the Outer Temples, built in Tibetan, Chinese and mixed styles for the empire's frontier guests. Together they form one World Heritage property.