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Since many people enjoyed the Peach Blossom Springs build by Epicwork, here are some more builds that they’ve made over the years, along with some historical background on the builds, if anyone is interested:

The Thousand-Year Capital City - Luoyang (千年帝都·洛阳)

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In ancient times, Luoyang served as capital city in Xia dynasty/夏朝 (2070 BC - 1600 BC; the existence of this dynasty is debated among scholars due to insufficient archaeological evidence), Shang dynasty/商朝 (1600 BC - 1046 BC; Luoyang was one of the two capital cities), Western Zhou dynasty/西周 (1046 BC - 771 BC; Luoyand was again one of two capital cities), Eastern Zhou dynasty/东周 (770 BC - 256 BC), Western Han dynasty/西汉 (briefly starting from 202 BC), Eastern Han dynasty/东汉 (25 AD - 220 AD), Kingdom (dynasty if going by the traditional official historiography) of Wei/曹魏 (220 AD - 266 AD; this is part of the famous Three Kingdoms period), Western Jin dyansty/西晋 (266 AD - 213 AD), Northern Wei dynasty/北魏 (386 AD - 534 AD; Luoyang became its capital in 494 AD), Sui dynasty/隋朝 (581 AD - 618 AD; Luoyang became the capital in 605 AD), Tang dynasty/唐朝 (618 AD - 907 AD, including the brief Zhou/武周 during which Wu Zetian was the first female emperor; Luoyang was the capital or one of the capitals starting from 657 AD), Later Liang dynasty/后梁 (907 AD - 923 AD), Later Tang dynasty/后唐 (923 AD - 937 AD), Later Jin dynasty/后晋 (936 AD - 947 AD).

The build here (minus the giant dragon statue of course) is based on Luoyang during Tang dynasty, possibly around the time when Emperor Gaozong or Wu Zetian was in power, due to the presence of the enormous standing Buddha statue (Wu Zetian believed in Buddhism, while most other emperors of Tang dynasty put more emphasis on Daoism, since they claimed to be descendants of the founder of Daoism, Laozi, whose real name was Li Er). 

The Garden of Gardens - The Old Summer Palace (万园之园·圆明园)

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The Old Summer Palace or Yuanmingyuan/圆明园 was a garden constructed during Qing dynasty that incorporated elements of Chinese architecture and Western architecture.  The garden used to contain many priceless artifacts, the vast majority of which were stolen by British and French forces in 1860, and the garden itself was burned to the ground and thoroughly destroyed.  As a result of this purposeful destruction, only a few broken pillars remained, standing as a grim reminder to the plundering and destruction that were the results of Western imperialism.

Epicwork tried to reference old photos and historical records when recreating the garden here in this build.

The quote at the beginning of the video comes from a letter written by Victor Hugo to Captain Butler (boldened portion is the quote):

To Captain Butler

Hauteville House,

25 November, 1861

You ask my opinion, Sir, about the China expedition. You consider this expedition to be honourable and glorious, and you have the kindness to attach some consideration to my feelings; according to you, the China expedition, carried out jointly under the flags of Queen Victoria and the Emperor Napoleon, is a glory to be shared between France and England, and you wish to know how much approval I feel I can give to this English and French victory.

Since you wish to know my opinion, here it is:  

There was, in a corner of the world, a wonder of the world; this wonder was called the Summer Palace. Art has two principles, the Idea, which produces European art, and the Chimera, which produces oriental art. The Summer Palace was to chimerical art what the Parthenon is to ideal art. All that can be begotten of the imagination of an almost extra-human people was there. It was not a single, unique work like the Parthenon. It was a kind of enormous model of the chimera, if the chimera can have a model. Imagine some inexpressible construction, something like a lunar building, and you will have the Summer Palace. Build a dream with marble, jade, bronze and porcelain, frame it with cedar wood, cover it with precious stones, drape it with silk, make it here a sanctuary, there a harem, elsewhere a citadel, put gods there, and monsters, varnish it, enamel it, gild it, paint it, have architects who are poets build the thousand and one dreams of the thousand and one nights, add gardens, basins, gushing water and foam, swans, ibis, peacocks, suppose in a word a sort of dazzling cavern of human fantasy with the face of a temple and palace, such was this building. The slow work of generations had been necessary to create it. This edifice, as enormous as a city, had been built by the centuries, for whom? For the peoples. For the work of time belongs to man. Artists, poets and philosophers knew the Summer Palace; Voltaire talks of it. People spoke of the Parthenon in Greece, the pyramids in Egypt, the Coliseum in Rome, Notre-Dame in Paris, the Summer Palace in the Orient. If people did not see it they imagined it. It was a kind of tremendous unknown masterpiece, glimpsed from the distance in a kind of twilight, like a silhouette of the civilization of Asia on the horizon of the civilization of Europe.

This wonder has disappeared.

One day two bandits entered the Summer Palace. One plundered, the other burned. Victory can be a thieving woman, or so it seems. The devastation of the Summer Palace was accomplished by the two victors acting jointly. Mixed up in all this is the name of Elgin, which inevitably calls to mind the Parthenon. What was done to the Parthenon was done to the Summer Palace, more thoroughly and better, so that nothing of it should be left. All the treasures of all our cathedrals put together could not equal this formidable and splendid museum of the Orient. It contained not only masterpieces of art, but masses of jewelry. What a great exploit, what a windfall! One of the two victors filled his pockets; when the other saw this he filled his coffers. And back they came to Europe, arm in arm, laughing away. Such is the story of the two bandits.

We Europeans are the civilized ones, and for us the Chinese are the barbarians. This is what civilization has done to barbarism.

Before history, one of the two bandits will be called France; the other will be called England. But I protest, and I thank you for giving me the opportunity! the crimes of those who lead are not the fault of those who are led; Governments are sometimes bandits, peoples never.

The French empire has pocketed half of this victory, and today with a kind of proprietorial naivety it displays the splendid bric-a-brac of the Summer Palace. I hope that a day will come when France, delivered and cleansed, will return this booty to despoiled China.

Meanwhile, there is a theft and two thieves.

I take note.

This, Sir, is how much approval I give to the China expedition.

Regrettably, none of the priceless artifacts that were stolen had been returned by any of the countries involved, and instead became a major part of the museum collections of various Western countries.  The small portion of artifacts that had returned to China were mostly bought from auctions by Chinese people.  To this day, British and French mainstream media refuse to fully acknowledge the plundering and destruction of Yuanmingyuan.

Lijiang, the Ancient Mystic City (中国风·丽江古镇)

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I thought the translation for the title should’ve been “the Ancient Mystical City”, but it’s okay.  This is Epicwork’s first Chinese architecture-style build that became popular.  This build is based on the real life Old Town of Lijiang (丽江古镇), which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  The real life Old Town of Lijiang has architecture that incorporated features of Han culture and Naxi culture.

Finally, a build that doesn’t really fit the topic of this blog, but personally I really liked it, and just in time for October...

Devil Island (恶魔岛)

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The cathedral in this build is based on Duomo di Milano.

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Wu Guanzhong 吴冠中 (China 1919-2010) The Old Town of Lijiang (1978) ink and colour on paper 37.5 x 53.5 cm

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Wu Guanzhong 吴冠中 (China 1919-2010)

The Old Town of Lijiang (1978)

ink and colour on paper 37.5 x 53.5 cm

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Shuhe, Yunnan, China, 2014-ish, photo by me One of my favorite little old towns in Yunnan, mainly because Shuhe is just such a chill place. I wish I still had the original RAWs of a lot of these but unfortunately I only have lowish res copies. Still cool though. This is an “old town” just outside of Lijiang in Yunnan, but most of Shuhe is newer construction in an old style. 

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Zhijiang

Well so I’m a bit behind on things and there have been some minor mishaps, so I’ll update you on the last week over the course of three posts. Here’s part 1.

On Sunday I was supposed to go from Fenghuang to Lijiang, which involved taking a bus to the train station, taking a train two towns over, and getting a cab to the airport to catch my flight. Needless to say that did not happen.

I underestimated how long the bus ride to the train station was and got on the wrong bus initially which made it all take longer. I got to the train station 1 minute before my train was meant to leave and missed it. At that point my flight was going to leave in 2 hours and I was 90 minutes away by car. I tried to get a cab but no one was willing to take me that far.

I sat on a bench for a while in defeat and then picked myself up and dusted myself off to figure things out. I went to the ticket office at the train station to try to get a new train ticket, the train station employee was super helpful and even though he had no English and my Chinese is rudimentary at best he didn’t give up and kept on trying to help me until we figured out a solution. He found me a train ticket to another destination that wasn’t as close to the airport but the train was leaving immediately and maybe I could figure out a cab from there. I was very grateful for him, I don’t blame people for taking one look at me and saying sorry I can’t help because it really isn’t fair of me to expect them to help me when I don’t speak their language and communicating with mobile translators is very difficult and clunky and time consuming. So I’m very grateful to people who take the time and have the patience to help silly old me.

I made it on the train, and got to the neighboring town of Huaihua. Which was still one town away from where the airport was. At that point my flight was in 90 minutes and I was about an hour away from the airport in optimal conditions. The train station was enormous and when I told the cab driver I was going to the airport he laughed and laughed.

That’s when the real fun started.

He drove me for a couple of minutes, when I asked him how much it would be to go to the airport, and he did finger guns which is definitely not a unit of currency. Then he pulled over on the side of the road and asked which airport I was going to.

I kept repeating again and again which airport I was going to and showing him on the map and showing him the address in Chinese but he was for whatever reason just not understanding at all. Maybe I was pronouncing it wrong or had the wrong Chinese characters written down or I don’t know. Chinese tones always get me, there are 5 different ways to pronounce every vowel sound which completely changes the meaning of the word (shí means is, shì means 10, etc. so pronouncing something wrong totally changes your meaning). We were pulled over for nearly 10 minutes until we figured it out.

Then he drove for about 5 more minutes and decided it was time for a lunch break. So he pulled over and went in a restaurant and ordered food. I mean, he did ask me to join and if I wanted anything. I think I made him mad with my frantic 不要不要！我要去在机场现在！(No! No! I want to go to the airport now!) so he got his order to go and drove off. My flight was at this point leaving in 45 minutes and we were 35 minutes away.

Then we saw the construction workers. The freeway was closed for construction. So we turned around and took a detour. The driver just kept on asking me again and again “为什么你不回说汉语吗” (why don’t you speak Chinese), which I mean, fair question.

We made it to the airport 8 minutes after my flight had left, which, given all the mitigating factors, was actually very impressive.

So there I was in this tiny airport in the town of Zhijiang, which I had never heard of before today. I was the only person in the airport besides the employees and they told me there were no more flights today and asked what my plans were. There was literally nothing around for miles besides cornfields.

So I just started crying and saying I don’t know.

The Zhijiang airport staff are actual angels and they huddled together and whispered amongst themselves for a solid ten minutes and then told me to come with them. It took 4 staff members, many phone calls, and nearly an hour of going back and forth with phone translators but they were able to figure out how to get me on a flight the next day, a hotel for the night, and a ride to and from the hotel to the airport. I am so so grateful to them, they definitely could have just left me there to figure it out myself. They didn’t even work for the airline, they were just airport staff.

So I got to the hotel in downtown Zhijiang. It goes to show just how huge of a country China is that Zhijiang is considered a very small town no one really knows about and yet it was definitely at least the size of Portland if not bigger. The airport staff had managed to score me a room at one of the nicest hotels in town for about $35. It was definitely one of the fanciest hotels I have ever stayed in. Complete with automatic curtains, one of the biggest tvs I have ever seen, and a Japanese heated smart toilet. It was also overlooking an enormous river and waterfront promenade type area.

I enjoyed the hotel for a while, watched TV, and ate convenience store snacks. Then in the evening the waterfront area started coming to life so I went out to explore. The river was so wide and calm, I’d never seen such a still, clear river before. There were people swimming back and forth across it. I dipped my feet in for a while and people watched. When the sun went down the city lit up. Like literally.

Apparently in Zhijiang every night there is a coordinated light show all along the entire riverfront, all the buildings synchronize their lights to light up along with it accompanied by classical music. It lasts for about 4 hours and even included a fog machine at one point. The path and the stairs and the bridge were all lit up in rainbow lights while people took their evening walks. Kids were swimming in the river and playing with bubbles and old ladies were doing zumba and tai chi. It was very idyllic and beautiful. The waterfront area itself reminded me so much of Portland with the river and the bridges but it was so much livelier and full of life. It was really cool.

The next morning I made it to Lijiang without a hitch. Even though this stopover in Zhijiang was unexpected I ended up really enjoying it and was glad for the experience. I’ll update soon with more about Lijiang.

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The 100 must-visit  sceneries in China

Lijiang Ancient City麗江古城 https://www.chinamemorytrip.com/?s=lijiang Address:Dayan Ancient City, Gucheng District, Lijiang City The Lijiang Ancient City is a UNESCO World Heritage Site that has a history of over 800 years. It was an important stopover point in ancient times playing a very important role in the trading activities among Yunnan, China hinterland, Tibet, India and many other neighbouring Asian countries. The town is full of ancient wooden buildings, stone roads, and small bridges. It is the only old city built without a city wall. Standing in the city, you can see the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. #Yunnan #Trip, Yunnan #Travel, #YunnanTour #Lijiang Trip, Lijiang Travel, Lijiang Tour #China Trip, China Travel, China Tour

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Lijiang Old Town, Yunnan China

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There are a lot of moffs (moths) in Yunnan province right. If you like mushrooms, moths, lush mountains, food with lemongrass in it, thats a good place to go. Kunming is fun, i’m guessing its a lot more happening than it was when i was there over 12 years ago. but for first-timers who need some peace and quiet i recommend staying in the old town part of Lijiang

Its very pretty. when i was there, the weather was nice and cool, lots beautiful low-rise buildings, and there were little gurgling canals that wound their way thru the town. also got some severely pirated music CDs from a store there but i doubt thats still around

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