Luoyang lives vibrantly in China’s present and yet few cities on earth can evoke so strongly its past. For over 2.500 years, emperors, soldiers, artists, monks and common citizens left their mark here. The result is a city full of stunning relics of an ancient history while to the north thunders Huanghe, China’s mother river. […]
Read MoreNow Luoyang Science and Technology Museum is speeding up construction. The rendering of Luoyang Science and Technology Museum (file photo). Luoyang Science and Technology Museum has a total area of 108,000 square meters and a construction area of 118,500 square meters. Derived from the concept of “Between Heaven and Earth” and modeled on tiles invented during Zhou Dynasty (around 11 BC- 256 BC), the square-arc shape of the museum reveals both […]
Read MoreThe First Age of Luoyang Xia dynasty ca 2100-1600 BCE Although evidence of agricultural cultivation reaches back to the 8th century BCE, when millet was first domesticated, the story of China begins when a civilization known as the Xia emerged from the mists of the Neolithic age to establish a dynastic regime around 2017 BCE. […]
Read MoreRecently, Luoyang has been awarded the title of “Dynamic Exhibition City” at the first China Exhibition Innovation Convention and the Fifth Jiangxi Forum on Exhibition Economy Development held in Nanchang, east China’s Jiangxi Province. To build itself into a “City of Exhibitions”, Luoyang has been exerting great efforts on hosting the Peony Culture Festival of Luoyang China, […]
Read MoreShang dynasty ca 1600-1050 BCE The Shang dynasty that followed was, like the Xia, cloaked in legend until peasants near Anyang in northern Henan began digging up bones with mysterious notches carved into them. Presuming them to be the bones of dragons, they were sold for use in traditional Chinese medicine. In 1899, they came […]
Read MoreOn the evening of the April 14, the first large-scale costume restoration show with peony as the theme was held in the North Square of the Peony Museum on Longmen Mountain, at the southern end along the axis of Luoyang City. "This is the first large-scale dress restoration show themed on peony in China." Hu Xiao, head […]
Read MoreSui and Tang dynasties Sui dynasty 581-6I8CE Tang dynasty 618-906CE The second Sui emperor, Yangdi, was quick to develop Luoyang. “Heaven and earth merge with each other, yin and yang work in harmony, safeguarded by four mountain passes,” he said while calling attention to its strategic tenability–it was according to Yangdi, “safeguarded by four mountain […]
Read MoreOn April 27, the Housheng – First Heluo Peony Culture Festival was opened in the Heluo peony garden complex in Zhaocun Township of Luoning County. During the activity, in addition to peony sightseeing, tourists can also enjoy songs with unique landscape and pastoral charm, guzheng performance and Heluo drum dance, an intangible cultural heritage of Heluo. In recent years, Luoning County […]
Read MoreHan 206-220 CE Western Han 206 BCE-8 CE Eastern Han 25-220 CE The Han Dynasty lasted for over four hundred years-a golden age of great economic, technological intellectual, military, mercantile and bureaucratic advances. Founding emperor Gaozu favoured Luoyang as his capital, remarking“I have travelled far and wide under heaven, and I have only seen Luoyang.”However […]
Read MoreRoot of Hakka Memorial in Luoyang is now open to the public for free. Here follow the tips for visitors. Opening hours The Memorial is open between 9:30 to 17:00 from Tuesday to Sunday, while entry after 16:30 will not be allowed. The site will be closed for routine on Mondays (except for statuary holidays). Requirements […]
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