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Jade Buddha Palace in Anshan Podcast

America's second largest city----LA

    Los Angeles is located in southwestern U.S. West Coast, California, is America's second largest city, after New York. Los Angeles was founded on September 4, 1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence. In 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles is a global city, with strengths in business, international trade, entertainment, culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine and research and has been ranked sixth in the Global Cities Index and 9th Global Economic Power Index.

    Movies, television, music forms the basis of international reputation and global status of Los Angeles, located on the world-famous Hollywood city. 7036 Mulholland Drive，Los Angeles，CA 90068 is the classic look of the Hollywood sign, but also the free position.

    If you like to watch basketball, Los Angeles is a good choice. It has a very famous two NBA teams. One is Los Angeles Lakers and other one is Los Angeles Clippers. You will have the opportunity to see the famous stars Kobe Bean Bryant, Chris Paul, and Blake Austin Griffin.

    Universal Studios Hollywood is a movie studio and theme park in the unincorporated Universal City community of Los Angeles County, California, United States. It is one of the oldest and most famous Hollywood movie studios still in use. Its official marketing headline is "The Entertainment Capital of LA", though during the summer it is often advertised as "The Coolest Place in LA." It was initially created to offer tours of the real Universal Studios soundstages and sets. It is the first of many full-fledged Universal Studios Theme Parks located across the world.

    Next time, I will continue to introduce famous locations in Los Angeles.

Jade Buddha Palace in Anshan

    In China, most of people believe in Buddhism because Buddhism allows people to perform good deeds. Chinese people believe that goodness is a virtue. People were affected by Buddhist culture.
    Anshan Jade Buddha Palace is the first national AAAA level scenic spots - Buddha Garden Scenic Area, located in the eastern part of downtown Anshan City, Liaoning Province. It covers an area of ​​100,000 square meters, surrounded by mountains, facing the water, perched beautiful Dongshan Scenic Area.

    The Nature-made face of the jade Buddha is amazing. when the “king” of jade stones was discovered, it was wrapped by a layer of ferruginous rock, and it was hard to distinguish its real quality as a beautiful piece of jade. After the artisans tore the outside rock away, they were astonished to find that the “king” was a piece of colorful jade containing 7 colors—yellow, white, black, blue, green, light green, and dark green. Between two color zones, some divisions are quite distinctive, while some are of miscellaneous colors and hard to tell. To make a face of Buddha out of such a material was a difficult task—if the face of Buddha was of miscellaneous colors, it would be a blasphemy. However, it seemed to those worrying artisans that there was no other way around but working in accordance with the already finished design. when the project was finished, the face of Buddha happened to be on a section of pure dark green jade and the hair edge on its forehead was right on a dark yellow section, which composed quite a colorful, artistic contrast on Buddha’s face,  so people call the process, “Nature makes the face of Buddha.”

China 'Yosemite'-----Kanas

Kanas is in Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang, China. It is famous for the Kanas lake. Its natural beauty and fresh air can be comparable with the Yosemite. The scenic spot is classified as a AAAAA scenic area by the China National Tourism Administration. The lake was formed around 200, 000 years ago during the Quaternary period as a result of glacier movement. The crescent moon shaped lake have water storage capacity 53.8 billion cubic meter, average depth 120 meters.

There is a large population of Tuvans and Kazakhs in the Kanas valley area. While most of them have maintained their traditional agriculture and nomadic life style, many of the local people also begin to participate in the developing tourism business recent years, managed to establish facilities for orienteering, hiking, rafting, rock climbing, paragliding and camping.

Guan Yu Ting was built at an altitude of 2030 meters in the Sahara Decatur on top of the hill, with a vertical drop of over 600 meters of the lake. It is in the best position to observe "lake monster", so it named after the concept Guan Yu Ting. Guan Yu Ting is the only one able to stop and enjoy the beauty of the best platform in Kanas.

Kanas Lake is a lake in the other wonders of the giant "monster." According to local folklore, the Kanas Lake has a huge monster that can spray clouds, horses and sheep are often swallowed the shore, such legends, since ancient times, and continuously. There are numerous visitors and staff from the top scientific expedition to observe first-hand the giant fish, which is a beautiful Kanas Lake adds a bit of mystery.

Podcast----China ‘Yosemite’ --- Kanas

Kanas is in Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang, China. It is famous for the Kanas lake. Its natural beauty and fresh air can be comparable with the Yosemite. The scenic spot is classified as a AAAAA scenic area by the China National Tourism Administration. The lake was formed around 200, 000 years ago during the Quaternary period as a result of glacier movement. The crescent moon shaped lake have water storage capacity 53.8 billion cubic meter, average depth 120 meters.

Many of the local people also begin to participate in the developing tourism business recent years, managed to establish facilities for orienteering, hiking, rafting, rock climbing, paragliding and camping.

The Nearest Place from the Sun in China

    The nearest place from the sun in China is Lhasa. Lhasa is the administrative capital of Tibet. It is the second most populous city on the Tibetan Plateau, after Xining, and at an altitude of 3,490 meters, Lhasa is one of the highest cities in the world. The city contains many culturally significant Tibetan Buddhist sites such as the Potala Palace, Jokhang temple and Norbulingka palaces, many of which are located in Chengguan District, the city seat.

    Lhasa literally means "place of the gods". It is Tibet's political, economic, cultural and religious center. Magnificent Potala Palace is the supreme symbol of the theocratic regime.

Potala Palace

    Lhasa is located in the north of the Himalayas, by the downdraft of the year and more sunny weather, scarce rainfall and winter cold, summer heat, is a semi-arid plateau temperate monsoon climate. Historical maximum temperature 29.6 degrees Celsius, minimum temperature of minus 16.5 degrees Celsius, the average temperature 7.4 degrees Celsius. Rainfall concentrated in 6,7,8,9 month annual sunshine time is 3000 hours or more.

    Lhasa Barkhor area is famous for turning lanes and commercial center. By the end of the 17th century, Lhasa's Barkhor area formed a bustling market for foreign goods.  in 1716 that the city had a cosmopolitan community of Mongol, Chinese, Muscovite, Armenian, Kashmiri, Nepalese and Northern Indian traders. Tibet was exporting musk, gold, medicinal plants, furs and yak tails to far-flung markets, in exchange for sugar, tea, saffron, Persian turquoise, European amber and Mediterranean coral.