China tour guide: Red Cliff - Ancient Chinese war from Google map to yangtze cruise

You may plan for a spring China tour. So turn on your computer and locate Google Maps, set the language to be Chinese, you may pick up some suprise. And my recommendation below is for your reference as many foreigners have great interest in a Yangtze cruise. Let's talk about it begin with a popular film, Red Cliff, directed by John Woo.

Jan.4, A grand opening ceremony of the world for John Woo's second part of "Red Cliff" held in Beijing. Great history encounters great production. "Heroes reunites and epic returns." As media left such comments, even the internet giant Google comes recently and joins in this bustling.

If you're accustomed to using Chinese version of Google maps, you could find a link "新！赤壁之战地图，自现一千八百年前的三足鼎立时代”(New! Maps of the Battle of Red Cliff, reproduced three kingdom 1,800 years before ) The new product released in recent days is fulled of reativity which combined the Chinese ancient history, geography with morden technology. Further more, it makes knowledge of history, ancient geography spread by melting it into film and TV entertainment.

On the map, we can see that Red Cliff (Chibi) is located in the south of Hubei Province, north to Wuhan, and Yueyang city, known as "the southern gate of Hubei", in the south. It has 1723 suqare kilometers' area and 500,000 of population with world-renowned long history. AD 208, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Sun Quan and Liu Bei made the alliance and resisted against Cao Cao. They planed the earthshaking battle in the local town and created the situation of three kingdoms which brought great compact to Chinese history.

Take a cruise, you will see the two Chinese characters "赤壁"(red cliff) engraved on the scarp of Yangtze River's south bank. Story says it was titled by Zhou Yu after he defeated Cao Cao. Now, war had already gone, only the rolling Yangtze River is east evanescent and tell us the glorious legend.

Attractions like ancient battlefields of Red Cliff War has been kept and protected as national-level historical unit while it was circled by other monuments with mountains stand by and islands spread all over the land-water lake scenic area. Filming base of "Water Margin City" located here and is in the building of national land-water lake tourist resort in current days. Water of hot spring here was adviced to drink and bath desirable as its medical fitness by experts. Further more, the largest clay dam of land water reservoir, underground grottos and summer resort surrounded with gardens filled with bamboo, tea and fruits. Picturesque natual scenery and rich historical culture made Chibi an tourist paradise.

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