www射-国产免费一级-欧美福利-亚洲成人福利-成人一区在线观看-亚州成人

US EUROPE AFRICA ASIA 中文

Emperor Qianlong's southern belle

By Zhao Xu ( China Daily ) Updated: 2017-09-16 07:34:16

Emperor Qianlong's southern belle

Emperor Qianlong. [Photo provided to China Daily]

Qianlong has been billed as a lady killer, but when he headed to his favorite retreat he had very serious regal duties on his mind.

When Emperor Qianlong arrived in Hangzhou for the first time in 1751 at the end of a journey lasting as long as four months, he was already 40, and it heralded the start of a relationship with the city that would play an important role in the second half of his life.

In fact over the next 33 years he would undertake the 1,500-kilometer journey from Beijing six times. These days, when we can be blase even about having breakfast in Beijing and dinner in Berlin the same day, it is easy for us to underestimate Qianlong's undertaking. However, given the logistics and physical rigors of such a journey - he was 73 when he made the last one - it is clear that Hangzhou held a special place for Qianlong, the longest-living - and reigning - emperor of Qing (1644-1911), China's last feudal dynasty.

The trips he made in those 36 years are known today as the "journeys to Jiangnan". The term Jiangnan means south of the Yangtze River and refers to large tracts of land covering what are now Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces. Jiangnan was long China's hothouse, culturally and commercially, with its talented people filling the cabinet and taxes the royal coffer.

Hangzhou (also known as Lin'an when it served as the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty between 1129 and 1279), with its superb natural scenery and strong literary tradition, was the best place that Jiangnan had to offer. On every "journey to the south", Emperor Qianlong stopped in Hangzhou. In fact, five times, Hangzhou was the southernmost spot he reached before embarking on the return trip.

"Nowhere else beckoned him in the same way that Hangzhou did," says Ma Shengnan of the Palace Museum in Beijing. Ma is the curator of an exhibition now on at the Zhejiang Museum in Hangzhou. The exhibition, titled Ruler of a Golden Age, seeks to reestablish the link between the emperor and the city of his love, through more than 200 objects ranging from beautifully crafted jade, porcelain and lacquerware to works of painting and calligraphy commissioned or that he executed himself.

Previous Page 1 2 3 4 Next Page

Editor's Picks
Hot words

Most Popular
...
主站蜘蛛池模板: 亚洲美女综合网 | 91香蕉国产观看免费人人 | 337p粉嫩日本亚洲大胆艺术照 | 高清欧美日本视频免费观看 | 一区二区在线播放福利视频 | 一区二区三区亚洲 | 毛片韩国 | 久久欧洲视频 | 久久成人免费观看草草影院 | 亚洲一区二区影院 | 美女视频网站永久免费观看软件 | 在线播放成人高清免费视频 | 性盈盈影院影院 | 91精品福利手机国产在线 | 性色午夜视频免费男人的天堂 | 久久精品视频免费 | 午夜国产| 国产性videostv另类极品 | 免费嗨片 | 午夜精品久久久久久99热7777 | 欧美一级人与动毛片免费播放 | 亚洲视屏在线 | 波少野结衣在线播放 | 欧美久久亚洲精品 | 普通话对白国产情侣自啪 | 欧美成人免费xxx大片 | 欧美三级一区二区三区 | 日本天堂网址 | 欧美成人a人片 | 九九免费精品视频在这里 | 久久精品国产一区二区三区日韩 | 欧美一二三区视频 | 中文字幕有码视频 | 目韩一区二区三区系列片丶 | 亚洲视频aaa | 免费亚洲黄色 | 精品免费在线视频 | 男操女免费视频 | 免费国产视频在线观看 | 亚洲精品视频在线 | 一级国产精品一级国产精品片 |