tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35769953212815514742023-11-16T03:26:52.155-08:00What's in Chongqing for you as an expatAbout Chongqing city, life, culture, civilization, history, leisure, opportunities etc.APA's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08293754522397002034noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576995321281551474.post-1116287562417073202015-07-10T02:21:00.000-07:002015-07-10T02:21:09.493-07:00Tips Regarding Finding Accommodation in Chongqing/China<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Our 3rd weekly contribution for GGII's newsletter and for people coming/living/working in Chongqing, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">is published with details as follows, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 14px;">please stay tuned for more coming next week.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><span style="line-height: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">To check further on GGII, <a href="http://ggii.cqu.edu.cn/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">click here</a>.<br style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;" />To subscribe to their newsletter, <a href="http://eepurl.com/bkszvD" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">click here</a>.<br style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;" />To understand what services APA could offer, <a href="http://www.apachina.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">click here</a>; for business inquiries, <a href="mailto:daphne@apachina.com" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">click here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>APA's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08293754522397002034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576995321281551474.post-9289121301791421112014-10-27T22:53:00.001-07:002014-10-27T23:06:43.364-07:00Magic Chongqing Explore<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Living in a different social and cultural environment can become a
fascinating life experience instead of an intimidating torment. Explore and
interact with the local culture and society helps open a different mind and
perspective for a more meaningful and rewarding expatriate experience. This
program is designed to help the expatriate community better enjoy Chongqing and
win the best out of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yuzhong Peninsula is not only the current downtown area but also where Chongqing city had been built up upon and Chongqing people had been living originally in old times. Underneath its quite modern and international outlook at its busy commercial areas today, there are those historical stories/remains and ancient relics lying around the hidden streets/corners at old Chongqing’s up city and bottom city areas waiting to be explored.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this spicy and busy city, there are also places for nourishing one’s spirit and mind, no matter it’s ancient or modern art form.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To understand Chinese philosophy, Buddhism and Taoism are two main
branches, and they also have temples in the city for you to have a taste of
such spiritual pursuit.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chongqing is a city of mountains, some parks/temples are also built
as integrated with the mountains - a symbol of spiritual isolation.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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APA's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08293754522397002034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576995321281551474.post-58854982985491295372014-06-12T00:16:00.000-07:002014-06-12T01:02:31.048-07:00Plum Rain Season in Chongqing<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you are planning to visit Chongqing recently, you will be having the Plum Rain Season to welcome you here.</span><br />
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regions along mid and downstream Yangtze River, which usually comes as early as
late May and goes as late as mid-July. During the Plum Rain Season, Chongqing
city will always be covered with heavy grey clouds with continuous rains, day
and night, big and small with only short and temporary un-raining days in
between. The reason it’s called Plum Rain is because it’s a ripe season for sour-sweet plums, and it also has another name called Mold Rain (same pronunciation in
Chinese) as the long raining days will usually bring along mold to your house, your
furniture, your car and clothes and also humidity air inside your body causing
damp-heat related diseases. Such a sun-lacking season affects people with the
so-called Plum Rain Season Syndromes like lack of appetite, diarrhea, stomach
sickness, somnolence, dysphoria and even depression. Please consult experienced
TCM doctor or reliable TCM guidebooks for advice on some natural herbs, type of
teas, vegetables and balanced diet for a healthy transition during this season.
Outdoor hiking/walking for fresh air could also be quite helpful for stress and
depression relief. There are nice parks in this big city, and ancient towns, temples, mountains in town and around the city suburbs (stay tuned for our later posts).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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is Chongqinger (Chongqing Ren)? Actually there aren't many original Chongqing
locals existing in the current Chongqing population as ever since ancient
times, it has been a city of migration (refer to the previous articles), yet
living in the same city, they all start to share similar personalities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">As
a city of mountains embraced with two rivers, one of which is China's mother
river Yangtze River, its unique geographic features fostered unique climate and
weather, and then a unique kind of people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Perhaps the most common initial view on Chongqinger would be like,
they talk too much, too loud, too fast and even too straight. Not just for you
as an expat, even Chinese from eastern cities may also find them a bit crude
and lack of some cultivation, some extremists even call them barbarians. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Well, actually true and untrue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">As a city surrounded by mountains and rivers inside Sichuan Basin,
in old days it had never been easy for people from outside to get in or people from
inside to get out. To get an impression of that, take a look at the magnificent
Kuimen Gate at the Qutang Gorge when you are taking the Yangtze Three Gorges
Cruise, also the long and plentiful lashes on the big rock alongside the river
as that’s the historical remains of hardship of Qianfus- men who drag with bare
hands and feet with long and thick rope tied to the boats to inner city riverside,
and they usually had to be away from home for months to earn some money to
support their family if they could stay alive in the end (do watch the Wulong
show for that part of history). Even making a living in town is not that easy.
Mr. Bang (as people start to call them today) or called Bangbang (mountain
porter man) earns a hard living by selling physical labor on the steep mountain
roads. For the migrants to Chongqing in ancient time for various reasons, and for
those chose to enter Chongqing via land routes, they had also encountered challenges
beyond imagination – limited ancient government courier routes, steep and scary
mountain routes with hidden mountain thieves or mountain lords, hungry beasts,
sickness etc. Families at that time didn’t choose to enter Sichuan/Chongqing could lose the
record of their offspring who chose to enter forever. Of course, on the other hand,
this land had also been favored by some litterateurs who sought for a hermit
recluse romance from the less satisfying secular life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">In addition to the harsh natural and living environment, the
furnace summer with steaming unbearable heat, the humid winter, the either
continuous raining or continuous sunny days, and the quick transition between
summer and winter, and from sunny to raining and vice versa, make people living
here like to pursue strong favored spicy diet to help let the heat, humidity
and sometimes the “frustration” inside the body out. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">So people here tend to speak a bit louder, faster and
straightforward, they are a bit quick-tempered, hot-tempered, and they do not like being fussy about things. A bottle of
beer, and a little Longmenzhen (wild chat), you could even make a local friend
with certain sincerity, as Chongqinger does like to chat whenever wherever however
long they can. Perhaps they are not as shrewd as people from some eastern and
more civilized cities, they tend to spend more time whenever possible on
enjoying life instead of figuring how to make/save more money, so people used
to call Sichuan/Chongqing land has a Kingdom of Heaven that you must go when
you retire but never enter when you are still young, because it would be hard
to leave the place once you reach there. And Chongqing men could also be good
family men as most of them are Pa Er Duo which means husbands who are afraid of
wives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Well Chongqing ladies are regarded both naturally pretty and
physically and mentally strong. The humid weather and mountain land nourishes
their skin and cultivates their elegant physical shape. They are also strong
women either in running families or businesses. Nowadays there are more successful
female entrepreneurs in Chongqing in various industries. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">If you get the chance to visit or relocate to Chongqing, do mingle
around with the local people – they don’t usually bite, taste the local food, and walk
the now a bit hidden mountain routes, perhaps you will be evolved into a
Chongqinger sooner than you could even imagine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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APA's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08293754522397002034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576995321281551474.post-67481137061041319512014-05-13T00:14:00.000-07:002014-05-13T00:15:45.592-07:00Chongqing Hua<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Chongqing Hua (Chongqing Dialect) means the language spoken
by Chongqing locals living</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">in its main urban areas – there's a big
differentiation between its other counties and regions; it belongs to Chengyu
(Chengdu and Chongqing) branch of southwestern Mandarin, it represents one of
the standard pronunciations in Sichuan Hua, and has more geographic application
as compared to Chengdu Hua. As Chongqing has been a city of migrations from
ancient times – the ratio of original Chongqing locals is no more than one
third; the migration was mainly from Guangdong, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Anhui, and it had absorbed some of their pronunciations into its own language system. Due
to the promotion of standard Mandarin, the original Chongqing Hua is spoken
less and less by the younger generation.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Chongqing Hua is also called Chongqing Yanzi(er), which has very
straight-forward meaning, is easy to follow, and actually many of its phrases
are quite amusing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Yanzi pronunciation
samples<span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: 宋体; font-size: 13.5pt;">街</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">street<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">jiē<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">gāi</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: 宋体; font-size: 13.5pt;">解手</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">go to the toilet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sh</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">ŏ</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">u<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">xié</span> zi <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">há</span>i zi<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: 宋体; font-size: 13.5pt;">睡觉</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">go to sleep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">shu</span>ì jiào<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">s</span>uì gào<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Yanzi phrase
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Chinese<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">English<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 宋体; font-size: 13.5pt;">要得</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> yao de<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 宋体; font-size: 13.5pt;">假打</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> jia da<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">hypocritical <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 宋体; font-size: 13.5pt;">撇脱</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> pie tuo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">convenient<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 宋体; font-size: 13.5pt;">啥子</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">/ </span><span style="font-family: 宋体; font-size: 13.5pt;">爪子</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> sa zi / zua zi<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">what<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 宋体; font-size: 13.5pt;">晓得</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> xiao de<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I know<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 宋体; font-size: 13.5pt;">巴适</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> <span lang="EN-US">ba si<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">nice, comfortable<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 宋体; font-size: 13.5pt;">豁我</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> <span lang="EN-US">huo wo<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">lie to me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 宋体; font-size: 13.5pt;">踏雪 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">ta xue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">despise<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 宋体; font-size: 13.5pt;">打望</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> da wang<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">go see pretty girls <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 宋体; font-size: 13.5pt;">嘎嘎</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> <span lang="EN-US">ga ga<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">meat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 宋体; font-size: 13.5pt;">国孽</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> guo lie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">quarrel, start a fight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 宋体; font-size: 13.5pt;">香音</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> <span lang="EN-US">xiang yin<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">cheap<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 宋体; font-size: 13.5pt;">唐家沱</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> tang jia
tuo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">a place quite far from the city center, it usually is used in a sentence to
mean one’s business suffers a big loss<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 宋体; font-size: 13.5pt;">刹一脚</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> <span lang="EN-US">sa yi jio<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">stop there, pause<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: 宋体; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family: Helvetica;">说嘞些</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> suo lie xie</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Don’t mention it, no big deal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 宋体; font-size: 13.5pt;">偷油婆</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> tou you
po<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Thief of oil - cockroach<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 宋体; font-size: 13.5pt;">扭到费</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> niu dao
fei<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Stubborn, insistent on something<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 宋体; font-size: 13.5pt;">耙耳朵</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> <span lang="EN-US">pa er duo<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">soft ears – afraid of wife<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 宋体; font-size: 13.5pt;">麻麻鱼</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> <span lang="EN-US">ma ma yu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">spicy fish – be cheated<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 宋体; font-size: 13.5pt;">不存在</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> bu cun
zai<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">It’s ok, doesn’t matter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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APA's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08293754522397002034noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576995321281551474.post-69342599324124480852014-04-25T01:31:00.000-07:002014-04-25T01:34:59.999-07:00Enjoy Chongqing<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Visiting or living in a new and strange place could be dull and
boring if there’s not much fun to discover to add color to such an experience. No
matter what kind of life-enriching experience you are looking for, Chongqing
has its own unique flavors for you to savor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">As a fast developing modern city, Chongqing has a wide range of
food choices to offer. No matter whether you are looking for a western or
eastern cuisine or different types of Chinese cuisine, you can find them in
either high class or common standard restaurants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">We will give you some recommendation on that in later posts, here
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(steamed stuffed bun), Mantou (steamed bun) and Youtiao (deep-fried dough stick
and better served together with soya-bean milk), those favored in Chongqing are
Xiaomian (vegetable noodle), Youcha (sweetened fried flour) and Tangyuan (rice dumpling),
just to name a few.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lunch and some typical “fast food” lunch choices include Noodles of various
meat toppings, Chaoshou (Wonton), Fried rice, Rice topped with meat/vegetables
or served separately in small plates, Ma La Tang (food boiled in hot pot and
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And most locals are natural foodies searching for a joy of snacks whenever they
feel like to. What most commonly supplied in the food street and food stands
are Suan La Fen (noodle made of sweet potato with mainly sour and hot flavors),
cold noodles, fried meat strings, tofou jelly (with spicy flavor), cold shrimp,
cold jelly, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">When the day’s work is finally finished and the night comes, the
city becomes even more dynamic and energetic. Some people will simply go home,
prepare some simple home-made dishes, rest and call it a day. While for many
others, it’s the start of another chapter of life. Decent restaurants are
commonly available around the city for lovers, families, friends or business
associates to catch up and stay connected. But the places that are mostly favored by the locals are
restaurants serving hot pot, dry pot, Jianghu (literally means rivers and
lakes, and indicates the common life in general) dishes, or temporary sidewalk
booth serving barbecues, night snacks, grilled fish etc., where they can relax,
drink beer, talk out loud and eat as late as they want. People who enjoy and
follow such kind of night life style are called “night cats” here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">As compared to the more developed coastal/eastern cities in China,
people here are more inclined to spend time on entertainment whenever they have
the chance. Karaoke Center and Tea house for Longmenzhen (literally means
Dragon Tongue Squad, and locally indicates casual chat for killing leisure
time), Mahjong and Poker games are the most common leisure channels. Of course,
there are also bar streets in different commercial areas for both Chinese and
foreign “night cats”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">If you would prefer a more quiet night life, for expat standard
housing in Chongqing, usually there’s decent commercial center, gym center, leisure
area inside the community or close by. Yet unless you are living in some remote
area, jogging outside would not be very convenient, safe or even healthy. In nice
sunny days, go picnicking in the nearby parks or mountains is also a nice
option. If you are more of a culture hunter, the various museums telling
Chongqing’s histories and stories, theaters for national and international
performances, and scenic centers inside the city and its suburban areas can
always offer you something in your to-do-list.</span></div>
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spring resorts for a bit pressure easing and health enhancement which could be
nice for either weekend or holiday outing.<span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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APA's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08293754522397002034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576995321281551474.post-71779204661517053252014-04-16T02:33:00.000-07:002014-04-16T02:37:12.149-07:00Chongqing Taste<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The current Chinese Cuisine system is composed of four main culinary
traditions representing the cooking philosophy/techniques/styles and food
ingredients characteristic of the four regions in Shandong (shorted for Lu),
Sichuan (Chuan), Guangdong (Yue) and Suzhou (Su). Of course there are more than
four regional culinary traditions and some people argue there should be eight
or even ten main culinary traditions in China, from which you could sense a bit
the diversifying feature in Chinese culture and civilization. If there’s a time
machine and you could get to travel back to each Chinese dynasty and taste the
food in its different directions, and each and every period would present you with
a totally or slightly different flavor as food or cuisine is a representation
of the climate, resources and customs of the time and place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Unlike the northern cities which have more abundant food sources
in beef and mutton, or the coastal cities which have more marine food sources,
Sichuan located in southwestern China has more aquatic and poultry food sources
to be applied to its cuisine. Needless to say that “Ma La” Spicy flavor is the main
feature in Sichuan Cuisine nowadays, yet actually chili was originally imported
from America via Europe during China’s late Ming and early Qing dynasty and was
then applied to and became the main cooking style in Sichuan Cuisine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><u>Chengdu (Rong) Upstream Cuisine</u></i> and <i><u>Chongqing (Yu) Downstream
Cuisine</u> </i>are two main branches under Sichuan Cuisine, they seem similar but actually
quite different if you pay close attention to. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Chengdu dishes are usually called Guanfu (government officials)
dishes as they usually use high class ingredients/food materials, with accurate
proportion as per the recipes, good-looking appearance and mild taste. While Chongqing
dishes are called Jianghu (common social life) dishes as they have rough
appearance, use boldly a variety of cooking styles/food ingredients. Chengdu
hot pot uses vegetable oil, while Chongqing hot pot uses animal oil (beef oil)
with strong flavors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to make some of them in later posts.<span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
APA's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08293754522397002034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576995321281551474.post-2080010871711609052014-04-14T00:55:00.000-07:002014-04-14T01:01:27.169-07:00Get to and Get around Chongqing<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Chongqing is located in southwestern China; it’s a modern city
with several international flights already open, and easily accessible via airways,
road ways and railways inside China.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><i><span style="color: #444444;">Direct international flights</span></i></b> - How to get in and out?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">San Francisco (short stay in Beijing); Los Angeles (short stay in
Shanghai); Sydney; Tokyo; Seoul; Hong Kong; Macau; Taipei; Bangkok; Phuket; Singapore;
Doha; Helsinki<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The traffic means available inside Chongqing city includes, bus,
taxi, metro, motorcycle, tricycle and ropeway. Bicycle usually serves as a sport or
entertainment here as you could imagine, cycling in a mountain city like
Chongqing could be quite a challenge. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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transportation, do get a Chongqing Traffic Card (the image at the center of the image below) at any metro station; it could not
only be used (at a discount) for all public transportation vehicles except for
motorcycle, tricycle and taxi (not fully covered yet right now), but also for daily
life expenses like in some shops, supermarkets, parks, museums, cinemas etc. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Do remember to bring
your passport while booking a train ticket as all train tickets in China need
to be registered under the real passenger’s name. If booking from a selling
window outside the railway station, you need to pay an extra 5 Yuan for each
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">No matter whether you are coming here as an inquisitive traveler or as an international assignee either short-term or long-term, accommodation options of wide-range of standards/budgets are available for you to choose from.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Here listed below are decent accommodation options for you to consider in different directions. Comparatively speaking, the northern area has more hotels, apartments and especially houses to offer, as it’s a bigger area with more and more mature development. There are no houses to offer in central area as it’s the oldest area with narrow space, but it does have apartments of decent modern standard with good access to central business center. The west area is less developed with limited hotels/apartments of decent standard for rental, it also has houses developed in some area and its further west, but not much for rental currently. The south has decent hotels to offer, has limited apartments of decent standard, has houses developed with more and more under development, but not much for rental currently. Of course, if you have tight budget, there are also lower cost accommodation options available.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sichuan area, in ancient time, was called the land of <i>BA</i> and <i>SHU</i> Kingdoms; Shu Kingdom was established upon the Chengdu Plain by Shu Tribe; while Ba Kingdom was established upon Jiangzhou (current Yuzhong district in Chongqing) during the Spring and Autumn Warring States Period (BC 770-221) by Ba tribe. Both Ba and Shu Kingdoms were conquered in the end by Qin - the first united dynasty in Chinese history.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As a matter of fact, Ba is a very ancient tribe, which could be traced back to the legendary Five Emperors Period (BC 3076-2029). And Ba actually means "Tiger" to Ba people; it's what they call tiger in their pronunciation; they worship tiger; they regard themselves as a tribe of tigers, tiger (ba) people; tiger or actually white tiger is their totem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What worth mentioning is in ancient Chinese science of constellation white tiger, which resides in the west, is a star directly controls weapons and wars; and Ba warriors were also renowned for its bravery and battle wisdom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To better understand/appreciate that part of civilization, pay a visit to <b><i><u>Ba People Museum</u></i></b> located in Ba Kingdom City, Jiulongpo district and <u><i><b>Ba General Manzi's Tomb</b></i></u> at Lotus poool, Qixinggang, Yuzhong district.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Quite a lot of stories depicted in <i><b>The Romance of Three Kingdoms</b></i> (one of the Four Major Classics in Chinese literature) happened in Chongqing area during the Three Kingdom's Period in Chinese history. There are still some historical relics remained for you to visit, like <i><u><b>White King City</b></u></i> at Three Gorges and <u style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Zhangfei Temple</u> at Yunyang couty. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><u>White King City</u></i></b> is located at the east of Chongqing, north of Yangtze river, a sightseeing spot you can not miss at the <i><u><b>Yangtze RiverThree Gorges Cruise</b></u></i>. It's facing right at Qutang Gorge. Even though it's the shortest of the Three Gorges, it's the most dangerous, grandest and mightiest. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">At its west</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, there's an entrance called <b><i><u>Kuimen Gate</u></i></b> which is only less than 100 meters wide at its narrowest spot. Underneath White King City, there's a carving says "Kuimen the Most Magnificent in the World". Kuimen is also printed at the back of the 10 RMB currency.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In 1189 </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Zhao Dun, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the third son of South Song Dynasty emperor, was appointed as the Duke of Gongzhou (current Chongqing) before he was enthroned the same year, so he changed Gongzhou into Chongqing which means “double celebration or double happiness” in Chinese.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Fishing city was built on fishing mountain at the south of Jialing River, in Chongqing's Hechuan city. It got its name from a legend which says there used to be a Giant God fishing at the giant flat rock on the mountain to help the local people that were suffering from famine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After the Mongolian troops started to invade Sichuan, Song dynasty emperor sent his assistant minster of the Ministry of War to build cities and fortresses on this mountain to defend his kingdom in 1243. Then a complete defense system was built on the mountain later on and had actually defeated the invading Mongolian Khan. The defending generals had remained their resistance till 1279 when the South Song dynasty went perished, which is altogether 36 years' defending history. <b><i><u>The Fishing City Ancient War Fortress </u></i></b>relics is still remained intact on the mountain nowadays.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When Ming conquered and retrieved Chongqing into its united empire, the city was dramatically damaged then an order was given to rebuild the city. The new Chongqing city was built with 17 city gates, even 4 more than the Ming capital - Nanjing. But among them 8 gates were fixed as closed gates. Since then the city structure had remained the same till contemporary China. Nowadays you can still find some gates or gates remains in the city if you would take an interest in<b><i><u> Walking Chongqing </u></i></b>via many hidden routes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Due to the chaos of the wars, plagues and famines at Late Ming and Early Qing dynasties, the population in Sichuan dropped dramatically - there were perhaps hundreds of families left in Chongqing city at that time, then the Qing government issued policies to encourage people from the nearby Huguang province (covering the current Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong, Guangxi) to immigrate to Sichuan (Chongqing); in the end, the population in Sichuan increased from 500 thousand to 22 million.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To better understand/appreciate this part of Chongqing culture, a visit to <b style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">Huguang Guild </b>(East Water Gate, Yuzhong District) would help.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After the opening-up treaties from the wars, foreign merchants, residents and government entities were coming to Chongqing gradually. Chongqing port and Chongqing were then open to the world. Nowadays you may still find some remains from that period at the following locations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><u>French Navy Dock and Military Camp</u></i></b> - Danzishi, Nan'an District; from there you could also have a view of<u><i><b> Chaotianmen Dock</b></i></u>, the Nanbin Riveside Road - a commercial street with enchanting night views.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><u>Russian Residence Mansion</u></i></b> - Pipa Mountain, Yuzhong Dsitrict - now a Botanic Park.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><u>German Legation</u></i></b> - Nanshan Mountain, Nan'an District - now has a Botanic Park.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When the nationalist party's army started losing the battles with Japanese army, the Republic of China Government set up Chongqing as a backup wartime capital which </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">finally </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">became official after Nanjing was occupied by Japanese army. Embassies of UK, US, France, German, Belgium and Switzerland started to move to Chongqing, and even <i><u><b>the </b></u></i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><u><b>exile government of </b></u></i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><u><b>Republic of Korea</b></u></i> was even given a temporary station in today's 38 Lotus Pool Street, Yuzhong District (open for visitors).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">During its wartime capital period, Chongqing received millions of immigrants coming from cities in mid and downstream Yangtze river, it was then the center of politics, economy and culture, also the commanding center for anti-fascist war in the far east.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There used to be hundreds of wartime capital relics yet many have been lost during Chongqing's modernization development recent years. Here are some,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><u style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Chongqing Blitz Massacre Relics</u> - Ciqi Street, Yuzhong District, on June 5th every year, there will be morning ceremony with actual air raid siren to morn for that day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><u>Liberation Monument</u> </i></b>- one of the symbols of Chongqing, located in the center of Jiefangbei CBD, Yuzhong district. In the beginning, it was actually called "<i>Spirit Fortress</i>" (made of wood) built to encourage people's spirit and courage for the Anti-Japanese war; when the war was won, an <i>Anti-Japanese War Victory Monument</i> (made of cement) was built on the same location which is how it looks today; it is said that, buried underneath the monument, there were weapons captured from the Japanese, stored inside the monument there was a letter written by US president Roosevelt to the Chongqing people, carved on the inner sides of the monuments there were names of the soldiers killed during the war. And it changed into its current name of <b><i><u>People's Liberation Monument </u></i></b>in 1949 when Chongqing was liberated. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><u>General Stilwell's Museum</u></i></b> - if you are interested to understand/appreciate the history of <i>American Volunteer Group (AVG)</i>'s <i><u><b>Flying Tiger</b></u></i>, do pay a visit to this museum at 63 Jialing New Road, Yuzhong District.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><u>The Red Guards' Tomb</u></i></b> - Shapingba Park, Shapingba District; during the cultural revolution period, Chongqing was a region that suffered the most severe damages from the so called "Wudou" (Violent Fight; armed conflicts between different rebellious groups) as Chongqing had many arsenals at that time and many workers from those factories had participated in the Wudou which even involved using heavy weapons like warships, cannons and tanks causing thousands of casualties. This tomb is now the only one remained nationwide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Chongqing was officially set up as a municipality in 1997 and has made remarkable achievements in economic development ever since.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With a total size of 82,400 <span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; line-height: 15.897600173950195px;">km², </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; line-height: 15.897600173950195px;">its total municipal population in 2012 is 29.45 million, annual GDP (2012) is RMB 1145.9 billion, total import and export volume is USD 53.204 billion, Foreign Direct Investment is USD 10.533 billion.</span></span><br />
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