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Chongqing is really a good choice as a travel destination in China. It is attracts visitors from home and abroad for its cultural heritage and tourist attractions. Chongqing city is the starting point of the Yangtze River Cruise, which explores the wonderful scenery of the Three Gorges.
 
The best place to find out the history and culture of City is the Chongqing Three Gorges Museum, which was founded in 1951 on the summit of Pipashan Mountain. it is covering an area of 5,500 square meters, the museum has over 40 exhibiting halls with about 100,000 pieces of relics, that which spans 3000 years from the ancient Kingdom of Ba and the near-mythical Three Kingdoms Period to World War Two and the Chinese Revolution.
   
The Dazu Rock Carving in Chongqing

The Dazu Rock Carving is a piece of art among China's grottoes. carved during the ninth century, are unmissable works of art of the Gold Buddhist Mountain, It's not only rich in content but also carved with marvelous technique. It skillfully combines the scientific principles of mechanics, optics, and clairvoyance with statues themselves and landform. The Dazu Rock Carving is reputed as "Artistic Palace of the Tang and Song Dynasties".

 
Guiyuan Garden, the residence of KuomintangĄ¯s General Zhang Zhizhong, is located at No.65, 4th Zhongshang Road, Yuzhong area, covering an area of 7,00 square meters. The main building is made of brick and wood. There are two sweet-scented osmanthus trees located in an unattached yard with its front door facing the street. Guiyuan is the Chinese Pinyin of sweet-scented osmanthus, that's why people named it as Guiyuan Garden.
 

Chongqing Huguang Huiguan (Huiguan means assembly hall) is located in Yuzhong District, that was established during Emperor Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty. There are four Huiguan altogether: Guangdong, Jiangnan, Lianghu and Jiangxi Huiguan. the Chongqing Huguang Huiguan has unique carving and relief embossment. It mainly focuses on showing vivid pictures and patterns of the heroes and figures of Pilgrimage to the West, West Chamber, and The Legend of Deification.

Chongqing Huguang Huiguan
 

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