Du Lich Trung Quoc.1.Changsha. ChangDe. SVDG

Travel China 1. Changsha. Changde.

Informations collected from Internet and travel websites
By Sóng Việt Đàm Giang
Photos by GNT
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Itinerary
Changsha. Changde Town with Poetry wall. Phoenix Town. Zhangjiajie. YChang. Yangtze River cruise then  Chongquing. Beijing. Then fly home from Beijing.

Changde.  Hunan province

Changde is a 'prefecture level city,' which is to say not really a city but a large political designation; the next size below a 'province' and one size above 'county.' It is one of 13 such designations in Hunan province. Changde city proper, with a population of 1,232,182 (according to the 2010 census), is the largest city in the prefecture level city of Changde (which has a total population of 6 million). Changde city proper is made up of two districts, Wuling District (武陵区) and Dingcheng District (鼎城区).

The Poem Wall. Stretching for miles along the north bank of the river. The wall is flanked by a riverside park.

China Changde Poem Wall is a 3 kilometer-long anti-flood dike/dyke alongside the Yuanjiang River.

 Facing the river, the Wall is grand and imposing with the embellishment of towers. A total of 1,267 poems about Changde or noted poems at home or abroad have been selected and engraved on the wall. They fall into six chapters, Changes in Changde over Centuries, Celebrities’ Inscriptions on Changde, Beautiful Natural Scenery in Changde, Outstanding Natives and Local Customs, Big Events of China, and Great Poems from Other Countries.
They are written in regular script, running hand, official script, seal character and cursive script in Chinese calligraphy by 948 calligraphers from mainland China, as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, with 43 stone-wall carvings embedded.

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Changde Poem Wall