Chinese painting

I received this card from Xu. She is a big sports fan, just like me:) (though she is supporting FC Barcelona, and I am a fan of Manchester United; just saying:))
I've never received cards with Chinese painting, so it's something new for me.

Chinese football player

It's a card from XiangJing. I'm very thankful that she checked out my wish-list and sent me a card from there! It's not necessary, but always welcome:)

Shanghai

And this is a very cool card from Michelle and it shows Shanghai at night. So brightful and so many ads:) ! Thanks, Michelle!

Beer

A card from Yuxnan Chen (I hope I understood right). It will make my colection bigger though I don't drink beer:) No, really. I don't like it.
Anyway, it's not about card, thanks for it!

Chinese nature

This card came for me from Luo (thanks!). Very nice one, I like cards with nature (I've told it).

Snow card from China

This is a card from Yao. Magnificent! It's Precious Stone Hill after snow. It looks great! I'm amazed!

Lion Forest Garden

This card shows Lion Fores Garden in China, a very famous place. Card from Yuejiao.

Compactly yet harmoniously spaced, the Lion Forest Garden has a prominent part for series of man-made mountains with various buildings around the lake, and an artificial waterfall and cliffs at the edge of the lake on the west. Remains of the 14th century man-made mountains, covering 1,152 sq.m. and being the largest of all at Suzhou, can be still seen today. Noted for its labyrinthine mountains with winding pathways and caverns, old pines and cypress trees, awesome peaks and jogged rocks of grotesque shapes resembling dancing lions with striking and unusual poses, it possesses with pride the true delights of mountain and forest scenery in limited space with a flavor of Zen Buddhism.
The Hall of Peace and Happiness, one of the principal buildings in the garden, is a masterpiece of typical Mandarin ducks' hall at Suzhou. Divided in halves, the northern half of the hall differs from the southern half in many particular aspects, such as beam-framing systems, furnishings, pavements, carvings, window designs and so forth. With painted patterns and beam carvings and looking splendid in green and gold, the True Delight Pavilion in the royal style with the "True Delight" tablet inscribed by the Qing Emperor Qianlong is a main viewing place in the garden and differs from the other plain and elegant gardens of Suzhou. Other buildings include the Pointing at Cypress Trees Hall, the Asking Prunus Mume Pavilion and the Stone Boat, etc.
The Lion Forest Garden boasts 22 buildings of varied types, 25 tablets and plateaux, 71 steles inscribed with the famous Calligraphy Collection of the Listening to Rain Tower, 23 brick carvings, 5 carved wooden screens, and 13 valuable old trees such as ginkgo biloba L., pinus bungeana Zucc, etc., which fall into 5 catalogues.
A group of Zen Buddhist disciples of the famous Abbot Tianru had it built in the 2nd year of the reign of Zhizheng (A.D. 1342) under the Yuan Dynasty. It was then called "the Budhi Orthodox Monastery". Because there was s forest of bamboo, grotesque rocks resembling lions in the garden, and indirect reference to a Buddhist story of the Lion, it was renamed the Lion Forest Garden. Soon after its birth, the garden became a popular place for scholars at Suzhou, who came here to write poems and paint pictures. The well-known Yuan artist Ni Yunlin painted a scroll of the Lion Forest Garden. In the reign of Kangxi (the 17th century), the garden was separated from the temple. The Qing Emperor Qianlong (Hongli) visited it several times. The garden had changed hands a number of times. In 1918 it was purchased and repaired by Pei (now spelled "Bei" in China), an industrialist, becoming the garden one visits today. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Peis donated it to the State. Since 1954, the Lion Forest Garden has been open to the public.

Forbidden City

Great card from Alice. It's a picture of the most famous UNESCO object in China, Forbidden City. Looks like a painting, yes:)?

The Forbidden City, situated in the very heart of Beijing, was home to 24 emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The construction of the grand palace started in the fourth year of Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty (1406), and ended in 1420. In ancient times, the emperor claimed to be the son of Heaven, and therefore Heaven’s supreme power was bestowed upon him. The emperors’ residence on earth was built as a replica of the Purple Palace where God was thought to live in Heaven. Such a divine place was certainly forbidden to ordinary people and that is why the Forbidden City is so named.

Pictures

Another card from Asia

And this card is from another capital, from Beijing. I received it from Chang (thank you very much!).

"Accummlated Beauty Hill (Dui Xiu Shan) is a little artificial mountain with a cave. It is located to the northeast. Fountains play around it and the Pavilion of Imperial View is on top of the mountain. The Qing Emperors would climb up to the Pavilion on the Double Yang Festival to enjoy the scenery with the royal family".

Beijing University of Technology Gymnasium

This is Beijing University of Technology Gymnasium, one of the main Olympic areas at Games-2008. I wanted a postcard with Olympic symbols or something else and I'm glad to have this one. I received it from Yolande. Yolande lives in Tiajing, near the Beijing, and she was at Olympics. She said, that it was amazing and she will never forget it. Oh, I'm sure! I think, I'll also never forget that Games, because os their opening and closing ceremonies. It was something, isn't it?
Some photos for good memories

It's nice to receive cards with something, that concerns to sport, 'cos I like sport:) Now I'm searching for a postcard with Tour de France's photos or symbolics. Hope I can do it.