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Qibao
Qibao (; Shanghainese: Tshih4pau2) is a town in Minhang District, Shanghai. Its formation can be traced back to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, to the Northern Song Dynasty. The name comes from the local temple, " Qibao Temple". Today, Qibao is a tourist attraction, in the area known as Qibao Old Town by the Puhui River with traditional Chinese architecture and a number of attractions, including museums and street food. The town was also once the residence of the noted painter Zhang Chongren, a friend of the Belgian cartoonist Hergé, on whom the character Chang Chong-Chen from " The Adventures of Tintin" was based. Qibao is also known for crickets (with a "Cricket House") in the Qibao Old Town area. Location Located in the western suburbs of Shanghai, Qibao covers an area of . It can be accessed by taking Shanghai Metro Line 9 to Qibao Station. , it has 54 residential communities () and nine villages under its administration. See also * List of tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qibao Old Town
Qibao Old Street is a historic area of Qibao in the Minhang District of Shanghai, China. Overview The area is now a tourist attraction, located by the with traditional Chinese architecture and a number of attractions, including museums and street food. It is located south of Qingnian Road. The area was once the residence of the painter and sculptor Zhang Chongren, a friend of the Belgian cartoonist Hergé, on whom the character Chang Chong-Chen from "The Adventures of Tintin" was based. Qibao is also known for Cricket (insect), crickets (with a "Cricket House") in the Qibao Old Street area. The entire area is pedestrianised. Attractions The following attractions are located in Qibao Old Town, many of which can be visited with a combined ticket: * Bell Tower * Cotton Textile Mill * Shadowgraph Museum * The Old Trades House * Cricket House * Zhou's Miniature Museum * The Pawn Shop * The Memorial Hall of the Artist Zhang Chongren * Qibao Calligraphy Arts Room There are three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qibao Temple
Qibao (; Shanghainese: Tshih4pau2) is a town in Minhang District, Shanghai. Its formation can be traced back to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, to the Northern Song Dynasty. The name comes from the local temple, " Qibao Temple". Today, Qibao is a tourist attraction, in the area known as Qibao Old Town by the Puhui River with traditional Chinese architecture and a number of attractions, including museums and street food. The town was also once the residence of the noted painter Zhang Chongren, a friend of the Belgian cartoonist Hergé, on whom the character Chang Chong-Chen from "The Adventures of Tintin" was based. Qibao is also known for crickets (with a "Cricket House") in the Qibao Old Town area. Location Located in the western suburbs of Shanghai, Qibao covers an area of . It can be accessed by taking Shanghai Metro Line 9 to Qibao Station. , it has 54 residential communities () and nine villages under its administration. See also * List of twin towns an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qibao Station (Shanghai Metro)
Qibao () is the name of an underground station on Shanghai Metro Line 9, Line 9 of the Shanghai Metro. It is located in Qibao, Minhang District, near a popular tourist attraction to the south, Qibao Old Town (from Exit 2). The station, situated at the crossing point of Caobao Road, a part of Shanghai Highway S124, and Qixin Road, significantly facilitates traveling in the area. It has become a focal point for the buses that shuttle among nearby residence blocks, since both Qibao Route 2 and Minhang Route 33 (Former Qibao Route 1), two shuttle bus lines in Qibao town, stop at this station. See also * Qibao Old Town * Qibao References Shanghai Metro stations in Minhang District Railway stations in Shanghai opened in 2007 Line 9, Shanghai Metro {{Shanghai-metro-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qibao Station (Shanghai)
Qibao () is the name of an underground station on Line 9 of the Shanghai Metro. It is located in Qibao, Minhang District, near a popular tourist attraction to the south, Qibao Old Town (from Exit 2). The station, situated at the crossing point of Caobao Road, a part of Shanghai Highway S124, and Qixin Road, significantly facilitates traveling in the area. It has become a focal point for the buses that shuttle among nearby residence blocks, since both Qibao Route 2 and Minhang Route 33 (Former Qibao Route 1), two shuttle bus lines in Qibao town, stop at this station. See also * Qibao Old Town * Qibao Qibao (; Shanghainese: Tshih4pau2) is a town in Minhang District, Shanghai. Its formation can be traced back to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, to the Northern Song Dynasty. The name comes from the local temple, " Qibao Temple". ... References Shanghai Metro stations in Minhang District Railway stations in Shanghai opened in 2007 Line 9, Shanghai M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minhang
Minhang District is a suburban district of Shanghai with a land area of and population of 2,653,489 residents as of 2020. The original Minhang consist of present-day Jiangchuan Road Subdistrict (Former Minhang Town) and the eastern strip of Wujing along the Huangpu River in 1992, the surrounding Shanghai County merged with Minhang. It is mostly a residential district, though it is also home to some of the many factories and production facilities in Shanghai. Residential housing development is the main source of local government revenue. Qizhong Forest Sports City Arena (旗忠森林体育城) is located in Ma Qiao Town (马桥镇). The Aerospace Museum is being constructed at Pujiang Town. Shanghai Jiao Tong University and East China Normal University both have campuses in the southern part of Minhang District. Administrative divisions Minhang administers 4 subdistricts and 9 towns. Of particular note is Qibao (七宝), a tourist attraction in the northern part of the distr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhang Chongren
Zhang Chongren (27 September 1907 – 8 October 1998), also known as Chang Chong-jen, was a Chinese sculptor best remembered in Europe as a friend of Hergé, the Belgian cartoonist and creator of ''The Adventures of Tintin''. The two met when Zhang was an art student in Brussels. Zhang served as the inspiration for Chang Chong-Chen, a recurring character in the Tintin stories. Early life Zhang was born the son of a wood-carving craftsman in 1907 in Xujiahui (''Zi-Kar-Wei''), then a suburb of Shanghai, China. The young Zhang lost both his parents at an early age and grew up in the French Jesuit orphanage of ''Tou-Se-we'' (now Tushanwan) where he entered at the age of seven, and where he studied art and the French language. After finishing school in 1928, Zhang worked with design for the film industry and at a local newspaper. In 1931, he earned a scholarship to the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Belgium, where he shifted from painting to sculpture at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shanghai Metro Line 9
Line 9 is a southwest-northeast line of the Shanghai Metro network. The line runs from in Songjiang District to in Pudong. The line is colored light blue on system maps. History In the initial planning of Line 9, the entire line was from Fengjing town, Fengjing to Chongming Island. Later, the plan to extend to Fengjing was cancelled, and the section to Chongming Island was changed to Chongming line. The first phase of Line 9, from to stations, opened on December 29, 2007. It uses the Bombardier Movia trains which were lended to Line 1 (Shanghai Metro), line 1. Line 9 did not directly connect to the rest of the Shanghai Metro network until the opening of the Line 9 portion of the station on December 28, 2008. The station is an interchange between lines Line 3 (Shanghai Metro), 3 and Line 4 (Shanghai Metro), 4. A shuttle bus conveyed passengers between Guilin Road and Yishan Road stations until construction was completed. In December 2009, the second phase of line 9 (from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shanghai
Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flowing through it. The population of the city proper is the List of largest cities, second largest in the world after Chongqing, with around 24.87 million inhabitants in 2023, while the urban area is the List of cities in China by population, most populous in China, with 29.87 million residents. As of 2022, the Greater Shanghai metropolitan area was estimated to produce a gross metropolitan product (GDP (nominal), nominal) of nearly 13 trillion Renminbi, RMB ($1.9 trillion). Shanghai is one of the world's major centers for finance, #Economy, business and economics, research, science and technology, manufacturing, transportation, List of tourist attractions in Shanghai, tourism, and Culture of Shanghai, culture. The Port of Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Twin Towns And Sister Cities In China
This is a list of places in China which have standing links to local communities in other countries known as "Sister city, town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world). A Anguo * Dongdaemun District, Dongdaemun (Seoul), South Korea * Kushima, Miyazaki, Kushima, Japan Anqing * Calabasas, California, Calabasas, United States * Cheboksary, Russia * Ibaraki, Osaka, Ibaraki, Japan * Kütahya, Turkey Anshan * Amagasaki, Japan * Ansan, South Korea * Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham, United States * Bursa, Turkey * Holon, Israel * Lipetsk, Russia * Sheffield, England, United Kingdom B Baoding * Charlotte, North Carolina, Charlotte, United States * Hafnarfjörður, Iceland * Saijō, Ehime, Saijō, Japan * Santiago de Veraguas, Panama * Sønderborg Municipality, Sønderborg, Denmark * Yonago, Japan Baotou * Mbombela, South Africa * Orkhon Province, Orkhon, Mongolia Beihai * City of Gold Coast, Gold Coast, Australia * Hat Yai, T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cricket (insect)
Crickets are orthopteran insects which are related to Tettigoniidae, bush crickets and more distantly, to grasshoppers. In older literature, such as Augustus Daniel Imms, Imms,Imms AD, rev. Richards OW & Davies RG (1970) ''A General Textbook of Entomology'' 9th Ed. Methuen 886 pp. "crickets" were placed at the family level (''i.e.'' Gryllidae), but contemporary authorities including Dan Otte, Otte now place them in the superfamily Grylloidea. The word has been used in combination to describe more distantly related taxa in the suborder Ensifera, such as Stenopelmatoidea, king crickets and mole crickets. Crickets have mainly cylindrically shaped bodies, round heads, and long antenna (biology), antennae. Behind the head is a smooth, robust pronotum. The abdomen ends in a pair of long Cercus, cerci; females have a long, cylindrical ovipositor. Diagnostic features include legs with 3-segmented Arthropod leg#Tarsus, tarsi; as with many Orthoptera, the hind legs have enlarged femora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
