羲皇故都

传说中人类的始祖三皇(伏羲、女娲和神农)之首的伏羲氏之都,被称为“秦皇故都”。中华民族从远古时候就崇拜伏羲、女娲,称他们为“人文始祖”,并在今河南淮阳建人祖庙以隆重的礼仪祭祀他们。这座被称为“天下第一陵”的太昊陵,在淮阳县县城北1．5公里处,前庙后陵,它是按照伏羲先天八卦之数理修建的宫殿式     

“北方瓷都”神垕

中国南部江西省的景德镇是中国著名的瓷都，而位于河南省中部的"钧瓷之乡"神镇被人们称为"北方瓷都"。今天的神镇几乎就是一个瓷器的世界。大街两旁的人家绝大多数是做瓷器生意的，门前的摊位上摆满了瓷器，透过打开的门窗，还可以看到屋里堆放着各式各样的瓷器。路上来来往往的行人或车辆手提车载的也多是瓷器。神镇的钧瓷产品不仅吸引了四面八方的商贾，由此形成的市场也吸引着全国各地的瓷器生产者纷至沓来。神镇最丰富最珍贵的资源要数那里的土。神的字就是由"后"和"土"两字叠加而成，前面再放上一个"神"字形容，从中就不难看出本地的土…     

大同云冈石窟

Carved into the one-kilometer-long side of a cliff, the Yungang Grottoes are located at the southern foothills of the Wuzhou Mountains approximately sixteen kilometers west of Datong City, Shanxi Province. Excavation of the caves at Yungang began in 453 A.D. in theNorthern Wei Dynasty. The Yungang Grottoes are a treasure house of the Chinese religious cave art whose aesthetics belongs mainly to the Chinese culture within the Oriental system, but is simultaneously influenced by the then most eye-catching-in the world-Occidental sys-