Dwight Zehuan Xiao Profile

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China Last Update 15.08.20 110 WHS Visited 3 Reviews 111 WHS Rated 40 TWHS Visited

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Recent Reviews Dwight Zehuan Xiao

Dengfeng

Dwight Zehuan Xiao China - 23-Oct-19

Dengfeng

This is a site that I really enjoyed exploring. It’s not difficult to check out all the inscribed sites, and Mount Songshan has a lot to offer: landscape, religions, architecture... Again I’ll only make comments complementary to previous reviews. Sites are mentioned in chronological order.

Que Gates are important cultural relics that embody ancient Chinese ceremonial or funerary traditions

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Mount Wutai

Dwight Zehuan Xiao China - 22-Oct-19

Mount Wutai

A lot has been said about the Taihuai Buddhist architectural complex, but one’s Mount Wutai experience could not possibly be complete without paying a visit to the magnificent Great East Hall of the Foguang Temple, the third oldest timber structure in China and the finest of its kind.

The Foguang Temple was first established during the Northern Wei Dynasty in the 5th century, but the existing Great East Hall dates back to 857 AD, when it was rebuilt after the Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution ordered by Emperor Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty in 845 AD. Due to its rural and arid location, the temple kept intact and remained hidden in plain sight, not to be rediscovered until 1937. The Great East Hall is the best living example of Tang-style wooden structure in all of China, easily noticeable through its imposing hipped roof and huge columns with Dougong (interlocking wooden brackets)

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Lushan National Park

Dwight Zehuan Xiao China - 16-May-19

Lushan National Park

Time for my first review! I didn’t start writing my own reviews because a lot has been told about most of the WHSs by fellow WH lovers, and there’s really not much to add. Great job, guys! However, judging from the only reviews on Lushan by Els and Stanislaw, I suspect that most people might have missed the highlights of this site, and feel obliged to share my experience with it. Hopefully it will give you an alternative perspective of this great mountain that has become an integral part of Chinese culture over 2,000 years of history.

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Profile Data

Name
Dwight Zehuan Xiao
Country
China
Most Impressive
Imperial Palace, Auschwitz Birkenau, Galápagos Islands
Proposal
Minoan Palaces

Recently Visited WHS

Update 15.08.20
  • Old Town of Lijiang
    • Rating Stats
    Auschwitz Birkenau 5
    Florence 5
    Galapagos Islands 5
    Imperial Palace 5
    Machu Picchu 5
    Rapa Nui 5
    Yungang Grottoes 5
    Aachen Cathedral 4.5
    Chartres Cathedral 4.5
    Dengfeng 4.5
    Dong Phayayen 4.5
    Fujian Tulou 4.5
    Great Wall 4.5
    Huangshan 4.5
    Iguazu National Park 4.5
    Mogao Caves 4.5
    Nasca Lines 4.5
    Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5
    Pont du Gard 4.5
    Rome 4.5
    Temple of Heaven 4.5
    Vatican City 4.5
    Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.5
    Yin Xu 4.5
    Arles 4
    Bourges Cathedral 4
    Caral-Supe 4
    Cologne Cathedral 4
    Dazu Rock Carvings 4
    Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc 4
    Dubrovnik 4
    Imperial Tombs 4
    Kotor 4
    Longmen Grottoes 4
    Lushan National Park 4
    Lyon 4
    Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 4
    Mount Wutai 4
    Mountain Resort, Chengde 4
    Orange 4
    Ping Yao 4
    Plitvice Lakes 4
    Potala Palace 4
    Prague 4
    Reims 4
    Riga 4
    Silk Roads 4
    Skocjan Caves 4
    Speyer Cathedral 4
    Strasbourg 4
    Sukhothai 4
    Summer Palace 4
    Tallinn 4
    Trier 4
    Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4
    Venice and its Lagoon 4
    Versailles 4
    Xidi and Hongcun 4
    Amiens Cathedral 3.5
    Avignon 3.5
    China Danxia 3.5
    Cuzco 3.5
    Grand Place, Brussels 3.5
    Mont-Saint-Michel 3.5
    Mount Taishan 3.5
    Mount Wuyi 3.5
    Old Town of Lijiang 3.5
    Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 3.5
    Quito 3.5
    Temple, Mansion and Cemetery of Confucius 3.5
    Valparaiso 3.5
    West Norwegian Fjords 3.5
    Ayutthaya 3
    Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 3
    Cesky Krumlov 3
    City of Luxembourg 3
    Cracow 3
    Grand Canal 3
    Kaiping Diaolou 3
    Kronborg Castle 3
    Kulangsu 3
    Lima 3
    Macao 3
    Medieval Monuments in Kosovo 3
    Mount Sanqingshan 3
    Potsdam 3
    Provins 3
    Qhapaq Ñan 3
    Qinghai Hoh Xil 3
    Salzburg 3
    Sewell Mining Town 3
    South China Karst 3
    The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 3
    Vilnius 3
    Visby 3
    Warsaw 3
    Champagne 2.5
    Fortress of Suomenlinna 2.5
    Peking Man Site 2.5
    Singapore Botanic Gardens 2.5
    Völklingen Ironworks 2.5
    Al Zubarah 2
    Bryggen 2
    Frontiers of the Roman Empire 2
    Holasovice 2
    Nancy 2
    Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2
    Venetian Works of Defence 2
    Belfries 1.5
    Le Havre 1.5
    1. Amalienborg and its district (T)
    2. Buenos Aires – La Plata: Two capitals of the Culture of Modernity, Eclecticism and Immigration (T)
    3. Cathédrale de Saint-Denis (T)
    4. Chinese Section of the Silk Road (T)
    5. City Walls of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (T)
    6. Dali Chanshan Mountain and Erhai Lake Scenic Spot (T)
    7. Guano Islands, Islets, and Capes National Reserve System (T)
    8. Historic Monuments and Sites of Ancient Quanzhou (Zayton) (T)
    9. Hua Shan Scenic Area (T)
    10. Imperial Kiln Sites of Jingdezhen (T)
    11. Expansion Project of Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties: King Lujian's Tombs (T)
    12. La Moneda Palace (T)
    13. Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
    14. Les Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944 (T)
    15. Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise et leur territoire: Nimes, Arles, Glanum, aqueducs, via Domitia (T)
    16. Leuven/Louvain, batiments universitaires, l'héritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique (T)
    17. Maijishan Scenic Spots (T)
    18. Massif du Mont Blanc (T)
    19. Metz Royale et Impériale, enjeux de pouvoir, confrontations stylistiques et identité urbaine (T)
    20. Nîmes, l'Antiquité au présent (T)
    21. Poyang Nature Reserve (T)
    22. Rouen : ensemble urbain à pans de bois, cathédrale, église Saint-Ouen, église Saint Maclou (T)
    23. Salt Mines of Maras (T)
    24. San Francisco Church and Convent (T)
    25. San Pedro de Atacama (T)
    26. SanFangQiXiang (T)
    27. Sarajevo - unique symbol of universal multiculture - continual open city (T)
    28. ShUM cities of Speyer, Worms and Mainz (T)
    29. Site of Southern Yue State (T)
    30. Sites funéraires et mémoriels de la Première Guerre mondiale (Front Ouest) (T)
    31. Svalbard Archipelago (T)
    32. The Ancient Waterfront Towns in the South of Yangtze River (T)
    33. The Central Axis of Beijing (including Beihai) (T)
    34. The Chinese Section of the Silk Roads (T)
    35. The Four Sacred Mountains as an Extension of Mt. Taishan (T)
    36. The Lijiang River Scenic Zone at Guilin (T)
    37. The timeless, humanistic architecture of Jože Plečnik (T)
    38. Trakai Historical National Park (T)
    39. Western Xia Imperial Tombs (T)
    40. Wooden Structures of Liao Dynasty - Wooden Pagoda of Yingxian County, Main Hall of Fengguo Monastery of Yixian County (T)

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