Jackie Chan Museum

On September 8th I had to go to Shanghai to pick up my eye contacts and decided that I would also visit the Jackie Chan Museum. It is listed on tripadvisor.com as a cool museum to visit. I am not a huge fan of Jackie Chan but I have seen a few of his movies and enjoyed them. 

The front gate of the museum.

The museum is a few blocks down from a metro station and it costs about 150 RMB to get inside. You get a ticket and a little pouch. Inside the pouch is a one yuan coin and a wood Jackie Chan pin. I thought it was weird to get a coin but onwards I went. 

This poster states that Jackie Chan collected mementos from every film and wanted to display them. Fans used to be able to sign the poster but I think due to so many visitors they don't allow that anymore. It looks neat! 

 The first place in the museum is a dark hallway where a video of Jackie Chan is talking about the museum. He speaks in Chinese but the captions are in English. While I was watching the video I was curious if the Chinese people watching with me understood everything he said. Jackie Chan is from southern China and Hong Kong and they have a different dialect and some areas even speak Cantonese instead of Mandarin. The guests seemed to understand and we moved on to the next room. It turns out Jackie Chan can speak Cantonese, Mandarin, and English. 

I wasn't allowed to take pictures of everything but the next room were a few of his costumes and a replica of a car he used in a film. Arrows on the floor directed me to the next hallway and another Jackie Chan video where he talked about his childhood. I was shocked to learn that his parents were so poor when they gave birth to him that they couldn't even pay for the hospital bill. A doctor offered to adopt Jackie Chan but they refused in the end. When he was growing up, Chan was an unruly kid and got into fights often and was even expelled from school. His father placed him in a Peking Opera company where he could play extras in the background. Peking Opera at this point had a lot of theatrical martial arts. One day a film director asked for martial arts extras and that is how Jackie Chan got his start. 

After that Jackie Chan got roles as extras in movies and began developing his own style of martial arts which blended slapstick comedy. According to the museum it was named Drunken Fist. 

Molds of Jackie Chan's arms in various poses from martial arts to how he gives a handshake. 

It was impressive that Chan even got to keep discarded clips from movies. Chan was known for being tidy, often seen sweeping his movie sets. At one point a movie studio sent him a broom as a commemorative souvenir for his work. 

Chan was gaining a ton of popularity in China but when he went to America to do a TV interview, he was surprised that no one knew who he was. The TV station even cancelled their interview with him and on top of that, no one spoke Chinese. Chan was so embarrassed by this that he vowed to learn English and make it into Hollywood. 

And he did just that.

Robin Williams

Will Smith

After making several big hits in the USA he was an international hit. Even winning an Honorary Oscar. 

A documentary about his life as a martial artist and even starting his own stuntmen company titled Jackie Chan: Down To Earth was made in 2017 and a clip was shown in the museum. 

Chan also has several music albums. 

After that section of the museum, I entered the Philanthropy part of the museum. Chan has visited many places that have been affected by disasters and donated to many charities. At one point the visitors reached a place that they could donate the coin given to them at the start of the museum. Once the coin rolls down the tube, a huge light up sign above it tells you how much money has been donated to foundations that Chan supports. How cool!

The museum also showed fan made art sent to him.

One of the last displays were clay model characters of Mulan. Chan voiced the role of Shang in the Chinese version and even sang I'll Make a Man Out of You in Cantonese. 

On the way out there is a sign about Jackie Chan's logo and a gift shop. 

I would definitely recommend this museum and I really felt like I got to know Jackie Chan a lot better. The museum wasn't just "Look at me! I'm so cool!" I felt like he was being very open and honest about his life. In a video segment in the museum he said that as a child he was so rotten and he said something along the lines of, "I rejected the world and the world turned around and loved me." How touching is that?! 

The Fish's Revenge: And The Rest Of My Chaotic Week

These past seven days has been very chaotic. 

Here is what happened chronologically. 

Thursday: Got food poisoning. 

Friday: We have three different classes that are arranged by level. Above average, average, and below average. My Below Average kids are a struggle classroom management wise but have good hearts. My Above Average always cleans up the fastest, best listeners, and pretty kind. My Above Average class were really badly behaved. My below average class was the best behaved of all time. 

Example of just two encounters that day:

 What should you do if you don't do well on the test? How can you make something negative into something positive?

Above Average Kids: Next time cheat on the test! 

Me: 😨

Below Average Kids: You should study and ask the teacher to help you during recess!

Me: 😲

What should you do if someone is teasing you? How can you make the bad experience into a good experience?

Above Average Kids: Exact revenge on them!

Below Average Kids: Ask the teacher for help. Tell them you want them to stop and ask why they are doing it so you can stop it from happening again. 

Me: Am I in the Twilight Zone right now?

On the same Friday my didi (Chinese uber) didn't pick us up for school so I had to beg a ride from a co-worker. It was raining that day so all of the didis were busy taking other passengers. AND my didi to pick us up from the school drove to the wrong place (even with a GPS) blamed me and then cancelled so I had to ask ANOTHER co-worker for a ride. 

Saturday: 

Ordered off of a food app to get fruit teas. The delivery man went to the wrong building. I sent him a picture on the GPS of where he was and where he needed to be and was still lost. He called me and we argued for 15 minutes about his location and he was saying that I WAS IN THE WRONG BUILDING. I march over to the building he is in, in pajamas, get my tea, march him outside to show him the sign outside of the building to prove that I was correct. Argued for 15 more minutes until he gruffly said that he was wrong, the closest thing I got to an apology. 

Sunday: 

Got the cold. 

Monday: 

Came to school and my half of my shelves were gone. The school took away my shelves because they were diffusing poisonous fumes in my room. Won't get back my shelves until December. 

Tuesday:THE DAY THE FISH GOT ITS REVENGE

The school serves fish for the adults sometimes and I try to avoid it. I have a hard time eating around the bones but on this day I thought I got tofu squares in a brown sauce. It was fish. I tried to eat around it carefully when it happened. Got a fish bone stuck in my throat. My body panicked and I could feel myself starting to gag. I sped walked out of the cafeteria into the bathroom and vomited. It didn't work. I tried gargling water to dislodge it and that didn't work. I once again vomited. Teachers came to look for me after my speedy exit and decided I needed to go to the ER. A TA/friend took me to the hospital to act as my translator (God Bless You Jeanne.) Every time I closed my mouth I could feel the bone jab into my tonsils so I had to keep my mouth open, effectively looking like a fish myself. 

Not the type of fish that tried to possess me but this is what I looked like. 

It was weird being the the same ER waiting room as a person who literally had a gash in their head, a kid moaning and holding his stomach, and a pale man in a wheelchair, and then me--a dork with wide open mouth. We had to pay before going into the doctor's office, walked up to the third floor, and the doctor got the bone out in two seconds with a pair of large tweezers. Apparently kids get fish bones stuck in their throats all the time so this is a common ER job. The bone was about an inch and a half big (3 cm).

My sister was really supportive which surprised me. I was fully expecting to get a lot of teasing, especially since she had a real ER experience. 

We do think the ghost of the fish tried to possess my body. Titles for the occurrence have so far been the Fish-orcist and The Fin (instead of The Nun).

Wednesday: 

Thank the Lord it was a normal day. My students behaved well, lessons went well, food was good, and didis were on time. 

Thursday: 

A co-worker volunteered me for a field trip. A field trip that I was completely unaware was happening. Had to make substitute teacher plans for my TA's on Friday. I completely lost my mind over this because it was so incredibly rude. I had to get substitute teachers for the classes I was missing for a field trip I didn't even sign up for. I was angry with the school for not even checking with me if it was okay, they just went off of this teacher's word. When I asked to be pardoned from it (because I DIDN'T EVEN SIGN UP) they started to guilt trip me saying if I didn't go they would cancel the trip the kids were so looking forward to it and it would just break their little hearts if CHELSEA didn't go. 

I told them that if it happened again then they should cancel the field trip because I'm not going to be guilt tripped and tricked like that again. This will be the last and only time it will happen. They will probably try again and I need to not let it happen. 

Friday: Turns out the kids couldn't care less that I was on the field trip. The foreign teachers literally walked behind the kids while the other teachers lectured to the kids in the rain about water chestnuts. THAT IS RIGHT. The kid's special reward field trip was to walk in the rain, in the mud, and learn about water chestnuts. The real question is: Why were we there? 

Pictures. 

There were not one, not two, but THREE photographers at the park with us kids. I was wearing a face mask (remember the cold?) and at one point I was asked to take it off because I was "ruining the pictures." When I said, "You do know I'm wearing this because I'm sick right?" They snapped one photo of me and gruffly walked off. 

In a way, I am glad that I was sick and had to wear a mask because then I ruined the true reason I was invited to the field trip. If the school wanted to take me out of my classes where I am licensed to teach and wanted to teach then they wouldn't get the pictures they wanted to parade me around like a circus monkey. 

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind taking pictures for the company. I do mind being lied to and forced to go on trips. 

That was the end to my chaotic week. On October 1st I will get a week off for the Chinese National Holiday. Can you guess where my destination will be?

Xian: Day Two and Day Three: Warriors, Towers, Theatre, and Puppet Shows

This day was the day I had been waiting for… the Terracotta Warriors. 

I arranged for a Didi (Chinese Uber) to pick me up at 7:00 am so I could be at the museum at 8:00 am. There was no way I was going to miss this like I had missed the Forbidden City. The drive took about 45 minutes and I got in line early and was able to get my ticket no problem. Once I got my ticket I had to get in another line for security and to scan my ticket to enter. When you enter the gate you have to walk along a trail for about 10 or 15 minutes which is lovely. There are large mountains around the area and a lot of Chinese holly trees. Not too surprising, there was another security line and scanned my ticket again to enter the area that the warriors were actually in. I was happy that I didn’t have to pay for another ticket.

When I first walked in I was surprised because I was fully expecting to see a large pit with the warriors staring up at me and instead saw several buildings spread throughout. Each of the buildings had a large number written on it (in Chinese symbols) so I waddled over to Building One. Inside Building One were artifacts from the pits and a history of the Bronze Age in China along with the history of the emperor in charge of the warriors. Plaques were written in Chinese and English. There were a few warriors on display in glass cases along with statues of pigs, goats, and cows which were to be food or servant animals in the afterlife.

I made my way to Building Two which was also Pit 2. It was mostly broken pieces of the warriors, horses, and chariots but the plaques showed how the areas were laid out and how intricately they were made. Something I learned is that the warriors stand on tiled floors.  

Pit 3 was next and that is the famous area with all the warriors. There were still archaeologists digging through the dirt and cleaning off pieces of the warriors. I was flabbergasted to learn that some areas have still not been completely uncovered.

At this point I had to give myself a potty break and found myself in the largest souvenir shop I have ever been in (it was seriously like a mall) and bought a key chain for myself on the way out. When I made it to Pit 1 the population of guests in the area went from me and a maybe 100 people to 500 people! Keep in mind I got there at 8 and by now it was around 10:30 and it was getting packed. Pit 1 had a few chariots but nothing as cool as Pit 3 so I got my Didi and headed back to town. When exiting the museum there are a ton of souvenir shops, restaurants, and booths that you have to weave through to get back to the street. On my way out I was approached by a woman asking if I wanted an English tour of the museum which confused me until I realized I had accidentally exited out of the entrance. I would have loved in English tour but I’m not totally convinced it wasn’t a scam.

Next was the Bell and Drum Tower which were literally right next to my hotel. Each of these only took 20 minutes to visit. The Drum Tower is more interesting because they have drum shows periodically throughout the day. The entire tower is surrounded by drums that signify a season of the year that they should be played. Also at the tower are drums meant to signal when to close the Xian Wall bridge, the morning call, the night call, and a warning call. There was another world breaking record in Xian with a drum made out of one whole cow skin.

The bell tower only has one bell and no other special events that I saw. The area inside the tower had furniture on display which was not as cool as the drums in the other tower.

That night I had reserved tickets for a dinner and theatre show. The email confirmation told me to come there 30 minutes early, which I did, and was literally the ONLY ONE IN THE ENTIRE THEATRE. I was so confused! After about 45 minutes a family from Belgium sat at my table. At 6:30, an hour after I had arrived at the theatre, did everyone else come to watch the show. However, the staff was very kind to me and even gave me a shawl to keep warm! The dinner was excellent and the show was so great! We weren’t allowed to take photos during the show but I did get a picture of the curtain call. 

It was a ballet about an empress of China and how she went from a normal girl to being one of the most powerful people in China. 10/10 would watch again and 10/10 to that Belgium family who I had a lovely conversation with and 10/10 to the staff who was like “This girl is too early but we are going to serve her like a queen.”

PS I did return the shawl.

Day Three

My last day in Xian was spent in the Muslim quarter which was also right next to my hotel. What is unique about this area, and Xian in general, is that many middle eastern people immigrated to this area and married into Chinese families. Xian has one of the higher populations of Muslims in China. The quarter is mostly shops but there was an old merchants house to visit. 

Meat is not regulated here...

 They had a shadow puppet show which was fun to watch. I bought my ticket to go into the house and visit the shadow puppet show and when I sat down a woman told me I was sitting in the chairs that cost 10 yuan more unless I bought a drink from her. I bought an orange juice and stayed in my nice chair. Before the show started I looked around me and saw a completely full room but my row, the 10 yuan extra row, was empty. Only when there were no more seats were people forced to buy those tickets to sit down. I was annoyed that this was yet another way to nickel and dime people in China. That being said, I did like the orange juice and the music in the show.

After the show and walking around the merchant’s house which consisted of an old school, an area for chicken and ducks, and rooms, I flew back to Shanghai and got back to Jiaxing.

Xian: Day One: Religion, Walls, and a Museum

Maybe like a few foreigners when I heard of Xian I had no idea where that was or what it was famous for, but if you asked me about the Terracotta Warriors then I would know. If you ever want to visit Xian I would just give yourself two days, it is a small town that is very touristy but some of the sights are neat to see.

If you look on Tripadvisor.com for things to do in Xian one of the top recommendations are the pagodas nearby. There are several in the area but I decided to go to the stone building Wild Goose Pagoda. The Wild Goose Pagoda is in front of many little stores that sell souvenirs, trinkets, snacks, and restaurants along with a giant water display that has shows throughout the day. Walking past the booths you can see these statues situated along the sidewalk where they show men wrestling or people playing chess.

I waited in line for the pagoda about 20 minutes and asked to buy an entrance ticket to the park and inside the actual pagoda, but the lady didn’t understand me apparently and only charged me for the entrance to the park. If you ever go to China they do this all.the.time. It would be like buying a ticket for Worlds of Fun and then when you want to go on the roller coaster, the thing you came for, you have to pay again to ride. I got into the gated entrance, showed my ticket, they x-rayed my bag, and I went inside.

Inside there are several temple areas and a monastery for Buddhist monks. One of the more popular temples was for the god of wealth who had many small golden statues of himself and gold placed in the floor. There is a custom in Chinese culture that if you wear wealth then you invite wealth so during the Chinese New Year’s, weddings, birthdays, etc. people will spend money on gold and silver or have these as decorations to invite wealth into their homes. For this god, if you leave gold on his altar then he will give you gold in your life.

In the very back of the pagoda was an entrance to go to a downstairs area (everything else was situated outdoors) where they showed old artwork of buddhist gods and goddesses. I was unsure if I could take pictures but when I saw locals taking photos with the statues I thought it was fine and snapped a few images. To my surprise I was scolded for taking photos even when someone two seconds early in the same spot by the same guard did the same thing was not scolded for it. I apologized and didn’t take any more and the guard didn’t ask me to delete the photos.

At the center of the gated area was the stone pagoda. It was completely wrapped in people waiting in line to buy another ticket to get inside. I walked up the small staircase and stood on the far-left side so I could read the sign about how much the tickets would cost and left the rest of the six foot wide staircase for people to walk around me. To my surprise a woman grabbed my waist and pushed me to the side. This lady, instead of walking to the right of me, where there was SIX FEET OF SPACE decided it would be better to grab me, a total stranger, who was standing by a stone pole and bushes not in anyone’s way, and push me to the RIGHT. Anyone who knows me will say that I am a nice person but in that moment of being pushed and scolded and not being sold the correct ticket I cracked. I made *a certain gesture* at her and yelled *a few choice words* to which this woman totally ignored. When I was walking through a garden I saw this woman again with a tour group and I was so filled with this anger that I was shaking. I had half of a mind to walk up to her and shove her the way she had done to me but stomped off in the opposite direction.

There I saw a statue of this goddess of Guanyin (keep in mind there are many stories of this goddess, but this is the one I know). This goddess is known as the Lady of a Thousand Hands and Eyes. She was a woman who prayed often but when her father tried to marry her off to a bad man, she refused and became a nun in the mountains. When she heard her estranged father had become ill many years later she went to see him and discovered the only cure was for someone to give up their hands and eyes to be made into medicine. Even though she and her father did not get along and had not spoken in years, she willingly gave up her eyes and hands for him. When I saw this statue I felt so ashamed for being angry with the pushy lady and had thought about getting revenge in the same garden as the Lady of a Thousand Hands and Eyes. I also thought of my own religion and how Jesus forgave those as he was dying on a cross after being tortured. It is kind of amazing how when I study and learn about other religions I see similarities to my own religion and come to the same conclusions. This time this goddess and Jesus were similar, they had faced hardships but, in the end, forgave their tormentors and I should do the same.

After the Wild Goose Pagoda I watched the water show in the park and was able to get in the front of the large crowd. It was an incredibly hot day but the water was able to spray on me and I was able to feel some relief. For lunch I ate at the Burger King which looked very different than the ones in the USA.

The second place I visited was the Xian wall. This was the original defense system of the city and it is massive. Along the way you could rent bikes which I really should have done. I tried walking to just one of the corners and walked about 20 minutes without ever reaching it. With the hot weather and my adventure at the pagoda, I just couldn’t muster it. The wall is about 8.5 miles in length and there is  a moat that goes around it  (Travel China Guide, 2018). There are cars that drive under this wall, that is how massive it is. They also have these cute “soldiers” that spot the wall.

Connected to the wall a person can visit the Beilin Museum. The museum has several artifacts ranging from carved stone calligraphy, paintings, and statues. There are several buildings you can walk into to see these works of art and most of them don’t have A/C. However, the area that had religious statues did have A/C and a little café and gladly rested there for a while. One unusual thing I noticed is that many of the statues heads were scratched or knocked off. This could have been from the cultural revolution that occurred in China in the 1960s where historical items were considered “too old” to be progressive and therefore destroyed.

After that exhausting day, both emotionally and physically, I crashed on my bed hard ready for the next day.

Travel China Guide. (2018, September 12). Xian City Wall. Retrieved from China Guide: https://www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/shaanxi/xian/citywall.htm

Being Blessed in Beijing

Before school started in the fall of 2018 I decided that I would travel to Beijing and Xian. Every other time of the year I was unable to go (Fall there is too many people visiting, Winter pollution problem, Spring I was working) even though I was warned that it would be hot I was still surprised by how hot it actually was. Every day I drank at least 5 water bottles.

For those that don’t know, Beijing is actually next to a desert and the desert is increasing in size due to deforestation, pollution, and climate change so the summers may be getting hotter and drier soon.

Day One

To start, I began in one of the more famous places-Tienanmen Square. The line to get to Tienanmen square is insane, with hundreds of people lining up down two city blocks to get inside. Once you are at the gate you show your passport to the guard and place any bags you have through an X-ray. The government doesn’t like to talk about the riot that happened in the square and have actually banned books and movies on the topic from coming into China but I was surprised to hear English speaking tour guides talking about it freely to their groups.

Through the square you can enter the Forbidden City…or part of it. The Forbidden City is where the emperor, advisers, and his courtesans lived but it is split into several areas. The further most area is where the advisers lived, then the inner circles would be the courtesans. Those in the inner circle were never allowed to leave once inside. No men were allowed inside this circle as well as the courtesans jobs were to give birth to the heir and didn’t want any other man to possibly impregnate the courtesans. Since children died very easily back in the day the idea is that the more women there are to impregnate, the higher chance that there will be a living heir. In Western culture we usually view courtesans as dirty and gross prostitutes, but these women were usually chosen from elite or famous families. These women not only were to give birth but to also strengthen ties with the emperor and these elite families.  Their family’s status would increase exponentially if their child was chosen as the heir.

You can watch a famous Chinese TV show about it called Empresses in the Palace.

When I went to buy my ticket to get inside the inner circle of the Forbidden City I was surprised that by 10:00 am that all the tickets for that day and the next day were sold out. So the pictures you have are from the outside gate and the garden nearby.

Next, I went to Beihai Park which is a massive. It is 70 hectacres of land and 39 hectacres of water 

(Kelly, 2018).

While I was there I went inside a temple, several pavilions, and got to see “heaven.” In Buddhist temples they will sometimes have a recreation of what they believe heaven looks like. The one I saw was basically a small hill and in the past a person could climb on it and go through the tunnels and sidewalks. 

Usually the heavens will be surrounded by Buddhas or angels.

After that I went to the Lama temple otherwise known as Yonghegong Temple. There are several worshiping areas with their own special Buddha, painting, and carving that are in these temples and this one’s specialty was a statue that was made out of one tree and stood at least three stories tall. It was in the Guinness World Book of Records! After all that walking I had 24,000 steps recorded on my phone and was wiped out.

Day Two

My hotel, Swissotel, offered a tour package of the most popular places to see in Beijing and gladly signed up. A tour bus picked me up at 6:45 am and along the way picked up other tour members from other hotels. People from Germany, USA, and Ireland were all on the bus with me which was cool. A man from Ireland and I were the only ones that taught in China and everyone else was there for fun or short-term business.

We began the tour by going to a silk museum. At the museum (as our tour guide Murphey told us it was more of a store) we got to see the silk cocoons that the worms weave. If the worm dies inside the cocoon, then the silk is thrown into hot water and stretched out and the worm is sold to be eaten as a snack. Our group was handed a cocoon and told to stretch it out as much as we could, and we got about 5 feet in diameter without snapping it. Silk is the top export of China currently and most Chinese people will buy silk wedding clothes or silk wedding sheets.

The second stop was at the Sacred Way. The Sacred Way is the road that goes from the Forbidden City to the Ming Tombs. The tombs span several mountains and is the burial place of royalty along with important generals and courtesans. Our group only walked down the famous sidewalk that has several statues of animals and people. When the emperor or empress died, they were taken down the 7.3 km, or 4.5 miles, to their resting place. The Sacred Way was only supposed to be touched by the emperor so the servants carrying his coffin would lift the coffin with poles and walk on the darker sidewalk.

After the Sacred Way we headed to a Jade Museum (store). The Jade Museum had huge pieces of jade cut out in amazing shapes such as a throne, a ship, and animals. We learned about the different types of jade and how to tell real jade from fake. One way to tell if a piece is jade or glass is by tapping it and listening for a specific sound. Jade will sound higher pitched than glass. Another way is by scratching the piece onto glass; glass on glass will scratch but jade on glass will not leave a mark. If you ever go to China there are about a million jade shops, but many could be fake, so just be on the lookout.

Last, but certainly not the least, we visited The Great Wall! The Great Wall are actually walls with several different sections you can visit. (Zhou, 2018) You can read about them here. The part I visited was Mutainyu. If you ever want to visit the Great Wall the first thing you should know is that it isn’t going to be next to your hotel, all the walls are miles away from the city so it will take a few hours to drive out there. Once you arrive by car or bus you can either walk up to the wall or take a cable car. It costs extra to come and go by cable car but in my mind you get more time to be on the wall.

When I was walking along the wall I told myself I would make it to the next fortification but every couple of steps I met a person/couple and we got to talking. I talked to a couple honeymooning from Germany, sisters-in-law from USA, a couple on vacation who were from India but immigrated to USA, and a woman from Russia. I made it down one staircase but met a lot of cool people along the way.

Not to mention the wall is beautiful and at one point I stood on the wall and thought, “I can’t believe I’m really here. I am standing on one of the most famous places in the world. Hundreds of miles away from my hometown.” You really feel special standing on the wall.

Our wall is not very crowded unlike the Badaling wall. Our tour guide told us that Badaling is the most popular one but it also is shoulder-to-shoulder walking traffic the entire way. The German honeymoon couple told me that they had visited that wall the day before and thought it was a nightmare.

Gubeikou is another popular one for those who like hiking because it is covered in vines and is quite steep, however parts of it are condemned. This blogger went and liked it a lot.

If you would like to read on the history of the Great Wall, go here!

Our bus took us home and that is when I got a taste of Beijing rush hour. To go three blocks took us about 20 minutes so when we got a few blocks within our hotels we were told to get off. Half of the bus just got off at a subway station.

In my opinion, this was a wonderful tour and would go again! I wish I had another day in Beijing just to visit another wall or maybe get another chance to see the Forbidden City or try Peking Duck. Who knows, maybe I will get another chance someday.

Kelly. (2018, September 7). Beihai Park, Beijing. Retrieved from China Highlights: https://www.chinahighlights.com/beijing/attraction/beihai-park.htm

Zhou, R. (2018, July 25). The Best 10 Sections/Parts of the Great Wall to Visit. Retrieved from China Highlights: https://www.chinahighlights.com/greatwall/section/