Posts Tagged ‘Hubei’

The ancient river city of Wuhan

Sunday, January 6th, 2013

Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, is the most populous city in Central China. It lies at the east of the Jianghan Plain and the intersection of the middle reaches of the Yangtze and Han rivers. With 3,500 years of history, Wuhan is older than Beijing, Xi’an and Nanjing and there are many historical sites in the city. Find out more in the Shenzhen Daily article Wuhan: An ancient river town.

Wudang Mountains and Kingdom of Chu

Saturday, April 9th, 2011

Wudang Mountains in Hubei province, known for their Taoist monasteries as well as spawning a martial arts style popular the world over, are worth days of exploration, writes Raymond Zhou in the China Daily article Wudang epiphany. In the further article Brush up on history with Kingdom of Chu excursion he writes that a trip to Wudang Mountains can be preceded or followed by side trips into other parts of Hubei province, which will be a journey into the heart of China as well as into a time when the place was known as the Kingdom of Chu.