Let’s have some Spring Rolls! Quanzhou’s Spring Rolls, an amazing combination of flavors... Quanzhou, a beautiful city in Fujian Province, is legendary not only for its long history but also for the delicious local cuisine, such as, of course, the flavorful spring rolls. The “Yafo Spring Roll Shop” is a very famous and recognized shop among the local people. The reason, this shop owns an incredible, tasty and over 100-years recipe, which by the way, was also declared “Intangible Cultural Heritage”.

Root carvings are artworks featuring people, animals or objects carved out of natural or distorted tree roots (including tree trunks, burls and bamboo roots etc) through careful designing and artistic processing. In the creation of a root carving work, the major part should be presented through the natural shapes of the root material, with a small part being recreated. So, root carving is also called "the art of the root" or "root art".

A glimpse of Wuhan. Wuhan is located in Hubei province; it is divided by the impressive Yantze River into three towns Wuchang, Hankou, and Hanyang. Its strategic location, allows this city to be one of China's most important hubs of water, rail transportation, and communications; moreover, it is the largest inland port.

Breathtaking Buddha Statues. Zhangban is a beautiful town located in Quanzhou, Fujian province. Zhangban is well-known and recognized not only in China but also in other countries for their exquisite, elegant and impeccable carvings. The wooden Buddha statues are exclusive and special, full of details and colors, with different kinds, sizes and terminations, depending on the statue.

Zhang Hanren, a stone carving master, is the main character of this story. Master Hanren started the art of “Stone Carving”, due to different difficulties and circumstances in his life. However, and despite the different situations, they never stopped him, and now, he is recognized and well-known as a master in this amazing art, an art in which he began as an apprentice, and today he is the best in it.

First class ships in Quanzhou. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, between the 10th and 14th centuries, Quanzhou in Fujian province, was considered the largest oriental port in the world.

Discovering the Luoyang Bridge. Iolanta Chomag, a Russian woman, will take us through the city of Quanzhou, more exactly across the Luoyang Bridge on the west side of the city. This bridge is one of the four most famous ancient bridges in China, it was built during the Song Dynasty, and since then it has been restored several times. It is an impressive and imposing work of engineering keeping in mind the epoch in which it was built.

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