格林豪泰河南省鹤壁市衡山路商务酒店

Our hosts left us after our visit to Red Flag Canal, to return to Changzhi and the rest of us set off for Anyang, Henan, where we would be staying the night at the Green Tree Inn. It was another couple of hours drive, with some tricky roads at first, undergoing extensive repairs. When we arrived in the town, it had a rather dusty and bedraggled look and we stopped in an old part of town, to visit a house built to honour one of it’s previously leading generals, Yue Fei. He had been executed, unjustly, in the 12th Century, due to some malicious lies told about him, by 4 rivals, who wanted his property and position, but 20 years later, they were found out and beheaded themselves. During the 17th Century, the Ming dynasty erected the house in his memory.||It was in the usual style, highly painted pillars, and doors etc, with the curved roofs of old times, but after about 20 minutes, we’d seen all there was to see, so made for the hotel, in a slightly more modern part of town, just past a large Walmart.||Having settled in our reasonably priced room, at 118 yuan (£11.80) we were allowed to make our own preparations for dinner, but not knowing where to go, we walked down to Walmarts and after a futile look round, we settled for a KFC. We bought some cherries (20 yuan half kilo) and apricots, from a small shop on the way back and had an early night, after a shower.||||After an early breakfast at 7.30 a.m we set off at 8.15, to visit a nearby archaeological site, before the long drive home to Jinan. We passed some pleasant gardens, with magnificent displays of hollyhocks along the way and through some well kept farm buildings and small holdings. We lost the way a couple of times, but eventually found the large complex, with large buildings erected above some of the digs, going back about 3000 years. The old city was called Yinxu. There were even displays of ancient sewage pipes, showing they were quite advanced in that way, apart from the amazing bronze artworks.||||This ancient city, was also the place where the Chinese form of writing began and a lot of them made sense, in that they represented words in the form of a kind of stick drawing, so you could easily recognize a man, woman for example, or a tree, fruit etc. There were even symbols for walking, picking fruit and it’s a pity they didn’t keep this form of writing, which is more easily recognizable, instead of the more complicated developments of the language, as it is today in Chinese calligraphy.||One building housed 8 wooden chariots, fully preserved, but mostly still covered in the dried mud, in which they’d been found, to preserve the wood, over 3000 years, but you could make out the detail quite clearly. They had been buried with their horses and sometimes the driver. ||There were pictures depicting the form of warfare, shooting arrows from the chariots, in much the same way as we had in the UK in the bronze age, although we don’t have so many well preserved items, probably because of our damp conditions, where wood rots a lot faster.||The whole complex was well landscaped, with lawns, flower beds, lakes, in addition to the large buildings erected over the excavations. There was a large museum, built underground, with displays of pottery, bronzes, weapons and jade jewellery. Many of the weapons were similar to UK designs of the same period, although a lot more ornate.||Just a pity none of these places have tea rooms, where you can sit and relax during your visit, but we did buy a good example of a bronze pot, for 120 yuan. I wish we’d bought another one, at that price, but a carved bronze seal in the form of a dragon was a bit pricy at 350 yuan.||Then we drove back to the hotel to have a rest and make our own arrangements about lunch, then to meet the others to leave at 3.00 pm. We turned left out of The Green Tree Inn, walked along the road a bit and crossed over the other side, to find a basic kind of restaurant, halfway to Walmart. There was a special menu, with prices are 50 yuan, but we opted for the set lunch which was excellent, as well and only cost 10 yuan. I had a plate of Kung Po chicken with rice and Ling had some fried pork with soup and some fried wild greens. The meal was OK and apparently our group had dined here last night.||Then we walked back to the hotel and rested for an hour or so, until it was time to go.||It was a longish drive back, about 4-5 hours and quite hot. We had to pay several toll charges to change to different motorways, but the costs were worked out later, to share equally between the 12 of us.

参观完红旗渠后，主人离开我们返回长治，我们其余人出发前往河南安阳，晚上入住格林豪泰酒店。这又是几个小时的车程，一开始有一些棘手的道路，正在进行大规模的维修。 当我们到达小镇时，它看起来布满灰尘，脏兮兮的，我们在小镇的一个老城区停下来，参观一座为纪念以前的一位主要将军岳飞而建造的房子。他在 12 世纪被不公正地处决，原因是 4 个竞争对手对他说了一些恶意的谎言，他们想要他的财产和地位，但 20 年后，他们被发现并被斩首。 17世纪时，明朝为纪念他而建了这座房子。||它是通常的风格，漆得很厚的柱子，门等等，还有旧时代的弧形屋顶，但大约20分钟后，我们看到了所有可看的东西都是为酒店而设计的，位于城镇稍微现代一点的地方，就在一家大型沃尔玛旁边。||在我们价格合理的房间安顿下来，价格为 118 元（11.80 英镑），我们被允许在我们自己准备晚饭，但不知道去哪里，就走到沃尔玛，逛了一圈，无果而终，我们决定去一家肯德基。回来的时候在小店里买了一些樱桃（20元半斤）和杏子，洗完澡就早早的睡了。||||早上7.30吃完早饭，8.15就出发去参观了。驱车返回济南之前，先参观附近的一个考古遗址。我们经过了一些宜人的花园，沿途有壮丽的蜀葵展示，还经过了一些保存完好的农场建筑和小块土地。我们好几次迷了路，但最终还是找到了这座大型建筑群，一些挖掘地点上方矗立着大型建筑物，其历史可以追溯到大约 3000 年前。旧城称殷墟。甚至还有古代污水管的展示，除了令人惊叹的青铜艺术品外，可见它们在这方面相当先进。||||这座古城，也是中国文字的发源地，很多中国文字都在这里诞生了。从某种意义上说，它们以一种棒画的形式表示文字，所以你可以很容易地认出一个男人、女人，或者一棵树、一个水果等。甚至还有行走、采摘水果的符号，可惜的是它们没有保留这种更容易识别的书写形式，而是像今天的中国书法一样，语言的发展更加复杂。||一座建筑内有 8 辆木制战车，保存完好，但大部分仍被覆盖着发现它们的干泥，用于保存木材，已有 3000 多年的历史，但你可以相当清楚地看出细节。 他们与马匹一起埋葬，有时还与车夫一起埋葬。 ||有描绘战争形式的图片，从战车上射箭，就像我们在青铜时代的英国一样，尽管我们没有那么多保存完好的物品，可能是因为我们潮湿的缘故条件恶劣，木材腐烂得更快。||整个建筑群景观优美，有草坪、花坛、湖泊，还有在挖掘区上方竖立的大型建筑。 地下建有一座大型博物馆，陈列着陶器、青铜器、兵器和玉器珠宝。 许多武器与同时期的英国设计相似，尽管更加华丽。||遗憾的是这些地方都没有茶室，您可以在访问期间坐下来放松，但我们确实买了一个很好的例子铜壶一个，120元。我希望我们再买一个，这个价格，但是刻龙的铜印350元有点贵。||然后我们开车回酒店休息，自行安排大约吃午饭，然后与其他人会合，下午3点出发。我们出了格林豪泰酒店左转，沿着路走了一段，穿过另一边，找到了一家基本的餐厅，就在沃尔玛的半路上。 有特价菜单，价格是50元，但我们选择了午餐套餐，也很棒，而且只花了10元。 我吃了一盘宫保鸡丁饭，Ling 吃了一些炒猪肉汤和一些炒野菜。 饭菜还不错，显然我们一行人昨晚在这里吃了饭。||然后我们走回酒店，休息了一个小时左右，直到出发的时间。||返回的车程较长，大约 4- 5个小时，很热。 换乘不同的高速公路，我们需要支付好几笔过路费，但费用是后来算出来的，由我们12个人平均分摊。

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