City｜Landmark

The Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square in Beijing, the West Lake in Hangzhou, the Oriental Television Tower in Shanghai, and the Ruins of St. Paul's in Macao ...... Almost every city, there is one or more of these buildings (attractions) that are typically representative of the city, which are not only the city's most distinctive symbols but also a concentrated reflection of the city's history and culture. history and culture of the concentrated embodiment.

Therefore, a picture of a city landmark, which is either magnificent, unique or scenic, is undoubtedly one of the most important contents of the city's external image dissemination. City landmarks for the majority of photographers not only provides a stage for the display of talent, but also provides an opportunity to constantly reflect on the practice of photography, to enhance their own training - shooting landmarks not only to shoot its external, and more in-depth to go down, digging on behalf of the city's historical and cultural heritage. In this way, the photos taken will have "weight". At the same time, more topics will be unearthed, which will give you a deeper understanding and thinking about photography. --This article is from China Photography News, Issue 62, Page 11, 2017

Xuchang

"Gate of Xuchang" Welcomes the Four Directions

Xuchang's Gate in the Sunlight

Photographed by Xu Dingye

Xuchang City, Henan Province, is located in the Central Plains, which is the center of the Three Kingdoms. In the middle of the Three Kingdoms, people who have read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms know that in the first year of Jian'an (196), Cao Cao moved the capital of the country from Luoyang to Xudu, where a turbulent historical drama unfolded. According to the Records of the Three Kingdoms, after Wei was established on behalf of Han, Cao Pi, the Emperor of Wei, changed the name of Xu County to "Xuchang" with the words "Wei Ji Chang in Xu", and Xuchang got its name because of this history. 1,800 years have passed, and there are still endless stories of the old "Three Kingdoms" here. Three Kingdoms". Today, the former "Yi color and hair Yue, Wei cleverly decorated a lot of" (Three Kingdoms Wei - Bian Lan "Xuchang Palace Fu") of the palace has long gone up in smoke and disappeared, standing in the land of Xuchang's landmark building is known as the "Gate of Xuchang" Xuchang City, the tourism service center.

Xuchang Gate is located at the entrance of Xuchang Station on the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway, shaped like a Han Dynasty tripod, tall and majestic, with a door and four queues, square on the outside and round on the inside, showing a unique "ancient charm and new style". It uses Han Dynasty architectural symbols to express the Three Kingdoms culture of Xuchang. The main building is 36 meters high and the doorway is 19.6 meters high, which means that Cao Cao welcomed Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty to Xuchang in 196 AD. In the diagonal extension direction of the main building, there are four small buildings in the shape of Han Que with a height of 12 meters and a spacing of 120 meters, implying that there are 12 months in a year. A total area of 57,240 square meters of the welcome plaza will be the main building surrounded by the plane for Cao Cao's "Frontier Array" graphic pattern, reflecting the regional cultural characteristics of Xuchang.

A whirring sound came from the high-speed railway passing through Xuchang is slowing down into the station, the original, Xuchang Gate was built in the high-speed railroad and highway in the middle of the zone. 1800 years ago, Cao Cao chose to set the capital of Xuchang, the primary reason for the land is fertile, convenient transportation, and easy to raise grain and grass. Today, well-connected transportation remains one of the city's key development advantages. Xuchang is about 80 kilometers from Zhengzhou, the provincial capital, and about 50 kilometers from Xinzheng International Airport. With seven existing highways, three high-speed rail lines and five high-speed rail stations in the future, Xuchang is one of the most convenient areas for modern logistics in central China and even in the country.

The Xuchang Gate, known as the "City Parlor", is the first prefecture-level tourism service center opened in Henan Province. The 25 steps up to the gate symbolize the 25 years of Xuchang's glory during the Cao Wei period. Entering the Gate of Xuchang is like entering the interior of a huge kiln, with the light shining down from above and the walls decorated with simulated Jun porcelain tiles glowing with color, as if going through a historical tunnel from the Han Dynasty to the Northern Song Dynasty, to the era when the five famous porcelains of "Jun, Ru, Guan, Gao and Ding" were intertwined with each other. Listen to him, he fired the copper as a coloring agent, glaze color, pattern of natural Jun porcelain.

Entering the Gate of Xuchang is like getting a key to open the door to Xuchang's history and culture. Here there is a smart tourism platform can be Xuchang city tourism "dynamic management", responsible for tourism promotion, tourism line promotion, provide tourism information. This city landmark building, which integrates Cao Wei culture and Jun porcelain culture in its design concept, has attracted many photographers. It has become the dream of many people to take good pictures of this city card.

Xuchang Gate is perfect for twilight photography. After the sun goes down, the afterglow is diffused, and after a long exposure, the sky shows a deep color like jewel blue, and the Gate of Xuchang stands in the dense night color, which is a very deep sense of time and space. It is also suitable for aerial photography, especially after the lighting of the night scene, which retains the solemnity and majesty seen in the daytime, but also adds a modern style of fashion simplicity. It is suitable for shooting on snowy days, when the snow slowly falls and the ground gradually turns white. The high-speed train whizzes past the Xuchang Gate, and the morning sunlight pours over the two big characters of "Xuchang", sparkling with a faint golden light, making the picture very beautiful. On the ground in the center of the square facing the gate, there is a seal in Yangwen, engraved in seal script with four big words "Xujun Yichang". Guo Wen

Zhengzhou

Zhengdong New District is a beautiful part of the Central Plains

Night view of Zhengdong New District, photo by Li Qian

Zhengdong New District is a new urban area under planning and construction in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, where the modern architectural features and landscape design have made it a beautiful new business card and a new landmark in the city. There are quite a few representative landscapes that can be photographed in Zhengdong New District, including Thousand Seal Plaza, Ruyi Lake, Henan Art Center, Zhengzhou International Convention and Exhibition Center, and so on.

One of the most prominent, Thousand Seals Plaza is also easy to make a masterpiece of the place. Thousand Seals Plaza is located in the central park of CBD of Zhengdong New District, adjacent to the Convention and Exhibition Center and Art Center, which is the landmark of CBD of the new district. As the "tallest building in the Central Plains", Qianxi Plaza covers an area of nearly 30,000 square meters, with a total floor area of 250,000 square meters after completion. The main tower has 4 floors underground and 61 floors above ground (including sightseeing floors), and is about 280 meters high. Standing at the intersection of Jinshui Road and Tongtai Road at the top of the building looking forward, Qianxi Plaza as a huge golden corn cob stands in the middle of the CBD in the new district, becoming a beautiful scenery, and therefore also affectionately known as the "big corn" by the people of Zhengzhou.

During the day, the scenery here is pleasant, and when night falls, the inner ring of the CBD in Zhengdong New District neon flashes, the lights are bright, and the picturesque night scene of the city is even more mesmerizing. Shooting the city night scene is mainly expressed in the night atmosphere, a variety of flashing neon lights, neatly arranged street lights, lights on the road, as well as the room windows through the window lights, etc., colorful, intertwined into a world of light. Under the effect of light, everything becomes so beautiful, therefore, shooting city night scene will bring us more fun. But want to shoot a good night scene is not very easy, because the night scene belongs to the low light source scene, so if you want to do long exposure shooting, first of all, you have to prepare a solid tripod can, otherwise it is very easy to shoot a blurred image, the shutter release line is also an indispensable auxiliary equipment. As for the lens, a wide-angle is preferred.

Sometimes there is foggy weather in Zhengzhou, the air humidity or dirty, water vapor in the atmosphere, floating dust in the light of the irradiation will produce a diffuse reflection, this time to shoot out of the night sky will be filled with something similar to the noise, in the photographs show even more serious than what we see with the naked eye. Therefore, it is best to choose a clear weather, less humidity, fresh air at night to shoot night scenes. Evening (half an hour before and after sunset) is the best time to shoot night scenes, with the most beautiful color temperature when there is still a hint of afterglow in the sky. Generally speaking, as long as the sky visibility is not too bad, you can theoretically take quality images.

Because the core area of the new CBD is a ring of urban architectural planning, and the "big corn" is basically located in the center of the area, so as long as you look for a building in the inner ring from the top to the bottom of the shot, basically can achieve the desired effect.

When shooting, manual mode is recommended. The buildings and the sky at night have complex light ratios, and the camera may not be able to correctly judge the shutter value if you shoot in aperture priority. Moreover, the camera's automatic metering is prone to error in the face of uneven lighting and strong contrast night scenes. It is recommended to shoot when the sky is dark and the city lights start to appear; the ISO sensitivity value can simply be set to the lowest value of the camera's native sensitivity; and since the scene is far away from the camera, even if you use the maximum aperture, the shot will basically not be blurred. If you use a tripod, you don't have to worry about the shutter being too slow, and the aperture can be narrowed down a bit to get higher clarity. When shooting, first consider the brightness of the scene environment, but also need to consider the light and darkness of the building. Li Qian

Sha Xian

Cultural Heritage Snack City

Snack City, thousands of people feast Lu Fu-chun photo

American writer K. Da Mori said: "All cities are crazy, yet gorgeous crazy. All cities are beautiful, yet coldly beautiful." However, there is such a place, the corner of Shaxian County, Fujian Province, gorgeous but not crazy, beautiful but not cold, like the elegant and elegant southern woman, but also full of human fireworks, it is the Shaxian snack culture city.

Shaxian Snack Culture City is a set of food, accommodation, transportation, tourism, shopping, entertainment as one of the national 4A level tourist attractions, Huizhou garden style of architecture, a (a central square), four areas (food area, leisure and entertainment, tourism and shopping, star-rated hotel), five axes (five channels intersect each other) of the layout of the city's snack culture, a clever blend of the functionality of the city and ornamental snacks. If you want to have a panoramic view of the Snack Culture City, the "City Star" building, which is less than 100 meters away, is an excellent viewing point. Full of modern atmosphere of the building and the simple and ancient echo of the town, into the building, straight to the top of the 19th floor, "a dangerous building 100 feet high, hands can pick the stars," the feeling of drenching came to life.

Behind the snack town, the majestic Amoy gold mountain rolling, like a fairy carved out of the giant reclining Buddha, and the top of the mountain reclining Buddha stone carving reflect each other. The majestic tower stands on the summit of the Amoy gold mountain, looking down on the multitudes of people, blessing a side of the people. Sunset, snack culture city, Taoginshan, Shariputra by the evening sun shrouded in splendor, all in one. Nightfall, starlight twinkling, Shariputra golden light, snack city bright lights, fire trees and silver flowers.

Instead of lingering outside the city, it is better to go into the city to find out. Snack Culture City has three gates, are the use of exquisite marble base and become, each gate has "Shacun" two big hot gold characters, the pen force is strong.

Toward the south is the main gate, a pair of powerful stone lions in front of the door, hanging on both sides of a pair of couplets, above the vivid stone carvings, depicting the social life of Shaxian 1600 years ago. Shacun, both a city within a city and a village within a city, has food as its exclusive symbol. There are modern leisure places here, but also the fireworks of the countryside village. The main entrance to the left and right rows of restaurants, walk into the gatehouse is the snack culture city of the Grand View Garden, both sides of the signboards lined with bright stalls, a collection of classic snacks in Shaxian.

The east gate of the Snack Culture City is facing the county town, and five stone pillars at the entrance are engraved with the ancient Shaxian snack production charts, and a giant stone mill symbolizes the exquisite craftsmanship of Shaxian snacks. From the east gate into the ancient street, from east to west through the street, the local mushrooms, dried bamboo shoots, honey, eggs and other local specialty shops gathered here. In addition, there are jade, porcelain painting, wood carving, root carving and other specialty craft stores, adding a touch of cultural connotation to the small street. Walking out of the small street from the west gate, star hotels and specialty inns converge, with different styles and the same comfort.

Today, the bustling Snack Culture City has ushered in a brand new third phase of construction. The e-commerce center attracts countless aspiring young people to build their own entrepreneurial dreams. The newly completed snack production experience center is neat and bright, where visitors can experience the snack production process, allowing you to live the addiction of being a chef. Lu Fu-chun

Zhuji

Xi Shi Theater draws buzz

Xi Shi Grand Theater, taken by Cheng Wu-jun

Xi Shi Grand Theater is located in the central area of the eastern part of the city of Zhuji City, Zhejiang Province, and is named after its location in the ancient capital of the Yue State, the hometown of Xi Shi.

Built in 2016, the Grand Theater is an important cultural facility that Zhuji Municipal Government has invested heavily in implementing the development strategy of a strong cultural city. The entire theater project has a total investment of 390 million yuan, covers an area of 32,000 square meters, and has a total construction area of about 37,000 square meters, divided into 4 floors above ground and 1 floor underground. With its unique architectural shape, advanced stage technology and perfect performance functions, Xishi Grand Theatre is among the most modern and advanced theaters in China today.

The architectural theme of the Xishi Grand Theater is "the halo of the city", and it is divided into two areas, A and B. A 500-meter-long elevated floor is used for the performance. A 500-meter-long elevated glass corridor is detached from the main theater, which transforms the landmark Grand Theater from a traditional centralized volume model into a free and open model, reinforcing the theme of "urban halo" while also enabling the Grand Theater, which houses the theater, catering, and outdoor stage, to be organically integrated with the surrounding parks, streets, and plazas. The theater is designed to blend in with typical urban elements and become a "cultural park". When the lights are on at night, the main building looks like the beauty Xishi, while the glass corridor looks like a golden ribbon, showing the beauty of Xishi as a fish in the sea.

Xishi Grand Theater is adjacent to the Science and Technology Museum in the south, the Citizen's Wetland Park in the north, and the Hongcheng Fortune Center in the east, which is like a pearl set in the high-grade business district, and no matter from which angle you take a picture of it, you can see its beauty. It is beautiful during the day and graceful at night.

So far, the Xishi Grand Theater has undertaken dozens of elegant art performances, including concerts by the Shanghai National Orchestra, the large-scale dance drama "Thousand Hands of Goddess of Mercy", the classic ballet "Swan Lake", and concerts by the Beijing Symphony Orchestra. This exquisite cultural landmark building will lead the cultural trend of elegant art in Zhuji and become a temple for the common people to understand and experience elegant art.? Zhang Xujia

Suzhou

"Roc spreads its wings" to take off

Roc spreads its wings sculpture Yu Zhaoyong photographed

It is undeniable that the landmark building not only can increase the popularity of a city, but also make it more vivid and vivid, "Roc spreads its wings" sculpture is a good example. The "Roc with Wings" sculpture fully embodies the style and development of the modernized new city of Suzhou, Anhui Province.

"Roc wings" sculpture from November 1998 to start construction, to March 1999 completion, lasted more than four months. In the process of its birth, experienced a major event in the history of Suzhou - December 6, 1998, the State Council approved the abolition of the Suxian County region to establish a prefecture-level Suzhou City. The "Roc Spreading Wings" sculpture was called "the work of the city". As a result, Suzhou began a sea change and entered a new era of development.

The base of the sculpture is made of stainless steel with a natural and smooth curved aerodynamic streamline design, which adds dynamic beauty to the wings of the roc and creates an infinite extension of visual imagination, implying the good will of the newly built prefectural-level city of Suzhou to spread its wings and take off. From the front, the beautiful lines of the roc is spreading its wings and flying; looking up from a close distance, the roc bird is soaring in the sky; a bird's eye view of the roc is about to take up residence in the beautiful land of Suzhou.

"Roc wings" valiant, guarding the northern gate of Cebu City. To the east, the Beijing-Shanghai Railway and high-speed railroad winds through, connecting the motherland east and west, north and south; to the south, after the transformation of the old city of Suzhou is flourishing, a prosperous; to the west, the new city of political affairs, businessmen, Hexu Expressway according to the city, schools, hospitals and other ancillary facilities are gradually improved, the pace of development is changing day by day; to the north, the Si-Hsu Expressway and the transformation of the 206 National Highway crisscrossing through the city, bringing new opportunities for the development of Suzhou. New opportunities for the development of Suzhou. Before the "Roc Spreading Wings", is along the Tuo River and built the Riverside Park, the park is full of flowers, green trees, become a good place for leisure, entertainment, physical exercise in Suzhou.

"Roc spreading its wings" appeared, enhance the city image of Suzhou, meaning that Suzhou Roc Miles, contains Suzhou people look forward to the rise of their hometown's ardent desire. Today's Suzhou, urban and rural construction is making rapid progress, the city has a new look, a livable and vibrant new Suzhou is now the land of the northern Anhui Province, waiting for photographers to come to record the moment of time. Yu Zhaoyong

Chuzhou

Showing the Gate of Xiushan

Chuzhou's Xiushan Gate taken by Fang Hongbing

Chuzhou City, Anhui Province, is located on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and its geographic location is very important, and it has been in the spotlight of politicians and militarists throughout the ages. Chizhou City was founded in the year of Yongtai of Tang Dynasty, with six gates, of which the west gate was Qiu Pu Gate (changed to Xiushan Gate in the second year of Duanping of Song Dynasty), which is more than 1,200 years ago. During the Chunyou period of the Song Dynasty, the city was rebuilt for the fifth time, with seven gates, of which the west gate was the Xiushan Gate. The Xiushan Gate was the main gate of Chizhou City in all periods of its history, and this pattern was maintained until modern times.

In a city with a history, the city wall is a cultural ribbon, and a city gate is a cultural complex set on this ribbon. In the long river of time, the city gate with the war and peace cycle interpretation of the destruction and reconstruction, at a time open and closed to witness the flow of time, the change of the times, experience and even carry a city of honor and disgrace. Chizhou City, Xiushan Gate is such a city gate.

Chizhou is a poetic city, Xiushanmen also by this poetic immersion. The apricot blossoms are ten miles away from Xiushanmen, and Du Mu, the poet saint, often went to the apricot blossom village to drink and compose poems, leaving behind famous poems such as "Qingming". Outside Xiushan Gate, Qiupu (the county was renamed Qiupu County during the Tianbao period of the Tang Dynasty) is vast, and Li Bai, the poet, has traveled to Chizhou many times and composed "Song of Qiupu (Seventeen Songs)" and other chapters. The beautiful landscape of Chizhou has attracted many writers and artists, and there are countless masterpieces of poetry and song.

Chizhou is a city of heroes, Xiushanmen is a monument to the martyrs of the past generations. Song Xianchun ten years (1274), the Yuan army soldiers in Chizhou, pass judge Zhao Mofa rate of heroic resistance, to the first month of the following year was not defeated, the day of the city broke up in the morning, "titled in the wall" said: Jun can not be rebel, the city can not be surrendered, husband and wife with the death of the festival of justice into a pair. He also wrote a poem entitled "Split Clothes Book Poem Sent to Brother" to bid farewell to his brothers. The city broke down, husband and wife were both heroic. Qing Shunzhi two years (1645), the Qing troops across the river south invasion, the literati, anti-Qing hero Wu Yingji was appointed in times of crisis, served as a magistrate in Chizhou, supervision of the Ji military, in his hometown of Chizhou to rise up, recruiting volunteers, casting weapons, and Huizhou Jin Sheng's volunteers to cooperate with the anti-Qing, and ultimately because of the outnumbered was captured, valiant in the end. Anti-Japanese War period, the iron hooves of the Japanese invaders stepped into the Chizhou, defending the city of Sichuan army relying on the Xiushanmen to fight to the death, after the fall of the Xiushanmen also carried out a number of fierce battles, the city gate has changed hands a number of times, the people and the military casualties were heavy.

Chizhou is a cultural city, Xiushanmen is the epitome of the culture of Chizhou. 2003 reconstruction of the Xiushanmen, for the imitation of the Qing Dynasty architectural style, the garden was built in the pool of the famous chuigi, the water around the spring city, the slanting sun of the ancient road, the volume of the scenery, apricot rain south of the Yangtze River, the Linqiao show color, the western silhouette of the victory tour, the city ruins of the eight attractions. Xiushan Gate decorated with simple and elegant, stone carvings, wood carvings, brick carvings, stone drums, stone lions and other treasures collected from the folk. Inside the city building with antique market and folk art collection, show off Zhaoming Prince, Guizhi ancient Nuo and other historical and cultural. Overall better reflect the local characteristics of Chizhou and the heavy history of Xiushanmen, walking among them, such as rubbing shoulders with history, the vicissitudes of the sense of vicissitude and a sense of gravity comes to the surface.

Chizhou is a city of leisure, and Xiushanmen and the surrounding area is a good place to experience a slow life. The square in front of Xiushanmen is small and exquisite, and the pedestrian street behind the gate is a civic cultural alley integrating sightseeing and shopping, historical and cultural display, leisure and entertainment. It combines ancient, humanistic and refreshing moods, with a collection of local specialties such as tea and jiaozao, and the aroma of specialty snacks. As the sun sets and the evening sunlight spreads all over the sky, people who have been busy all day can enjoy the slow-paced leisure time here.? Ding Yongqing

Jinchengjiang

Ethnic Park Border City Wind

Hechi Ethnic Park Plaza Yuan Gang Photo

Photography allows us to see more than just the scenery, and this scene reflects the memory of the time, the local customs, Jinchengjiang Ethnic Park is undoubtedly a good place to interpret the scenery and feelings. Jinchengjiang Ethnic Park is located in the west of Hechi City, is the core of green space in the west of the city, covers an area of 359.4 acres, located in the mid-levels, combined with the topography of the peaks and natural conditions, through a variety of planning and design, to achieve the interpenetration of the city life and the park. The space of the Ethnic Park is gradually divided into three "characteristic" areas.

Ethnic flavor area - here, in the blue sky, white clouds, green mountains and water, you can see a real gathering place of ethnic minorities, feel the soul of Hechi. Ethnic customs area is a landscape area that connects various activities and ethnic characteristics through the main road and the ring road. There are many traditional ethnic minority festivals. Whenever "March 3", "Bronze Drum Festival of Zhuang Township" or various song dikes are held, the ethnic groups living in the area, such as Zhuang, Miao, Dong, Yao and Han, gather in the plaza to carry out various traditional activities such as antiphonal singing, playing gyros, walking on boardwalks, dancing, ball games, and so on. You can experience the colorful activities of the ethnic minorities with the enthusiastic locals, and also have the opportunity to taste the local specialties such as local wine, preserved meat and fragrant pig.

Revolutionary History Exhibition Area - The main attraction of this area is Hechi Revolutionary Memorial Hall, which is the largest and most functional comprehensive memorial hall in Hechi urban area, built in 2007, with two permanent exhibition halls and one temporary exhibition hall, becoming an important patriotic education base and an important window for publicizing Hechi to the outside world. It has become an important patriotic education base and an important window for publicizing Hechi to the outside world. Revolutionary Memorial Hall Square is the high point of the entire park, where the view is wide, the park scenery in full view, before the sun goes down, thanks to the sunset, you can shoot an excellent panoramic view of the Nationalities Park, at this time, as long as you look for a suitable angle, a wide-angle lens can be the entire park and the beautiful sunset together with the frame down.

Ecological leisure landscape area - along the memorial next to about 800 meters of landscape road hiking down, you can enjoy the rich green life atmosphere, along the way, green grass, roadside landscape lake on the willow willows, in the grass or pavilion slowly enjoy the sunset, is two very different state of mind. Nightfall, the lights, from the bottom up three different styles of large fountains to the park at night set off more and more beautiful, the use of slow door or stacked stacking techniques, you can put the beautiful night scenery and gorgeous fountains shot as hanging sky colorful silk floating in the wind. In order to reduce light pollution, after 10:00 p.m. Park Square began to turn off the lights, the North Star just behind the Memorial Hall, you can shoot a concentric circles of the North Pole to the Memorial Hall as the foreground of the star track. Yuan Gang

Warm Tips

"Rhythmic Lotus City Charming Xuchang" National Photography Exhibition, "Daimu Xiang" Cup "Snack City - Charming Shaxian" National Photography Exhibition, the second "Green" National Photography Exhibition, and the second "Green" National Photography Exhibition, all of which will be held at the end of the year. National Photography Exhibition, the second "Green Poetry City - Charming Chizhou" National Photography Exhibition, "Xi Shi's Hometown - Good Beauty Zhuji" National Photography Exhibition, the third "Civilization Zhengzhou" National Photography Exhibition, "Charming landscape charm Jincheng" Guangxi Jinchengjiang National Photography Exhibition, the first "beautiful Suzhou" National Photography Exhibition is calling for submissions, welcome to submit.

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