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Dong zi Middle school (2014 CyberFair Project ID 7812)
China, Lanzhou City
Official Status: Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 6. Historical Landmarks

We estimate 300 student(s) from 13 to 15 will work on this entry.

Description of Our Community: Description of “Our Community” Honggu district is the outer suburbs of Lanzhou City. Established in 1960, the total area is 567.66 square kilometers, the total population reaches up to 14.3 thousands, which is 95,000 people of city population and 48,000 people of rural population. It links Lanzhou and Xining, two large capital city, has economic geographic advantage of " connecting the east and the west".109 State Road, and Lanhai Expressway and Lanqing Railway runs throughout the whole territory, which is throat roads of connecting Beijing with Qinghai, and Tibet, also is southwest gate of Lanzhou and Gansu. Yongning temple is located in the north of Honggu District Lanzhou city Gansu Province, which is oriented south and north. Yongning Temple is grand and magnificent. The soil fort around it is 7 meters high, 2.5 meters wide at the bottom, 1.5 meters wide at the top. There is brand about 30 meters in the front of the temple, about 8 meters long, 5 meters high, and workmanship is fine, it is rare in northwest. There is gate with a pair of Stone Lions. There are three halls with Buddha in the north of gate. The center has a square censer. North Hall is the main hall, where honors Muni, Zhunti Buddha, wheel single thousand four protectors, the eighteen arhat, a total of 360 which is called "the temple of God". The east and west hall are symmetric architectures, a total of six halls. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with the Gaolan, "cave temple," "monastery" named three Buddhists holy lands

Project Description: Project purposes To learn the history of Yongjing temple’s development, to probe the ways of promoting further growth of the Yongjing temple. Through our investigation, inquiry and research, to let the outside world know more about Yongning Temple, promote further development and growth, improve visibility. Many people know the story of Princess Wencheng, but they don't know the Princess Wencheng had a short rest in Yongning Temple, so we have a duty to let more people know. Although we do not have any advantage in terms of production technology Webpage, we all do it in the heart, we hope that through our efforts, the most real thing can be showed to everyone, at the same time, our students also learned a lot of things, it will be of great help to their future growth.

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