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2,000-year-old temple reveals China's Buddhist history

STORY: 2,000-year-old temple reveals China's Buddhist history SHOOTING TIME: Recent footages DATELINE: May 9, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:49 LOCATION: GONGYI, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Ciyun Temple in Gongyi, Henan Province, central China STORYLINE: The Ciyun Buddhist Temple in Gongyi, central China's Henan Province, has a history of about 2,000 years. It serves as a rich repository of historical artifacts for the study of Buddhism in China. A stone inscription, dating back to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), records the founding of the temple in the seventh year of the Yongping Era (64 AD). The temple has over 50 stone inscriptions from ancient China. The temple's abbot, Shi Yanchao, has devoted himself to the study of these artifacts and the stories they tell. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Gongyi, China. (XHTV)

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Stone sculptures guard imperial mausoleums of Northern Song Dynasty

STORY: Stone sculptures guard imperial mausoleums of Northern Song Dynasty SHOOTING TIME: Recent footage DATELINE: Jan. 28, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:27 LOCATION: ZHENGZHOU, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the imperial mausoleums STORYLINE: The imperial tombs of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) are located in Gongyi City, central China's Henan Province. Of the 9 emperors in the Northern Song Dynasty, 7 were buried here. Majestic stone sculptures were built to guard the mausoleums, but only 700+ pieces of them remain today. These stone sculptures provide precious clues for the study of Song Dynasty sculpture art. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Zhengzhou, China. (XHTV)

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CHINA-SICHUAN-MEISHAN-INTELLIGENT RICE FARMING (CN)

(230421) -- PENGSHAN, April 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A farmer transports a rice seedling tray from a conveyer belt at an intelligent rice farming demonstration base in Gongyi Town of Pengshan District in Meishan, southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 20, 2023. Pengshan District has taken efforts to speed up the construction of digital intelligent rice farming demonstration base. Intelligent machinery has been used in the process of raising and transplanting to improve the efficiency of rice farming. (Xinhua/Wang Xi)

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CHINA-SICHUAN-MEISHAN-INTELLIGENT RICE FARMING (CN)

(230421) -- PENGSHAN, April 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on April 20, 2023 shows farmers with an intelligent rice farming demonstration base raising rice seedlings in the fields in Gongyi Town of Pengshan District in Meishan, southwest China's Sichuan Province. Pengshan District has taken efforts to speed up the construction of digital intelligent rice farming demonstration base. Intelligent machinery has been used in the process of raising and transplanting to improve the efficiency of rice farming. (Xinhua/Wang Xi)

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CHINA-SICHUAN-MEISHAN-INTELLIGENT RICE FARMING (CN)

(230421) -- PENGSHAN, April 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on April 20, 2023 shows an intelligent rice seedling raising system of an intelligent rice farming demonstration base in Gongyi Town of Pengshan District in Meishan, southwest China's Sichuan Province. Pengshan District has taken efforts to speed up the construction of digital intelligent rice farming demonstration base. Intelligent machinery has been used in the process of raising and transplanting to improve the efficiency of rice farming. (Xinhua/Wang Xi)

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CHINA-SICHUAN-MEISHAN-INTELLIGENT RICE FARMING (CN)

(230421) -- PENGSHAN, April 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Soil is transported on an assembly line at an intelligent rice farming demonstration base in Gongyi Town of Pengshan District in Meishan, southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 20, 2023. Pengshan District has taken efforts to speed up the construction of digital intelligent rice farming demonstration base. Intelligent machinery has been used in the process of raising and transplanting to improve the efficiency of rice farming. (Xinhua/Wang Xi)

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CHINA-SICHUAN-MEISHAN-INTELLIGENT RICE FARMING (CN)

(230421) -- PENGSHAN, April 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Rice seedling trays are transported on the conveyer belt at an intelligent rice farming demonstration base in Gongyi Town of Pengshan District in Meishan, southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 20, 2023. Pengshan District has taken efforts to speed up the construction of digital intelligent rice farming demonstration base. Intelligent machinery has been used in the process of raising and transplanting to improve the efficiency of rice farming. (Xinhua/Wang Xi)

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CHINA-SICHUAN-MEISHAN-INTELLIGENT RICE FARMING (CN)

(230421) -- PENGSHAN, April 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Farmer Wang Chenglin checks the growth of rice seedlings in an intelligent rice seedling raising system at an intelligent rice farming demonstration base in Gongyi Town of Pengshan District in Meishan, southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 20, 2023. Pengshan District has taken efforts to speed up the construction of digital intelligent rice farming demonstration base. Intelligent machinery has been used in the process of raising and transplanting to improve the efficiency of rice farming. (Xinhua/Wang Xi)

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CHINA-SICHUAN-MEISHAN-INTELLIGENT RICE FARMING (CN)

(230421) -- PENGSHAN, April 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on April 20, 2023 shows an intelligent rice seedling raising system at an intelligent rice farming demonstration base in Gongyi Town of Pengshan District in Meishan, southwest China's Sichuan Province. Pengshan District has taken efforts to speed up the construction of digital intelligent rice farming demonstration base. Intelligent machinery has been used in the process of raising and transplanting to improve the efficiency of rice farming. (Xinhua/Wang Xi)

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CHINA-SICHUAN-MEISHAN-INTELLIGENT RICE FARMING (CN)

(230421) -- PENGSHAN, April 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Rice seeds are sowed into rice seedling trays on an assembly line at an intelligent rice farming demonstration base in Gongyi Town of Pengshan District in Meishan, southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 20, 2023. Pengshan District has taken efforts to speed up the construction of digital intelligent rice farming demonstration base. Intelligent machinery has been used in the process of raising and transplanting to improve the efficiency of rice farming. (Xinhua/Wang Xi)

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CHINA-SICHUAN-MEISHAN-INTELLIGENT RICE FARMING (CN)

(230421) -- PENGSHAN, April 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Robotic arms stack rice seedling raising trays on an assembly line at an intelligent rice farming demonstration base in Gongyi Town of Pengshan District in Meishan, southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 20, 2023. Pengshan District has taken efforts to speed up the construction of digital intelligent rice farming demonstration base. Intelligent machinery has been used in the process of raising and transplanting to improve the efficiency of rice farming. (Xinhua/Wang Xi)

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CHINA-SICHUAN-MEISHAN-INTELLIGENT RICE FARMING (CN)

(230421) -- PENGSHAN, April 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Rice seedling trays are transported on the conveyer belt at an intelligent rice farming demonstration base in Gongyi Town of Pengshan District in Meishan, southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 20, 2023. Pengshan District has taken efforts to speed up the construction of digital intelligent rice farming demonstration base. Intelligent machinery has been used in the process of raising and transplanting to improve the efficiency of rice farming. (Xinhua/Wang Xi)

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(MASTER OF CRAFTS) CHINA-HENAN-ZHENGZHOU-HIGH RELIEF RUBBING-INHERITOR (CN)

(221121) -- ZHENGZHOU, Nov. 21, 2022 (Xinhua) -- This undated file photo shows Li Renqing making rubbings at the Gongyi grotto temple in Gongyi, central China's Henan Province. Making rubbings for tablet inscriptions is a craft with a history of over 1,000 years in China, invented as a way to copy documents even before the art of printing. Upgrading the traditional rubbing craft which can only be applied to flat surface, Li Renqing, born in 1963 in Xinyang of central China's Henan Province, has been working for a whole life on rubbings of high relief cultural relics, making the once impossible task a mature craft. Different from flat rubbings, high relief rubbings require the craftsman to cut the Xuan paper into pieces according to the convex and concave of the sculpture, and then splice hundreds of pieces of paper together to reproduce the artwork. Such a craft can not only copy unmovable cultural relics in equal size, but can also record cracks and erosion on them, providing correct information for the