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Ancient Palace May Be Submerged
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22-Jul-2004 - |
An ancient palace in a World Heritage site was at the risk of being submerged by an ambitious water diversion project, the Wuhan Morning Post reported. The 600-year-old Yuzhenggong Palace in the forests of Wudangshan Mountain in central China's Hubei Province, sits in the path of the South-North Water Diversion Project, a 136.5 billion yuan (US$16.5 billion) scheme to divert water from China's rainy south to its parched north. Hubei's cultural relics managers recently revealed the palace would likely be inundated in an expanded reservoir after the water project is completed. Experts were proposing methods to save the palace, including elevating it, moving it to another location or building dikes around it. However, all the proposals were problematic and a solution had not yet been found, the report said. The palace was part of about 210 cultural heritage sites that could be affected by the project and was believed to be one of the most valuable, Hubei's cultural relics managers told. Proposals to protect the sites had been submitted to the central government, said the managers. Wudangshan Mountain's ancient architecture was placed on the World Heritage List in 1994. Wudangshan Mountain is one of the sacred mountains of Taoism. According to legend, the martial art of tai chi was created by a Taoist monk at Wudangshan, which is still a martial arts center. The palace is an example of late Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and early Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) architecture. |
22-Jul-2004 - |
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