Things to find in China

What the map holds here

• Chinese Hetian jade Gem & mineral ground
  For four thousand years Chinese civilization prized jade above gold, and the finest, the “mutton-fat” white nephrite, came from the rivers around Hotan in Xinjiang, where boulders were gathered from the riverbeds as the meltwater...
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• The Lady of the Lake: Sri Lanka’s neighbour, the Yeren Legend
  China’s wild man. The yeren is reported from the forested Shennongjia mountains of Hubei, a tall red-haired hominid seen by, among others, local officials and a 1970s state-backed expedition that found hair and footprints but...
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• The unopened tomb of Qin Shi Huang Legend
  The terracotta army, eight thousand individually-faced soldiers, is only the outer guard. The burial mound of China’s first emperor sits nearby and has never been opened. Sima Qian, writing a century later, describes a...
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