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Long Quan Ancient Town in Kunming

More and more foreign learners come to China in those years. How to learn Mandarin is the question that every language learner would ask. Kunming Keats School is the place where you can find your answer.

learning Mandarin Chinese in the city of Kunming is a best choice as Kunming is a place of many tourist sites and historical relics. Long Quan Ancient Town is the place you can go and have fun. Recently, a piece of news came that the city of Kunming would invest 1 billion Yuan to do the protection and restoration work of the well- known Long Quan Ancient Town.

For those who came to learn Mandarin in Kunming years ago, they may find Long Quan Ancient Town was called “Long Tou Street” at that time. Locals used to live and work near the street, which made “Long Tou Street” into a very interesting and lively place.

Just as those reports showed at that time during you traveled to learn Chinese in China, “Long Tou Street” was a place with many selling stores, such as grocery stores, department stores, silk stores, banks, performing places and restaurants. There were about six restaurants on the street, and there were also many selling stalls on both sides of the street. As the only rural fair in the northern part of Kunming, “Long Tou Street” was very lively and bustling.

If you go to “Long Tou Street” after you study Chinese in the city of Kunming, you will find some of the selling stores are disappeared, but the lively and bustling situation of the street has never stopped. The selling stores are gone, so it is with the rubbish on the street. “Long Tou Street” has totally turned into a new place and will attract more and more people to go and enjoy some delicious foods there.

Celebrities’ residences on “Long Tou Street” have also attracted many foreign students to go while they study in China, and those celebrities include Liang Sicheng, Lin Huiying, Feng Youlan and other famous people living in Kunming in 1940s.

The former villa of Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiying is the first place that should be introduced in your free Chinese lessons. The villa is about 80 square meters, and many trees are planted in its yard.

Every Chinese language learner in China may have already heard that Linag Sicheng was a very outstanding architect in China and Chinese history. Chinese school in China will also tell you that the villa Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiying lived in the city of Kunming was the only house that was built by Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiying.

There is also a story about Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiying showed in you qualified Mandarin program. Dated back to 1932, Lin figured out that she fell in love with two men at the same time, and she was very agonized and annoyed. Of course, Liang was even sadder when he knew Lin’s situation. However, he told Lin that she was a free girl, and she could choose the man she really loved. He added that if she chose Jin Qiulin, he would always give his best wishes for them.

Knowing about this, Jin was so touched that he thought he should be out of that love relationship. Just as you knew when you learn Mandarin in China, Liang was also touched, and he decided that the three of them could live together as friends for life. Thus, they moved into the villa. Jin had always tried to help with the articles that had been written by Lin and Liang.

Touring around the former villa that Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiying lived while you learn to speak Chinese in the city of Kunming, you can also go to have a look at Feng Youlan’s old residence. The former villa of Feng Youlan is located at a place where is close to Bao Yun Primary School at Zong Pi Ying Village. The house is so old, and local administration has taken actions to consolidate its basic structures.

Standing at the third floor of Bao Yun Primary School at Zong Pi Ying Village, you can find the former villa of Feng Youlan. If you look into its inside part, you can see a large yard. Weeds can be seen everywhere in the yard, and there are also a few stone steles in the yard. You can’t even believe it’s a place that a great philosopher had been lived for many years. 

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