What You Could See In Wuhan, Hubei, China (But can't currently visit in early 2020)

Flag of China.



                                                                              Hubei

The outbreak of the coronavirus in 2020 has put the city of Wuhan into quarantine.

Wuhan is inland. Shanghai is on the East coast and the name Shang-hai means on sea.

China's capital is Beijing
. The name Beijing,  means "Northern Capital" (from the Chinese characters 北 for north and 京 for capital).

Nanjing 
Nanjing means Southern capital.
Wiki explains:

The city has a number of other names, and some historical names are now used as names of districts of the city; among them is the name Jiangning or Kiangning (江寧), whose former character Jiang (江, Yangtze) is the former part of the name Jiangsu and latter character Ning (寧, simplified form 宁; 'Peace') is the short name of Nanjing. When it was the capital of China, for instance during the ROC, Jing (京; 'Capital') was adopted as the abbreviation of Nanjing.

The city first became a Chinese national capital as early as the Jin dynasty. The name Nanjing, which means "Southern Capital", was officially designated for the city during the Ming dynasty, about six hundred years later.^[d] Nanjing is sometimes known as Jinling or Ginling (金陵, "Gold Hill") of the eponymous Ginling College;

Elsewhere in China, major attractions in China have closed, such as The Forbidden City in the centre of Beijing, the capital, The Great Wall (a side trip from Beijing), and Disney in Shanghai.

So, where and what is Wuhan, I wondered. The city's population is reputedly bigger than my birthplace of London, England. Yet until this week, I had never heard of Wuhan. What are we all missing?

The city's name comes from three towns separated by two rives, the Yangtze and the Han. Wu was one part of the city. Han was another.



Historically this is the most important building.
In 1911 Sun Yat-Sen made a proclamation in this fine building overthrowing the last dynasty in China and establishing the Republic. He was and is revered in both China and Taiwan. (He lived long before Taiwan was occupied by Japan until the end of WWII. During WWII the treasures from Beijing were evacuated from advancing Japanese. After WWII and civil war between the Communists and nationalists, Taiwan and China were separately ruled.

Sun Wen 12 November 1866 Cuiheng, Guangdong, Qing Dynasty
Died	12 March 1925 (aged 58) Beijing, China
Resting place	Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, Nanjing, Jiangsu

Chairman Mao Zedong's Summer Villa Museum
Mao Zedong, (1893-1976), the founder of the People's Republic of China and Chairman of the Communist Party of China.
Another building connected with a VIP later in Chinese history.

Yellow Crane Tower

This tower, the Yellow Crane Tower, which you often see in the distance in aerial shots of the city, is huge, as you can tell from the size of the people in front of it.

Sculpture Park

Battleship

Changchun Taoist Temple (temple one) -



Baotong Buddhist temple (temple 2) -

If you can't visit China, or Hong Kong, try Singapore.

Useful Websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wuhan
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wuhan
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Singapore

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Angela Lansbury is a travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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