China, Travel

Tianjin

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Beijing South railway station
First class seats on China’s fabulous high-speed trains
Tianjin is a vibrant modern city with a long history.
The city gets it current name from a historical event in a military campaign of Zhu Di
朱棣 – the man who became the third emperor of the Ming dynasty – Yongle 永樂.
As emperor, it was he who built the Forbidden City
I visited the Tianjin museum looking for additional information
Zhu Di and his troops cross the Hai He (river) on his way South to overthrow his nephew, the second Ming emperor. (Note that in Chinese they use the word for river when speaking of canals)
The Stele (engraved stone monument) erected to commemorate the “river crossing”

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