China Moon

Moongates have always looked to me like a large ball or a very fat, very round person has crashed through a wall, ala Tom and Jerry cartoons.

This one in the Tongzhou temple complex allows for plenty of elbow room on your way to the pagoda.

Chine Ease

This temple complex was a place of great terror - Confucian scholars would come here to take their examinations. It is next to Randeng Pagoda, a 50 meter high stone pagoda that doubled as a lighthouse for the beginning of the Grand Canal.

Today there is no test required, just enjoyment.

5 Traverse Gallery

A teeny building (350 sf) that had had many incarnations, this one a very nice gallery that unfortunately had only a two year cycle of life.

May it be reborn in even greater brilliance.