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Feature: It is a composite large-scale museum where there are both historical and artistic cultural relics.

Brief Introduction:
Tianjin Museum has modern exhibition halls with an area of 11,000 square meters as well as cultural and leisure facilities with multiple functions. It looks like a swan spreading its wings to fly from the lake surface. With fluent and concise exterior line, it is full of modernity and artistic quality. All of these make it characteristic and imaginative. It possesses cultural relics of almost 200,000 items, including calligraphy, painting, bronze, ceramics, jade article, stamp of ruler’s seal, carapace bone, coin, historical document, relics of modern times, folk craftwork and so on. Among them, there are nearly 1000 grade one cultural relics of the state.

Huangya, means "yellow cliff". The pass takes this name from the yellowish hills and rocks nearby. Originally built in Tianbao 7th of Beiqi (557 A D), the Huangyanguan was repaired for the first time in Ming Dynasty with bricks and for the second time in 1985. In 1986 it was listed as a key relics protection target of Tianjin city.

On the south gate of Tianjin Old City, there is Guangdong Assembly Hall built in the 33rd year of Guangxi Emperor's ruling period (1907); there is an Islamism Mosque in the northwestern corner built in the 42nd year of Kangxi Emperor's ruling period (1703); a Queen of Heaven Palace on the northeastern corner of the city, built in Yuantaiding 3rd year (1326), which was used for sacrificing navigation eudemon, and a Jade Emperor Pavilion which is built in the 2nd year of Xuande Emperor's ruling period (1427) in Ming Dynasty. Beside the Lion Forest Bridge there is a Zion and a church built in the 30th year of Guangxu Emperor's ruling period in Qing Dynasty (1904). What's more, the Laoxi Kai Church at Dushan Road, Binjing Avenue, Heping District also opens for foreigners. But non-Christian are not allowed to enter it.

The Dabei Buddhist Monastery is made up of two parts: old monastery and new monastery. The old monastery refers to the three great halls in the west yard. The construction of the old monastery was start in the beginning of Qing Dynasty, and was renovated in the eighth ruling year of Kangxi Emperor in Qing Dynasty. The east yard features in the new monasterys. The statue of Sakyamuni oblated in the Daxiong Palace from the east yard was created in Ming Dynasty. The whole Sakyamuni Statue is 7 meters high, 6 tons weight, with 9,999 small Buddha carved on the lotus throne. Inside the Great Compassion hall, a 3.6-meters-high-mud-statue of Thousand-hand Kwan-yin is oblate.

Tianjin lies 120 kilometers southeast of Beijing on the Bohai Sea. It is a historic city and the largest industrial base and trade centre in north China. Kites and New Year pictures of Yangliuqing are very famous. There is a two-day kite-flying festival held early April or late September. Tourist sites scatter in and around Tianjin city, such as Huangyaguan Great Wall, Dabei Buddhist Monasty, Tianjin Old City and more.