ICIC2011 VenueTour

2011 International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC2011)
August 11-14, 2011
Zhengzhou, Henan, China
(http://www.ic-ic.org/2011/index.htm)

1. Conference Venue

ICIC2011 Conference Venue is in Henan Feng Le Yuan (FLY) hotel, which is a five-four-three star hybrid tourist hotel located in North Nanyang Road, a key economic backbone of the northbound section of Zhengzhou City, with convenient and smoothly traffic, it is the ideal abode hotel for both business and tourism. The hotel can offer west and Chinese food and beverages, with six halls and 50 luxury banquet hall and bar, has a capacity of 2,200 meals at the same time, it has most seats of all the hotels in Zhengzhou City.

The FLY hotel was named the "most trend hotel," it owns 300 sets of different characteristics of the senior rooms, deluxe rooms, suites and standard distinguished presidential suite. Conference Centre possession of small and large conference rooms of 12, with advanced facilities, accommodates various conferences and business activities.

The tropical rain forest hot springs spa museum is new project, the full-function and high grades are the most in Asia, opened Spa leisure precedent in Henan.

Complete recreational facilities, bowling, billiards, table tennis, electronic games etc.

2. Room Rates in Feng Le Yuan Hotel (丰乐园大酒店房间价格)

注：1）所有房间均配备免费高速宽带、国内外长途电话、国内及境外卫星电视系统、中央空调系统、保险箱、电风筒、智能卡门锁、体重称、背景音乐；2）房价包含早餐。
Notes: 1）All rooms are equipped with free high-speed Internet access, domestic and international long-distance telephone, domestic and foreign satellite TV, central air conditioning system, safe, hair dryer, smart card locks, weight, background music；2）Room Rate includes breakfast.

3. Zhengzhou City Map

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4. Feng Le Yuan Hotel View

About Henan Province

    Henan province lies in the mid-lower reach of the Yellow river, with an area of 160 thousand square kilometers in area, and a population of 96.1 million.

Tourism Resources

Shaolin Temple, Birthplace of Zen-sect

    Shaolin Temple was established in 495A.D. at the western foot of Songshan Mountain, 13 kilometers northwest to Dengfeng City, Henan Province. The then Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei dynasty (386-557) had the temple built to accommodate the Indian master Batuo (Buddhabhadra). Shaolin Temple literally means “temple in the thick forests of Shaoshi Mountain”.
    As the first Shaolin abbot, Batuo (Buddhabhadra) devoted himself to translating Buddhist scriptures and preaching doctrines to hundreds of his followers. Later, another Indian monk Bodhidharma arrived at Shaolin Temple, who was said to have crossed the Yangtze River on a reed. He spent nine years meditating in a cave of the Wuru Peak and initiated the Chinese Chan tradition at Shaolin Temple. Thereafter, Bodhidharma was honored as the first Patriarch of Chan Buddhism. As Chinese Kungfu also originated from Shaolin Temple, it has been recognized as the origin of Chan Buddhism and the cradle of Kungfu.
    For more information, please visit: http://www.shaolin.org.cn/EN/index.aspx

Mount Songshan, World Geology Park

    Mount Songshan is located in Dengfeng County, Henan. The highest peak is 1440m. It got its fame from being the place where the Indian monk Batuo founded the Shaolin temple in 495 B.C. Few years later in 527 A.D. another Indian monk, Damo (or Bodhidharma) moved to the temple to teach the Chan sect of Buddhism, best known as Zen Buddhism (Zen is the way Japaneses read the Chinese ideogram for Chan). Buddhism was been already introduced in China during the first century B.C., but the many cultural differences between India and China made the strict Hinayana form to be not well accepted. The Chan version was instead more adapt to the Chinese culture and became rapidly the most influential Buddhist school in China.

Song Mausoleum

    Songling, the imperial mausoleum of the Northern Song Dynasty (960 – 1127 A.D.) which is the largest of its kind in central China, is located in Gongyi City, consisting of more than 300 tombs of emperors, queens and ministers. More than 700 refined stone carvings kept there are of great value both as culture relics and artworks.
    Seven of the nine emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty were buried here together with more than 200 tombs of queens, princes, princesses and ministers, forming a large tomb complex.
     Songling has four major parts. First, the West Village Area, where most of the emperors, queens and their relatives were buried, is composed of the Yong’an, Yongchang and the Yongxi Mausoleum. The second area is the Caizhuang Area where the Yongding Mausoleum stands. The third area is at the south of the Baling Village, also with tombs of important officials such as Gao Huaide, Caijing, Kouzhun and Baozheng. The last area is the Xiaoyi Area, where the Yongzhou Mausoleum and the Yonghou Mausoleum are located.

The Yellow River Scenic Area

    The Yellow River Scenic Area is located 30 km to the northwest of the Zhengzhou City with the Yellow River running on the north and the Yueshan Mountain standing on the south. With green trees, pavilions, winding rivers and pretty hills, it enjoys a fame of beautiful view.
    The Yellow River rushes out of the last gorge from here and into the plain areas and later turns into a river with its bed higher than the ground outside the banks. Therefore, watching the Yellow River here is very special. Pavilions of classic style scatter in an artistic way on mountain ridges of the Wulong Peak Scenic Area, the center of the Yellow River Scenic Area, which lies southward. At the foot of the Wulong Peak, a sculpture of an elegant lady holding a baby with kindness and peace, named “Nurturing”, embodies that the Yellow River functions as the cradle of the Chinese civilization. Other resorts are the Yueshan Temple, the Camel Hill, the memorial spot of two kings ( Liu Bang, the first emperor of the Han Dynasty and his rival at the end of the Qin Dynasty, Xiang Yu ), the Stone Sculpture of Emperor Yandi and Emperor Huangdi, etc.

Longmen Grottos

    The Longmen Grottos are on the Yihe River bank, some 12 kilometers from ancient Luoyang city, about 30 minutes' drive. It is one of the three most important Buddhist sculptures and carvings in China. The Longmen Grottos enjoy a good location where two mountains confront each other between which flows the Yihe River.
    The grotto was first carved in North Wei Dynasty, over 1500 years ago and expanded through the succeeding East and West Wei Dynasties, North Qi Dynasty, North Zhou Dynasty, Sui and Tang Dynasties and was finally completed in North Song Dynasty. Over 500 years' renovation and expansion has created the prestigious world cultural site. The most significant chiseling activities happened in the Tang and North Wei Dynasties, which lasted over 150 years.
    In terms of geographical location, the magnificence of the carvings Longmen Grotto ranks the first among the three most significant Buddhism sculptures (Longmen, Dunhuang Grotto in Dunhuan, Gansu province in northwest China and Yungang Grotto in Shaanxi province).
    Spanning a length of around 1 kilometer on the hillside along the Yihe River, the niches resemble dozens of honeycombs dotting the area. There are about 2.100 grottoes and niches, over 40 crematory urns, 3,600 inscribed stone tablets and over 100,000 Buddhist images and statues. The largest one is 17 meters high while the smallest is a tiny as 2 cm. One third of the complex are works of the North Wei Dynasty. These masterpieces are the Binyang Cave, and Lianhua (Lotus Cave). The impressive Qianxi Temple, Fengxian Temple, Wanfo Cave (Ten Thousand Buddhist Cave) are the highlights of the Tang Dynast's carvings.
    The Longmen Grottos are of great value in world sculpture history and it has been listed in the World Cultural Heritage Site by the UNESCO. To protect such a valuable heritage site, the Chinese government as well as some influential world cultural organizations are trying hard to share this site with the whole word. A large-scaled renovation was undertaken in 2003 to keep the grottos in good condition.

White Horse Temple

    Located at the 12 kilometers east of Luoyang city, the White Horse Temple is one of the oldest Buddhist temples in China and is renowned as the cradle of Chinese Buddhism. Although it is not the largest nor the most beautiful Buddhism monument in China, this temple with its large number of Buddhism items housed there, is well worth a trip.
    An interesting legend related to the temple goes that a white horse carried the first Buddhist script from India here in ancient time hence the name White Horse Temple. History records that the site was original the place used by the second Han Emperor-Liu Zhuang as a summer resort and for study. In 68 AD, when Buddism reached its heyday in India, two Indian monks brought Buddhist scriptures to Luoyang on the back of a white horse. The emperor, who was a devout Buddhism believer, built the temple to house the scriptures and named it White Horse Temple. It was said that there were once thousands of monks living in the temple. It was even used as a refugee sanctuary during the social turmoil of Wang Mang in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
    The two monks who brought scriptures from India were buried here. Many monks from outside China have visited the monk and many of them have spent the rest of their time in that temple. The famous Tang Dynasty monk-Xuanzang started his 17 years long pilgrimage trip to Indian from the temple. After returning, Xuanzhang became the abbot of the White Horse Temple, where he disseminated the scriptures of Buddhism for the rest of his life.

Museum of Ancient Tombs

    An interesting old saying goes that Suzhou and Hangzhou are good places to live, while Luoyang is a good place to die. Many of the ancient emperors, princes, generals and other public celebrities took this advice and left orders that they were to be buried in Luoyang after their death. There are over 20 ancient tombs dating from the Han Dynasty to the North Song Dynasty. A museum was built at the site where many ancient tombs were excavated.
    The museum is at the Mang Hill in the north suburb of the city, about 8 kilometers from the city center. Covering an area of around 3 hectare, it has two parts: the underground and above ground parts. The above ground part contains a Han-style gate, some halls. Tomb models from the Stone Age to the Han Dynasty, restored funerary objects and funeral rituals are displayed in the eastern hall.
    The underground section is a tomb groups site which is about 7 meters underground. There are North and South Song Dynasties Hall, Wei and Jin Dynasties Hall, Tang and Song Dynasties Hall and a hall for refined items excavated from the tombs. Many of the vividly painted  murals, valuable relics and a number of pottery figures are on display here. Visitors can also find the models of ancient tombs. 22 ancient tombs restored to their original styles are displayed here.

Yinxu, The Ruins of The Shang Dynasty

    Yinxu, the ruins of the last capital of China's Shang Dynasty (1766 BC - 1050 BC), is one of the oldest and largest archaeological sites in China and is one of the Historical capitals of China and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is located near the modern city of Anyang; just about two hours drive from Zhengzhou city.
Yin, or rather, Yinxu, is now partly buried beneath the city of Xiaotun, which is a small village located on the northwestern outskirts of the city of An'yang, in the part of present-day Henan Province that neighbors Hubei and Shanxi Provinces to the north.
More than just the usual set of stone foundations that mark a forgotten city, Yinxu has yielded up a plethora of fascinating archeological artifacts, including palatial buildings, complete tombs, and written records in the form of so-called oracle bones, or large pieces of cracked bone or turtle shell which were heated and cracked during divination and on which were then inscribed – in a unique script that is the precursor to the Chinese character script – the record of the divination.
    Not surprisingly, Yinxu has become a famous historical and cultural city in China in which not only the Chinese people can take pride, but all of mankind can take pride, Yinxu being recognized as a milestone – with all its horrors as well as its splendors (the ritual execution of humans was part and parcel of life in this slave society) – on the social development path of the species.

City Attractions

Emperor Huangdi Prefecture                 Ruins of Shang Dynasty

Full Extent of Zhengzhou                                     The Yellow River

                     Erqi Square                                    Zhengzhou International Exhibition Center

Jingzhu-Lianhuo Express Overpass                  Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport