The great wall was built in 5th c. BC - 16th c. AD and was built by the Chinese to protect northern borders of the Chinese Empire against intrusions by northern nomads. With a total length 8,852 km, the barricade is unfathomably long. This fits very well into our world, as the North are at war with the East, so this idea of a wall to protect them from invading forces is somehing I will use as inspiration.
The Shilin Stone Forest - China
The Shilin forest in China has been carved over 270 millions years by abusive geological processes, and erosion by water has carved the limestone into shapes that we see today. Some of the stone formations are up to 30 meters tall, and the whole forest covers over half a million square kilometers mainly in the Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces.
Places like this look so mythical and almost like they belong in a fantasy world more than they do our own. When looking at the world and finding such unique and strange places, it simply reinforces the idea that we need not completely design a whole world, but take the most amazing places like this and build one to look like the best of our natural world.
The Yellow River - China
The Yellow River or Huang He is the second-longest river in China (after the Yangtze River) and the sixth-longest in the world at 5,464. The Yellow River is often called the "the cradle of Chinese civilization", as
its basin is the birthplace of the northern Chinese civilizations and is
the most prosperous region in early Chinese history. But frequent
devastating flooding, largely due to the elevated river bed in its lower
course, has also earned it the name "China's Sorrow".
The Yellow River gets its name because of the yellow clay dust called loess that is blown across the north of China from Central Asia. The loess is blown into the river and gives it a yellow appearance. Something that looks so other-worldly, I would use as such, or perhaps a river under a spell or water that flows from an enchanted lake.
The Yellow River gets its name because of the yellow clay dust called loess that is blown across the north of China from Central Asia. The loess is blown into the river and gives it a yellow appearance. Something that looks so other-worldly, I would use as such, or perhaps a river under a spell or water that flows from an enchanted lake.
Red Sea Beach - Panjin, China
The Red Beach is so called for the vividly red plant life growing to above the sea's surface. Such phenomena is caused by a type of sea weed 'Sueda' which starts growing during April and May, then stays green during the summer, but starts turning vividly red in autumn.
When applying this to my world, I would be tempted to keep it red all year round for how strange and beautiful it looks.
The Forbidden City
The 'Forbidden City' is the English equivalent of the Chinese name 'Zijin Cheng' — Jin meaning forbidden, with reference to the fact that no one could enter or leave the walled city or Cheng, without the emperor's permission.
It was first built throughout 14 years during the reign of Emperor Chengzu in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and homed twenty four emperor's. Rectangular in shape, it is the world's largest palace complex and covers 74 hectares. Surrounded by a 52-meter-wide moat and a 10-meter-high wall there are more than 8,700 rooms.
The Tianzi Mountains are located in Zhangjiajie in the Hunan Province of China. It is known as ‘the Monarch of the Peak Forest’. It covers an area of 67 square kilometers (about 16,550 acres), and the highest peak is 1,262 meters (about 4,140 feet) above the sea level.
The Tianzi Mountains were formed from quartz sandstone of 400 million years ago through the intermittent rising of the crust for 2 million years. About three billion years ago, the place was a large patch of ocean. After a series of geological changes including Himalayan movements, the bottom of ocean rose out of the surface, and the quartzite sandstone pillars and peaks took shape after the gradual cutting, eroding and crumbling of Nature for millions of years (as explained from this web address).
This I could have so much ideas for. It could have bridges and a villiage built upon it, or be a training ground for Ninja's and Samurai, or even meditating ground for certain groups of religion.
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