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Pearling, Testimony of an Island Economy
The site includes 17 buildings in the city of Muharraq, three offshore oyster farms, part of the coast and the fort of Qal'at Bu Mahir at the southern end of Muharraq Island, from where ships once set out to the oyster farms. Listed buildings include wealthy merchants' houses, shops, warehouses and a mosque. The site is the last intact example of the pearling tradition and the wealth it created during the period when the pearl trade dominated the Gulf economy (from the 2nd century AD to the 1930s, when cultured pearls were developed by Japan). It is also an outstanding example of the traditional use of marine resources and the interaction between humans and the environment that shaped the economic and cultural identity of island society.
Han Peony Garden
Han Dynasty Peony Garden is located 5 kilometers north of Baixiang County, Xingtai City, Hebei Province. It is 70 kilometers north of Shijiazhuang, 65 kilometers south of Xingtai, and about 12 kilometers west of National Highway 107 and Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway. The transportation is very convenient. It now covers an area of more than 520 acres. It mainly features the living fossil of the world's peony, the magical peony of the Han Dynasty, which leads the group of flowers. It includes all the nine color systems and thousands of varieties of peony and peony treasures from Luoyang, Heze, Anhui, Sichuan, Gansu, Japan, the United States, France and other countries and regions. It can be called the collection of peony flowers in the world, the protection base of peony and peony resources in China, and a comprehensive park integrating tourism, off-season flowering cultivation, breeding and sales, fruit and vegetable picking and historical and cultural exhibitions.