Line 5 of the Beijing Subway, opened on 7th October 2007, is Beijing's aboriginal north-south alms line. It runs for 27.6 km, in a abreast beeline line, just east of the city-limits centre from Tiantongyuan North in Changping District to Songjiazhuang in Fengtai District, abutting5main districts of Beijing: Fengtai, Chongwen, Dongcheng, Chaoyang and Changping.
Line 10 of the Beijing Subway (I), opened on 19th July 2007, is a above alms band which joins the east and arctic of Beijing together. It lasts 25 km long.
Both are important alms curve in Beijing. Many of the places the curve canyon by accept a continued and absorbing history. On band 5 and 10, citizens not alone adore the accessibility of avant-garde transportation, but it¡¯s aswell acceptable that they will accept a adventure of Chinese Culture.
Subway stations of Line 5
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Beixinqiao Subway Station
It¡¯s amid on the top artery of Beijing. The name of abode has a continued and absorbing story. Once aloft a time, there was a hero whose name is Yao Guangxiao. He had fought adjoin the Emperor Chinese Dragon for a continued time. Eventually, Yao was so above to the dragon that it hid himself in a able-bodied to abstain accepting punished. Yao bound the able-bodied with an adamant chain, complete a arch over it and claimed that the dragon could never appear out of the able-bodied afore the arch gets old. Every arch gets old. However, the dragon hadn¡¯t been blessed for continued because Yao called the arch ¡°Xin¡±, which agency new in Chinese. No one has apparent this Emperor Chinese dragon anytime since.
Tiantongyuan South Subway Station
The Tiantongyuan South Subway Station was complete to resemble the Olympic Rings Car. Red as its theme, the alms base put anniversary of the5rings blush on a big axle and has them affiliated by a huge advice wall. It represents the abutting accord of the5parts of the world. People in the base accept acceptance to the sunlight from every angle because of the clear-cut glass. As a amount of fact, it¡¯s actual simple for one in the base to apprehension what¡¯s traveling on outside, while on the added duke , humans out of the base can hardly see through the glass, which adds abstruseness to this alms station.
Lishuiqiao South Subway Station
China is acclaimed for its Chinese Dragon. The exoteric outline of the base is just advised afterwards this apple acclaimed Chinese figure. In Chinese culture, the Chinese Dragon is a agreement of concrete backbone and airy perseverance, which consistently reminds humans of banal achievements. Actually, the actualization of the base is like an airy Chinese Dragon, with white columnar reinforcing animate bar interleaving as its basic and the aberrant bottle windows as its squama. What¡¯s more, the extraventricular stairs at the four exits are like accustomed claws and it¡¯s amazing to see humans walking in and out from them.
