The Yueyaquan (月牙泉 / the Crescent Moon Spring)
As usual, I post articles after I did a new model onto this blog every Monday or Tuesday. But there is no new model I want to talk about at all this week. Last week, a friend from Canada, inspired me an idea to talk about my models in English. So that many of the stories can be read easily by non-Chinese. Anyway, here the model I'll introduce is, Yueyaqian, or the Crescent Moon Spring I've modeled in 2010. I choose the buildings for model creating is just they are special buildings in special location. The Crescent Moon Spring is a kind of geological wonder which is located in Dunhuang, Gansu, China. It owes its name to the shape of the spring. See the following photo by Google Earth. In fact, the spring you can see in the photo is a pond which is in front of the Buildings I modeled. The pond is fed by spring water. Currently, the pond is about 200m long, and 50m wide. A thousand years ago the Spring was a source of pure and sweet water and the length of it wa