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Africa/Sao_Tome |
Standard Time GMT / UTC |
UTC+0 |
Daylight Saving Time |
Daylight saving time is not observed in the current region. |
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Asia/Shanghai |
Standard Time GMT / UTC |
UTC+8 |
Daylight Saving Time |
Daylight saving time is not observed in the current region. |
São Tomé and Príncipe is an island country in west-central Africa, consisting of the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe and the surrounding islets, with the capital, São Tomé, located in the northeastern part of São Tomé. Located on the Gulf of Guinea, about 200 kilometers from the African continent, the country was colonized by Portugal in the 15th century and became independent in 1975, with Portuguese as the official language and an economy based on agriculture (cocoa, palm oil) and tourism. It should be noted that "Java" is not a city or region of the country; Java is the main island of Indonesia, with cities such as Jakarta and Surabaya, and has nothing to do with São Tomé and Príncipe, possibly due to a confusion of names.
The Old Town of Henan refers to the ancient cities in Henan Province, an important birthplace of Chinese civilization. As one of the eight ancient capitals of China, Henan Province accounts for four of them (Luoyang, Kaifeng, Anyang and Zhengzhou), and there are still historical imprints such as the ruins of the Shang Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty, the walls of the Tang and Song dynasties, and the residences of the Ming and Qing dynasties in the streets of the Old Town. Luoyang's Tianjie (Heavenly Street) witnessed the coming of ten thousand nations during the Sui and Tang dynasties, Kaifeng's Zhouqiao (Bridge) carries memories of the prosperity of Tokyo in the Northern Song Dynasty, and Anyang's Yinxu (Yin Ruins) gave birth to China's earliest matured written language - oracle bone inscriptions. -The Yin Ruins in Anyang nurtured the earliest mature writing in China, the oracle bone script. These old cities not only preserve tangible cultural heritages such as ancient city walls, bell and drum towers, and Wenfeng Pagoda, but also carry on intangible cultural heritages such as Yu Opera, woodblock prints of Zhuxianzhen, and Shaolin Kungfu, making them living museums for touching the history of the Central Plains, and perceiving the lineage of the Chinese culture, and attracting the attention of people from all over the world who are searching for the roots of civilization.