Monday, 29 February 2016

Hong Tang - West Palm Beach Resident From an Ancient Chinese City

Hong Tang West Palm Beach moved to West Palm Beach from her home in the ancient Chinese city of Wuhan. Tang graduated from college in Wuhan and moved to the United States in search of adventure and opportunity. She loves to talk about her home city’s history spanning thousands of years and cook traditional Chinese food from Hubei Province, of which Wuhan is the capital.

Hong Tang West Palm Beach

Hong Tang learned from a young age the great moments in Wuhan history before she moved to West Palm Beach. It is near the site of one of the most famous battles in ancient Chinese history, the Battle of Red Cliffs in AD 208. If you visit Wuhan, you can still visit the famous Red Cliffs. Hong Tang hopes to visit the Red Cliffs herself on a trip from West Palm Beach back to her homeland one day. In AD 223, the city constructed the Yellow Crane Tower on what was then called the Wuchang side of the Yangtze River. Cui Hao, a famous Chinese poet from the Tang Dynasty, visited the tower in the 8th century and his poem about the experience made the structure the most famous and celebrated building in South China. For centuries, Wuhan has been the cultural and artistic capital of Central China. It is especially known for its poetry.     When the Mongols invaded the area and took over the town, they made it a provincial capital in the 13th century, and by the beginning of the 18th century, it had become one of the most important trading towns of the country.

Hong Tang loves to tell her friends and family in West Palm Beach about the history of her hometown.