During the Spring Festival, Yongzhou's tourism revenue hit 300 million yuan, attracting around 1 million tourists from far and near with featured folk customs and ecological cultures. A year-on-year increase of over 35% in tourist receipt was achieved respectively in such three scenic spots as the Jiuyi Mountain, Yangming Mountain, and Wuxi Town.Before the coming of 2013 Lunar New Year, Yongzhou has been elaborately decorated with festivity and joy, launching various folk custom activities in scenic spots. Ceremonies for worshiping the ancestors and blessing were staged at the Emperor Shun's Mausoleum of Jiuyi Mountain and the Wanshou Temple of Yangming Mountain. The ancient city Lingling boasted its lion and dragon dance as well as local operas like the Qi Opera and Flower Drum Opera in ancient stages. Special benedictions written in the exclusive female character in the world by heirs of Women's Scripts were sent to tourists for free at squares in Jiangyong County. And the Park of Filial Piety Culture in Xintian County outstood itself with activities on the theme of "To Feel Gratitude in a Park of Filial Piety Culture".Translator: Li XuanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

News 2013-02-20 01:22 View：951

On February 14, a piece of modern flower drum opera “Rural Parents in Town” elaborately directed by the Hunan Flower Drum Culture Communication Co., Ltd, was staged at the Hunan Grand Theater, winning an enthusiastic ovation from the audience for its performers’ wonderful performances. For the following days till February 18, it will be on show at the theater consecutively. The opera tells a funny story of two country folk coming to live in town with his daughter and her daughter-in-law Lily who settled down there immediately after her postgraduate studies. Boasting a stage design of nonrepresentational style, the opera builds a modern forest city in the stage via perfect match of props and light effects. It also boasts strong characteristics of comedy and the combination of modern fashion and typical traditional tunes of flower drum opera.Translator: Li XuanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

News 2013-02-19 01:18 View：1112

Feb 10th 2013, at 19:00pm, the “geeks” in chinese tourism performing arts industry, Zhangjiajie·Charming Xiangxi had a recovery performance. It won great favor from tourists. Many people in the Spring Festival, watched the large national cultural entertainment programs.Zhangjiajie·Charming Xiangxi, wulingyuan cultural entertainment programs, more than ten years, to tourists from home and abroad, became the first zhangjiajie “menu”, reception scale in forefront of national tourist entertainment programs.Translated by Sophia

News 2013-02-18 01:26 View：990

In recent years, southwest Hunan’s Tongdao Dong Autonomous County has vigorously developed leisure agriculture and rural tourism. Its forest coverage rate has exceeded 75%.Last year, 785,000 tourists visited Tongdao and brought tourism revenue of 470 million yuan, rising by 23.2% and 54% respectively year on year. Tongdao was acclaimed as the national demonstration county of leisure agriculture and rural tourism at the end of last year.The county has invested 350 million yuan in the upgrading of 4A-level Dong Nationality Cultural Village of Huangdu, the construction of the peak area of Wanfo Mountain, the transformation of roads in Shuangqing and Jingtong, and the building of other supporting projects.At present, the county has developed 12 key leisure agriculture and rural tourism towns and townships, 15 leisure agriculture demonstration villages, and 28 leisure agriculture enterprises. Puxiu Bridge in Huangdu and Yutou Ancient Dong Village have been included in China’s eight items of classic village landscape and 15 landscape villages respectively.Translator: Lv XuefenSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

News 2013-02-18 01:19 View：961

Entering into the zhangjiajie national forest park, it was full of warm and peaceful atmosphere. The warm blessing and happy banner were full of streets. The dragon lantern, the cheers of the lion’s dancing burst. In the tickets station, electronic screen showed the weather forecast and the distribution of the tourists for tourists.With good policy influence, self-driving from high-speed of changsha to zhangjiajie into the national forest park increased gradually. Guangdong, chongqing, and other foreign licence vehicle was in the majority. In huangshi village, JinBian river, YuanJiaJie and other scenic areas, tourists belonged to guangdong, Hong Kong, it also had a lot of tourists in Europe and America.Translated by Sophia

News 2013-02-17 01:24 View：1033

From February 8 (Lunar December 28) to February 13 (Lunar January 4) of 2013, Lorenzo, an oral English teacher from Italy in the Senior Middle School of Longshan County (in Western Hunan), with his father Romano and his mother Michela who came from Milan of Italy for visiting, spent an unforgettable Spring Festival with local people.During the stay in Longshan, a county inhibited by Tujia Minority, they followed local custom of pasting the spring couplets to welcome the New Year and tasted the specialty foods of Tujia Minority, experiencing the unique Tujia culture of China.Romano and Michela left the county with wistful farewell on February 13. Nevertheless, the hospitality of local people and distinctive local customs of pasting spring couplets and celebrating the Spring Festival had remained fresh in their memory.Lorenzo (right) and his father Romano (middle) and his mother Michela (left) are pasting the spring couplets to welcome the New Year in a household of Tujia Minority.Lorenzo merrily pastes the spring couplets.Translator: Wang BilianSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

News 2013-02-17 01:21 View：996

On February 11, light rain was falling and temperature going down. However, at the Mark Gate Square in Wulingyuan District was presenting a hot atmosphere. Tug-of-War competition, sponsored by district government and undertook by district bureau of culture and sports, greatly enriched people’s spare-time culture life and created an atmosphere of joy and harmony for Spring Festival.About 120 persons represented by 7 groups participated in this competition. At the scene of competition, mixed with misty rain and cold breeze, members of competition teams strived to pull at hear of whistle sound with cheering squad’s enthusiastic cry and shouting.In the competition, women and men were mixed together. Based on principle of “friendship first, contest second”, finally the first, second and third prize gone to participants from neighborhood committee of Suoxiyu County, Yujiazui and Wenfeng after half a day’s fierce rivalry.By Patricia

News 2013-02-16 00:26 View：1110

On February 11, the third day of golden week during Spring Festival, Yellow Dragon Cave scenic spot on ecological square displayed custom culture of Tujia nationality people making Glutinous Rice Cake symbolizing reunion and luck.Making Glutinous Rice Cake, as one of New Year’s custom which has been handed down by Tujia people in ZJJ for thousands of years, usually is made of steamed glutinous rice cake knocked about in a special designed stone groove and is of high labor intensity. At the scene of making Glutinous Rice Cake, a lot of tourists were attracted to stop to watch and not a few tourists even actively participated in making it to experience traditional folk culture of ZJJ people.During Spring Festival, Yellow Dragon Cave region had held Festive Lantern and Folk Song performances. And they gained a vast of tourists’ favor and good reputation.By Patricia

News 2013-02-15 00:23 View：1151