On February 1st, WuLingYuan ten miles gallery sightseeing traction company announced that from now on to 28th, the tram sightseeing tourists, with electronic IC ticket and invoice can participate in lucky activities.It is understood that the zhangjiajie ten miles gallery sightseeing traction company aimed to let tourists from home and abroad to welcome the year of snake. The company controller introduced that lucky draw point set in tourism electric stop. Every visitors has a chance to draw, and set the first, second and third prize, the winners can have distinctive zhangjiajie local products.Translated by Sophia

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On the night of February 5, the 2013 First International Lighting Festival of Changsha was formally commenced. The lantern show, covering a total area of 7.6 square kilometers, is considered the largest Chinese New Year lantern show in China. Through marvelous combinations of light and shadow, it is truly a feast for the eyes of holiday visitors. The show will be open for one month.In this light festival, the lighting arrays, formed by the combination of more than 50 groups of large-scale colored lights joined with the current Meixi Lake landscape lighting, create the lake into a vast sea of lanterns and lights, deeply reflecting the integration of tradition, stylish features and world elements.The show makes use of the leading domestic LED cold lighting as it's main light source, which is 70% more energy efficient than traditional light sources.Visitors enjoy the many brightly colored lightsTranslator: He YaoSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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The 2013 "Voice of Spring" Spring Festival Symphony Concert was held in Changsha People's Hall on the evening of the fifth. Provincial and municipal leaders including Liu Xiao, Zhang Jianfei, Yuan Guanqing and Fan Xiaoxin, as well as various other representatives from Hunan's capital welcomed the coming spring as they enjoyed the sounds of the new year. The annual new-year concert has become a unique, brilliant cultural element of the provincial capital and a new year music celebration for all. It is an important channel by which to further promote the fine arts and give the city an extra touch of class. The Hunan Symphony Orchestra and Changsha Song & Dance Theater played a leading role in the concert. The concert was magnificent and elegant. Beginning with the traditional symphony "Prelude to the Spring Festival", the concert placed the audience in the midst of bright spring setting, bringing it joy and hope. Many songs such as "Voices of Spring Waltz", "Hungarian Dance Melody", "Liuyang River", "Jasmine", "Meeting in the Yurt" and orchestral music "Ode to the Motherland" were also performed.Translator: Zhang MinsiSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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On February 4, the Hunan Provincial Culture Department released a list of cultural activities for celebrating the Spring Festival. During the performance season, a total of 23 excellent acts will be staged to enrich the cultural life of local people from February 12 to 24.More than 800 performers from seven art troupes directly under the Hunan Provincial People's Government and the Hunan Flower Drum Cultural Transmission Co., Ltd. will present eleven shows of 23 acts at the Hunan Grand Theater, Red Theater, Xiangjiang Theater, Lotus Kingdom Theater,  and Studio Theatres of the Hunan Song & Dance Theater Co., Ltd. and Hunan Puppet and Shadow Art Troupe. The 23 programmes feature 7 flower drum operas, 2 Hunan operas, 2 Peking operas, 3 acrobatic shows, 4 dramas, 2 parties, 2 puppet and shadow plays and one symphony concert. About 2 acts will be performed to an estimated audience of more than 20,000 every day.It is Hunan's largest-scale show during the Spring Festival, covering the entertainment hub of Changsha. Most performances are open to the public for free except several ones with ticket price ranging from 10 to 20 yuan. Citizens can pick up free tickets at relevant theaters in advance. Translator: Xiao JuanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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On the evening of February 3, the 2013 People's Spring Festival Gala, titled "Grand Ceremony for Ringing out the Old Year", was staged in Changsha, Hunan Province by nearly 300 grass-roots performers, giving the audience an early taste of the joy and festivity of the New Year.Besides the main venue in Changsha, the gala is also touring affiliated venues running through the country from south to north, including the Liu Laogen Grand Stage in Shenyang City of Liaoning Province, the stage next to the landmark Wu Ta (Black Pagoda) building of Fujian Province, in Zhengding Ancient City of Hebei Province, and in the ice and snow world of Harbin, Heilongjiang Province. Audiences all over China will enjoy a spectacular three-hour performance made up of sucession of various local song, dance, and acrobatics.Translator: Li XuanSource: Hunan Official Web PortalTwins perform Latin DanceA Chinese Park Jae-Sang impersonator does his "Happy Style of Shijiazhuang" The imperial concubine Zhenhuan time travel magic show A Foreign Troupe plays "Pay a New Year Call" Jujitsu girl performs "Beatiful Snake Woman" Children treat the audiences to a martial arts show All the performers take a curtain call

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On January 31th, large vocal melody “zhangjiajie cantata” was published by the chinese federation press. As we have learned, “zhangjiajie cantata”, as the first personal vocal music album in hunan province, which set by the famous Jinsha, and composer YinSongJun, YinXiaoXing.“Zhangjiajie Cantata” is a large comprehensive music works, with poetic, including “the missing wulingyuan”, “on the high mountain”, “the most beautiful huanglong hole” and so on. With the piano spectrum version, a beautiful melody, emotional and deep implication, the songwriter use skilled excitation and full-bodied love, to show the spirit of the time and fusion. The aim is to show ecological civilization concept of respecting nature, protecting nature, and thanking nature. With high artistic quality, it expresses the people’s livelihood feelings, which acceptted by  the public.Translated by Sophia

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By February 4th, 2013, “far pandora, near zhangjiajie” baofng lake “the second zhangjiajie network shoot contest already comes to the end, the official website receives all kinds of pictures which reflecting zhangjiajie and “mountainous economic cooperation zone”, thus emerging many outstanding works.Since August of the last year, it attracted photographers all over the country, which were nearly one thousand people. More than half of them belong to china photographers’ association, the provincial photographers association. Last December 25th, “2012 searching for zhangjiajie snow style” photography activities, made this contest to a climax.Translated by Sophia

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On January 29th 2013,To create the atmosphere of  Spring Festival,  the propaganda department of wulingyuan district party committee organized careful plan, hung lanterns in the main street. Staff put four lanterns  into a string, respectively hanging in both sides of the road, with a total of more than 500 strigs, more than 2000 lanterns. Red lanterns and white jade street lamps mutual reflected, building a strong “China flavour”.Translated by Sophia

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