ZJJ Mountain snow beauty, Drunk mountain spring. On February 14th, China’s traditional Lantern Festival meets with western romantic valentine’s day, The world natural heritage site Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan scenic area is very busy. Thousands of tourists from home and abroad enjoy winter and spring twofold beauty appreciation. At the end of 10 PM, More than 3000 people has come to wulingyuan, and increased significantly compared to last year.ZJJ Wulingyuan area is still busy after the Spring Festival. Thanks to the beautiful scenery. Tianzi mountain and huangshi village scenic area have been covered with rime and snow.Lantern Festival and valentine’s day this year not only overlap, and attach to double rest day, so it naturally forms three day small vacation. Local tourism department predicts that more self-help tourists from surrounding provinces will come to the wulingyuan scenic area to enjoy leisure vacation.Translated by Sophia

2014-02-18 13:18 View：750

In the year of the horse, After the Spring Festival tourism golden week, ZJJ Wulingyuan scenic spot charming spring scenery attracts many good photographers. In Tianzi mountain, Yuanjiajie, Yangjiajie and Huangshi village, We can see many photographers everywhere. According to incomplete statistics, During the February 7th to 14th, Everyday there is at least 300 photographers who focusing on Wulingyuan.Translated by Sophia

2014-02-19 13:17 View：785

A celebration was held at Fenghuang Ancient Town to mark the Lantern Festival and Valentine's Day, which coincides on February 14th this year. The gala show presented such folk customs as Long Dragon Banquet and the Dragon and Lion Dance of Miao ethnic group. Participants were fascinated by the charm of the ancient town. Miao people are having the Long Dragon Banquet.The Fenghuang Ancient Town becomes a sea of people.Translator: Wang BilianSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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The 2014 Zhangjiajie Lantern Festival Folk Art Performance (one of the 2014 Zhangjiajie Spring Festival Ethnic Cultural Activities) began on the morning of February, 14, attracting numerous people. Two hundred thousand people of all ethnic groups and visitors sang and danced joyously to celebrate the festival. The streets of the central area of Zhangjiajie became a performance stage. More than 100 artistic groups toured and performed along the streets, including local original folk art performances such as the Nuo Opera of Tujia ethnic group, Zhangjiajie Yang Opera, Festival Lantern, and Dayong Qigong. The 2014 Spring Festival Ethnic Cultural Activities included three parts: the Lantern Show, the Spring Festival Cultural Activity Week, and the Celebration of Lantern Festival. This is an important measure to upgrade Zhangjiajie, accelerate the integration of its ethnic culture and tourism, and promote the transformation and upgrading of tourism industry. It also serves as a cultural travel card created with the efforts of all the citizens of Zhangjiajie.At the Lantern Festival folk artistic performance siteThe dragon lantern playThe clamshell lanternTranslator: Shen ZuolinSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

2014-02-17 12:11 View：628

Workers lay tracks at a construction site of the Hangzhou-Changsha high-speed railway in Jiangshan City, east China's Zhejiang province, Jan 27, 2014. The 933-kilometer high-speed railway linking Hangzhou City and Changsha City, respectively capitals of Zhejiang province and capital of Hunan province, is designed at a top speed of 350km/h. The 295.5-kilometer rail-laying work in the Zhejiang section was completed on Wednesday after three months' hard work. Travel time will be reduced from more than six hours to four hours when the railway is put into operation, which is expected at the end of 2014. Workers lay tracks at a construction site of the Hangzhou-Changsha high-speed railway in Jiangshan City, east China's Zhejiang province, Jan 27, 2014. The 933-kilometer high-speed railway linking Hangzhou City and Changsha City, respectively capitals of Zhejiang province and capital of Hunan province, is designed at a top speed of 350km/h. The 295.5-kilometer rail-laying work in the Zhejiang section was completed on Wednesday after three months' hard work. Travel time will be reduced from more than six hours to four hours when the railway is put into operation, which is expected at the end of 2014. Workers lay tracks at a construction site of the Hangzhou-Changsha high-speed railway in Jiangshan City, east China's Zhejiang province, Jan 29, 2014. The 933-kilometer high-speed railway linking Hangzhou City and Changsha City, respectively capitals of Zhejiang province and capital of Hunan province, is designed at a top speed of 350km/h. The 295.5-kilometer rail-laying work in the Zhejiang section was completed on Wednesday after three months' hard work. Travel time will be reduced from more than six hours to four hours when the railway is put into operation, which is expected at the end of 2014. Source:Xinhua/Tan Jin

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Following the Spring Festival, thousands of wintersweets (called 'la mei' in Chinese) burst into full bloom against heavy snow in Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan Scenic spot--a world famous natural scenery heritage site in central China's Hunan Province, on February 9th, 2014. The pink, yellow and red plum flowers scattered among the snowy trees and rimes form a spectacular fairytale-like scene, drawing many visitors from both home and abroad.The cold weather leaves trees and plants covered in rimes in Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan Scenic spot--a world famous natural scenery heritage site in central China's Hunan Province, on February 9th, 2014. Visitors take photos and enjoy the beautiful snowy scenery in this white landscape.Source: CRI

2014-02-13 12:06 View：1535

You may not know if you haven't been to Zhangjiajie in Hunan province, but local officials there are eager to spread the word about Yangjiajie and its stunning peak walls carved from mountains by nature over the millennia. Part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area, Yangjiajie boasts about a dozen of the immense parallel walls of varying heights. Ongoing tourism development projects will be completed in March, local tourism officials said at a recent press conference at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. "The peak walls are an integral part of the Zhangjiajie's landscape. A single stone wall is not uncommon in sandstone areas, but it's very rare that a group of such pretty and lofty stone walls maintain intact after all these years," says Chen Anze, a researcher from Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, who visited Yangjiajie in December to investigate the landscape of the peak walls. Zhangjiajie gained international fame when the Hollywood blockbuster Avatar in 2009 drew inspiration from its splendid mountains and pillar-like formations. The descendants of generals of the Yang Family, who sacrificed themselves to defend their country from foreign invasion in the early Song Dynasty (960-1279), moved and settled in Yangjiajie many years ago. That's why the place got its name, and many scenic spots also have names related to the family to memorialize their ancestors. Besides peak walls, Yangjiajie also has stone pillars, waterfalls and a special flower that changes color from white, red, purple, yellow to black from daybreak to sunset. But compared with other scenic spots in Zhangjiajie, the 34-square-kilometer Yangjiajie is like a virgin land and attracts less attention due to its steep mountains and inconvenient transportation. Many visitors to Yangjiajie have been self-guided wilderness enthusiasts. To better promote its picturesque scenery, the local government invested 170 million yuan ($28.1 million) in a Yangjiajie cableway, and construction began in December 2012. Soon guests will be able to enjoy the peak walls from this mechanized perch, without exhausting themselves by climbing all the way. The new cableway, the third in Wulingyuan, will make it easier to get to Yangjiajie from other scenic spots, and ease waiting lines in peak seasons by spreading tourists over more attraction sites. In November 2010, geology and geomorphy experts from China and abroad - including Chen and Michael Crozie, who was then president of International Association of Geomorphologists - joined the Zhangjiajie Landscape International Symposium. The experts agreed that Zhangjiajie's spectacular sandstone pillars, peaks, cliffs, valleys and caves are the result of quartz sandstone's weathering, erosion of rainwater and rock collapses due to gravity. They named this kind of landscape as Zhangjiajie Landscape, a unique type of sandstone landform. "Yangjiajie's peak walls help us see Zhangjiajie Landscape's formation process. It's the masterpiece of nature, with great scientific and aesthetic values," Chen says. "Yangjiajie is a high-quality tourism resource. The promotion of its peak walls to the market will upgrade Zhangjiajie's tourism value as a whole," says Hu Zhiwen, vice-mayor of Zhangjiajie.What's huge and solid stone and about 380 million years old? Source:ECNS

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Pradko Artsem and Vazhwik Dmitry are taking photos in Zhangjiajie scenic area.“No.1! No.1! Zhangjiajie is a fairyland!” Two Russian photographers Pradko Artsem and Vazhwik Dmitry marveled at the beautiful ice and snow sceneries in Tianzi Mountain Scenic Area in Wulingyuan on February 8.In recent days, they have been to core scenic spots of Wulingyuan like Tianzi Mountain, Yuanjiajie, Ten-mile Gallery, and Shuiraosimen (four streams converge here), taking a good deal of photos and videos.Pradko Artsem and Vazhwik Dmitry are taking photos in Zhangjiajie scenic area.Translator: Hao JingruSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

2014-02-11 11:21 View：1383

The Lunar New Year, also known as Spring Festival in China, is a centuries-old tradition. The age-old festival serves as a strong uniting force, and is also a time for celebrating traditional activities.In a country with 56 nationalities, people celebrate the Spring festival in many different ways. In a Miao village in Central China’s Hunan province, people there play drums to welcome in the Chinese Lunar New Year. Generally, there are two types of Miao drum performances. One is for celebrating the New Year, and the other for celebrating the deity. Miao people also express their emotions by performing drums on other important days. Miao drum dances have a narrative performing style, which is seen as a unique characteristic. Drum dancing displays the Miao people’s living and working scenes by the way of vivid dance movements.Source: english.cntv.cn

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Since the beginning of 2014 Spring,February 8, The World Natural Heritage Wulingyuan Scenic Area Ushered the first snowfall. Tianzishan, Yuanjiajie, Yangjiajie, Huangshizhai and the other attractions with existing rime ice hanging, clouds and other enduring beauty, Attracted domestic and overseas visitors alike, away. Currently scenic trunk road is unimpeded, and Travel order orderly.By Dragonholiday

2014-02-09 18:19 View：1453