February 7, 2014, Ushered the first spring snow  in  Zhangjiajie Tianmenshan During Chinese Spring Festival. Snow were numerous, Not only Tianmenshan was dressed as a Sacred mountains, Also it is to add a thick auspicious for Chinese New Year.By shuire

2014-02-08 18:17 View：743

On the morning of January 30, nearly 1,000 visitors from home and abroad celebrated the Chinese Lunar New Year in such natural sceneries of Wulingyuan as Tianzi Mountain, Yuanjiajie, Huangshi Village, Golden Whip Stream, Huanglong Cave, and Ten-mile Gallery.Domestic tourists mainly included self-driving travelers from Guangdong and many migrant workers returning Zhangjiajie from coastal areas. Overseas tourists were mainly from South Korea, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions. Some of them were self-guided visitors from Europe and the US.Benefiting from free expressway toll during the Spring Festival and free admission tickets for self-driving travelers from Sichuan, Chongqing, and Guizhou, Wulingyuan is receiving this year’s first tourist peak in the golden week of Spring Festival. Tourism related functional departments and businesses in Wulingyuan have arranged enough personnel to ensure service level. Various folk cultural programs have been prepared to allow tourists to experience Zhangjiajie’s cultural charm while enjoying remarkable natural sceneries.Translator: Hao JingruSource: hunan.gov.cn

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The toll-free policy of expressways in Hunan for passenger cars begins from 0:00 of January 31 (the first day of the 2014 Chinese Lunar New Year) and lasts to 24:00 of February 6. From 0:00 to 6:00 on January 31, drivers don’t have to pick up a toll card at the entrance gate but need to hand it in at the exit gate. From 20:00 on February 6, drivers should pick up and hand over their pass cards as usual. At other times, drivers can enter or exit an expressway without having to pick up or hand over their cards.The policy only applies to passenger cars with seven or fewer seats as prescribed on their driving licenses issued by statutory machinery.Translator: Yang ChengfeiSource: hunan.gov.cn

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The 2014 International Lighting Festival was held at Meixi Lake International New Town on the evening of February 4. 50 lighting sets lit up at the same time, including “Expansion to the West”, a large-scale lighting set presenting the future of Meixi Lake, “Portrait of Eight Steeds”, a simulation lighting symbolizing success, “World’s Hottest Building” selected by American media CNN, and “Chinese Knot Pedestrian Bridge”, a miniature lighting of Meixi Lake. The festival will last until February 16 (the seventeenth day of the first lunar month). During the festival, the citizens and visitors will experience a new way to celebrate the Spring Festival by enjoying creative lightings and 3D buildings projection, visiting international temple fair for Spring Festival, as well as taking part in special activities for Valentine’s Day.Translator: Wang XiaoluSource: changsha.gov.cn

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BEIJING, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- The ongoing Spring Festival holiday is offering a great chance for overseas students in Beijing to taste China's traditional culture.Greg McCarthy from the United States, a second-year international politics master with Beijing Language and Culture University, has just returned to the capital from the annual ice and snow festival in Harbin.He said in Chinese that the ice lanterns there were amazing. "I really admire the people who spent a long time in the freezing cold to make such exquisite works of art."With its outdoor temperature reaching minus 20 degrees Celsius, Harbin, the capital of northwest China's Heilongjiang Province, is one of China's coldest cities and the cradle of Chinese ice lanterns.More than 2,000 ice sculptures are on display this year in Harbin's Zhaolin Park, where visitors can also entertain themselves with skating and tasting traditional Chinese snacks such as sugar-coated haw.For the majority of the university's 300 foreign students who didn't make it to Harbin, an excursion to Longqing Gorge in Yanqing, a suburb of Beijing, also shed light on China's ice lantern culture.Invented by farmers and fishermen across the freezing Songnen Plain in northwest China, ice lanterns represent the spartan life of ancient Chinese. By chiseling out a hole in an ice block, Chinese hid oil lamps in ice cubes to shield the flame from the windy night.These days, the folk art has been developed into a lavish cultural event which attracts tens of millions of visitors to Harbin each year.On the Eve of Lunar New Year, Jan. 30, McCarthy hung out with his Chinese friends to wrap dumplings and set off firecrackers."Chinese New Year is very interesting. Christmas is the most important holiday in the United States. But it is only one day. Here, the Spring Festival is longer and we have a lot of fun," he said.At Beijing Jiaotong University, nearly 50 foreign students from more than 20 countries celebrated the Year of Horse with their teachers by not only having dumplings together, but also singing Peking opera.They also tried out Chinese calligraphy, using brushes to write Chinese couplets on red paper, a typical New Year decoration.Ghanem Osman from Syria and Humberto Brito Santana from Cuba both said they missed their families back home and wished for an early reunion while wrapping dumplings with their teachers.Surenjav Battulga and Oyunbat Nergui from Mongolia are both orphans and are studying at Jiaotong University on scholarships.They said their classmates were their "brothers and sisters" and that China was where they "built their dreams."Editor: yan Source: xinhuanet

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BEIJING, Jan. 30, 2014 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on late Jan. 30, 2014 shows hosts talking during the 2014 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, in Beijing, capital of China.Source: xinhuanet

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From 15th, Jan., ZJJ “Charming Xiangxi”, An large scale national culture program, Will stop performance and restart on 31st, January.According to schedule of Hunan cultural department, from 17th, Jan.to 28 Jan., ZJJ “Charming Xiangxi” will be on behalf of Hunan go to Italy and Malta for new year’s sodality which organised by national culture department in condolence of overseas Chinese. Since last year when Zhangjiajie accepted this task, ZJJ “Charming Xiangxi” has made comprehensive preparation. Over 30 performers and 11 wonderful programmes were meticulously picked out and tensive rehearsal has proceed at the same time. All this has been done is to bring the mose essence of Zhangjiajie performance to overseas audience to set up good image of Zhangjiajie tourism.Great attention was paid and great support was given by leaders of department of tourism and culture to ZJJ “Charming Xiangxi”. At the present, performers are doing the last rehearsal and they have confidence in showing the best performance. It’s really worth of our continuous attention and let’s expect for their triumphant return.By Patricia

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Wintersweet is a kind of flower which blossoms in winter in China. Because of its special blossom season different from most flowers which are in blossom in Spring and Summer, People are especially in favor of it for it symbolizing an independent and tough character of person. Chair Mao ever often praised Wintersweet in his poems.Now, In Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, You have chance to appreciate it. There is a wintersweet garden in Yellow Stone Village. Wintersweet is racing in full blossom. Some is white which looks like snow and some is red looks like fire. How lovely it is. A lot of domestic and foreign tourists were fascinated by its beauty and stopped for appreciation and taking photo with it. It is said that this year’s wintersweet is in blossom nearly a month earlier than last year for this year’s higher temperature. Enjoying the sunny winter and appreciating beautiful wintersweet at the same time must be a wonderful trip.By Patricia

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“Amazing Mountain Walls, Second to None”, the press conference themed “ New Discovery in Zhangjiajie---Marvelous Mountain Walls” was held in Beijing on January 16. Hunan’s tourist attraction Zhangjiajie promoted the marvelous  scenery of mountain walls to the world for the first time.Professor and municipal leader of Zhangjiajie Chen Anze and representatives of over 50 major media attended the press conference.Chen pointed out that the mountain wall group of Yangjiajie is an important component of “Zhangjiajie landform” scenery. The mountain walls were formed before the familiar stone columns of the Tianzi Mountain, Yuanjiajie, and Huangshizhai scenic areas, and were of extremely high scientific, ecological and aesthetic value. A single stone wall is common in sandstone landform, but it is quite rare to see so well-preserved and large-scale high stone walls in Yangjiajie. “The huge scale and remarkable scenery of the stone walls is unique in the world.”Marvelous scenery of mountain wallsTranslator: Hao Jingru

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The Promotion Conference on Western Hunan's Integrated Development of Culture and Tourism, themed "Charming Western Hunan", held at the China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair (ICIF). Hunan is exploring and practicing the strategy of building Hunan into a province with powerful culture and promoting it globally.In 2013, the province set up cultural exchange exhibition platforms, developed extraverted cultural brands, and improving supportive policies for cultural "going global". Via all these means, the province promoted cultural arts including press and publications, film and TV programs, artistic performance, cartoon game, and industrial art abroad; letting the entire world fully appreciate Hunan culture's charm. All culture related departments of Hunan proactively established supporting system for the "going global" strategy. The Office of Cultural Innovative Industry of Hunan Province included this aim into the key sectors for the province's capital guidance in cultural industry, and provided fund based on fields. Besides, the Hunan Provincial Bureau of Press and Publication set up special fund, giving out awards to export projects that meet the requirements. Translator: Hao JingruSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

2014-01-20 18:35 View：937