For a Miao village, The time to visit this village can be festival period. During these periods, visitors can see Miao ethnic songs and dances, and be involved in their parties and activities.

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Recently, Zhangjiajie Sangzhi county’s declaring of 4th batch of intangible cultural heritage lists goes well.This time, The projects involved in the declaring work are Sangzhi festival lantern, Bai Nationality’s youshen and Sangzhi funeral dancing. Since the beginning of the declaring, Sangzhi County organized a specialized team to collect related information and get to know the real situation of the declaring lists in value, influence, endangered condition, inherit and so on. Up to now, the work keeps going smoothly.At present, There are 2 national intangible lists and 3 provincial lists. All the time, Sangzhi County tries to innovative practice and have much experience now. The declaring work will also drive the development of tourist industry.Translated by Becky

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2013 ZJJ International Forest Protecting Festival will open its curtain in October 12th in Zhangjiajie. This year, The festival will take “Green song, beautiful homeland” as its theme and will put emphasis on the first run of the movie dream of Zhangjiajie and the cooperative project related to ecological protecting industry.Since 1991, Zhangjiajie keeps holding the International Forest Protecting Festival.Till this year, It is the 17th. According to different activities every year, carrying forward ecological civilization and building green homeland. At the same time, Zhangjiajie people’s consciousness of protecting the forest has been strengthened, which prompting Zhangjiajie people to treasure the nature and green land.Translated by Becky

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Yang Ancestral Memorial is located in the northeast side of Tuojiang River Fenghuang town. Originally built in 1836, It covers an area about 770 sq meters. The elaborate structure and considerable design makes Yang Ancestral Memorial as an outstanding building till now.Whole of this family temple features the special ethnic characters and the high valuein architecture field. This temple is a wood-made courtyard with two floors, consisting of the gate, opera stage, corridors, main hall and subsidiary rooms.It is strongly showing the local tradition and carving art of archite cture.Currently it is the cultural site under the county-level protection.Yang family was the second largest family in the Fenghuang Ancient Town. It is said that people with family name “Yang” are descendents of the famous patriotic Yang family in Song Dynasty. Yang Ancestral Memorial is the best preserved temple in Ancient Phoenix City.Translated by Sophia

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Fenghuang Bean jelly is a kind of snack that is good for appetizing and cooling in summer. In summer, you can see bean jelly in almost everywhere in the street.

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Xiangxi Tuojiang River is the mother river of the Ancient Phoenix City. Flowing around the ancient city wall of Fenghuang town, Tuojiang River reflects the Tu minority buildings along it. These hundreds of years’buildings add more colors to Tuojiang River. As you go downstream through the Rainbow Bridge, A picture of water town will spread in front of you: The Wanshou Palace, The Wanming Tower, The Duocui Building, And so on and so forth.Ancient City Wall is located along the south bank, built with the red bricks in an elegant and great atmosphere. Tu ethnic buildings along the Tuojiang River form a unlimited picture which is describe the traditional southern water town in China.Tuojiang River was muddy brown since it was raining at that time, but on a perfectly clear day it was said to be emerald green, reflecting the mountain scape in which the town is at the foot. Much of the structures like the walls, temples, bridges, wells, stone steps and stilt houses remain their old structures and styles ranging back to Ming and Qing Dynasties.Translated by Sophia

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During this“Golden Week” holiday, ZJJ Huangshizhai Ropeway received 69,000 tourists, Including 54,673 tourists from Oct 1st to Oct 4th, an increase of 25.37% equal to 11,062 tourists than the same period of last year; including 18,372 tourists on Oct 3rd, which created a historic record of tourists flow for ZJJ Huangshizhai Ropeway single-day. Among the tourists that all received, individual travelers took up about 70% and team tourists about 30%.In order to response to the travelling peak during this holiday, all staffs in Yellow Stone Village(Huangshizhai) took up their quarters. They started to work at every 6:00 and sent the last tourist to the downhill, and then they had to check and repair equipments untill 12:00pm.For the sake of shortening the queue-up time for tourists during the travelling peak, The company had presented warm prompts about the number to collecting ticekts and waiting time on the electronic signs and light box, so tourits can learn about the information to make suitable arragement for their schedule. This measurement guaranteed ropeway’s carry capacity with 2,200 passengers per hour and less than 30 minutes for queue-up.By Crystal

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On Oct 10th, as the order goes from the Shimen county clerk, 2013 China·Shimen Citrus Festival officially unveils its curtain in the sports center of Shimen. Since Shimen initiated its 1st China·Shimen Citrus Festival in 2001, celebrating the citrus harvest has become a happy feast for 700,000 citizens in Shimen.Themed with “My Citrus Festival” in this year, although lively atmosphere prevails in the crowd as the previous years, there are still some new changes in this year’s festival. “The festival is sponsored by Shimen county citrus association while the government backs to the curtain. There are no stars invited and the opening ceremony is not held in stared hotel” The activity person introduces, in line with the principle of “Economized Festival”, Shimen turns the citrus festival into a genuine “My Citrus Festival” by many activities such as orange farmers’ happy parade, Citrus King PK and Tujia cooking skill show.It is reported by the end of 2012, there are 40 citrus specialized cooperatives in Shimen with 7,471 memberships, which activates over 130,000 farmers. Since 2011, through citrus specialized cooperatives, Shimen has sold over 100,000 tons of citrus. Overcome the extreme drought against citrus’ grown-up, leaders from Shimen county party committee and county government have signed 27,000 tons sales contract with Amur River, Suifen river, 60,000 tons citrus with Shanghai and 270,000 tons with Sinkiang. These guarantee citrus farmers’ enthusiasm for production.By Crystal

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On the 19th of this month, 2013 “Xibu Street cup” second zhangjiajie wulingyuan traversing bicycle competition will be hold in the world natural heritage site Zhangjiajie wulingyuan scenic area. 2500 cyclists from the domestic and outdoor will for the first time travel in the “Zhangjiajie landform scenic area”.The cycling theme is “Riding with joy, happy xibu street”, Which designed to encourage people to pay more attention to choose a geen rtravel way with low energy consumption, low pollution and low emission. It will transfer a concept of saving resource, protecting friendly environment, and green city. By means of cycling, it aims to introduce wulingyuan rich tourism resources to the society, making zhangjiajie unique natural landscape and beauty become a low-carbon symbol.During this event, CCTV, xinhua news, people’s net, hunan satellite TV, hunan daily, Massachusetts and dozens of media will live tracking report. Sina weibo and tencent weibo will conduct real-time live online.Translated by Sophia

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Because of the continued fine weather, and well-prepared service, During Golden Week, Zhangjiajie recieved 1.1131 million person-time, tourism revenue was 530 million yuan, including 133 million yuan in ticket sales.This year Golden Week, Zhangjiajie developed comprehensive tour safeguard mechanism, reasonable regulation and control. It took many measures to have an assurance for orderly reception. The whole holiday dind not present tourists complaints and disputes caused by line. According to statistics, Golden Week, Zhangjiajie had about 42000 vehicles, the sampling drive tourists satisfaction rate reached 95%.Translated by Sophia

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