Zhangjiajie Tuan San is a kind of food with national characteristic in zhangjiajie. Tuan San is commonly known as “glutinous rice group”,which is a kind of special food of Miao, TuJia, Bai and Han people. With an authentic steamed glutinous rice

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The gastrodia elata in zhangjiajie eight archduke mountain area, has golden color, which seems to be transparent and bright. It has the function of treating dizziness, stroke hemiplegia and curing diseases.

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Litsea Cubeba can eat fresh fruit,also can fry oil. The main components of oil are limonene, JiaQuan heptenone. It can make all kinds of food, or be used as perfume for cigarettes, cosmetics,toothpaste and soap. It’s the best raw material for synthetic vitamin a ionone spices.

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On July 16th, Luo zhibin, member of Zhangjiajie standing committee and scretary of municipal party committee organization department, and vice mayor Gong minghan come to the road construction scene of Blue Harbor second project, surveying the implementation of downtown construction, with relevant perosns from Zhangjiajie’s live built bureau, planning bureau and land and resources bureau accompanied.According to report, the road construction project of the newly-built area and the Zhangjiajie Dong neng tourism commercial cultural square project is planed in line with the practical situation of Zhangjiajie downtown, and its fixed position is the international tourism sevice center and Zhangjiajie’s landmark buildings.Checking the project in the construction scene and listening to the report of progress, Gong minghan makes arrangement of the next stage. He requests since now three headquarters are to be established officially, relevant sectors should present the project plan, road net plan to advance the launch of the project. At the same time, demolition of relevant areas should be pushed according to rules and regulations and relocation areas and construction plans should be arranged as soon as possible.Luo zhibin indicates the three projects are connected with each other and is the key point of city construction; every sector should increase their senses of responsibility, urgency and mission, strengthen cooperation with sectors, emphasize the key point and boost the construction.Translated by Crystal

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In July this year, with the upcoming of summer vocation of the middle and primary school and colleges, Zhangjiajie Tianmen Mount witnesses a summer tourism peak, and family groups and individual tourists take up mainly.In middle summer, Tianmen Mount is with fresh breeze blowing from mountains and jade-green trees. The tourists enjoy the freshness and cozy of the “forest oxygen bar”amid brushes; the glass plank road, Ghost path and volley glass platform are teemed with tourists; they release the excitements of experiencing Tianmen Mount journey, even scream and cry out when they come to the top of the cliff.Special tips:The Tianmen Mount offers preferential tickets to students in a year-round, including child under 1.3 meters with free charge, and students under the ages of 24 enjoying concessionary tickets with student ID cards. The two dimension code of “Tianmen Mount smart guide” have been printed on nameplates and propaganda materials of the scenic spots. Tourists can briefly learn about the excellent scenic spots and routes as long as they scan the two dimension code with phones and they can make their unique Tianmen Mount journey.Translated by Crystal

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The Biggest Mailbox Built up in Japan to Propagandize the Charm of Paper Letters According to Asahi Shimbun, the copy of the mailbox made by the students from faculty of engineering of Yamaguchi University in Japan is honored “the biggest mailbox in the world ”by Guinness World Records.The highest point of the mailbox is 7.2 meters, the horizontal length is 3.6 meters and the longitudinal length 3 meters, with volume of 68 cubic meters, which highs by 5 cubic meters than the former world record.Finished in November last year, the mailbox is placed in the park of Yubu city, shankou county. The maker of the mailbox hopes to propagandize the charm of paper letters through the “big guy”, while the E-mail lacks such kind of charm. From July 20 to September, people can use this mailbox to send off their letters. The students of making the mailbox indicate that they want to express the deepest thoughts of love to the most important person through this biggest mailbox.Translated by Crystal

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Nanhua Mountain National Forest Park, situated in Fenghuang County in Western Hunan, is projected by combing the advantages of human landscape of famous Ancient Phoenix Town and natural scenery of Nanhua Mountain together and creatively build five large thematic scenic spots which are Shrine Phoenix Cultural Zone, Nanhua Buddhist Temple, Border Town Cultural Zone, Ancient Cultural Zone of Hmong Kingdom and Qifeng Temple. Besides, five-star hotel conference center, golf course, automobile camp and other facilities will be supplied. After the whole project finished, it will be the first overall experiential zone of phoenix culture and Hmong culture. A demonstration zone of eco-tourism in western Hunan will be built in not far future.At present, the first project of Nanhua Mountain scenic zone, Shrine Phoenix Cultural Zone has been built and is welcoming tourists abroad and at home. 7800-year phoenix culture, as Shrine Phoenix Cultural Zone’s theme, is innovatively utilized into the ancient architectures and thematic scenes like pavilion, platform, hall, cabinet, corridor, pillar, bridge, storied building and so on. Several thematic scenic spots like Sea of Phoenix Bamboo, Luck Phoenix Pavilion, Phoenix Forwarding Bridge, Birds Worshipping Phoenix, Shrine Phoenix Hall, Life Relieving Stand and so on are included in the Shrine Phoenix Cultural Zone.Here, Ancient Phoenix Town has waited for you for a thousand year. Here, phoenix culture has waited for you for eighty-seven hundred years.So, what are you waiting for?By Patricia

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“Zhangjiajie, we are from all over the world to you… to share our culture and our souls. From the countryside music to rock, we are wonderful together…” Not many people would have thought that this country music song “zhangjiajie” was meticulously created by South African band.This music band is called South African drum art troupe, which is South Africa’s famous country music art troupe. They can show different ethnic songs, dances and music shows of South Africa. Through it, people can see the African national characteristics, with strong interactive situation. The troupe has repeatedly taken part in Chinese international folk art festival. And in South Africa pavilion of the shanghai world expo, their performance was warmly received by Chinese and foreign audience.International country festival permanently settled in zhangjiajie in 2009, which received a number of countries to actively participate in.South Africa was particularly active in this program.South Africais known as the “rainbow nation”, which has a variety of music style. In the first singles, the wild beauty of South African drum band left a deep impression on the majority of tourists. In the second singles, the jungle band’s performance with aboriginal song and dance still made a lot of memories on the audience.Translated by Sophia

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Wuliang Ancestral Temple, whose restoration was completed on July 21, stands at the Economic Development Zone of Dongkou County. Known as "Home of Ancestral Temple in China", Dongkou County of Hunan Province boasts hundreds of well-preserved ancient temple complexes. Having unique folk styles and geographic features, they each are noble, magnificent and awesome outside and exquisite, simple and elegant inside. The ancestral temples serve as miracles of vernacular architecture and historical and cultural heritages. Not long before, eleven temple complexes of the county were listed as key cultural relics sites under the state protection.Translator: Zhang MinsiSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Rice cake is an improvement from glutinous rice or Ziba. In Ming and Qing Dynasty, on the bases of traditional crafts of making Ziba, it is made by several procedures including grinding glutinous rice into fine powder, adding white sugar and water into it, and kneading it into various shapes like square, round and strip.

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