Chrysanthemum Stone, A unique handicraft of Liuyang,Hunanis cut and polished by chrysanthemum carving stone which formed 270 or 275 millions years ago. It is generally distributed among southern parts of China, such as Hunan, Jiangsu, and Guizhou. Among those, the one that bears most of the fame is Hunan Liuyang Chrysanthemum Stone.

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Jiuyi Mountain National Forest Park, located in Ningyuan County, Yongzhou City, Hunan Province, is a large integrated multi-functional national forest park where various demands for forest tour, entertainment and leisure, heat-escape and recuperation, archaeology, practice teaching, scientific investigation, preservation of natural resources can be met. Please follow me to appreciate classical scenic spots in Jiuyi Mountain National Forest Park.Great Emperor Shun Temple  It is traditionally deemed that Emperor Shun (a very famous emperor in China’s very remote ancient time) was buried here. In very ancient time, emperors preferred to bury themselves under mountain after they demised. Now, Shun’s Tomb is just a rough position. The Great Emperor Shun Temple in front of Shun’s Tomb is built for convenience of memorizing Emperor Shun.Mount Shunyuan Mount Shunyuan, as the highest mount in Jiuyi Mountain, is as high as over 650m. On the peak, there is a large auld-stone fir which can only be hugged around by two persons. At the summit, there is also a pavilion for sight view and rest. Standing on the peak and see as far as you can, you can see that endless mountain tops are leaning toward Mount Shunyuan that a great vision of “mountains forwarding Jiuyi mountain” will definitely shock you.Ningyuan Confucian Temple   Ningyuan Confucian Temple, a lofty palatial architecture, is an important culture relic protection site as well as an important human landscape. It had been great thinker and educationist Confucian;A temple and an official school in ancient time. It had been an educational institution with temple and school combing together. It had been a holy shrine for broadcasting Confucianism.Purple Light Rock  The Purple Light Rock was an early developed underground carst cave. What’s make it different from other caves is that on the cave wall left inscription since Song and Tang Dynasty. The whole tour path is as long as 1550m. At present, 1500m has been developed. Inside the cave, its space is exceptional large that it can hold thousands of people.Yongfu TempleYongfu Temple, situated in the north-west of Emperor Shun Temple, was built in guard of Shun’s Tomb. It covers an area of 900000 square meters. Over 20 buildings are built here along the landform of mountain, which make the temple natural and beautiful.Jiuyi Mountain National Forest Park, a great land for exploration of China’s ancient culture which is the root of Chinese and has influenced ages of Chinese. Come! It won’t be let you down.By Patricia

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It situated at Pingjiang county, Yueyang, Hunan, the Shiniuzhai National Geo-park is the biggest among all the newly-discovered Danxia landform in China–The Danxia landform refers to various landscapes found in southeast and southwest China that “consist of a red bed characterized by steep cliffs”. It is a unique type of petrographic geomorphology found in China. Danxia landform is formed from red-colored sandstones and conglomerates of largely Cretaceous age. Shiniuzhai scenic area lies at the cross of Hunan, Sichuan and Jiangxi Province, with 65 kilometers away from Changsha.It has a height of 523 meters and stretches over 10 square kilometers. Because there stands a huge stone that resembles a yellow cow to the west in the area, the place was called Shiniuzhai(In Chinese, Shi means ston;niu means cow;zhai means stockade). In 2011, the geo-park was authorized as a national geo-park.It is a representative park renowned for five kilometers precipice and 50 kilometers Danxia landform and an old stockaded village with about a thousand year. The geo-park owns beautiful and charming sights. It is a world made up of by strange stones, unusual mounts and stone caves, different in thousands of ways, fantastic and breath-taking. With a rugged and steep geographical position, some people would call Shiniuzhai as “little Mount Hua” — Mount Hua is a very famous scenic spot in Shandong, China. Besides, it was tinted with mystery with light red tops and dark brown cliffs.By Emma

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When somepeople takes a plane, they often can have the problem of dizziness, chesttightness, nausea, or even vomiting. Therefore, people should pay attention to the diet before entering to the plane.

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First, before the trip, you should ask the travel agency whether to make travel accident insurance for you. According to the relevant provisions of the state, you has paid the cost of accident insurance to the travel agency.

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First of all, according to the weather of the place that you are going to visit,people can get ready to prepare for clothes. The replacing clothes can be decided to the number of days.

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“It is convenient and economical to travel to ZJJ by direct bus!” On July 14th, nearly 40 tourists from Wuhan take the“Travel Direct Buses”opened by CITS Zhangjiajie West and start three-day ecological summering vocation in Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan scenic spot.According to the report,“Travel Direct Buses”is exploratory measure that the tourism administration of Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan takes to expand the tourists market in Wuhan. It is to activate the golden road for tourism channel–“Wuhan-Jinzhou-lixian-Zhangjiajie”.Wuhan, with millions of people, is one of the main tourists market for Zhangjiajie, with over 120,000 tourists from Wuhan visiting Wulingyuan in 2012. In March this year, Zhu yongwen, the secretary of Wulingyuan district committee led a promoting team and managed to hold tourism talkfest–“Away from haze; Outing in ZJJ”. In the meeting, the people from Zhangjiajie discussed and exchanged with Wuhan’s travel agencies and Zhangjiajie’s offices stationed in Wuhan, in terms of “the transportation from Wuhan to Zhangjiajie or reverse”, “the latter follow-up of marketing” and “the product packing and design”. Both of them made substantial progress in the opening of “Travel Direct Buses” and image and advertisement propagandas.On April 18th, the“Travel Direct Buses”was opened officially. By now, nearly 30 buses have been departed with over 1,000 tourists from Wuhan being sent. It is planed to send 70 direct buses in this year and hopeful to send about 3,000 tourists. At the same time, on the basis of direct buses from Wuhan to Zhangjiajie, the travel direct buses from Jinzhou and Xiangyang to Zhangjiajie are also planed.In order to maximize the support to the open of“Travel Direct Buses”in Wuhan, Wulingyuan scenic spot will intensify the marketing efforts and image propaganda, especially to the serials of tourism products, like“Travel Direct Buses”.Translated by Crystal

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After the show of international blockbuster Avatar in global, the tourism administration of ZJJ Wulingyuan has organized a serials of marketing activities themed with “Pandora is too far; ZJJ is very close”, which has received strong response outside China. On July 15th, in the first “China Best Tourism Slogan” activity, held by Global Times·Global Tourism, the slogan, brought by the tourism administration of ZJJ Wulingyuan, “Pandora is too far; ZJJ is very close” is voted as “the most network influence tourism slogan”.Avatar arouse global film fans’ cheers and appreciation, but it also provoked another contend for the prototype of Hallelujah Mountain. Zhangjiajie and Mount Huang, the two famous scenic spots started to strive for Avatar’s shooting location on the Internet. Thus Zhangjiajie attracts numerous tourists by Avatar’s popularity. Afterwards, Wulingyuan scenic spot changed the name of “Heaven and Earth Column” for Hallelujah Mountain and actively advertised on the Internet, which attracted attention from netizens and media. Hundreds of thousands tourists both from home and abroad came to see the real floating mountain.According to the report, “China Best Tourism Slogan” activity is to enhance the market thoughts, innovative ideas and professional spirit for China’s tourism. Through the release of the voting results, it outlines a tourism destination in China that dare to improve its tourism marketing and attract the hearts of tourists.Translated by Crystal

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20“Drunken Beauty”Articles Sharing Rewards of 400,000 RMB in ZJJ Yellow Dragon Cave Photography Contest After 15 days, the one-year online photography contest–“Misty Rain Zhangjiajie;Drunken Beauty Yellow Dragon Cave” will come to an end, with 20“Drunken Beauty” articles sharing rewards of 400,000 RMB. On July 16th, the journalist learns from the activity website 1,234 works from 610 contestants have been received at the deadline. The organizing committee will issue a column for inform that including the top 30 contestants.Held by Hunan Photographer association and Yellow Dragon Cave investment company, the online photography contest–“Misty Rain Zhangjiajie;Drunken Beauty Yellow Dragon Cave”is initiated on August 1st, 2012. The purpose of the event is to display the magic scenery and the charm of photography of ZJJ Yellow Dragon Cave, at the same time to explore the traditional charm of Zhangjiajie’s folk customs, which will enhance its influence and reputation. The total rewards is 400,000 RMB(three cultural custom paintings), including 20,000 cash and one iphone; the last 15 excellent works will be awarded 10,000 RMB.Since its open, the contest has received active participation from photographers both from home and abroad and its amateurs and netizens. Now the first place in the natural scenery group voted by Internet is No.457 The Radiance, the first place in cultural customs is No.78 Heart. The contest and the online voting have entered into the vital process and who will win the top 20 “Drunken Beauty” works? It will be issued in 15 days.News has learned that the third tourism scenery photography contest in Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan is kicked off on July 1 lasting one year, with a total reward of 403,000 RMB for 185 works.Translated by Crystal

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Since I myself am one hundred percent foodie, in order to share the information of those delicacies, I will set up a new section to introduce food around Hunan. Let’s wait and see how delicious and abundant the food in Hunanis!

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