A traditional Valentine’s Day was held in Red Carbonate-Rock Stone Geopark of Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture on April 9, or the third day of the third month in the Chinese lunar calendar. The event attracted numerous young men and women to participate in.Ethnic people sing in antiphonal style.Red Carbonate-Rock Stone GeoparkTranslator: Xiao JuanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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On April 2nd, Zhangjiajie Charming Xiangxi grand theater was packed. The splendid national culture shows won the applause of Chinese and foreign tourists. On the same day, Zhangjiajie Charming Xiangxi celebrated its 6,000th performance, which has received audience of nearly 12 million people.Zhangjiajie Charming Xiangxi has founded about 16 years ago. In the inheritance and protection of ethnic culture innovation, quality has achieved a new leap. In 2008, Zhangjiajie Charming Xiangxi international cultural square was named “National cultural industry demonstration base” by the national ministry of culture. In October 2010, “Zhangjiajie, Charming Xiangxi” was listed in the directory of key project of the national cultural tourism by the national ministry of culture and the national tourism administration. In 2012, Zhangjiajie Charming Xiangxi realized the dream of the Spring Festival gala on CCTV. In 2014, “Zhangjiajie, Charming Xiangxi” had annual cultural brand, became a national culture brand, which is also the only honored brand of tourism performing arts. That same year, Zhangjiajie Charming Xiangxi also was approved by the hunan provincial demonstration base of minority cultural heritage.As an important part of Wulingyuan tourist reception, in recent years, Zhangjiajie Charming Xiangxi adheres to market-oriented, relying on local resources, with the program version upgrades, which enriched the contents of the performing arts and the quality of performance. With the cultural soft power, it increases the whole China’s visibility and reputation in the world.Translated by Sophia

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Clouds in ZJJ Tianzi mountain, looks like a poetry. On the morning of April 7th, Zhangjiajie Tianzi mountain has an attendance of spring clouds wonders, a quiet fairyland, making people feel intoxicated.Translated by Sophia

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Sea of clouds brought fairyland-look foggy scenery on the early morning of April 7, 2016 at Tianzi Mountain of Wulingyuan, Zhangjiajie scenic area, the World Natural Heritage site.Translator: Yu JiangjiangSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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On April 2nd, in ZJJ Huanglong cave hall square, staffs of 《Misty Rain in Zhangjiajie》 dash into a big circle in “The day after tomorrow” sculpture, jumping up tujia waving dance hand in hand. The cheerful music, rich ethnic dance has attracted many Chinese and foreign tourists to be involved in the formation of the scale of hundreds of people, immediately letting the huanglong hole ecological square become into an ocean of joy.According to hall, in the ecological square, waving dance is a warm-up activity of a large folk dance 《Misty Rain in Zhangjiajie》 playback. After months of adjustment, 《Misty Rain in Zhangjiajie》 will have a playback on April 8. The warm-up activity is to let the rehearsal staff change nervous mood. Secondly, it aims to let visitors be involved in close contact with staffs. From the point of site condition, the activity has achieved good results. As long as the weather permits, visitors in ZJJ Huanglong hole will have a tujia waving dance, enjoying a distinctive flavour of tourism.Translated by Sophia

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On April 6th, A large folk performing art 《Misty Rain in Zhangjiajie》 has a recovery performance in the world natural heritage site Zhangjiajie Huanglong cave scenic area.《Misty Rain in Zhangjiajie》 is the representative work of Huanglong cave scenic area, enhancing the connotation of cultural tourism products. In recent years, it is one of the growing tourism performing products. With the whole 70 minutes, by sound and light technology, it tells the story of zhangjiajie mountain ancient love story between a pair of young men and women of tujia people, which likes a dream scene in misty rain, both the traditional musical culture, and fashionable artistic breath.After 100 days to upgrade quality, it can greatly improve Zhangjiajie Huanglong cave scenic area of cultural connotation, inject new vitality for Zhangjiajie tourism product.In another development, with a total investment of 520 million yuan, it aims to build Huanglong cave scenic spot of the ancient village project, which is expected to be built in the next year.Translated by Sophia

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CHANGSHA, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Next year's entire harvest from a 410-year-old tea tree was bought for 600,000 yuan (92,000 U.S. dollars) at an auction in central China's Hunan Province Wednesday.The tree is 4.5 meters (14.8 feet) high and located in Baojing County's Huangjin ("Gold") Village, where over 2,000 tea trees date back to the Ming and Qing dynasties.The tree, the oldest, is the only living plant on the province's intangible cultural heritage list. Leaves are harvested only once a year, in April, when the next year's harvest is auctioned off. The tree produces about half a kilogram of "golden tea" each year.Another bidder paid for 1 kg of golden tea leaves with 1 kg actual gold (around 225,000 yuan) at Wednesday's auction. At another event in 2011, 0.1 kg of golden tea leaves sold for 98,000 yuan.Source:Xinhua

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On April 2nd, Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan Tianzi mountain Helong park is full of visitors. During this small long vacation, Wulingyuan Helong park welcomes a lot of visitors for accepting patriotism education. According to incomplete statistics, Helong park has a reception of 6,000 foreign tourists for two days.Zhangjiajie Tianzi mountain scenic area management department chief introduction, tomb-sweeping festival holiday is expected to achieve the small peak passenger flow. The scenic area has increased the the management of the distribution centre of tourists such as dynamics, ensure orderly visit order.Translated by Sophia

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