The eighth day of the La Month (the twelfth month of the Chinese calendar) is a day celebrating Laba Festival. This year it falls on Jan. 17th.Over 10,000 villagers around Luxi County, came to Pushi ancient town to watch local operas and featured performances, and enjoy traditional Laba porridge and Laba beans.People get free Laba porridge at Nanyue Temple. As a tourism promotion activity of Hengshan Mountain, this was the fifth session of holding such charitable event to offer traditional Laba porridge to thousands of tourists and citizens.Changsha Metro Group and its subordinates for metro operation and advertisement, together with BESTORE, launched a gift pack presenting activity to celebrate the Laba Festival and greet the coming Year of the Monkey.Dress-up Monkey King and the other three major roles in the Journey to the West presented 5,000 gift packs to citizens that day at the railway stations and Wuyi Square Station of Changsha Metro Line 2.Translator: Pang YuehuiSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Photo taken on Jan. 18 shows citizens are busy in buying decorations for Spring Festival at Beihu Market of Chenzhou City. A variety of goods, including Chinese knots, Chinese character “fu”, red lanterns, spring festival scrolls, are among best sellers in the city’s trading centers. Background information:Fu, one of the Chinese characters that best epitomize China's time-honored culture, is a necessity in Spring Festival celebrations. Nowadays, fu, literally meaning auspiciousness, blessing or happiness, usually appears as a cultural symbol to express people's wishes for the coming new year.The character can either be written or printed. The accompanying patterns usually include a variety of themes like the god of longevity, a birthday peach, a carp, a dragon and a phoenix as well as other themes. The character written on paper can be pasted both normally and upside down, because in Chinese the "Reversed fu" is homophonic with "fu comes", both being pronounced as "fudaole." Translator: Xiao JuanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Tourism departments of Hunan’s 13 cities and one prefecture recently held a meeting on the work of tourism of the province and finalized the new tourism planning blueprints during the 13th Five-year Plan period (2016-2020). To promote a splendid Xiaoxiang and happy Hunan, distinctive tourism activities to be held in 2016 for prospective tourists were planned by each city and prefecture, as follows:Changsha: offering four city sightseeing tour linesHengyang: planning a new tour for appreciating time-honored culture at Shigu Academy and natural scenery on Dongzhou IslandZhuzhou: offering a cruise route around Xiangjiang’s three featured islandsXiangtan: recommending Zhaoshan MountainShaoyang: offering a variety of festive activitiesYueyang: holding Dongting Lake Ecotourism FestivalChangde:building an exotic shopping street featuring authentic Germany flavorZhangjiajie: building 16 tourist service centers and opening new tour busesYiyang: recommending the elements on “hometown of Olympic champions and a paradise for sports and recreation”Chenzhou: constructing a 142-km-long greenway for sightseeingYongzhou: boasting newly-opened trains and flights to metropolis of Shanghai, Shenzhen and KunmingHiaihua: offering classic travel routes from Huitong, Jingshou to Tongdao for tourists experiencing Dong and Miao minorities’ culture and picturesque sceneryLoudi: turning Shuifu Wetland Park into a comprehensive tourist resortXiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture: opening two rural tourism travel routes for tourists feeling the mystery of Tujia ethnic group and experiencing authentic Miao cultureTranslator: Xiao JuanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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After the snow, Attendance scenery is more beautiful. On January 15th morning, stranger sunlight in the world natural heritage site Zhangjiajie tianzishan mountain scenic area, A sea of clouds, the clouds of the snow scenery are particularly magic, attracting a lot of the fairy tale world “Snowman” to scream.For Tianzi mountain cableway quality upgrading, visitors enjoy tianzi mountain snow beauty, besides mountaineering tourism channel, still need to take Yuanjiajie eco-cars to Tianzi mountain. But the qualitative transformation is drawing to a close, it is expected to be met with domestic and overseas visitors during the Spring Festival in 2016.Translated by Sophia

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Since Jan. 13rd,2016，The world natural heritage site Zhangjiajie again ushered in snow weather. Huangshi village, Yuan Jiajie, Yang Jiajie have shed silver, Which is taller and more handsome.Translated by Sophia

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On January 12nd, Hunan provincial people’s government information office in its official WeChat public platform has reported “Hunan culture” grabs an eye on “United Nations”, where Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan world natural heritage landscape is the most “Stunning”.In early January this year, at the United Nations headquarters in New York state building, “Here is Hunan-Hunan culture walk into the United Nations” exhibition activities, unique Zhangjiajie landform scenery has attracted nearly batches of thousands of diplomats based in the United Nations headquarters from more than 150 countries and the United Nations agency staff to watch scenery. The exhibition activities, Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan provides 300 tickets for the United Nations headquarters staff and 50 free cards.Wulingyuan is the resort of Zhangjiajie scenic spot. In 1992, because of its natural beauty, it has been listed as a world natural heritage. After 20 years of development, Wulingyuan has become the domestic and foreign well-known tourist destination.Translated by Sophia

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On January 12nd, upgrading for a year, Zhangjiajie Tianzishan mountain cableway has entered the stage of debugging, which will be open to tourists before and after the Spring Festival.New Year’s day in 2015, ZJJ Tianzi mountain cableway all shut down into the capacity upgrade. Renovation project is on the site, after transforming, the total line is 2097 meters long. At the same time, it also sets up 78 cars. Ropeway after modification, running speed is 6 m/s, on the basis of original increased by 33%. During the period of transformation, the visitor center, all the supporting service facilities are synchronized to upgrade.New ropeway not only has set up a more convenient “Air channel” for Chinese and foreign tourists, but also adds a beautiful scenery line, especially solving the queuing problem effectively. It can improve the satisfaction of Chinese and foreign tourists.New Tianzi mountain cableway operation, Huangshi village cableway, The dragon ladder, Yang Gujie cableway four air traffic lanes, will solve wulingyuan scenic area queuing problem.Translated by Sophia

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By the morning of January 9th, Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan district photographers’ association and Baofeng lake have co-hosted “Drunken beauty love in the lake” photography creation activity successfully. More than 40 local photographers and photography fans take an active part in photography.Although the weather is light rain, and fog makes the place is full of mystery, photography creation passion is also heightening. It is understood that the photography enthusiasts have produced nearly thousand pictures of “Drunken beauty love lake”.Translated by Sophia

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