The World Parkour Competition will take place from May 27 to 29 in Zhangjaijie Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park. It is the first of its kind in China.    The competition consists of two events: speed race and skills challenge.    Twenty top traceurs from Europe, North America, and Oceania and 30 selected Chinese parkour players will participate in. The Chinese candidates are required to attend qualifying round that will be held on May 27, and the top four have chance to go to the next round.    The preliminaries and finals of speed race will be held on May 28; the preliminaries and finals of skills challenge on May 29. These races will be aired live on a local TV channel.   The racecourse is designed by Aussie parkour artist Dominic DiTommaso. With a total length of 300 meters, it starts at Tianman Cave and end at the tourist service center. There are 999 steps leading up to the Mountain Cave which is known as the Gateway to Heave. A total of 68 barriers are placed along the steps. The course has a vertical drop of 150 meters.

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On May 19, 2017, “China Tourism Day”, Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan carrys out the “Tourism makes life more happiness” series of activities, which creates a good atmosphere on participating, supporting and promoting the development of global tourism, to make it easy for the masses of tourists travel, enjoy the achievement of tourism development.Translated by Sophia

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Dragon Boat Festival (Duanwu Festival) falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. For thousands of years, the Festival has been characterized by dragon boat racing, and eating Zongzi. This holiday will provide ample chances for all to be involved in celebrations.It is a folk festival widely passed down with a history of over two thousand years, and one of the most important festivals as well. There are various celebrating activities on the day of Dragon Boat Festival, among which eating rice dumplings (Zongzi, the steamed glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo leaves) and dragon boat race are important customs.There will be a 3-day holiday for the coming Dragon Boat Festival, starting from May 28 (Sunday) to May 30 (Tuesday, the Dragon Boat Festival).The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.The boat races during the Dragon Boat Festival are traditional customs to attempts to rescue the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. Qu Yuan drowned on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 277 B.C. Chinese citizens now throw bamboo leaves filled with cooked rice into the water. Therefore the fish could eat the rice rather than the hero poet. This later on turned into the custom of eating tzung tzu and rice dumplings. The celebration's is a time for protection from evil and disease for the rest of the year. It is done so by different practices such as hanging healthy herbs on the front door, drinking nutritious concoctions, and displaying portraits of evil's nemesis, Chung Kuei. If one manages to stand an egg on it's end at exactly 12：00 noon, the following year will be a lucky one.Dragon Boat race Traditions:At the center of this festival are the dragon boat races. Competing teams drive their colorful dragon boats forward to the rhythm of beating drums. These exciting races were inspired by the villager's valiant attempts to rescue Qu Yuan from the Mi Luo river. This tradition has remained unbroken for centuries.Tzung Tzu:A very popular dish during the Dragon Boat festival is tzung tzu. This tasty dish consists of rice dumplings with meat, peanut, egg yolk, or other fillings wrapped in bamboo leaves. The tradition of tzung tzu is meant to remind us of the village fishermen scattering rice across the water of the Mi Low river in order to appease the river dragons so that they would not devour Qu Yuan.Ay Taso:The time of year of the Dragon Boat Festival, the fifth lunar moon, has more significance than just the story of Qu Yuan. Many Chinese consider this time of year an especially dangerous time when extra efforts must be made to protect their family from illness. Families will hang various herbs, called Ay Tsao, on their door for protection. The drinking of realgar wine is thought to remove poisons from the body. Hsiang Bao are also worn. These sachets contain various fragrant medicinal herbs thought to protect the wearer from illness.

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On May 23rd, After the rain, Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan Tianzi mountain scenic area is full of hoodoo clouds, which lets visitors to experience the complex smoke and mountain artistic conception.Translated by Sophia

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On May 24th, after the rain, Huanglong scenic area is green everywhere. Roaming in the ecological square, visitors can feel the fresh air, a profusion of garden flowers.Translated by Sophia

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On May 9th, Japanese wing outfit flight athlete in Zhangjiajie Tianmen Mountain finished the first wing outfit flight challenge. This is the first wing outfit flight for him in China.Jiubao Anhong in wing outfit flight movement for 34 years, holds a professional pilot’s license. He has created under 18 items of flying the guinness book of world records. He is on behalf of the low wing outfit flight athletes in Japan. Because of the difficulty and risky of wing outfit flight movement, after Chinese wing outfit flight player Shupeng Zhang, he is the second Asian player to challenge Tianmen Mountain.Zhangjiajie Tianmen Mountain, since 2011 has hold dozens of wing outfit flight related activities, events and challenges. For the grand natural landscape and characteristic flight routes, it becomes the world’s wing outfit flight ultimate challenge place for the athletes.For this challenge in Tianmen Mountain, he is very careful. Challenge before, he has watched the video of the Tianmen Mountain wing outfit flight world championships, he has also carefully inquired the flight experience of athletes. Official flight before, in order to be more familiar with air line, he has also made a special test, finally successfully completed the challenge.The challenge, Japan large television documentary “The soroeru – flying in the beautiful China” has recorded all the procedure. The program will broadcast in Japan in late this year. Translated by Sophia

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The photo taken on May 20, 2017 shows volunteers from Longshan Musician Association are singing folk songs (In antiphonal style) with villagers of Kedong Village, Xichehe Town. The Literature and Arts Association of Longshan County recently arranged volunteers to send painting and calligraphy works to and hold folk shows for villagers who are living in old revolutionary areas and poverty-stricken villages. Translator: Xiao Juan

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The 2017 Hunan Science and Technology Week was inaugurated on May 20. The Standing Committee Deputy Director of the Hunan Provincial People’s Congress Li Youzhi, and Vice Governor Xiang Lili, addressed the opening ceremony.This event, lasting from May 20 to May 27, is themed with science and technology, and innovation. It will showcase the important outcomes of the targeted poverty alleviation resulted from science and technology, display the new technologies, products, and emerging industrial sectors driven by sci-tech achievement transformation, and latest sci-tech innovation progress and results.Ten activities will be launched during the week, including a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) lecture during the opening ceremony; science and technology night; science popularization contest; intellectual property knowledge contest; innovation and startup series activities; safe and rational drug use popularization; and science and technology popularization in rural areas. Provincial departments, and all the cities and prefecture will organize various activities accordingly.Translator: Pang Yuehui

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