1.Do not go to other’s home with your umbrella open.2.Avoid casually stepping on the threshold in other’s home.3.Men and women should not accommodate in the same room when visiting somebody’s home.

2013-08-19 11:44 View：3944

Taking “Cultural dream of Zhangjiajie” as its topic, 2013 ZJJ International Country Music Week forum will be hosted by famous Hunan TV compere Zhang Dandan. This forum will start from September 1st. Honored guests presenting in this forum will discuss cultural development of Zhangjiajie, analyzing the cultural dream of Zhangjiajie and offer advice and suggestions from different aspects such as music, architecture, sculpture, painting, literature, geography, city management and tourist performance.These invited 11 cultural celebrities include the president of Chinese Chess Academy and chairman of Chinese Chess Association Wang Runan, president of Chinese Religious Culture Communication Association Ye Xiaowen, national level an artist, also the creator of Martin Luther King statue Lei Yixin, national level a scripter and the founder of Chinese live action performance, dean of architecture and design college of Beijing University Yu Kongjian and famous musician Gao Xiaosong and so on.Translated by Becky

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Linxiang City, located in northeast of Hunan Province, as been regarded as the portal of Hubei Province. As a glory land which has bred many great people, there exists the biggest artificial desert and mystic under ground maze of 6501 project.Amazingly,Hunan Province is not adjacent to sea, but there exists a beach. Actually, this beach was formed due to the pile-up of ore sand which was left during mining development of lead zinc ore in Linxiang over half a century. In 1958, Linxiang started mining of lead zinc ore. Hundred tons of sand had been transported to massif via ore washing pipeline per day, then, massif and ravine has been filled up by wind year after year, and finally, the beach of dozens of meters took shape.Oresand scattering in mountain ridge everywhere and winding as long as several miles is the biggest man-made desert until now.The color of Oresand is close to silvery. Especially under the moonlight, the ore sand is dazzled with silver light. That is why it is called “SilverBeach”. However, under sunlight, the beach glitters, thus is also called “Golden Beach”. Sand grains here is fine and smooth and is tested harmless to people by national authoritative organization. This artificial beach is composed by mountain, water and sand. Water is at the border of sand and mountain is at the end of water. Pretty beach bathing field matches perfectly with grandeur Gobi desert.By Patricia

2013-01-24 11:42 View：2991

Since the trial operation on July 5th, Zhangjiajie new recreational travel project Old Taoist Bay has totally received approximately ten thousand visitors from home and abroad.At present, the main construction of comprehensive service area at the gate is near the end. Important entertaining project Water-Park has entered the final crucial part. Field engineering has finished generally. It is estimated that the equipment installation and debugging will be conducted on August 15th.Water-Park will make full use of abundant water resource in Old Taoist Bay and offer a good entertaining place for swimming and being away from the hot weather. At the same time, unique tent accommodation business has been opened to public.Translated by Becky

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On August 10th, The No.10 trestle of Yangjiajie’s Passenger Ropeway is to be drawn to a close and the infrastructure establishment of the whole 14 trestles have entered the last step after 7 months’ construction.According to workers, the installment work of 14 trestles will be done at the end of this month. Besides, the main works of the high and low station buildings in Yang jiajie’s ropeway has been finished. And the passenger ropeway of Yangjiajie will meet tourists all around very soon.By Brenda

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On National Day, The first edition of Tourism law will take effect and civilized travel will be brought into tour contact. According to Da Bin, the dean of Chinese Tourism Academy, in an interview by forum on Making the Country Prosperous at people.com.cn, to further a civilized tourism through law and administrative means will be more effective and faster.Tourists are required to abide by civilized behavior regulations in the tourism law. And recently, to put civilized tourism into a tour contract to better rule tourists’ behavior is also proposed by the director of State Tourism Bureau. To be specific, Tourism Etiquette Rule for Chinese Citizens Travelling Abroad and Tourists Behavior Convention for Chinese travelling domestically are annexed to the contract.By Brenda

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On August 12th, according to resources, “Joyous Xiaoxiang., Happy Wulingyuan” masses artists performance final is to be shown at 9:00am on August 16th in Grand Theatre of beautiful Western Hunan Show.Participated by 15 teams from district systematic enterprises, townships and villages in the whole district and tourism enterprises, The“Joyous Xiaoxiang, Happy WUlingyuan” masses artists activities is sponsored by the district party committee, the district government, the district publicity department, The district administration of Culture, Sports, Radio, Film and Television, Press and Publications. 17 programs in various kinds of forms and contents including Tujia Waving Dance, folk songs, short sketch, Chinese folk art forms, scene play, sing with action and instrumental music performances are wrote, directed, acted by the masses, and then selected from the grassroots.This activity is aimed to show the cultural achievements of the masses, to fuel the development of excellent traditional culture, distinctive culture of Tujia and entertainment culture of the mass characters, to further the integration of tourism and culture, to improve the popularity of ZJJ Wulingyuan scenic spots so as to build an international leisure resort.By Brenda

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Organizers released the preparations, schedules and events for the 2013 Zhangjiajie International Country Music Week at a press briefing on August 15 in Beijing.The music week, to take place from August 31 to September 4 in China's world heritage site Zhangjiajie, is themed "World's natural heritage, our country music". Following the principle of frugality, grandness and profound effects, the festival is expected to be a far-reaching international event.  The organizers will line up more than 300 musicians and are promising a mix of 8 domestic music groups and 25 country music bands from 23 countries and regions. Six events running throughout the week consist of the opening ceremony, the international country music tour, gala night, Harley riders and music in Zhangjiajie, "Cultural Dream of Zhangjiajie" forum session, as well as the award and closing ceremony. Colombia David and his jazz band perform for the audiences. Ebullient dancers showcase passionate folk dances. Translator: Liu FenSource: hunan.gov.cn

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A great gala of music and friendship by Chinese and American musicians was presented to Hunan audience at the Hunan Concert Hall on the evening of August 16. At 10 p.m., the 2013 International Orchestral Music Week hosted by Hunan Symphony Orchestra ended with a violin concerto of the famous Chinese song "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" (Chinese version of"Romeo and Juliet") by Michelle Hansen, a celebrated American violinist.The musical event was jointly forged by Hunan Symphony Orchestra and 17 noted American musicians. They staged 10 exchange performances within the past half month.Translator: Tang LiSource: hunan.gov.cn

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Hunan Travel Annals, compiled by Hunan Tourism Bureau, was officially published by China Travel & Tourism Press a few days ago. Covering a period of 61 years, from the year 1950 to 2011, it is the first report of its kind for the province. He Baoxiang, vice-governor Hunan, honored the book by writing its preface himself.With altogether over 880,000 Chinese characters in the book, its compilation took four years. . With annals like writing style, the book is supplemented by statements, records, figures and charts, etc. Subjects in the book are classified based on events. Presenting Hunan's tourism resources, planning, construction, market, services and management, education, training and scientific research, administrative institution and spiritual civilization, with seven pieces of articles, the 37 chapters in the chronicle objectively and comprehensively record the great progress achieved towards Hunan's tourism reform and development since the founding of the New China.The Hunan Tourism Annals not only systematically and comprehensively collects a fortune of spiritual tourism civilization, but also provides reliable historical facts, abundant and vivid materials for employees in the tourism system to understand, promote and use effectively to develop Hunan tourism. It plays an important role in promoting the construction of a province with strong tourism industry.Translator: He YaoSource: hunan.gov.cn

2013-08-15 11:20 View：1033