Entering into the zhangjiajie national forest park, it was full of warm and peaceful atmosphere. The warm blessing and happy banner were full of streets. The dragon lantern, the cheers of the lion’s dancing burst. In the tickets station, electronic screen showed the weather forecast and the distribution of the tourists for tourists.With good policy influence, self-driving from high-speed of changsha to zhangjiajie into the national forest park increased gradually. Guangdong, chongqing, and other foreign licence vehicle was in the majority. In huangshi village, JinBian river, YuanJiaJie and other scenic areas, tourists belonged to guangdong, Hong Kong, it also had a lot of tourists in Europe and America.Translated by Sophia

2013-02-17 01:24 View：1121

During the Spring Festival, Yongzhou's tourism revenue hit 300 million yuan, attracting around 1 million tourists from far and near with featured folk customs and ecological cultures. A year-on-year increase of over 35% in tourist receipt was achieved respectively in such three scenic spots as the Jiuyi Mountain, Yangming Mountain, and Wuxi Town.Before the coming of 2013 Lunar New Year, Yongzhou has been elaborately decorated with festivity and joy, launching various folk custom activities in scenic spots. Ceremonies for worshiping the ancestors and blessing were staged at the Emperor Shun's Mausoleum of Jiuyi Mountain and the Wanshou Temple of Yangming Mountain. The ancient city Lingling boasted its lion and dragon dance as well as local operas like the Qi Opera and Flower Drum Opera in ancient stages. Special benedictions written in the exclusive female character in the world by heirs of Women's Scripts were sent to tourists for free at squares in Jiangyong County. And the Park of Filial Piety Culture in Xintian County outstood itself with activities on the theme of "To Feel Gratitude in a Park of Filial Piety Culture".Translator: Li XuanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

2013-02-20 01:22 View：1036

From February 8 (Lunar December 28) to February 13 (Lunar January 4) of 2013, Lorenzo, an oral English teacher from Italy in the Senior Middle School of Longshan County (in Western Hunan), with his father Romano and his mother Michela who came from Milan of Italy for visiting, spent an unforgettable Spring Festival with local people.During the stay in Longshan, a county inhibited by Tujia Minority, they followed local custom of pasting the spring couplets to welcome the New Year and tasted the specialty foods of Tujia Minority, experiencing the unique Tujia culture of China.Romano and Michela left the county with wistful farewell on February 13. Nevertheless, the hospitality of local people and distinctive local customs of pasting spring couplets and celebrating the Spring Festival had remained fresh in their memory.Lorenzo (right) and his father Romano (middle) and his mother Michela (left) are pasting the spring couplets to welcome the New Year in a household of Tujia Minority.Lorenzo merrily pastes the spring couplets.Translator: Wang BilianSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

2013-02-17 01:21 View：1084

In recent years, southwest Hunan’s Tongdao Dong Autonomous County has vigorously developed leisure agriculture and rural tourism. Its forest coverage rate has exceeded 75%.Last year, 785,000 tourists visited Tongdao and brought tourism revenue of 470 million yuan, rising by 23.2% and 54% respectively year on year. Tongdao was acclaimed as the national demonstration county of leisure agriculture and rural tourism at the end of last year.The county has invested 350 million yuan in the upgrading of 4A-level Dong Nationality Cultural Village of Huangdu, the construction of the peak area of Wanfo Mountain, the transformation of roads in Shuangqing and Jingtong, and the building of other supporting projects.At present, the county has developed 12 key leisure agriculture and rural tourism towns and townships, 15 leisure agriculture demonstration villages, and 28 leisure agriculture enterprises. Puxiu Bridge in Huangdu and Yutou Ancient Dong Village have been included in China’s eight items of classic village landscape and 15 landscape villages respectively.Translator: Lv XuefenSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

2013-02-18 01:19 View：1050

On February 14, a piece of modern flower drum opera “Rural Parents in Town” elaborately directed by the Hunan Flower Drum Culture Communication Co., Ltd, was staged at the Hunan Grand Theater, winning an enthusiastic ovation from the audience for its performers’ wonderful performances. For the following days till February 18, it will be on show at the theater consecutively. The opera tells a funny story of two country folk coming to live in town with his daughter and her daughter-in-law Lily who settled down there immediately after her postgraduate studies. Boasting a stage design of nonrepresentational style, the opera builds a modern forest city in the stage via perfect match of props and light effects. It also boasts strong characteristics of comedy and the combination of modern fashion and typical traditional tunes of flower drum opera.Translator: Li XuanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

2013-02-19 01:18 View：1199

Hunan Embroidery Museum of China in Changsha City, covering an area of 810 m² and holding over 1200 embroideries, is a professional museum presenting the history and artistry of Hunan Embroidery. It is consist of three theme exhibition hall which are “The Origin and History of Hunan Embroidery”, “Rise of Hunan Embroidery” and “Contemporary Hunan Embroidery”. These embroideries vividly replay the development and change of feat of Hunan Embroidery and ancestors’ exquisite masterpieces and course of Hunan Embroidery Development and cotemporary works exquisite beyond compare are visually displayed.Among these excellent works, exquisite works like “Male Lion”, “A Tiger Who Is Drinking”, which were meticulously made by unique “Irregular Stitch”, ever won the Golden Cup prize of Hundred Flowers Awards and both were selected as national treasuries of China Industrial Art. What’s more, works like “Beauty Yang”, “Full Moon”, “Fairies Offer Birthday Congratulations” have been collected by country.By Patricia

2014-10-03 00:29 View：4623

Hunan Loudi Oil Stream, as the second largest tributary of Zijiang River in Jiqing Town, Xinhua County,Loudi City, is named as the stream is clear as oil. It is as long as 67 km and its drop height is as high as 281 meters, which makes Oil Stream a wonderful rafting zone.Now, Chetianjaing Reservoir and auxiliary projects have been built on the upstream of Oil Stream owing to its abundant water volume and big drop height, which has solved problem of irrigation and water conservancy of 6 townships. What’s more, 5 stair power stations have been constructed on its midstream.Oil Stream, deep and serene, is characterized by that its headstream and exit are hills and upstream and downstream are gorges and flat beaches and dangerous shoal are both valleys. Along the both sides of the stream towers green mountains with greenery covering the sky and dangerous cliffs fingering up to the heaven, and lies serene and twist riverbed, which make Oil Stream Drift full of excite and mystery.By Patricia

2012-11-08 00:28 View：3262

Hunan Lengshuijiang Bo Yue Cave, located in northern suburbs of Lengshuijiang City in Hunan, 3.8 km away from its downtown, is a world lava museum where densely covered karst and towered stone pillars weave an excellent picture for tourists.Bo Yue Cave resort zone is an integrated garden mainly characterized by karst landscape dotted by ground scenic spots. Around Bo Yue Cave lies Dachengshan Forest Park, and Stannary known as waterfalls and capital of stibium, where tourists have access to climbing, cave appreciation, waterfall watching and karst research at the same time.Bo Yue Cave has been developed into three layers and developed underground tour route is as long as over 1800m with 27 halls, 81 scenic spots covering an area of over 40 thousand square meters and the height of the cave generally extends from 3 to 10 meters with a maximum height of over 20 meters while the width from 5 to 10 meters with a maximum width of over 70 meters.In a word, the cave is very attracting with karst cave shaped like fields, waterfalls, mountains and rivers and is very cheap that it only costs you 45 yuan. It deserves of your visiting.By Patricia

2012-10-30 00:27 View：3487

On February 11, light rain was falling and temperature going down. However, at the Mark Gate Square in Wulingyuan District was presenting a hot atmosphere. Tug-of-War competition, sponsored by district government and undertook by district bureau of culture and sports, greatly enriched people’s spare-time culture life and created an atmosphere of joy and harmony for Spring Festival.About 120 persons represented by 7 groups participated in this competition. At the scene of competition, mixed with misty rain and cold breeze, members of competition teams strived to pull at hear of whistle sound with cheering squad’s enthusiastic cry and shouting.In the competition, women and men were mixed together. Based on principle of “friendship first, contest second”, finally the first, second and third prize gone to participants from neighborhood committee of Suoxiyu County, Yujiazui and Wenfeng after half a day’s fierce rivalry.By Patricia

2013-02-16 00:26 View：1199

On February 11, the third day of golden week during Spring Festival, Yellow Dragon Cave scenic spot on ecological square displayed custom culture of Tujia nationality people making Glutinous Rice Cake symbolizing reunion and luck.Making Glutinous Rice Cake, as one of New Year’s custom which has been handed down by Tujia people in ZJJ for thousands of years, usually is made of steamed glutinous rice cake knocked about in a special designed stone groove and is of high labor intensity. At the scene of making Glutinous Rice Cake, a lot of tourists were attracted to stop to watch and not a few tourists even actively participated in making it to experience traditional folk culture of ZJJ people.During Spring Festival, Yellow Dragon Cave region had held Festive Lantern and Folk Song performances. And they gained a vast of tourists’ favor and good reputation.By Patricia

2013-02-15 00:23 View：1241