ZJJ Toast feast has the rich local characteristics, which favored by the vast number of consumers. Folk have the saying of “without eating toast feast, not to zhangjiajie”. “Toast feast” is a unique thing in zhangjiajie, with unique flavor, exquisite sorting, fine cooking, and delicious taste.

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Rock blackberry, with name of tujia dew tea, also known as long cane, glossy ganoderma, eyebrow tea, rattan tea, bitter nectar, snow chrysanthemum, the goddess of mercy grass, mountain sweet tea, dragon tea and so on.

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Castanea mollissima and pointed chestnut (trivial name ”chestnut”), fagaceae, is woody plants, mainly including starch, sugar, etc. In the zhangjiajie scenic spot, there widely distributes in the wild castanea mollissima tree. When autumn comes, full mountain with piles of chinese chestnuts. They are perennial deciduous trees, with height of generally 3 to 5 meters to 10 meters.

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Zhangjiajie Tujia national has special technology, everyone likes to do some clothes, coat, trousers, headband and cloth shoes. For his daughter, all the wearing clothes are made by parents with his hand. Sandals are weared by everyone, but almost all the people bought plastic shoes from the market. The characteristics of tujia sandals, using cloth sandal with tujia cloth fabric, buckled by hemp firmly. It has delicated craft, fine workmanship, and bright colour. Visitors show great love for it, which become a famous souvenir.

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Ever since the establishment of Literature and Art Association for grey hairs in Shuangxing village, Luoxiyu town, Wulingyuan district, the elderly stopped killing time by playing card and tend to participate singing and dancing activities and rehearse. People gradually abandon boring life and start a brand-new and meaningful life.In order to rich villagers’ spiritual and cultural life and set up an atmosphere of civility and harmony, Shuangxing village have optimized the cultural square, established Association for the Aged and input 30 thousands yuan to organize the first circumference drum team and waist drum team composed by old people. Team members have come to more than 50 people and professionals have been employed to guide them.Apart from developing cultural activities for grey hairs, activities like selecting and appraising “Civilized Family”, “Excellent Daughter-in-law”, “Superstars Who Are Filial Piety to Parents and Care Children” are also hosted every year. In addition, “The Five-Star Level Health Households” will be chosen and awarded every quarter. These activities have in a great degree motivated villagers to participate in civilization establishment.By Brenda

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Among all kinds of local flavors in western Hunan, rice tofu may be regarded as one of the most representative snacks. Similar to rice noodle, rice tofu is also welcomed by almost every family in Zhangjiajie, no matter eating breakfast, or lunch. Since the process of making rice tofu is somewhat simple, cost is cheap and eating is convenient, every family is able to do rice tofu in western Hunan.

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Generally speaking, mandarin orange contains various nutritional ingredients, such as sugar, vitamin C, protein and carotene and so on. What’s more, its content of vitamin C is 6-20 times as that of apple.Orange can even be cooked with other vegetables, so that a unique dish is present. Therefore, mandarin orange becomes one of the most popular fruits in Zhangjiajie.

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Several ancient military installations have been found in Xushupo village, Shuangxiqiao town during archaeological survey organized by cultural relic control station in Yongding district, Zhangjiajie city. Some of them remain a mystery, which aroused many tourists’ interests to unveil the story behind.The first military installation is the Old Castle which is located on hillside of Guanyin Mountain of the village. It is a pure military castle with defensive characteristic where the castle’s walls are enforced with stones with shooting loopholes on walls. The castle’s height around is nearly 10 meters and its width is over 3 meters. Nowadays, the master of the castle remains a mystery.The second one is Lee Manor. It is near the Old Castle. In the manor, a significant amount of pavilions, stages and other facilities are there. Outside the manor, there are a lot of fertile land reclamations. What’s more, building time of the manor could trace back to the first year of reign of Emperor Yongzheng in Qing dynasty.The third one is Tianluoshan Temple which locates on the top of Tianluo Mountain which is just on the opposite side of Lee Manor. It covers 4 mus (Chinese unit of area). It is said the temple was built by Li Zicheng who was once the leader of peasant uprising after defeated by Qing army, which adds mystique to the temple.By Brenda

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Zhangjiajie Colour stone with turtle grain-in Tianzi mountain area. A stone looks like turtle grain, local person call it “turtle rock”. Here,the workmen use it as a raw material for hand carve. Carving into stone turtle, stone cattle, stone horse, stone dragon,stone incense burner, and other arts and crafts. The form is vivid, with exquisite and lifelike art, which deeply caught the visitors′love. Now, it not only sells in the regional area, but also exportes to Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and southeast Asia area country.

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Many tourists roaming in YuanJia village, showing interest in the farming culture of tujia people and farm tools. Tujia cultural amorous feelings, makes people excited. In the rural fields, we will see farmers in the field with the bullwhip furrowed, hearing the spin’s shouts echoed from time to time. Although now, they also uses machine to furrow, but the traditional farming culture seems to be an unique charming.

2012-07-04 22:45 View：3880