According to the news of November 21 from Eisenstaedt, capital of Burgenland in Austria, the modern folk paintings of Mayang Miao Autonomous County in Huaihua City, Hunan Province, were well received at the Sino-Austria Exhibition of Culture and Art Industry, attracting over 10, 000 visitors since November 8. With local characteristics and elegant colors, these 40 exhibited paintings vividly depicted the new life in villages of the last 30 years since the Reform and Opening Up policy, creating a unique artistic style. The Austria-China Friendship Association selected seven out of the works for a national art exhibition in Austria in 2014. Translator: Li Xuan Source: Hunan Official Web Portal

2012-11-22 22:28 View：1115

Zhangjiajie is situated in the northwest of Hunan province,China, in the juncture of the Yunan-Guizhou Plateau and the subsidence of Donating Lake, stretching over the area from between 109'40 to 110'20 E to between 28'52 to 29'48 N.

2012-11-24 10:05 View：5097

Shijili is national secondary writer, Chinese minority society member, Chinese writers association member, the delegate of the 49th session of the Belgrade world writer meeting. She is considered by miao writer’s outstanding representative. And in 2005, she was written into the Modern and Contemporary Miao Literature.The Tiptoe of Xiangxi is a devotion following after tourist literature book Reading about Zhangjiajie. It is a story about a big xiangxi tourism encyclopedia. This book from the view of tourism culture comprehensively introducted and presented zhangjiajie, xiangxi, huaihua etc, which showing the heavy historical culture, rich tourism resources and rich folk customs.Translated by Sophia

2012-11-19 01:57 View：1213

In order to inherit excellent tujia culture, to create a zhangjiajie tujia folk culture tourism brand, marketing winter of zhangjiajie, from nov. 30th, to dec. 2rd, a big “tujia daughter meeting” blind date activity —– “2012 the first zhangjiajie tujia daughter meeting will be held in Xibu street of WuLingYuan.The blind date activity is full of national regional characteristic opening ceremony, tujia block door marriage customs performance, antiphonal love song, love flowers, matchmaker pairing, Xibu street taobao love, bonfire party, etc. These activities aim at deducing how the industrious and kind-hearted tujia people to fall in love with each other, with rich tujia folk customs.As we have learned, “daughter meeting” originally is the tujia young men and women gather together for love, which has been 300 years history. It is known as “the long history of the oriental valentine’s day”.Translated by Sophia

2012-11-20 01:57 View：1254

On November 16th, the first national services standardization pilot unit zhangjiajie — zhangjiajie Tianmen mountain tourism co., LTD. (hereinafter referred as the tianmen mountain company), with travel service standardization pilot work, thus winning 92 scores to pass through evaluation expert groups′s assessment acceptance of the national standardization management committee. This is the first unit of province tourism industry which passed through the assessment acceptance of the national services standardization.Expert groups, in accordance with the overall objective, pragmatic and fair evaluation principle, through listenning to the report, checking materials, on-site inspection, tourist satisfaction survey, a staff forums and other methods to overall evaluated the standardization of the tianmen mountain company pilot work, and its performance shall be fully affirmed.In the future, the tianmen mountain scenic spot will be in accordance with the tourism service standardization construction requirements, continuous improvement, and constantly improving the standard system, and striving to become the province and even the whole country tourism service industry model.Translated by Sophia

2012-11-20 01:56 View：1171

A few days ago, Zhangjiajie committee specially unveiled new policies, in order to back the unique tourism projects——Xibu Street. They aimed at making its feature lives up to the name.According to ZJJ Tourism Committee’s opinions, ZJJ Tourism Association will guide the overall construction of Xibu Street, and actively strengthen its cooperation with other tourism enterprises. At the same time, government of Wulingyuan District will also try to contribute more to support Xibu Street, improving their services and offering supporting policies, so that a better developing environment will be presented for all the enterprises.Translated by Becky

2012-11-21 01:55 View：1276

Loach Drilling in Tofu is one of Tujia people’s favorite dishes. The first cooking step is to put small loaches in a pot with clear water and small quantity of salt and feed it for one night to clear out sand and impurities in loaches’ stomach. Then wash them and put alive loaches into tender tofu to let them bore as they like. After there are several small hole bored by them, put them in oil pan and then boil them. Finally,Sichuanpeppercorn, chopped green onion, gourmet powder, ginger, soy sauce and so on can be added into the dish.

2012-11-11 01:54 View：3314

First step: select fresh red peppers of high quality, clean them with clear water and then dry them (make sure no raw water on pepper);Second step: chop clean and dried peppers into pieces. You’d better chop by hand to avoid the fiber of peppers being broken down by mechanical equipment and to keep peppers fresh and to make it taste good.Third step: you can add ingredients like salt, ginger, garlic,Sichuanpeppercorn etc. according to your personal likes. PuttingSichuanpeppercorn can make preserve time long enough about 2 to 3 years.Fourth step: store sealed in glass pot. Ten days later, you could have it. If better flavor required, sealed storage should be over a month.Fifth step: when you are to open the glass pot to have it, you should let gas leak out slowly to avoid your eyes being hurt by ejective pepper because of the high gas pressure.By Brenda

2012-11-17 01:53 View：2627

Straw-hat noodle is sold by the boss who always sells noodles with a straw hat on his head. His noodles are hand-made by himself and ingredients added in noodles are quite appetizing. However, the boss is very strange that he only sells a fixed amount every day. It’s more strange before that he only sold noodles at nine o’clock in the evening on every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Moreover, if want to have his noodles, you sometimes have to book in advance and whether he wants to sell depends on his mood. Thus, the boss and his noodles are full of mysteries.

2012-11-15 01:52 View：2603

Zhangjiajie tourism bureau DingYunYong said, this year from January to october, zhangjiajie inbound market kept more than 20% increase. From the tourists source constitution, overseas tourists were still with South Korea, Taiwan and southeast Asia. And a new country regions was given priority to, the United States, the number of American visitors increased by three times more than the same period last year.In the peak period, zhangjiajie was about 300 American visitors every day.Translated by Sophia

2012-11-18 01:51 View：1330