The Tujia minority in Zhangjiajie area has a unique custom to celebrate their new year: if the last month of the lunar calendar has 30 days, they would celebrate the new year on the 29th in lunar calendar;if the last month has only 29 days, they would set the 28th as day for celebration. Tujia people called the new year celebration one day ahead of New Year’s Eve as “Gannian”. There was a popular folk story on “Gannian” among the Tujia people.

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The release ceremony for "Hunan and the 1911 Revolution" and the symposium for descendants of the 1911 Revolution were held in Changsha on Sept.28, marking the 100th anniversary of China's Revolution.During the Revolution period, Hunan boasts a huge number of outstanding revolutionary leaders who care about the world and the people, such as Huangxin, Song Jiaoren, Cai'e, Jiang Yiwu, Jiao Dafeng as well as Chen Zuoxin. The book "Hunan and the 1911 Revolution" was edited by the Revolutionary Committee of Chinese Kuomintang Hunan Provincial Committee, and Zhou Tienong, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) wrote the title and dedication page. The book has collected information about 1,248 Hunan's Hsinhai revolutionaries and over 40 events, and included the precious historical material of more than 100 pictures of cultural relics, systematically summarizing the great achievements made by Hunanese during the revolution.Representatives such as Wang Weiming, eldest grandson of Huangxing, Caici, grandson of Cai'e, Song Pixing, great-great-granddaughter of Song Jiaoren and Jiang Zujun, grand-nephew of Jiang Yiwu attended the symposium.Translator: Ma HuiqinSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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The "Crying Marriage Song" is a folk song originating from Tujia people. According to their customs, bride begins to cry a month before the wedding day in different ways with diversified words, to convey attachment to their loved ones and recount Tujia women's sad fate in feudal society when they had no say in their marriage, which was typically arranged by a matchmaker and her parents. Conventionally, the bride must cry for seven days at least and a month at most before the wedding, even in conditions of exhaustion.

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Boasting a long history, Zhangjiajie Yang Opera has a distinguished style and prides in variedness of local custom. The Opera is based on the local dialect in terms of stage language characterized by clear alteration between Ping (level tones) and Ze (oblique tones) with "R" rhymes.

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After two years' construction, the new Ship Factory of Changsha (SFC) will start trial production at the end of October, 2011. It will become Hunan's largest modern shipyard with the most complete facilities and the most advanced functions, and moreover, the national first-class building base for inland vessels.Established in 1951, SFC now focuses on shipbuilding, large-scale steel structure manufacturing, and terminal handling after its relocation. It covers an area of 580 mu (about 386,667 square meters) and costs an investment of 514 million yuan, with the ship building capacity reaching 6,000 ton. The main workshop will be completed and put into operation this month.It is reported that the new factory is expected to begin making a large engineering ship able to lift 500 tons on the water this month. At present, it has received orders and intention orders worth nearly 200 million yuan.Translator: Zhou JingqiSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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According to the data released by the Hunan Holiday Office on the evening of October 3, the province met its first travel peak of the seven-day holiday.Based on the statistics, the occupation rate of Hunan’s hotels has reached over 90 percent, and 42 tourist areas (sites) under Hunan’s supervision have received 655,100 tourists, creating a revenue of 53,054,000 yuan.With the weather turning better, Changsha welcomes a large number of visitors with a series of attractive activities such as Throwing Tomatoes Competition in Changsha Window of the World, appreciating wild animals in Changsha Ecological Zoo, watching birds in Birds’ Paradise of Yuelu Mountain, and triathlon competition in Qianlong Lake.Leisure tourism in Changsha’s rural areas was also very popular. Baiguo Park, Jingxiu Ecological Farm and Qianlong Holiday Resort have received nearly 15,000 tourists, with 4200,000 yuan of travel income, up 21% and 23.6% over the same period of last year respectively.In addition, tourism industry in Zhangjiajie, Zhuzhou, Xiangtan, Yueyang, Changde, Shaoyang, Yiyang and Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture has also enjoyed a heat during the golden week.Translator: Wang XiaoluSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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On the morning of September 28, Hunan Writers Association held a press conference to promote a new program--Literary Lecture Room. It aimed to create sound atmosphere for the literary development and prosperity in Hunan and develop the program into one with wide social influence and brand value.Centered on literature, the forum pursues public-benefit, academics and superiority and strives to hand down classic works. Therefore, domestic literary masters will be invited to give lectures here.As its first speaker, Wang Meng is to ramble on fiction at 9:00 am on October 17 at Mao Zedong Literary College. Masters such as Tie Ning, Jia Pingwa, Chen Jiangong, Mo Yan, Han Shaogong, Wang Anyi and Zhang Wei are to be invited.Translator: Li XuanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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The drawing of lots ceremony for the 24th Asian Cup Table Tennis Tournament took place on September 27 in Changsha. 30 women and men table tennis players including some Ping pong stars like Ma Long, Guo Yan, Guo Yue, Wang Yuegu and Jiang Huajun entered for the games. 　The Asian Cup is an annual table tennis tournament held by the Asian Table Tennis Union (ATTU). The 24th Asian Cup 2011 was scheduled in March 26-27, Yokahama, Japan. It was postponed due to the devastating earthquake in Japan this March, and rescheduled for Sept. 28-30 in Changsha, China.Chinese men team is comprised of Ma Long and Xu Xin. The former will compete against Tang Peng from Hong Kong, Chan Kazuhiro from Japan and Yang Zi from Singapore and the latter will challenge Kim Min-Seok from Korea, Jiang Tianyi from Hong Kong and Jiang Penglong from Chinese Taipei. Chinese woman player Guo Yan will compete with Jiang Huajun from Hong Kong, Li Jiawei from Singapore and Ai Fukuhara from Japan. 2009 Asian Cup women champion Guo Yue will meet her competitors Tie Yana from Hong Kong, Seok Eun-Mi from Korea and Huang Yiye from Chinese Taipei.Source: Hunan Official Web Portal

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The 2011 China (Chenzhou) International Tourism and Culture Festival themed with "City in the Wood & City of Leisure" will kick off at Fushou Square of Longnv Scenic Spot, Beihu District of Chenzhou City on Oct. 18 and hold its concluding ceremony at Mangshan Mountain National Forest Park of Yizhang County on Oct. 25. All the related projects under construction are scheduled to be finished and put into operation by Oct. 10.  On Sept. 26, the organizing committee of the event held a meeting to analyze the existing complications in the preparatory work and deploy work for the next stage.He Wenjun, member of the Standing Committee of CPC Chenzhou Municipal Committee, presided over the meeting. He pointed out that the departments directly under Chenzhou Municipal People's Government, the districts, counties and cities should detail the work, strengthen cooperation, and carry out the responsibility to efficiently fulfill the tasks.Fan Zhongda, deputy director of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Chenzhou City, also attended the meeting.Translator: Zhou JingqiSource: Hunan Official Web Portal

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Mombasa, Kenya, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- Chinese ambassador here on Wednesday handed over 2,500 tons of rice from China to the Kenyan government, indicating that China started delivering its 2 billion Kenyan shillings' (20 million U. S. dollars) food aid to Kenya to fight against food shortage. Ambassador of China to Kenya Liu Guangyuan, on a hand-over ceremony held at Mombasa Port, said that the Chinese government has paid great attention to the most severe drought and famine in the Horn of Africa including Kenya. He also noted that the Chinese government has announced food and cash support totaling 443.2 million Chinese Renminbi (about 70 million dollars) to the Horn of Africa, the largest aid provided by the Chinese government to foreign countries. Kenyan Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka received the relief food on behalf of the Kenyan government and praised China's quick response to the famine disaster in Kenya. "I also thank China for its agriculture cooperation with Kenya to help us produce more to meet the food demand," Musyoka added. Up to now, the Chinese government decided to provide 2 billion shillings' relief food to Kenya, including rice, wheat, beans, maize flour and cooking oil. The first and second batches of the food aid totaling 2,500 tons of rice arrived here respectively on Sept. 28 and Oct. 1. The third and forth batches departed from China respectively on Sept. 23 and Sept.30, and were expected to arrive in Mombasa Port at the end of October, adding the delivered aid value of the four batches to 500 million shillings. Source: Xinhua

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