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ZJJ Tianmen Mountain Temple was first built in the Tang Dynasty as a center of Buddhism in the area of western Hunan.The present Tian Men Mountain Temple is rebuilt on the basis of the original site with a plot area of more than 10,000 sqm. It adopts an official style of the Qing Dynasty and the buildings in the Temple compare well with the famous classical houses at home. The Temple is located in the mountain hollow with a broad vision. If one gazes into the southeast, all the hills seem to be so small that the Temple is really like an overlord.Translated by Sophia
2012-08-15 11:47
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On Oct 29th, According to the CPC Hunan Party Committee’s requirements on Taiwan working group, The journalists from Taiwan United Daily News arrive in Zhangjiajie and start the three-day field interview in terms of Zhangjiajie’s unique tourism products and investment environment.It is reported that excepet the exclusive interview on the administrators of ZJJ Wulingyuan site, the interviewing group of Taiwan United Daily News will make surveys in Tianzi Mount, Yanjiajie, Golden Whip Stream, Yellow Dragon Cave, Baofeng Lake and Charming Xaingxi and other natural cultural attractions, and come to ZJJ Yellow Dragon Cave CO., LTD and Tianzi Mount ropeway Co., Ltd to make deep inspections into the work and life situiation and investment states of the Taiwan businessmen.According to Liu zefang, The journalist from Taiwan United Daily News, Zhangjiajie is one of the most favorite travelling places for Taiwaneses;in line with what they have seen and heard in Zhangjiajie, They will issue full page of reports on Taiwan United Daily News, United Evening news and Economic Daily with pictures, and publish same reports on Taiwan United Daily News website, promoting Zhangjiajie’s tourism resource, landform, scenary, investment project and development expectations from a multi-angle, which may extend Zhangjiajie’s reputation and popularity in Taiwan and attract more Taiwan businessmen to travel, invest and do business in Zhangjiajie.By Crystal
2013-10-30 15:54
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When mixing Liuyang Fireworks with Hunan embroidery, can you imagine what will happen? After over 1-year practice, this unusual but wonderful thinking becomes true finally. The first fireworks embroidery exhibition was opened officially.More than 130 fireworks embroideries show the resplendent moments when setting off Liuyang fireworks. A treasure of the museum attracts the most attention. That is a 3.6-square meter fireworks embroidery work finished by 5 women after 106 days. They used the vivid expression way of embroidery to recall the grand occasion of Liuyang fireworks set off in all famous cities.Translated by Becky
2013-10-19 01:02
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2013 National water-skiing championship and jet skis exhibitions will be held on October 29th-November 5th, Zhangjiajie city center lishui river.At that time, it will have 14 sports team which comes from hunan, Beijing, Zhejiang and other places. More than 100 athletes competed in figure, swing, leap triathlon and hybrid programs and nine projects.During this game, The audience can not only enjoy the exciting water water skiing competition and motorboat gripping ring racing, also can see “Pyramid”, “Water ballet”, “Dragon water” and other excellent performances of the water. People will have unprecedented perspective of experience.2013 National water-skiing championship and jet skis exhibition “Settled in” Zhangjiajie. It is an organic fusion of water water skiing athletic sports and the world natural heritage, To show beautiful scenery. It will have a positive role in promoting zhangjiajie tourism image.Translated by Sophia
2013-09-27 08:33
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On September 21, the Sixth World Go-chess Contest was held on the South Great Wall of Fenghuang Ancient Town, Hunan Province. The two competitors are emerging talents Chen Yaoye (9p) from China and Park Junghwan (9p) from South Korea. After 100 minutes' fierce competition, Chen Yaoye with white pieces defeated Park Junghwan with black pieces, becoming the champion. On September 21, hundreds of boys dressed in clothes of martial arts acted Go-chess pieces on the world's largest Go board. The staff is directing Go-chess pieces acted by boys dressed in clothes of martial arts.Chen Yaoye and Park Junghwan are playing Go-chess on Fenghuang Ancient Tower.Translator: Yang ChengfeiSource: Hunan Official Web Portal
2013-09-24 07:40
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Source from propaganda office of Shimen has learned that 13th China (Shimen) Citrus Festival officially kicks off in Changsha on September 13th with a series of activities “Happy Shimen, Full dream in citrus homeland” lasting to the end of December.Hunan Shimen has grown citrus since the ancient time. After thousands years of cultivation, There are 440,000mus with 400,000tons output and 700 million yuan of the total value. Shimen also has been honored many titles and its products have been sold out to 16 countries and regions in Southeast Asia.After The first citrus festival was held in 2001, every year’s citrus festival has become “A feast for citrus industry, A festival for citrus farmer, A window for recommendation and an engine for income increase” Themed with “Happy Shimen, Full dream in citrus homeland” and tagged with its event slogan “Citrus in Shimen matures” The 2013 13th China (Shimen) Citrus Festival is to promote sales, tourism and propaganda through festival, which may result in an effect of increase sales and promote Shimen.The activity falls into three parts: “Dream starts in orange beach, pursuit dream in alien land, full dream in citrus homeland” “Dream starts in orange beach–Shi men citrus prospers in orange beach” activity kicks of its press conference of journey in citrus homeland–orange beach of Changsha，where propaganda film of Shimen will be presented, “Three nets and one ring tone” platform is be initiated, and travel agencies are invited to start the journey in Shimen and folk customs performances will be played.“Pursuit dream in alien land–Shimen citrus goes to abroad” falls into two major parts: one is butt joint of production and sale: Shimen citrus comes to China-Russia border trade port on September 19th; visits Shanghai on September 26th and goes to ten major farmer markets; The second is to present Shimen tangerine to Xichang cosmodrome and Qindao Jiaolong base, on behalf of Shimen citrus cooperation. “Full dream in citrus homeland–Shimen citrus matures” falls into three major parts. On afternoon of October 10th, townships(Including communities, Citrus cooperations and civil performance teams) will make civil unique technique displays and a citrus procession from Good Hope hotel to sports center. At 11:30—12:30 of October 10th, the opening ceremony of citrus festival is held in the county’s sports center, and the county television and Shimen news network will broadcast. Besides, there are five supporting activities in the citrus festival: Ecological agriculture & sideline products exhibition of Shimen county, train for citrus broker, China Citrus Festival going to BDA, China citrus festival going to new products appraising meeting and marketing summing-up meeting of Shimen citrus.Photo of previous citrus festivalBy Crystal
2013-09-14 23:47
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On September 14, the third "Ancient City, Ancient Town and Ancient Village" Cultural Tourism Festival & Cultural Tourism Month across the Straits was launched in Huaihua, Hunan Province.Themed "Legendary Huaihua, a Paradise of Ancientry", the opening ceremony bubbled with songs and dances presented by performers in front of the Drum Towers of the Dong minority. The audiences savored the ancient culture as the performance went on or enjoyed the ancient view under the large screen at the site. Coming from Taiwan, some veterans of the Anti-Japanese War (1937-1945) even choired to memorize their victory over Japan in Zhijiang in 1945 and eulogize peace. It is reported that the festival aimed to demonstrate the profound historical and folk culture of Huaihua, to set up a cultural tourism brand of ancient city, ancient town and ancient village, and to promote the culture of peace in Zhijiang. Cooperating with such related areas as Hunan Province, Chongqing City, Guizhou Province and Guangxi Province, Huaihua will spare no efforts to boost the development of cultural tourism industry around the Wuling Mountain.Li Hui, mayor of Huaihua City, declared the festival open and extended her warm welcome to visitors from all around the country. According to the sponsor, such series of activities as the Promotion Seminar on Cultural Tourism across the Strait & the Strategic Investment Cooperation Agreement Signing Ceremony, Memorial Ceremony for Martyrs in the Anti-Japanese War and Workshop on Tourism of Culture of Peace will get started as well during the festival.Translator: Li XuanSource: Hunan Official Web Portal
2013-09-16 23:11
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Unique Mei river scenic spot, “King of Medicine Mount”–Longshan national forest park, “Millennium ancient town”–former home groups of Hunan Army…These scenic spots and essences of cultural heritages are taken into shot by The Home Village Column of CCTV, as its materials of feature film. According to Moqifeng, the scenarist of the column, this program has come to the last period of production and will present soon before.The materials gathering for Home Village feature film lasts for 39 days from July 23 to August 30, including 23 days fro field shot.Five people including the scenarist joins the shot and over 2,000 crews, assistant personnel and figurants from Lianyuan city take part in the shot. There are 300 scenes and 4,000 sets of shots with a total camera time of 972 minutes.According to Mo qifeng, it is planed to shot for ten days with the Mei river scenery and folk customs as major parts.“But when explore the sites, we discover that the natural scenery and folk culture there are worth recommending, so our shot fields are expanding with the ultimate 13 scenic regions, 120 scenic spots, 12 intangible cultural heritages and folk cultures, which turn the materials into a sixteen-hour film.”It is reported that it is not the first time for The Home Village Column of CCTV to come to Lianyuan. It broadcasted Three Odds of Yang jia tan and Millennium Ancient Town Yangjiatan on April 16 and August 6 respectively, which arose unprecedented attention to Lianyuan’s beautiful natural scenery and massive folk culture by different social circles.Besides, Home Village Column will offer these materials that gathered in Lianyuan this year to Lianyuan city for making tourism image advertising video freely.By Crystal
2013-09-03 21:48
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Recently, taking advantage of attending 2013 Zhangjiajie International Country Music Week, Deputy minister of Culture Ministry Dongwei came to inspect Zhangjiajie intangible cultural heritage. Director of Hunan Department of Culture Zhu Jiangang, vice director of Hunan Department of Culture Xiao Lingzhi and deputy mayor of Zhangjiajie City Tian Huayu also participated in the investigation.According to statistics, Now Zhangjiajie owns 10 kinds, more than 730 intangible cultural heritages, such as folk music, folk dance and traditional manual skills and so on. There are 433 inheritors of intangible cultural heritage above the county level. Sangzhi folk songs, Zhangjiajie Yang Opera, Bai Zhanggu dance have been listed in national intangible cultural heritages protection catalogue.In Tujia Folk Customs Park, Dongwei watched Tujia waving dance, Maogusi, Nuoyuan Opera and other folk performances and visited some traditional displays of Tujia wedding customs, Tujia headwear and costumes, batik and picture-weaving in silk. Dong Wei fully confirmed Zhangjiajie’s inheritance and protection work in the field of intangible cultural heritage and encouraged all performers to keep carrying forward national treasures in the future.Translated by Becky
2013-09-03 21:11
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Gao Xiaosong (R), a famous Chinese pop song composer, arrives at the 2013 Zhangjiajie International Country Music Week, in Zhangjiajie, central China's Hunan Province, Aug. 31, 2013. The five-day music week, which attracted 22 overseas bands and eight domestic bands in total, kicked off Saturday in the famous tourist attraction Zhangjiajie.Colombian musician David Frandal (R) performs at the 2013 Zhangjiajie International Country Music Week, in Zhangjiajie, central China's Hunan Province, Aug. 31, 2013. The five-day music week, which attracted 22 overseas bands and eight domestic bands in total, kicked off Saturday in the famous tourist attraction Zhangjiajie.A member of the "Making Faces" from the US performs at the 2013 Zhangjiajie International Country Music Week, in Zhangjiajie, central China's Hunan Province, Aug. 31, 2013. The five-day music week, which attracted 22 overseas bands and eight domestic bands in total, kicked off Saturday in the famous tourist attraction Zhangjiajie.Gao Xiaosong (L), a famous Chinese pop song composer, communicates with the audience attending the 2013 Zhangjiajie International Country Music Week, in Zhangjiajie, central China's Hunan Province, Aug. 31, 2013. The five-day music week, which attracted 22 overseas bands and eight domestic bands in total, kicked off Saturday in the famous tourist attraction Zhangjiajie.Source:Xinhua
2013-08-31 17:05
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