At the beginning of the snake year, WuLingYuan tianzi town as the main income of tourist reception services, which has a “good start”.As we have learned, it is close to the core scenic spot, with special parking lot, farm reception facilities, perfect highway and convenient conditions, tianzi town scenic spot sold more than 400 tickets, and more than 3500 people came into it twice. Tianzi town received more than 750 vehicles.In order to complete the tourism reception work, with strict deployment, it organize the special tourism reception order. During the Spring Festival, it arranged the government personnel on duty, to maintain tourism reception order of tianzi mountain core scenic area, thus providing convenience and safeguard for passengers during the Spring Festival.Translated by Sophia

News 2013-02-23 01:28 View：956

Changsha's Kaifu Temple adorned with colorful lanterns with fun lantern riddles attached at the Lantern Festival Blessing Ceremony.The fourth Kaifu Temple Fair will be open at Kaifu Temple Cultural Square to celebrate the coming peaceful and joyful Lantern Festival, which falls on February 24 this year. Everyone is looking forward to seeing the lights, sending lanterns into the sky, wishing for blessing, guessing lantern riddles, tasting local snacks and joining in raffle drawings.Celebrate Lantern Festival at Changsha Meixi Lake on February 24.The lantern show, covering a total area of 7.6 square kilometers, is considered the largest Chinese New Year lantern show in China. Through marvelous combinations of light and shadow, it is truly a feast for the eyes of holiday visitors. The show will be open for one month.In this light festival, the lighting arrays, formed by the combination of more than 50 groups of large-scale colored lights joined with the current Meixi Lake landscape lighting, create the lake into a vast sea of lanterns and lights, deeply reflecting the integration of tradition, stylish features and world elements.The show makes use of the leading domestic LED cold lighting as it's main light source, which is 70% more energy efficient than traditional light sources.Colorful lights to illuminate Changsha's Martyrs' Park Nianjia Lake in celebration of Lantern Festival.The first Changsha Nianjia Lake Water Lights Show, themed "Happy Changsha", is set to create a cheerful festive atmosphere for citizens and tourists through a display of colorful traditional and modern light art.Food fanatics enjoy delicious snacks from around the country at Changsha's Window of the World.From February 10-24, Changsha Window of the World will offer diversified folk customs and snacks from across the country, literally providing a taste of home for tourists this Spring Festival!World's best tulips to be exhibited at Hunan Botanical Garden to celebrate the 2013 Lantern Festival.Visitors to Hunan Botanical Garden will feast their eyes on an indoor flower show highlighting 60,000 of Dutch tulips, 20,000 hyacinths, 5,000 hippeastrum and 1,000 Luoyang peonies.Translator: Guo YanSource: enghunan.gov.cn

News 2013-02-22 16:59 View：1251

On Feb. 17, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Finance jointly issued the list of the first batch of China's traditional villages. There are 646 villages across the country considered into the list including four villages in Yongzhou City, Hunan Province, which are Ganyantou village in Fujiaqiao Town of Lingling District, Shanggantang village in Xiacengpu Town of Jiangyong County, Longxi village in Panshi Town of Qiyang County and Tantian village in Lijiaping Township of Shuangpai County.In August, 2012, according to the "Notice of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development on Printing and Issuing the Index System (trial implementation) of Traditional Villages Evaluation and Identification", Yongzhou selected four eligible villages based on preliminary evaluation and three standards in the index system, which are traditional architecture, location and pattern and intangible cultural heritage in the village. Then the applications were submitted to the State Expert Committee of Traditional Villages Protection and Development for approval. The list has been released to the public in January this year.Translator: Yin XiaodongSource: enghunan.gov.cn

News 2013-02-22 16:56 View：1109

In 2013, ZJJ WuLingYuan with the main line of “construction of international tourism leisure resort, to the high-quality world tourism”, concentrated on city planning, project construction, urban environment, and other key work. Thus striving to create complete functions, fine features, good environment, civilized and harmonious tourist town.ZJJ WuLingYuan, 2013 urban construction work will pay special attention to the following five aspects: At first, strictly control responsibility. Second, spare no efforts to promote the city construction. Thrid, do a good job in the city management. And fourth, strengthen the protection of heritage resources. Fifth, build long-term work mechanism.Translated by Sophia

News 2013-02-21 01:29 View：2047

On the second day of lunar New Year, ZJJ Tujia New Year’s Customs were met with millions upon millions of audience on CCTV Moring News with broadcasting duration being as long as three minutes twenty seconds, which turned out to be the longest broadcasted program about customs of Tujia New Year that showed on CCTV Moring News.To most of people, having a New Year’s Eve dinner is the most importing thing for family’s reunion. However, to Tujia people in ZJJ, what counts most is not the New Year’s Eve dinner but the New Year’s breakfast which is one of customs of Tujia people spending Spring Festival. On the eve of New Year, journalist of CCTV program “Holiday Observation•Attention on Folk Tourism” went into Wulingyuan District in ZJJ and recorded unique custom of Tujia New Year in ZJJ by taking Tang Wei and his family’s preparation of Tujia New Year’s breakfast, who is the host of Guanshanyue Hotel in Xibu Street, as the principal line , and meanwhile enjoyed bacon with passionate, simple-minded Tujia people and domestic and foreign tourists who lived in this hotel at the very day.In recent years, ZJJ folk tourism has become a great important part in building world top brand of tourism. More and more overseas and domestic tourists have showed more special preference to folk custom of ZJJ than its unique natural scenery.By Patricia

News 2013-02-20 01:28 View：1031

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

News 2013-02-20 01:22 View：947

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

News 2013-02-19 01:18 View：1113

Feb 10th 2013, at 19:00pm, the “geeks” in chinese tourism performing arts industry, Zhangjiajie·Charming Xiangxi had a recovery performance. It won great favor from tourists. Many people in the Spring Festival, watched the large national cultural entertainment programs.Zhangjiajie·Charming Xiangxi, wulingyuan cultural entertainment programs, more than ten years, to tourists from home and abroad, became the first zhangjiajie “menu”, reception scale in forefront of national tourist entertainment programs.Translated by Sophia

News 2013-02-18 01:26 View：986