Top 7 romantic towns of China travel with your beloved
by xiaming
Article by Yogo58
Perhaps, you always dream of taking a happy China travel : one day, shoulder the backpack, sit on the train and hold beloved lover's hand, go toward to the quiet beautiful town…As a pure Chinese, I strongly recommend the top 7 tourist attractions to you… By the way,tell you a secret: Bill Gates went to the one of these towns to spend a honeymoon with his wife!!(just because my English is not good, probably writing is not very good,So I do hope you can excuse my poor English and give me advice! Thank you very much.)
1. China's most beautiful places--Wuzhen
Location: located in the north of Tongxiang City in Zhejiang Province ,near the west of Huzhou City.
The reason to go: Wuzhen is famous for its residences dating from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911 ), and the town keeps its ancient ambience, as if time has stood still. If you want to enjoy a peaceful Wuzhen, get up before 7 o'clock in the morning and have a walk along the street. There are several teahouses by the river, all clean, comfortable and pleasant. Have glue rice balls as breakfast. Or sip green tea by a teahouse window, while admiring the pastoral scenery of this ancient riverside town.
2. Heaven on earth--the old town of Lijiang
Location: located in northwestern part of Yunnan province.
The reason to go: Lijiang boasts of breath-taking wonderful sights such as Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and its modern maritime glacier, the only one of its kind in the southern end of the Northern Hemisphere; Tiger Leaping Gorge; the world - famous grand canyon,simple natural, quiet and tastefully laid out and halcyon make us forget to return, and the mysterious dongba culture, the more it smooth added a few minutes of the original temptation.
3. Modern peach garden-Wuyuan County
Location: located in the northeastern part of Jiangxi province.
The reason to go: Wuyuan County was founded in the 28th year of Kaiyuan of the Tang Dynasty (740 A.D) for over 1200 years. Wuyuan got its name as the! origins of local water. The annual average temperature is about 16.7℃. Annual mean precipitation is about 1821㎜.
4. Rain town-the ancient city of Fenghuang
Location: located in the west of Hunan province.
The reason to go: Fenghuang has wonderful natural landscapes,it's very hot for travelling since the old time. Even a lot of teleplays were produced here.
5. Jiuzhaigou National Park
Location: located in Sichuan province,more than 400 kilometers away from Chengdu City.
The reason to go: Jiuzhaigou National Park is a nature reserve in the north of Sichuan, a province in south western China. It is known for its many multi-level waterfalls and colorful lakes, and was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992. It belongs to the category V (Protected Landscape) in the IUCN system of protected area categorization.
6. The most intact ancient town--Pingyao
Location: pingyao ancient city in Shanxi Province is located in the central, taiyuan junggar basin.
The reason to go: there is Pingyao city wall,it's ten meters high,6163 meters around,and three to five meters wide at the top.
7. The Oriental art--the Magao Grottes of Dunhuang
Location: Mogao Caves are located southeast the Chinese Gansu Province Dunhuang east 25 kilometer place Mt.
The reason to go: Bill Gates go to Dunhuang to spend a honeymoon with his wife!! Dunhuang new town is a tourist city, known as "the Oriental art".Dunhuang is famous for the Magao Grottes,It is a magnificent art treasures filling the famed Mogao Grottoes, among the ancient and consummate creations in China, carved the time of the Mongolian conquest. The grottoes show an uninterrupted history of Chinese painting, over a period of nearly a thousand years.
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Hand scroll paintings were rolled from one side to the other and as each painted section was revealed, the story of the imagery was viewed and discussed. The book unfolds over many generations and the lives of the long line of women artists who created the Flower Phoenix are brought to life by the telling.The Flower Phoenix is an ancient handscroll which has been created through generations of women artists. The original page of the handscroll was created by China's Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai. The Tang Dynasty is considered by many to be the height of Chinese artistic culture, and Li Bai is China's most renowned ancient poet. Li Bai was inspired by the beauty of Yang Mei. Yang Mei inspires the master painter Wu Daozi. Wu Daozi creates the second page of the Flower Phoenix handscroll. Legends say that Wu Daozi was a mystical painter, who at the end of his life painted a doorway in the side of a mountain, opened the door and disappe! ared for ever.
Each generation creates panels in the book. By telling the story, the storyteller creates a portal into the Realm of the Flower Phoenix. The "storybearer" reads the story and summons the power of the energy of all the generations.
The story opens with Mable "Peach Blossom" Yang's one hundredth birthday celebration. She is going to pass the book on to the next generation. Mable is the most potent storybearer in the family line.
Hand scroll paintings were rolled from one side to the other and as each painted section was revealed, the story of the imagery was viewed and discussed. The book unfolds over many generations and the lives of the long line of women artists who created the Flower Phoenix are brought to life by the telling.List Price: $ 0.99 Price: $ 0.99
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