To greet the New Year in arctic place of China : Arctic Mohe Tourism Strategy

Located in north latitude of 53.5, Mohe is the “Divine Arctic” of China. There is the coldest place in China ,and the extreme minimum temperature can reach 52.3 degrees centigrade below zero. Very few people live there ,especially in the winter. However, in the village with snow-capped, you can only see the orange light from the window of the small cabin covered with snow. Bright star as diamonds set in the deep blue night sky. Maybe ,we should step snow to the north, getting the experience of the north of the northern , feeling an extreme pure.

In Mohe , the winter is very cold and long, almost from September each year, it will start to snow and end in mid-May of next year. So traveling in Mohe , it is important to do winter protection and keep warm. The tourism projects in Mohe are basically related to ice and snow, the vast snow of “Arctic Village” ,Ice Lantern in Mohe county, snow sculpture exhibition and horse-drawn sledge are all fun .

Find “North” in Mohe –Arctic Village

The north of the north in Mohe is arctic village. I see the village surrounded by mountains on three sides, the north place is Heilongjiang . In the village , there are chic style rooms with wood carving in both sides of street , the around wall is rounded up by pines ,then cast mud inside and outside.

Heilongjiang is such as a sleeping girl in front of you , the ice unknown its thick is her silver dress. The villages of Russian are clearly visible not far away. You can not walk in the middle of the river for you will “go abroad” not carefully. The scattered farmers are fishing on the river, some are Chinese , and some are Russian. Seeing their fishing , it feels like “fishing alone in the river and snow”.

How Freeing as How You Want

Winter in Mohe , the sun appear in nine o’clock am. and disappear in three o’clock pm. There are only six hours during the day , so that is why they are called “night of the city”. On the train to Mohe , wind from Daxinganling passes outside the window, three-layer window can not resist the cold. Getting out of the train , the cold wind as a knife are scraping the face. The most peculiar is that you can see the rime around yourself . A breath of hot air rallies in the eyebrows, hair and neck, forming the loose white needle-like ice crystals . After the decoration of rime, male has become “Santa Claus” while female has become “White-hair Girl”.

Wandering around Mohe , roads are covered with full of sick ice and snow, you will slip easily even walking very carefully. You should pay attention to the temperature indoor and outdoor , the warmth after the cold will fever your skin.

Ice and Snow Festival

China. Mohe Snow and Ice Festival is held on Dec,25 every year and it lasts one month. It is a snow event of culture, sports, tourism and other activities, the art work of ice sculpture , snow sculpture and ice light show a colorful exhibition. Yangko show, drum performance, ice art, lantern show and paper-cut show enough attract the attention of photographers, letting people on the scoop.

Good Time to See Ice Fog

Ice fog is an unique natural phenomenon in Mohe , it is often seen in very cold month. Generally it appears at the temperature of 45 degrees centigrade below zero, then local people call “white smoke”. Visibility in ice fog is very low, you can not see people beyond ten meters. People spit spit ,then it export into ice.

Another feature in Mohe is rime. It mainly appear rime in early winter and early spring , sometimes in winter. Rime usually occurs in the cold weather suddenly warming. The formation of rime is during the night, next day is generally warm and sunny . After sunrise, almost everything is covered with fog hanging , how impressive scene it is !

Arctic Large Ice Bar

Furniture in the arctic ice bar with modern features is carved with ice, it shows the unique natural snow and ice view to all the visitors. Sitting here in a little rest , having a cup of coffee, it just like stepping into the romantic ice hotel in northern Europe . Full flavor.

Bride’s Favorite — The Most Suitable Tourists of Marriage

“Don’t promise anything, just to be with you to experience the little bit of life”… while tourism side with camera , take you to the most beautiful places to do my bride. This is the most important time of the whole life, in order to catch the romantic moment ,I think all of the couples would like to beautiful places to remember it . In China ,there are many famous sites for marriage , then follow me.

Style Shanghai

Park Bridge ：promise land linking the two hearts

In Shanghai, no bridge is better than the most romantic Park Bridge which has a hundred years old. The bridge witness the changeless promise o pairs of lovers, then people will remember this city forever. The romantic on the bridge has become forever under the bridge, together with the Suzhou river, to put up the unbreakable oath between lovers.

Walking on the bridge , watch the colorful world created by colorful neon lights, love story emerges out of your mind, a bitter but also sweet. Who has promised eternal commitment in the street of Shanghai at night, becoming the beautiful memory with the steel bridge ? Who did jump from the bridge, leaving the immortal oath of “ if I become a mermaid ,I will come to find you “? Wind as that of hundred years ago are blowing the bridge and the people on the bridge, becoming the only surrounding circumstances.

Bring your lover , go to this new love bridge of Shanghai on the Seventh Evening ! Promise the constant vows with your affection , spill the romantic into the flowing Suzhou River quietly. Like the self of the Park Bridge , it loves with Shanghai for hundred years and has never leave, then it will never leave.

Taste of the Yangtze River Delta

Girl sleeping in the river — Zhouzhuang

Described by Wang Jianbing, Zhouzhuang is such a girl : pretty , lonely and long hair. She is wearing clean white floral skirt and with a silver in the waist . She has shiny eyes and skin, you can understand her saying if you get close to her.

The old-fashioned radios seen everywhere ,or a pair of worn sandals ,or the mottled brick walls , all can urge your memory. You can see the bridge , the boat ,the people and the stage which are floating in the reflection , shaking the history of nine hundred years. The faintly visible mist from the snack bar, babbling move of the boats and old lane in the morning and sunset , the Zhouzhuang wearing gauze is your beautiful face.

Hongcun and Xidi Ancient Villages — no dream of love between whitewash wall and gray tiles

In the narrow alley of Xidi and Hongcun, there are occasionally a few beam of sunshine through the window with stone carvings. The beautiful patterns print on the opposite wall, reflecting the thousands of changes.

However, no dream of Huizhou. Here, all the beautiful dreams can compare to the bridge with the elegant chic of gray tiles. Snuggle to the peach tree growing on the entrance to the village with your lover, watch the quiet time flowing through the village and forest, you can feel that you are integrated with the world suddenly. The love between you two rises to big love , maybe it should work in concert with the essence of the Seventh Evening. At this moment, only him in your eyes.Perhaps in the special village, it can truly reflect the love of romance and vows of commitment during the Seventh Evening (the Chinese Valentine’ Day) .

Liquid Charm—Xixi

Xixi is elegant, light and quiet. Maybe it is not so beautiful, but it must be simple and moving. She is the sister of the West Lake and Xiling. Thousand years ago, Zhao Gou the emperor of Southern Song Dynasty fled to Hangzhou, he was fascinated with the scene and said “Xixi and stay.” Then it left a thousand years time , retaining the poets scholars calligraphers and staying the misty rain in south of Yangtze River.

Wandering around Xixi, you will get deep impression of her culture landscape. Every windows are telling you their stories, each gate is describing a period of history. Placing a glass of wine and a few little treat , doing nothing and listening fleeting there.

Dream of Hanging River—Xinchang

Eight hills, half water and half field are the scenery of Xinchang. It is famous for the elegant mountain in Xinchang, Nanyan mountain, Shijiu Peak and Tianmu Mountain are surrounded around. And the clean water in Xichang is also out of the name, Wozhou Lake and Xinchang River are owning the gorgeous scenery. Perhaps mountain in southern is forcing through the water , then it gets aura and charm, becoming a paper with ink landscape.

Walking around Xinchang, the local boatman with dark skin and the depth of the wrinkles is the simple indigence. Then sunshine in the water is passing through the mountains, and it is beating in the fingertips places.

These places are the good places for your romantic marriage photograph and honeymoon, then leaving the most unforgettable memory of your love.

Silk—Treasure of Chinese Craft

Silk is a kind of fabric elaborately made of the natural protein fibrin of pods. Products made of silk have bright luster and soft touch; silk clothes are very comfortable and soft, and has the function of adjusting body heat and moisture, and preventing ultraviolet radiation; silk can also be used to produce home commodities like curtains and carpets, and it is favored by the consumers for the functions of absorbing sound and dirt, heat preservation, and fire-proof. Foreign customers also call silk "the headspring of beauty", for products made of it are rather flowery.

China is the earliest country raising silkworms and weaving silk. It is said the silkworm was first raised by Lei Zu, wife of the Yellow Emperor. According to archaeological speculation, the Chinese have begun to raise silkworms, and pull and weave silk since the middle Neolithic Period 5000-6000 years ago. In the Shan Dynasty, the silk production had reached a certain level, relatively complicated weave machines and skills were developed, and the silk products reached a high technical level. Expanding with the foreign trade scale of the Han Dynasty, the trade and export of silk was unprecedentedly prosperous. Silk, due to its delicate, comfortable and rare characteristics, is very popular among the aristocrats in European palaces. The silk trade promoted the further development of economic and cultural exchanges between China and her neighbor countries, forming the famous prosperous "Silk Road".

The invention of silk made the silkworm weaving a relatively important handicraft industry in ancient China, and exerted a great influence on China in terms of ancient poetry culture and folk-customs. Many articles in The Book of Songs, for example, describe the situation about raising silkworms by women, and folk craftworks like embroidery also take silk as materials. Silk is not only a noble costuming, but a precious artwork. It contains abundant cultural meanings and historical values, representing China's age-old splendid culture. The silk trade promoted the large-scale economic and cultural exchange between the West and East, and made a great contribution to the development of human culture.

Land of Mystery—Tibet

The Tibet Autonomous Region, perched on the southwest Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, is a southwestern frontier region in China. At an average altitude of 4,000 metres, Tibet is the world's largest and highest plateau known as the 'Roof of the World'. The world's largest canyon the Yalung Zangbo Canyou, is in Tibet. In the mid-7th century, Songtsan Gambo established the unified Tubo dynasty and befriended the Tang Dynasty by marrying Princess Wencheng in 641 AD. In the mid-13th century, Tibet was incorporated as an administrative region of the Yuan Dynasty. Peaceful liberation came in 1951, and serfdom was abolished during the Democratic Reform of 1959. The Tibet Autonomous Region was officially established in 1965.
Breathtaking is hardly an adequate word for Tibet's landscape, which consists of snow-capped mountains of astonishing heights, primitive forests, vast steppes, mighty rivers, the world's highest lakes, and exotic wildlife and plants. Tibetans, who make up upwards of 90 percent of the local population, are born singers and dancers with a splendid civilization. Buddhist art thrives, and among the region's 2,700 temples are such famous ones as the Potala Palace, the Norbulinka Palace, the Jokhong Temple, and the Tashilhunpo Monastery.

Panda Jingjing—2008 Beijing Olympics Mascot

Since long time ago, China has formed the tradition of passing blessings through signs. Each of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games mascots represents a beautiful wish: prosperity, happiness, passion, health and good luck. Carrying along the hospitality of Beijing, the mascots have brought blessings to every corner of the world, inviting people of all countries to gather together in Beijing and celebrate the grand ceremony of 2008 Olympics.
Jingjing, an amazingly lovely Giant Panda image, will bring people laughter wherever she goes. As Chinas "National Treasure", the giant panda has been gaining the favor of people all over world.
Jingjing comes from the vast forest, symbolizing the harmonious coexistence of human and nature. The decoration of her head was inspired by the lotus design of Song-Dynasty porcelain. Jingjing is unsophisticated and optimistic, full of force; she represents the black ring of the Olympic Five Rings.

The pretty panda girl Jingjing is the prototype of "Fuwa Jingjing", a mascot of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. "Jingjing" was born in August 30, 2003, weighing only 152 g at birth. Under the special care of the raiser, Jingjing has now grown into a beautiful "young lady". Jingjing’s parents are "sports stars". Her mother "Yaya" was born during the 1990 Beijing Asian Games, hence got the name; her father "Cobi", the most handsome prince of the giant panda base, was named by the former chairman of the International Olympic Committee, Samaranch, and shares the same name with the mascot of the Barcelona Olympics. Jingjing is the ninth child of her great mother "Yaya". The panda picture on the official website of the Beijing Olympic Games is the very image of Jingjing. It is said that the giant panda base has established a diary for Jingjing on the Internet, recording every little bit of experience on her growth. Jingjing hence becomes the first giant panda on the earth to have an official website.

Tour to Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of the most developed cities in China. Hong Kong enjoys the reputation of "Pearl of the Orient" and is geographically divided into four parts - Hong Kong Island, New Territories, Kowloon and the outlying islands. Hong Kong Island has an area of 80 square kilometers, accounting for only 7% of the land area. It is the main commercial area with hotels and tourist attractions everywhere. The population is mainly concentrated in the northern part of Hong Kong Island and the southern part of the island is area of undulating mountains. Kowloon, a peninsula in the port in the northern island, covers an area of only 46 square kilometers. However, it is an urban area more densely populated and more focused. The New Territories covers an area of about 980 square kilometers, equivalent to 91% of the land area in Hong Kong. New Territories of Hong Kong has the largest part of the land area of the island, with the outlying islands in a total of 965 square kilometers; it is the area with pastoral flavor. The Outlying Islands comprises 235 islands with the largest one, Lantau Island being almost 2 times than Hong Kong Island in size.

Hong Kong is a living paradise with a wide range of enjoyment. Tourists in Hong Kong can view the beautiful natural sceneries and get various enjoyments of commercial civilization. You can enjoy the pleasures of the modern material society as well as experience the simple life of the past times.

"Pearl of the Orient" (Hong Kong), as one of China's Special Administrative Regions and an international free trade port, has become a world-famous dynamic city.

Torch Festival Legend

Torch Festival is an important and long-standing traditional festival of Yi, Bai, Naxi, Jino and Lahu nationalities. It's famed home and abroad as a festival of profound folk cultural connotation, and is called an "Eastern Carnival". The Torch Festival is celebrated on a different day by different nationalities, which is usually on the 24th of the sixth lunar month of each year featuring the major activities of bullfight, sheep-fight, cockfight, horse race, wrestling, singing and dancing performance and beauty contest. What's more, different place features varied versions of the legend of the Torch Festival, which is also a huge treasure in our folk custom.

First of all, the formation of festival-related customs and legends has something to do with the original worship of Yi branch nationalities of the same ethnic origin, or a more direct relationship with the worship in fire, that is, to pray for a good new year in front of the sacred fire, and to divine farm work with fire color and farming results of a year with the brightness of the fire.

Secondly, there are many versions of the Torch Festival legend, which are largely identical despite of different origins. With strong sense of humanism, those varied versions end unexceptionally with the victory of human beings and the failure of gods. This varies greatly from the narrative mode in fables, in which gods are forever the unbeatable characters stronger than human beings.

Thirdly, the penetration of traditional moral ideas into legends of the Torch Festival custom afterwards has been reflected in the integration of legends about female characters and those about the festival, so as to put stress on chastity and virtue.

Anyway, from the formation and evolvement of legends about the Torch Festival we could find different levels of historical accumulation, which is synchronous with the long-term development of the festival in southwestern nationalities. Legend about the festival has been constantly evolved as it was passed down from generation to generation, which has even influenced the festival custom in some regions, while adding the derivative meaning of "commemorative festival" to the original and "sacrificial" Torch Festival