The construction of the glass path, cable car, bungee jumping and other supporting facilities will be started in the latter half of the year at the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon, which is expected to be open to the public at the end of 2013. The glass path, projected to be the longest in the world, will fill in the gap of bungee jump experiencing in Zhangjiajie. World's famous designer Haim Dotan,...Read More
Funeral dance, an ancient ceremonial dance at the funeral which is endemic to Tujia people,especially areas around Qing river waters.Popular as the waving dance is, funeral dance also heated welcomed by Tujia people. The fact is only men not women can be allowed to performance funeral dance. The dance movements all take birds and animals as imitating models,that is,continuously shake your whole body and sway your haunch at a side-to-side...Read More
At the launch ceremony, ten beauties of the last contest present a Hanfu (a traditional Han Chinese clothing style) show."2012 Miss Tourism of the Globe" Hunan Zone was launched in Changsha Longchamp Garden Hotel on May 30. The international competition of "Miss Tourism" was initiated by Charlie TTMM, president of the American Hollywood Festival of Beauty Organization in 1917. Themed with "Tourism, Beauty, Fashion and Harmony", the event aims to...Read More
The traditional baijiayan (collective feasts) of the Dong minority group has become a profitable tourism product for people in Linxi of?Sanjiang Dong autonomous county, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. The local Dong people have attracted 110,000 tourists with their feasts, which bring 6 million yuan ($947,747.52) in returns. Also known as "gather-up feast" and "long-table feast", baijiayan is a unique custom of the Dong minority, where local residents gather together to...Read More
The seventh Chinese Corner in Japan was established in Nagoya on May 27. Zhu Xinjian, vice chairman of the Association of Hunan People in Japan as well as a teacher at Aichi College was appointed representative of this Chinese corner. Duan Yuezhong, pioneer of the Chinese corner in Tokyo, director of the Japanese Jiang Jie Association of Hunan People and representative of the Chinese Corner in Yokohama attended the establishment...Read More
