A Traditional Chinese Delicacy - Fo Tiao Qiang

Many tourists would like popular China tours. When you travel to a new place, what food should you choose to eat? The following give you the information of Fo Tiao Qiang, a Chinese cuisine.

This is a kind of superior dish, whose original name is “Fu Shou Quan”. It was first created by eminent Juchunyuan Restaurant of Fuzhou during the region of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty. Fo Tiaoqiang is made of 28 kinds of fresh ingredients such as, abalone, sea cucumber, shark’s fin, fish maw, shark's lip, tendons, hams, dried scallop, dried mushroom and Shaoxing Wine etc. Put them into an earthen jar and seal up with mud. It takes more than 10 hours to stew with slow fire. The flavor is delicious and the sweet perfumes are diffused all around. It is a delicacy in autumn and winter. No wonder that one skillful writer in Qing Dynasty recite poems to praise “The fragrance float in the air even to the neighbor house when open up. The Buddha leap the wall as soon as smell the scent.” Fo Tiao Qiang(Steamed Abalone with Shark's Fin and Fish Maw) is thus named.
Ingredients

Sea,cucumber,Shark Scallops,Fish Maw,Ham,Mushrooms,Winter bamboo shoots,Duck gizzard,Gedan,Fat hen,Water-fat pig tendons,Pig meat Feibiao,Sheep elbow,Duck
Condiment:
Ginger,Onion,Cinnamon,Shao liquor,MSG,Crystal sugar,Soy sauce,Pig soup
Methods：
1. Water will be made to the sand shark, tick row of bamboo in the grate, the boiling water into the pot Congduan plus 30 grams, 15 grams of ginger, 100 grams Shaojiu cook for 10 minutes, remove the smell of their support, to pick onions, ginger , No juice, grate out into the bowl, placed on shark Feibiao pig meat, wine Jiashao 50 grams, on Long Ti Wanghuo with steamed out 2 hours, to pick Feibiao meat, steamed to Decanter juice.
2. Yu Chun cut growth of 2 centimeters, 4.5 centimeters wide of the block, into the boiling pot, add 30 grams Congduan, Shaojiu 100 grams, 15 grams ginger cook for 10 minutes remove Qu Xing, picking onions to ginger.
3. Bao money into the Long Ti, Wang Huo take steam out rotten, washed after each piece into 2, Ji crosswise on the knife, into the Sheng Xiao Pen, plus soup 250 grams, 15 grams Shaojiu, Wang put Longti Remove the steamer for 30 minutes, steaming to Decanter juice. Gedan cooked, peeled.
4. Chickens, ducks, respectively Duoqu head, neck, feet. Pig carcasses sharp tick, net pulled hair, wash. Sheep scratch elbow cleaned. Four more than the expected cut 12, with the net duck gizzard together under the pot boil for a short time like boiling water, remove the blood salvage. Zhu Du-ri valgus washed with boiling water and boil for a short time twice a muddy flavor removed, cut into 12, hack, plus soup with the boiling of 250 grams, 85 grams of wine Jiashao boil for a short time you picked up, Tom Khan Do not have to.

5. Sea water will be cleaned, each cut in two pieces. Wash water pig tendons, cut into 2-inch-long paragraph. Net tendon ham meat plus 150 grams of water, on Long Ti Wanghuo with steam 30 minutes out, steaming to Decanter juice, cut into 1 cm thick film. Winter bamboo shoots release remove cooked in boiling water pot boil for a short time, each cut into four straight, flat shot softly force. Wang Huo buy pot, pot Shuzhu You put 70 very badly burned hot, it will Gedan, hack-fried pieces of winter bamboo shoots about 2 minutes to salvage. Subsequently, the fish will be hack-high fish maw, Zhazhi can be broken hand, poured oil to Loushao Lek, and then out into soak in water, cut growth of 4.5 centimeters, 2.5 centimeters wide of the block.
6. Pot to stay more than 50 grams of oil, heat 70 Wanghuo very badly, it will Congduan 35 grams, 45 grams ginger flavor hack-Chao Chu, into chickens, ducks, sheep elbow, a sharp Pig, duck gizzard, Zhu Du speculation for several blocks, adding 75 grams of soy sauce, MSG 10 grams, 75 grams crystal sugar, Shaojiu 2150 grams, 500 grams soup, cinnamon, and cook for 20 minutes after the stamp, to pick onions, ginger, cinnamon, fishing Qiguo Liu Sheng out in the basin, soup stand-by.
7. Shaoxing rice wine altar get a wash, adding 500 grams of water, Wei Huo on the Heat, was a net altar in water, put an altar at the end of Grate Kotake, the first of cooked chickens, ducks, goats, elbow, a sharp Pig, Duck gizzard, Zhu Du block and took black mushrooms, winter bamboo shoots into pieces, then shark's fin, ham, scallops, abalone film into a rectangular bag with gauze and put in chickens, ducks, and other material, and then poured into Zhuji, ducks, and other material The soup, lotus leaf altar in the mouth on the cover and back on to withhold a small bowl. Good equipment, altar wine will be placed on the charcoal stove, simmer low heat 2 hours after al Kai, will speed japonicus, tendons, Yuchun, and fish belly Add the high altar, I immediately closed a good altar, and then a simmer An hour out, serve, I will be altar dish and pour it into the large basin Hu, gauze bag is opened, Gedan on top. At the same time, I am similar to keep up with a dish of radish, bean sprouts mixed with a plate of ham, the latter a dish of fried mushrooms, hot mustard oil, as well as a silver disc volumes and file Fresh fried sesame.
Do you want to have a taste of it through the description. It can be tasted in south China, such as Fujian. If you have a Shanghai tour, it can also be found.

Where to travel for Chinese medicine adventure

Traditional Chinese medicine is very famous in the world. If you are interested in Chinese medicine when you have China tours, you can choose the below-mentioned places to visit.

Beijing, China

Somehow, experiencing acupuncture in its home setting just feels right – especially when you get the balms, oils and smelly unguents of traditional Chinese medicine. Since 1975 Beijing has been home to the International Acupuncture Training Centre, a university for foreign doctors who want to have a stab at it. Prefer to be pricked rather than do the pricking? Book yourself in at Dongzhimen Hospital. The People’s Republic is also pioneering stem-cell treatments, offering patients with the gravest conditions a chance to try new treatments not yet approved at home.

Tibet, China

Tibetan medicine has a rich heritage and is currently practiced not only in Tibet, but also in the adjacent Chinese provinces of Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, and Yunnan, and in the neighboring kingdoms of Bhutan, Nepal, Ladakh, and Sikkim, where communities of Tibetan people have long been established. Many non-Tibetans also seek out treatment by this traditional system because of its good reputation. As a result of the flood of refugees from the Chinese military occupation of Tibet, Tibetan medicine extended to India, and, from there, to many countries of the world (especially in Europe and North America) under the guidance of a small number of refugee physicians. One of the most famous of the refugee doctors is Dr. Yeshe Donden, who was the personal physician of the Dalai Lama in exile from 1961-1969. Dr. Donden has spent much time in the U.S., where he has diagnosed and treated patients, given teachings to doctors and laypersons, written books and articles, and answered numerous questions about the Tibetan system of health care. Tibetan medicine has also been popularized by a lineage of the Badmajev family that originated in Russia, near Mongolia; members of the family traveled West during the 20th century. Tibetan herbal formulas they brought with them have been available as pharmaceutical products in Europe since 1980. If you will have a Tibet tour, you can learn something about Tibetan medicine.

One of fantastiv tourist attraction in Yangshuo – Butterfly Spring Park

Butterfly Spring Park is located in the best traveling place of Moon Hill Scenic Area in Yangshuo, destination of classic China tours, occupying an area of 36,000 square meters (8.9 acres). It is named after a butterfly-like stalactite found in a grotto of this beautiful park. As a locale which brings together both a unique landscape and a rural setting, it is a typical representative of ecotourism sites in Yangshuo.

At the entrance to the Butterfly Spring Park there is a huge Monarch Butterfly model mounted on a cliff beside the gate. The model has an area over 280 square meters (0.07 acres). It looks so vivid that people may think the butterfly is waving its wings to welcome visitors. He Jingzhi, a famous poet in China, visited here and was so astonished by the huge butterfly model that he wrote an inscription titled the No.1 Butterfly under the Heaven to praise it.

In the park's 400-meter-long Butterfly Grotto, spring water oozes from the sandy layer in the rock every day and forms a pool. This is the Butterfly Spring. The grotto holds many stalactites with varieties of shapes, such as fruits, mountains, divinities and the moon. Amongst them, there are some which look like butterflies and are absolutely lifelike.
Except for the spring and the grotto, Die Yuan (a garden for viewing butterflies) is also a well-marked sight in the park. It is the largest area for viewing the living butterflies in China with millions of butterflies living here and getting along with people harmoniously. Visitors can see the colorful butterflies flying leisurely among the bushes. In the Butterfly Exhibition Hall of the park, there are over ten thousand models of about 300 butterfly varieties with unique styles on display. Visitors can also see some valuable butterflies here, such as the nymphalid and papilio. The papilio is the most beautiful one and is commonly called the queen of butterflies.

In the Butterfly Spring Park, there are many other points of interest, such as the Waterfalls on Butterfly Hill, the Butterfly Bridge, the Honeybee Garden and the unique Original Hanging Bridge of Yangshuo. In the Honeybee Garden, visitors can taste wild honey for free.
Additionally, the peculiar Karst landscape offers an ideal place for rock climbing and includes a professional rock climbing line as long as 25 meters (27.3 yards). Visitors can enjoy this breathtaking and exciting activity after appreciating the beauty of the butterflies and the spring which is similar with scenery of Suzhou tour.
Tips:
Transportation: The park can be reached by taking a bus from the Guilin bus station between 8:00 and 20:00 to the Yangshuo Bus Station. The trip will take about 70 minutes and cost CNY15. From there change to an electromobile to the Butterfly Spring Park.
Admission Fee: CNY35 (for adult) CNY18 (for child between 110cm-140cm) Free of charge (for child under 110cm)
Opening: 7:00-18:30
Time for a Visit: 40 minutes

Detian Falls - the second largest waterfall in the world

Many one has Yangtze River tour tour and experience splendid landscape along the Yangtze River. But do you know the world's second-largest waterfall? It is Detian Falls in Guangxi Province.

What is it about waterfalls that encourages pride that verges on ludicrous? Hence Detian is proclaimed ‘the world’s second-largest waterfall along a national border’ – the gushing 200m-long stretch of cascades straddles China‘s Guangxi province and northern Vietnam (though China gets most of the flow). But you don’t come here for the stats, or the tremendous roar of the rushing water, or for the fun of snapping a photo of yourself at the border marker. You come because it’s gasp-inducingly beautiful: a verdant vision framed by looming karst outcrops and serene rice paddies.

Midsummer is the best time to appreciate the power of the flow; avoid winter, when the falls are relatively thin streams and fog dominates.
Guangxi is not far from Yunnan. If you have an interest in Shangri-La adventure, you can visit Yunnan by the way.

Best Tourist Spots in China

Beijing: best for history
Beijing, as the capital of China, attracts many tourists with its so many tourists spots. Here will give you information about history Beijing for your China tours.

Dusk is falling over the Forbidden City, the former imperial residence, and the last crowds of the day are filtering out through the gateways. The palace, spotlit by the evening sun, is painted in earthy tones: deep pinks, stone greys, cinnamon browns. Sprawling across 180 acres of downtown Beijing, this vast palace served as the symbolic and political centre of the Chinese world for more than five centuries. Built under the reign of Chengzu, it was designed to project the might and majesty of the Chinese emperor. Between 1420 and 1924, 24 emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties lived here in near-total seclusion, and commanding an almost divine power over their subjects.
These days it’s China’s most popular sight and attracts enormous crowds for tourists' Beijing tour – but even among the throngs, it’s still possible to find secluded corners: tumbledown temples, secret galleries, forgotten chambers, quiet squares. It’s a place of ancient codes and secret symbols. The Forbidden City is also a reminder of a much older Beijing, which long predates the city’s skyscrapers, ring roads and office blocks.
Jiankou: best for the Great Wall

High above the forest canopy, a ribbon of watchtowers and battlements snakes out across the rippled hills, its contours traced out against a fuchsia sky. Stretching for around 5500 miles along China’s wild frontiers, the Great Wall is a potent symbol of the colossal power and iron will once wielded by the Chinese empire. This vast manmade barrier might not be visible from space, as is often claimed, but it is truly one of the great wonders of the ancient world.
In fact, there isn’t really one Great Wall at all, but many. It consists of numerous sections, built and modified by successive military commanders over the course of more than 2000 years. Some parts are little more than pounded earth, mud and timber. Others, such as the Jiankou section, bristle with ramparts, forts and guard towers, often given elaborate names such as The Eagle Flies Facing Upward, Heaven’s Ladder or the Nine-Eye Tower.
Shanghai: best for architecture

If anywhere symbolises China’s superpower future, it’s Shanghai. Wired by fibre-optics, intersected by neon-lit freeways and bathed in a permanent sodium glow, it’s the archetypal modern metropolis: faster, richer, brasher and busier than any other city in China.
Twenty years ago, the city would barely have scraped into the top 50 in the world skyscraper league, but it’s now at number four – surpassed only by Hong Kong, New York and Tokyo – and rising fast. On the east bank of the River Huangpu, in the high-rise district of Pudong, the pace of change in Shanghai really shifts into focus. In 1990, this was still farm land, carpeted with rice paddies, cornfields, warehouses and boat stores. Two decades later, it’s the city’s priciest patch of real estate, home to the main financial district, the stock exchange and Shanghai’s tallest cluster of skyscrapers, including the gaudy Oriental Pearl Tower, the Gothamesque Jinmao Tower, the soaring Shanghai World Financial Centre and the Shanghai Tower, which will be the world’s second-highest building, at 632m, when it’s due to be completed in 2014.
Longsheng: best for rice terraces

Rice isn’t just a staple in China – it’s the stuff of life. Beyond the big cities, in the flatlands that cover much of the country’s interior, every inch of available earth is given over to its cultivation, and the landscape’s colours shift according to the rice season – acid green when the shoots are young, deep jade when the crop is mature, and tawny brown following the annual harvest.
High in the mountains of northern Guangxi stretches the Dragon’s Backbone Rice Terraces, a vast network stacked across the hillsides like the tiers of a wedding cake. Cultivated for more than eight centuries, the rice terraces cover 16 acres and range in altitude from 300m to 1100m.
Cormorant fisherman Huang on the Yulong river. Photo by Mark Read
Yangshuo: best for river scenery

A spiky patchwork of peaks, plains, creeks and canyons, Yangshuo is where China’s city dwellers go when they want to experience the great outdoors. Stretching along the banks of the Yulong and Li rivers, this rural county is home to some of the country’s most famous landscapes – they even feature on the back of the 20 yuan note. Strewn with karst pillars, rural villages and riverside trails, it offers a glimpse of an agrarian past that feels a world away from the clamour of China’s traffic-choked cities.
Before the advent of motorways and high-speed trains, the rivers were often the only means of transportation in rural China and, even now, traditional bamboo rafts are still a common sight along the riverbanks – although these days, they’re more likely to be transporting tourists than trade goods.
Some of the old river ways endure. Cormorant fishing is one such custom – fishermen train the cormorants using loops of throat twine, which allow the birds to guzzle smaller fish but prevent them from eating the larger ones. As recently as the 1950s, there were as many as 500 cormorant fishermen working on the Li River, but now only a handful remain, mainly to stage shows for visitors.
All the above-mention are must-see tourist destinations for your private China tours.

China on Screen

China on Screen
China has a rich history going back thousands of years, its heritage serves to inspire and drive modernity… but you know what else? China looks great on film. It’s one huge country with desert, mountains, rivers, huge cities, long walls and a roll-call of other cool things. Plus, with a population of more than one billion, movies are big business and more and more Hollywood outfits head there to make films. If you’re visiting China as a movie buff, here’s quick primer on what to look out for and where it was shot for your China tours.
Beijing
Beijing captured the world’s attention when it hosted the Olympics in 2008. The event’s iconic sites were showcased in the Will and Jada Smith–produced Karate Kid remake (shot entirely in China). Their son, Jaden Smith, was filmed against the famous Bird’s Nest and there were cutaways to the then-new CCTV building as well. Several scenes were also shot at the Beijing Shaolin Wushu School – remember the sequence with several hundred students doing their morning training routine?
Of course, the city’s crowning glory is the Forbidden Palace. True to its name, no other film since Bernado Bertolucci’s epic The Last Emperor (shot in 1987) has been allowed to shoot inside this grand compound. Yet the Karate Kid managed to pack in a wildly unrealistic sequence where a bunch of school kids walked through the Tiananmen Doors into an empty palace. Real-life visitors today will generally have to battle with thousands of other tourists for their Beijing tour!
The Great Wall of China
No, you can’t see the Wall from space, but you can visit the Mutianyu section where Jackie Chan taught the Karate Kid some moves. Robert Downey Jr will also be seen flying over sections of the Great Wall in a tin suit in Iron Man 3. Also in the pipeline, Edward Zwick (of The Last Samurai fame) will be directing The Great Wall, a film about the origins and construction of this iconic structure. So, pay a pilgrimage to the various remaining sections, they’re all within day-trip striking distance from Beijing.
Shanghai

Speaking of Iron Man 3, filming will be set in various as-yet-undisclosed parts of the city. We’re going out on a limb to suggest that you visit the Bund, the lovely French Concession and the gleaming skyscrapers in Pudong (including the 492m-high Shanghai World Financial Centre) where we’re guessing that scenes from the movie will be shot.
This picturesque 900-year-old village was notably the set for The Painted Veil, a tragi-drama starring Edward Norton and Naomi Watts. Wander on cobblestone paths past stone houses and along the stream to recreate scenes from the film (minus the cholera). Since you’re in the Guangxi province, don’t forget to visit Yangshuo where you’ll find the gorgeous karst-mountain backdrop that set the bucolic tone of the film.
Anhui Province

The perfectly preserved Unesco-heritage-listed villages of Xidi and Hongcun were the subject of several scenes in Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The villages, with their moody cobblestoned streets, aged white-walled houses and bodies of water instantly set the mood for classic martial arts action. Don’t forget to hike through the rustling bamboo forest, Mukeng Zhuhai, where the breathtaking sword-fighting scenes from the movie were shot. For Chinese-film buffs, famed director Zhang Yimou filmed Judou in the less-visited village of Nanping. In all these places, stills from the movies have been put up to help jog your memory.
Remember Avatar? James Cameron’s epic featuring blue-skinned aliens may have been set on a fictional world of Pandora but its landscape wasn’t entirely fictional. Pandora’s floating mist-wreathed mountains were based on similar formations in the Hunan’s Wulingyuan scenic area. The popularity of the film in China (top-grossing film ever!) probably had something to do with the government’s decision to rename the Southern Sky Column as the Avatar Hallelujah Mountain.
Hong Kong
Push, a 2009 thriller starring Chris Evans, Djimon Hounsou and Dakota Fanning might have been forgettable, but the bustling Mongkok and Hong Kong city streets and buildings were used to great visual effect. The manic energy of the city is best experienced at street level as you push through the throngs in neon-lit Mongkok in search of your next dim sum fix. The brilliant Hong Kong sequence (filmed in IMAX too) of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Returns saw Batman decking baddies in the International Finance Centre, the second tallest building in the city. You can check out the cityscape (sans baddies) from the top of the Peak.
It seems that there is no movie about Yangtze River cruises.

One of most extreme road trips between China and Pakistan

Have you had a extreme road trips if you are a travel-lover. Here I will introduce one of the world's most extreme road trips, from Pakistan to China. Some
part of it is included in the itineraries of China tours.
A centuries-old trading trail, which once formed part of the famed Silk Road, the Karakoram Highway (more commonly referred to as the KKH) is the world’s highest altitude paved international road. Its 1200 kilometres slice through the mighty Karakoram Range, passing through some of the world’s most remarkable mountain scenery and providing access to top-notch trekking and mountaineering.
Blasted through one of the most challenging landscapes on earth, the KKH is a triumphant feat of engineering and a monumental reminder of the more than 1000 lives lost during its construction. A journey here, in the rooftop of the world, is not only a stunning salute to the power of nature but also of man’s constant struggle to contain it.
Where: from Abbottabad (near Islamabad) in Pakistan to Kashgar in China.
When: spring (May to June) and early autumn (September to October). Parts of the road are closed during winter due to snowfall and sometimes in summer because of landslides caused by the monsoon. The Sost/Tashkurgan border post along the KKH officially closes between 31 December and 1 May each year but, depending on weather, the annual reopening can be delayed. If you’re intending on travelling in early May it’s worthwhile checking beforehand.
How: public transport between the main towns on the KKH is cheap and plentiful and many travellers take two to three weeks to cover the full route, allowing time to stop off and explore. Wherever you begin your journey, you’ll need to acquire visas for both countries before you set off along the route as they aren’t issued on the Sost/Tashkurgan border post which straddles either side of the Khunjerab Pass.
Road conditions deteriorate on the Pakistan side and the word ‘highway’ should be used in its loosest sense. The entire road though is being overhauled (the Chinese portion is already finished) with an extensive program of road works for the Pakistan section being funded by the Chinese. Eventually this will mean that the road will be open year-round. Travellers should be aware that rebuilding of the section of the KKH which runs through Pakistan’s upper Hunza Valley is still ongoing after the 2010 landslide which created a lake submerging 22km of road. At the moment this portion of the route is navigated by boat.
If you are enthusiast of travel, you should consider this road trip which are not a traditional tour itineray and classic China tour package.

A Historical Chinese Village - Zhuge Bagua Village

Many ancient villages and town exists in China, which some very old and traditional customs and lifestyle are well preserved. The following will give you such a village for your China tours.
Zhuge Bagua Village is located in the west of Lanxi of Jinhua City, in Zhejiang Province, China.

So far, it is the biggest settlement for Zhu Geliang's descendants. Zhu Geliang is known as a remarkable politician, strategist, diplomatist, and militarist in the period of Three Kingdoms (184 A.D.-280 A.D.). It is he who invented Eight Diagrams and Kongming Lantern. Eight Diagrams is a sort of military strategy which functions by skillfully arranging the battle array of troops. And Kongming Lantern works on the same principle as fire balloons. It is made of paper. Hence, Zhu Geliang is the first one to discover the principle that hot air weighs less than air of normal temperature.

Lanxi Zhuge Bagua Village shelters the main stream of Zhu Geliang's descendants. They have lived here for generations. And the village was constructed according to the Eight Diagrams. In the village, you may come across a picture of Eight Diagram easily. The aerial view of the village appears to be a big three-dimensional Eight Diagrams. And Zhong Pond, the center of the village, is the basic point. Eight roads start from the pond and stretch respectively towards eight hills outside the town. These roads connect numerous alleyways which circle the village. And the alleyways are lined with ancient houses originated from Ming and Qing Dynasty. All the houses and alleyways make a maze out of the village. You will find it is easy to enter but difficult to exit. You may get lost somewhere, for the houses and alleyways are much alike. Interestingly, the villagers didn’t realize their village was shaped like the Eight Diagrams until in recent years someone found records of that in an old book. Now as long as you climb up one of the eight hills outside the town, you can take an aerial view of the entire village and you will certainly find that it looks like the Eight Diagrams.

Compared with the well-known Shangri-la tour, Zhuge Bagua Village is not so famous that many tourists never heard of it. But if you have read the Chinese history of Three Kingdoms, you should visit this place.

Do you know Double Ninth Festival in China?

Before have a China travel, you should know something about China culture. If you visit China in October and November, you may be lucky come across The Double Ninth Festival
The Double Ninth Festival, also named Chong Yang Festival, falls on the ninth day of the ninth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, hence it gets name of Double Ninth Festival. On this day, people would like to drink chrysanthemum wine and have chrysanthemum cakes.

The chrysanthemum is a plant often used as a Chinese herbal medicine. People in ancient times believed that, in addition to detoxifcation, chrysanthemum could drive away evil spirits and prevent one from getting a chill in late autumn. So, making and drinking chrysanthemum could be traced back many centuries, and it became the traditional food on Double Ninth Festival, to avoid evil spirits and misfortunes. Besides, the Chinese word for wine isJiu, a homonym of the Chinese word for long, symbolizing longevity.

Another special food for this festival is chrysanthemum cakes. The Chinese word for cake isGao, a homonym of the Chinese word for high, symbolizing progress and promotion at work and in daily life and improvement in life year by year. In addition, mountains are high, so eating cakes can take the place of going for a climb -- by a stretch of the imagination.
Since nine is the highest odd digit, people take two of them together to signify longevity. Therefore, the ninth day of the ninth month has become a special day for people to pay their respects to the elderly and a day for the elderly to enjoy themselves. It has also been declared China's Day for the Elderly.
Origin
The festival is based on the theory ofYinandYang, the two opposing principles in nature.Yinis feminine, negative principle, whileYangis masculine and positive. In ancient times people believed that all natural phenomena could be explained by this theory. Numbers were also related to this theory. Even numbers belonged toYinand odd numbers toYang. The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is a day when the twoYangnumbers meet. So it is calledChong Yang.Chongmeans double in Chinese.Chong Yanghas been an important festival since ancient times.
When you have China travel deals during Double Ninth Festival, you can ask your tour guide more knowledge of Double Ninth Festival.

A Traditional Chinese Food - Jiaozi

Jiaozi or Chinese Dumpling is very favored by many people even foreigners. I like eat Chinese dumplings. Dumplings can be eaten in the most part of China, even you are having a Hong Kong travel.
Jiaozi(Chinese Dumpling) is a traditional Chinese Food, which is essential during holidays in Northern China. Chinese dumpling becomes one of the most widely loved foods in China.

Chinese dumpling is one of the most important foods in Chinese New Year. Since the shape of Chinese dumplings is similar to ancient Chinese gold or silver ingots, they symbolize wealth. Traditionally, the members of a family get together to make dumplings during the New Year's Eve. They may hide a coin in one of the dumplings. The person who finds the coin will likely have a good fortune in the New Year. Chinese dumpling is also popular in other Chinese holidays or festivals, so it is part of the Chinese culture or tradition.
Chinese dumpling is a delicious food. You can make a variety of Chinese dumplings using different fillings based on your taste and how various ingredients mixed together by you.

Usually when you have Chinese dumpling for dinner, you will not have to cook anything else except for some big occasions. The dumpling itself is good enough for dinner. This is one of the advantages of Chinese dumpling over other foods, though it may take longer to make them. Making dumplings is really teamwork. Usually all family members will join the work. Some people started to make dumplings when they were kids in the family, so most Chinese know how to make dumplings.
If you are having Silk Road travel, you can eat Jiaozi in some restaurants.

How much do you know about the ancient Chinese coins

The currency is very enssential for the daily life. If you visit a new place, you have to use the currency there. But when you visit some place in China such as in some places of Shangri-la tour, you don't need to pay money for what you want, you should exchange things with things. Well the following is concerned with the ancient Chinese coins.

The currency is a medium for the exchange of commodities. It was an inevitable outcome of such exchanges. In ancient China the currency came in different forms and was made variously from shells, jade, gold, silver, and paper.
Brief introduction about variety of ancient coins.
Shell money. Shell money was the oldest form of currency in ancient China. As the shells were small and hard in texture, they came in handy as money. By the Shang (shāng 商) and Zhou (zhōu 周) dynasties the use of shell money reached its top, and shell money became a symbol of wealth.

Hoe-like Money. The hoe-like money was evolved from an ancient Chinese farming toll. In the early days it bore close resemblance to a hoe. Because the hoe is similar to the shovel. This is why the hoe-like money is also known as “shovel money”.
Knife-shaped money. Cast of bronze during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States (chūn qiū zhàn guó 春秋战国) periods, the money’s knife-like shape was derived from a certain weapon from old days.

Bronze money in the design of seashells. With the development of commodity exchange, the supply of natural shells as the currency ran out of supply. Imitation shell money made from stone, bone, ceramics and bronze was thus invented to make up for the shortage. But eventually it was bronze shell-shaped money that replaced natural shells. It was nor until Qinshihuang (qín shǐ huáng 秦始皇) unified the currency in 221 B.C. that shells finally were withdrawn from commodity circulation.

Chinese coins are essential ingredients in the practice of Feng Shui (fēng shuǐ 风水). It is the most potent symbol of wealth, especially when tied with red thread. They are rounded shape with a square hole in the center. The circle represents heaven while the square represents earth. When used by humans, they represent the cosmic trinity of luck of "Heaven-Earth-Man".There is the Yang side (yáng miàn 阳面) (with four chinese characters according to reign of emperor) and the Yin side (yīn miàn 阴面) (2 characters) on every chinese coins. The Yang side should always be used facing up. Feng Shui masters (fēng shuǐ shī 风水师) often focus only on Ching Dynasty coins compared to other dynasties because Ching was the most powerful dynasty in China, while other dynasties usually collapsed in less than a century. The Chinese coins, particularly of those of the Kang Hsi or Chien Long Emperors' reign are deemed most auspicious. Chinese coins are creation of old advisors of emperors and that is why chinese coins are powerful emblems of wealth, endless fortune and prosperity.
The ancient Chinese coins can be seen in the most museum in China. If you have a Shanghai travel, you can see the above-mentioned coins in Shanghai Museum.

Where to Buy in Hong Kong - Causeway Bay

What to go shopping if you have a Hong Kong travel. Causeway Bay is a best place.
If you shop and entertain in Hong Kong, do not miss Causeway Bay (铜锣湾 tóng luó wān ) . Causeway Bay was a shoal more than a hundred years ago. After reclamation it was earth-based and gradually became a commercial area with an interconnecting road system. Now, it serves as a very popular center for shopping, dining and nightlife in Hong Kong.

If you are interested in shopping, the ultra-modernTimes Square (时代广场 shí dài guǎng chǎng ), the Japanese department stores and the fashion boutiques should not be missed. Times Square, a symbol of Causeway Bay, is the biggest emporium in this area and one of the top ten scenic sites in Hong Kong. Many well-known brands of clothing can be found here.
It is also the perfect place to hold large-scale activities. Every year on New Year's Eve (除夕夜 chú xī yè ), the New Year Countdown Ceremony (新年倒数仪式 xīn nián dào shǔ yí shì )is held here, and hundreds of thousands of locals participate. Lee Garden is another shop which is renowned for its luxury brand name clothing. It is also a place frequently visited by celebrities. The City Trade Centre(贸易中心 mào yì zhōng xīn ) is a favorite shopping venue for office workers.

Causeway BayAlthough Causeway Bay is famous mainly for stocking luxury brands, reasonably priced items can also be found here. The stalls in Jardine's Bazaar where fashionable costumes and accessories are sold at normal prices are also very popular.

You can fully enjoy Hong Kong style snacks and seafood in Causeway Bay. Most of the shops and restaurants here stay open until late when the area becomes a colorful world flashing with neon and crowded with people. It is a favorite activity to take a boat or sampan and sail around the harbor, enjoying the beautiful evening and the delicious food.

The famous Victoria Park (维多利亚公园 wéi duō lì yà gōng yuán ), located in the eastern part of Causeway Bay, is the biggest park in Hong Kong. It features a modern swimming pool, tennis courts, football field and other sports facilities. A statue of Queen Victoria (维多利亚女王 wéi duō lì yà nǚ wáng ) is located near the entrance of the park. The largest-scale Lantern Festival (元宵佳节 yuán xiāo jiā jié ) is held here every year and this park is also a perfect site to enjoy the moon during the Mid-autumn Festival (中秋佳节 zhōng qiū jiā jié ).
If you have last minute China travel deals, you can go shopping and entertain in Causeway Bay.

The notable Bronze Galloping Horse in Gansu Museum

Gansu is alway included in the itineraries of Silk Road tours. When you visit Gansu, Gansu Museum is a must-see attraction. In the museum, you will the world-famous Galloping Horse Treading on a Flying Swallow (mǎ tà fēi yàn 马踏飞燕 /mǎ chāo lóng què 马超龙雀).

Galloping Horse Treading on a Flying Swallow or Bronze Galloping Horse, is a bronze artwork of the Eastern Han (dōng hàn 东汉) Dynasty. It is now preserved in the Gansu Provincial Museum. This horse statue, a representative of late bronze artworks, was unearthed in the Leitai Tomb (léi tái mù 雷台墓) of the Eastern Han Dynasty in Gansu (gān sù 甘肃) Province in the west of China.
With a height of 34.5 centimeters and a length of 45 centimeters, the horse is raising its head, neighing and galloping forward with one hoof treading on a flying swallow, symbolizing that its speed can surpass that of the swallow. That the static sculpture is full of dynamic power reflects the excellent expression force of bronze artwork of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the positioning of its four legs strictly conforms to that of a living horse with the barycenter on a little swallow manifest the high level of design and craftsmanship.
The Bronze Galloping Horse is the apotheosis of aesthetics of ancient China. It incarnates the rich imagination and exquisite craftsmanship of ancient sculptors and is the representative work of the time-honored cultural tradition and the oriental aesthetic art.
Bronze Galloping Horse is believed to represent the "spectacular steed" of Chinese culture. The statue is of high craftsmanship and fully expressive of the horse-breeding culture of ancient China's western regions. The statue has become a symbol of Chinese tourism and a representative work that brings forth the time-honored cultural tradition of the Chinese nation and oriental aesthetics to the world.
Compared with Shanghai Museum when you have had Shanghai travel, the Gansu Museum will help you know more something about the history of ancient northwest China.

The meaning of a Chinese idiom

Now, in the world many people begin to learn Chinese. The following will help you learn a Chinese idiom. May be it is not used in your daily life but when you have China tours and use what you have learnt, the local people will like to contact with you.
Hiding a dagger behind a smile (笑里藏刀)

In the Tang Dynasty (táng cháo 唐朝), there was a minister called Li Yifu who was always affable and smiling. But in his heart he was very sinister and ruthless. He constantly schemed against people he saw as possible rivals. He was called : The knife in the smile". This idiom, derived from the above story, means disguising a ruthless nature behind a pleasant appearance.
Chinese like to use idioms to express themselves. So even though you can speak the Chinese idioms, you should know the meaning. If you have plan to join a private China tour package, you can ask your tour guide to teach you other Chinese idioms, they will be very helpful.

The highest fresh-water lake - Manasaroya Lake

Do you know Manasarova Lake(玛旁雍错湖 )? It is one of the holy lake and the highest fresh-water lake in the world! It is in Tibet which is always contained in the classic China tour packages.

As one of the Three Holy Lakes (the other two are Nam-tso Lake and Yamdrok Lake) in Tibet and seated at 4588 m above mean sea level, Lake Manasarova is one of the highest fresh-water lake in the world, as well as the largest freshwater lake with greatest water transparency in China. Pear-shaped, the lake of Manasarova is wide in the north and narrow in the south; its longest length is 26 km, the shortest length is 21 km, the mean depth is 46 m, the maximum depth is 81.8 m and the surface area is 412 square km; its water is quite clear and the transparency degree reaches 14. With a straight lake shoreline, its circumference is 83 km. Mainly derived from melt water and rainwater, some of the water in the lake also comes from springs.

Around the lake are distributed Natural hot springs, desert steppe of the diluvial plain and piedmont with Stipa glareosa, Stipa purpurea, and swampiness meadow. As the source of some longest Asia Rivers (Indus River, Ganges River, Brahmaputra River), the lake is the hydrographic nexus of the Himalaya that considered as the “holy lake” with special natural beauties. In the west, next to the lake is the Lake Rakshas Tal (known as ghost lake); interesting is that a freshwater lake of Manasarova and a salt water lake of Rakshas are just separated by a channel.

When you have China tours to Tibet, don't miss this lake.

Songzanlin Temple in Shangri-la

Have you ever read the nove named Lost Horizon in which the novelist describe a place Shangri-la unknown by outside peple. Now, people found a place which is very similar with the description in the novel. It is called Shangri-la in reality. When you have Shangri-la travel, Songzanlin Temple is one of must-see attractions.

Songzanlin Temple is a 300-year old Tibetan monastery complex. The Monastery is set on a hill a short distance out of Shangri-la proper. It was built by the fifth Dalai Lama and is part of the Yellow Hat sect.
What to see
Construction of the temple began in 1679 and was completed two years later. The temple seems like a group of ancient castles and is composed of two lamaseries, Zhacang and Jikang. The gilded copper roof endows the temple with strong Tibetan features and the 108 (an auspicious number in Buddhism) columns downstairs also feature the temple with characteristics of Han nationality.

The main halls in the temple are magnificent, and on both the left and the right sides are wonderful frescos, depicting Buddhist tales and legends. The inside-halls are exquisite with cloisters running through. The cloisters are all decorated with beautiful sculptures and consummate frescos.

The temple is full of treasures. There are a lot of golden figures of Buddha josses, golden lamps, Tibetan lections, silver censers and so on. All of these are wonderful collections accumulated from each dynasty. They are precious productions made by people of both Tibet nationality and Han nationality. Another name "Minor Potala Palace"
Songzanlin Temple has another alias - "Minor Potala Palace," so named because the whole temple is in the traditional style with mysterious atmosphere. In 1679, Dalailama chose this place by divination, and it went on to become the uppermost public place in Yunan which features the particular local characteristics. Annually, the Gedong Festival is celebrated here by the Tibetans. Pious believers, with their knees and foreheads knocking the ground at every step, come here to pray.

Best season to come
The temple is situated in the high altitude region over 3,300 meters (about 10,827 feet) high. It snows even in August, and has a rainy season that runs from June through September. Therefore, spring and summer are the best seasons for people to visit it.
Shangri-la is always contained in the itineraries of top 10 China tours. If you plan to visit China, remember to visit Songzanlin Temple.

Learn a Chinese Idiom

Learn Chinese - Chinese Idiom(拔苗助长 (bá miáo zhù zhǎng))
Now Chinese is learnt by many foreign people, especially those who want to travel to China. Here I will give an explanation of Chinese idiom (拔苗助长)

拔苗助长 ( bá miáo zhù zhǎng ) - Try to help the shoots grow by pulling them upward.
There once was an impatient farmer who lived during the Song Dynasty (sòng cháo 宋国,960-1279 AD). Everyday the anxious farmer would measure the growth of the crops. To his dismay, his crops were growing much slower than he expected.The farmer racked his brains trying to find better ways of planting in order to get quicker results. One day he finally came up with a solution. He started to physically pull the crops out of the ground, thus making them taller. The farmer worked very hard and at day’s end was physically exhausted but mentally happy as his plan had produced the desired results.When the farmer went home, he told his son of his “brilliant” method. His son went to the field only to discover that all of his crops were all dead.
If you join a China vacation package and want to know the Chinese idioms, you can learn from your Chinese tour guide.

Yummy Guangzhou Food

Food is very important element for your China tour. The following will introduce you Guangzhou food.

Guangzhou is universally known for its excellent food. Cantonese cuisine is one of the Famous Eight in China with different flavors and styles, by using diverse and delicate materials, exotic spices and various cooking skills. Cantonese cuisine, as epitome of Chinese food culture, is a mixture of tradition and modern, east and west. Basically, it is also a combination of local dishes from the different prefectures of Guangdong Provi新闻图片nce, or even from other provinces and abroad. Cantonese dishes are often characterized with various unusual ingredients and materials. Apart from seafood, animals, insects and worms, flowers and weeds are all made into dishes. There is a variety of Cantonese dim sum, sweet or salty. The delicious Cantonese-style dim sum served with tea offers a fresh flavor in leisure time. It is estimated that there are over 1000 ways of making desserts in Guangzhou. Most locals are gourmets and love varieties. Scattered all over the city there are over 5 000 restaurants, teahouses and snack eateries, offering service around the clock.

Although Guangzhou is not included in the itineraries of classic China tour package, the food here may be more suitable for foreign tourists than other places.

Amazing Night Cruises in Hangzhou

Have you ever had Yangtze River Cruise and experienced the views along the river. The following will introduce you different experience cruise in Hanghzou.
Hangzhou is a city of water, and it is on the water is where you can really experience the charm of Hangzhou. The Grand Canal, West Lake, and the Qiantang River all offer nightly cruises. From paddle boats and canal boats to cruise ships, each ship can bring you a different experience. Set sail at dusk and dim the lights, and get ready to enjoy the true beauty of Hangzhou scenery.
West Lake Night Cruise
Hangzhou’s West Lake night cruise is an important source of entertainment, from mid-April each year to mid-October; a boat trip up the West Lake will fill you with excitement. The West Lake night cruise route starts from the five parks and ends back at the terminal, one round-trip around the lake takes about 50 minutes.
Three boat options are available. The largest are Fang Song (Song dynasty style) boats, which seat 70 to 80 people. On board you can enjoy the charming lake side night, while listening to the zither and other performances while leisurely sipping on a cup of tea. Boarding generally begins at about 18:30 and from 19:00 onward a ship departs every hour. Smaller, recreational boats, seating about 40 to 50 people, leave about every 20 minutes. Finally, the third boat option are the rowing boats, seating about six people, which are great for those that like to be active and hands on.
Canal Night Cruise
Experience a thousand years of recorded history on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. Every summer, you can enjoy the large cluster of ancient buildings on both shores and experience the millennial heritage of the Grand Canal. The canal night cruise has large, medium and small vessels available, starting from Wulin Gate to Gongchen Qiao; the whole trip takes about one hour. Cruises start from 19:30 every day at Wulin Gate pier, launching about every hour.
Along the way you can see Emperor Qianlong's Imperial Dock, the imperial granary, Qianlong Fang, the new Xiang Ji Temple, and the famous Jiangnan Bridge "Gong Chenqiao." The Xiang Ji Temple is open from 17:00 to 21:00 daily, where not only can you burn incense and pray, but also view the beautiful classic Buddhist features of the temple. Xiang Ji Temple is about 5 minutes walk to Shengli He Food Street, where you can sample some classic Hangzhou cuisine, definitely not to be missed. Also, Xizhi street and Dadou Lu pedestrian street are a short walk from the temple, and make for a great stroll at night.
Qiantang River Cruise
The Qiantang River cruise is also a great night cruise to take. Starting from the Wulin pier heading south to the Grand Canal, there are a multitude of sights to see and the ship passes through three locks. The whole trip takes about three hours. The best view is where the Qiantang meets the Grand Canal; the two sides are ablaze with lights under the night sky. The juxtaposition of the graceful canal and the majestic Qiantang River view is breathtaking and definitely not to be missed.
Hangzhou is very closed to Suzhou. After Hangzhou cruise, you can have a Suzhou travel.

Bamboo and its relavant Chinese culture

Before your China travel, you should know something about Chinese culture. The following will give you some information on bamboo related with Chinese culture.

China is known as the Kingdom of Bamboo because it has the most bamboo of any country in the world. More than 400 species of bamboo, one third of all known species in the world, grow in China. China leads the world in the amount of area planted with bamboo, the number of bamboo trees and the amount of bamboo wood produced every year. The area that produce the most bamboo are south of Changjiang (Yangtze) River, and the biggest producers are Sichuan, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hunan, Guangdong, Jiangxi, and Jiangsu provinces and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Bamboo was closely connected with the daily lives of people in ancient China. Su Dongpo(1037-1101), a literary giant of the Song Dynasty(960-1279), said that people could not live without bamboo, and people of the time used bamboo as firewood and to make tiles, paper, rafts, hats, rain capes, and shoes. At that time, as today, bamboo shoots were eaten as a popular dish because of their crispness and fresh, sweet taste. Bamboo shoots also contain vitamins, sugar, fat, and protein.

In the Han Dynasty (206 B.C. A.D 220) bamboo was used for papermaking because it produced high-quality paper and was inexpensive: three tons of bamboo could yield one ton of paper pulp. And bamboo is till an important raw material for papermaking today. Some 1.600 years ago, people wrote with brushes on xuan paper made from young bamboo, and xuan paper is still popular for Chinese calligraphy and paintings.
Today, bamboo is widely used for household articles such as mats, beds, pillows, benches, Chairs, cabinets, buckets, chopsticks, spoons, baskets, and handheld fans. It is also used to make traditional Chinese musical instruments such as the sheng, a reed instrument; the di, a flute; and the xiao, a flute held vertically.
Woven bamboo arts and craft come in a wide variety, including toy animals, lanterns, flower baskets, trays, tea boxes, screens, and curtains. Bamboo weaving is popular in the provinces of Guangdong, Fuijian, Hunan, Sichuan, and Anhui as well as Zhejiang which has a history of bamboo weaving going back more than 2.000 years.
Bamboo is also used in Chinese medicine. The leaves eliminate heat and phlegm; the juice cures stroke, insanity, and a kind of asthma caused by excessive phlegm; and the root can stimulate the vital forces, quench thirst, and promote lactation.
Bamboo's resistance to stretching and its ability to support weight are at least double those of other kinds of wood, making bamboo an ideal material for houses, scaffolding, supporting pillars, and work sheds.
Tall and graceful with luxuriant foliage, bamboo is an ideal plant for household courtyards and parks. It tolerates the heat of summer and the cold of winter, it grows on unfertile land, and it regenerates after being cut.
Throughout the centuries, bamboo has inspired the imagination of artists, while men of letters have written poetry and prose to express their admiration for the purity and elegance of bamboo. They compared the qualities of bamboo to those of man, and Su Dongpo attributed his literary inspiration to bamboo. Bamboo was also a favorite subject of noted Chinese painters of past dynasties.
Bamboo, a material for arts and crafts and a symbol of integrity, has enriched the traditional Chinese culture, and become an everlasting subject for scholars and artists.
Bambo can be found in most parts of China. There are several places named Baboo Sea in China. One is in Sichuan Province. For your Beijing travel, you can see the bamboo in Purple Bamboo Garden.

Arctic Village in China - Mohe County

Do you know Mohe? Will you visit Mohe if you decide to join a private China tour. The following is something about Mohe.

Mohe County (simplified Chinese: 漠河县) is the northernmost county in China, located in the Northeast's Heilongjiang province. The county is named after the Mohe, a Tungusic people of ancient Manchuria. A village, the northernmost settlement in China, at the latitude of 53° 29' N known as China's "Arctic Village" (北极村) lies in this county, on the Amur River, which forms the border with Russia. Here, the astronomical phenomenon of aurora borealis attracts domestic and foreign tourists to this village.

Mohe is located in the far northwest of Heilongjiang, the northernmost province of China. It is located at latitude 52° 10'−53° 33' N and 121° 07'−124° 20' E. It forms a border with Russia's Amur Oblast and Zabaykalsky Krai, where the Amur River flows for 245 kilometres (152 mi). The county spans 150 kilometres (93 mi) from north to south and has a total area of 18,233 square kilometres (7,040 sq mi), occupying 21.6% of the prefecture's (Da Hinggan Ling) area and 3.9% of the provincial (Heilongjiang) area. This creates a population density of only 4.64 persons/km2 (12.0 persons/sqmi).
If you want to experience the arctic scenery, you should visit Mohe for you China travel.

Information on Engagement and Wedding of Tajik

There are 56 peoples in China. Tajik ethnic group is one of them in Xinjiang Provice. If you have a China vacation package and are lucky to visit Tajik ethnic group, you should know something about it beforehand.
Within the ancient Tajik ethnic group, who lead a semi-nomadic life, singing in antiphonal style between young people in the expansive grassland is a popular way to make friends and express love. Such tradition is passed down from generation to generation. When falling in love, the boy will secretly send a pair of ear-rings to the girl, who gives an embroidered bag in return. While the boy is keeping herds on highland grazing grounds, he may receive the token with a burnt match from his lover, which means she misses him very much. And then the boy will send a small yellow bag filled with almonds and pebbles tied together by hair to show his deep love.
Red Veil - Engagement Gift

As to engagement, the boy's father, brothers, friends and a female relative will go to the girl's home with a lot of engagement gifts, including a four-meter-long red veil. At the end of the engagement ceremony, the girl will be seen with this red head-piece to imply that she is now the fiancée.
Wedding Ceremony

The marriage festivity of the Tajik people usually lasts three days until the bride removes her veil. After the young couples are engaged, close relatives of both sides will ride horses to invite other relatives and friends over two days before the wedding ceremony. What is more important, they must visit families in unfortunate situations and show hospitality to these guests. Then the guests wipe their tears and give sincere blessings to the engaged couple by hitting the tambourine, an indication that the marriage festivities can start.
On the night before the wedding, all relatives and villagers will be invited to get together at the bridegroom's home and the bride's home respectively. Sometimes the female guests will spray some flour on the wall of the host's house to celebrate. While the guests are singing and dancing, the bridegroom and the bride will put on their wedding outfits. Moreover, the bride will be locked in a small room and covered with a thick bed quilt till she sweats a lot. According to the local custom, the bride will looks more beautiful this way.

On the afternoon of the wedding day, the groom, accompanied by his friends, goes to the bride's home. On their way to the girl's home, the hostess of each household will offer a bowl of milk and ghee to the boy and spray flour on his shoulder to express best wishes.
After arriving at the bride's home, the bridegroom will drink a bowl of milk and ghee at first and present engagement gifts such as gold, silver, animals and clothes to the bride's family. Having entered the bride's room, a religious priest presides over the nuptial ceremony. He first sprays some flour on the groom and bride, and then asks them to exchange rings tied with strips of red and white cloth, indicating that they will from that time on live together all their lives.
On the following day, the newlyweds, escorted by a band, ride on horseback to the groom's home, where further celebrations are held.
With comparison with the customs of wedding ceremony, the wedding ceremony in Tajik is a little complex. If you have a Shangri-la tour, the wedding ceremony has its own features.