Explore the beauty of Dazhuke River Marshes in Tibet

Dazhuke River Marshes are including the middle reaches of the Yarlungzangbo River, the belt with the gentle stream velocity, a broad stretch of the river beach and marshes as well as vast stretches of the surrounding farmland. Dazhuke River Marshes could be one of the important wintering grounds and other migratory waterfowls in Tibet (you can consider Tibet Tours).

Dazhuke River Marshes is located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, about 60 kilometers to the eastern part of Xigaze as Tibet's second largest city. The area of Dazhuke River Marshes is about 16,000 hectares, with the altitude of 3,600 metres above sea level. This region contains areas which are primarily covered with wet meadow and the alpine cold meadow. Its land uses are mainly herding cattle and agriculture.


If you take a walk through a marsh in winter and the place will reveal birds' summer nesting ground nesting ground by the dozens. The wetland is also called as marshes, which is connected with the land and water. Some of the wetlands are covered and immersed with the water all year round. Some of them are dried up for weeks or months during one year.

Many plants like tall rush, the reeds and cattails are generally growing in the wetland. Wetland was such kind of place that was not quite the land, nor yet the water, which was the special dual characteristics of a wetland. Wetland with the special ecosystem structure and function, was considered as the important ecosystem on earth, and was named the "the kidney of the earth."
Dazhuke River Marshes had the altitude of 3600 meters above sea level. Dazhuke River Integrated Nature Landscape Protect Region is located in the Yarlung Zangbo River Valley, which belongs to the vast prairie region of the Qinghai-Xizang plateau. To the south of Dazhuke River Marshes is the separation of the lofty mountains and rivers, with the high and precipitous mountains, while the northern face of Dazhuke River Marshes (consider it for your China tour deals) is somewhat flat.

There had developed numerous rivers that flow into the Yarlung Zangbo River from north to south. Owning to the flat valley and the sluggish stream, the riverbed is swinging frequently. The lowest parts of the flood plain may form "back-swamps." The fluviatile flood-plain and the old riverbed on each bank of the river as well as a swampy stretch of lowlands had developed the swamps.
Large areas of the surface near the Dazhuke River Marshes are the alluvial deposits. The water supply of the swamps is mainly the water of the river. The main soil types are meadow swamping, followed by swamping meadow soil. The swamps with mild weather are as flat as a pancake, which is very suitable for growing and developing the crops.
Dazhuke River Marshes
People had opened up a great number of farmland near the swamps. In the fringes of the swamps and high land had the moistened surface and the seasonal backwater section where had developed the swamping meadow. The swamps area is rich in the waterfowls, with more plentiful wading black-necked cranes.

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Get to know Unique Marriage Customs of Sanjiang Dong Minority during Chinese New Year

Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County is situated in north of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It has several traditional Dong minority villages and is home to the largest population of Dong people in China. The beautiful natural scenery and rich folk customs have made Sanjiang County a hot tourist spot to get to know the Dong ethnic group. Dong featured attractions of wind and rain bridges, drum towers, and houses are commonly seen. What’s more interesting are the rich folk customs and various festivals local Dong people have China tour deals.

Festivals of the Dong minority like Duoye Festival, Firecracker’s Festival, and Bullfight Festival are very popular. Also there are many customs that are unique and interesting, especially those customs that Dong people have when celebrating the Chinese New Year. During the Chinese New Year, what attracts people most is the marriage custom which has become a major attraction for tourists due to its grand scene and unique rituals.
Most of the young people of Dong minority marry during the Chinese New Year. A marriage usually starts with the mysterious “steal bride marriage” when the groom invite several close friends to visit the bride’s house and ‘steal’ the bride back to his home at Chinese New Year Eve. Then the groom and bride will have their wedding at the second day of Chinese New Year.
The highlight of the local marriage custom comes the third day of Chinese New Year. It is called Huimen and it is the grandest ceremony of a Dong wedding. Huimen means escorting the bride return to her mother’s home at the next day of the wedding. During Huimen, the groom is not allowed to accompany the bride but his relatives and friends will carry wedding gifts like sour fish, sour pork, sour duck, sticky rice and other local food to escort the bride and parade to her parents’ home. The bride will walk behind of the group with a cloth in her hand so that people could recognize her as the bride. The bridesmaid is a girl from the groom’s village but she is not allowed to enter the bride’s parents’ home when they arrived and has to go back home immediately China tour packages.

On the way to the bride’s parent’s home, the group usually choose routes where have many people. Every village they pass through, they will set off firecrackers to show good luck. When arrived, the bride’s parents will make tea for every guests, which is called wedding tea. In the evening, an activity called ‘Zuoye’ will be held when the unmarried youth from both the groom’s and bride’s village sitting together to chat and see if they will find their future partners.
The Chengyang Scenic Area that has the famous Chengyang Wind and Rain Bridge is renowned for the group wedding held during the Chinese New Year. When there are more than 50 brides parading to their parents’ home with a large crowd of people, the scene is really exciting and interesting.

Besides the marriage custom, Dong people also have many other activities to celebrate the Chinese New Year. The “Thieves Driving Festival”, Lusheng Singing Competition, and Hundred-Family Banquet are very popular activities during the Chinese New Year. To get to know and experience the unique folk customs of Dong Minority, do not miss the opportunity to Sanjiang during Chinese New Year.
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Culture insider: Prettiest Chinese combs

An ivory comb from the Dawenkou culture was discovered in Tai'an, Shandong province Luxury China tour packages, in 1959. The Dawenkou culture (4300-2500 BC) lived in the late Neolithic period of Shandong province, China.

In ancient China China Travel Destinations, hair was called "threadlike things of troubles". Thus Buddhist monks shave their heads completely. Combs arrange hair, so people regard them as a way to clear their troubled minds. Combs also mean "smooth and prosper", therefore combs represent people's good wishes.

As one of the traditional handicrafts in China, the Chinese comb has a history over thousands of years. In Chinese, combs are also called "Shubi", which includes "Shu" (comb) and "Bi"(fine-toothed comb China business tour).
Mainly made from bamboo, wood and animal bones, with the development of society, the combs are decorated in various ways, and feature colorful patterns and pictures of historical figures, landscapes, birds, animals, opera characters and so forth.
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Xian Travel Destination - Huaqing Palace Heritage Site

If you are very interested in the history of China, especially about how the emperors lived their lives, come to Xian. As the ancient capital of six dynasties in ancient China, this is the perfect place to explore the history of China. Huaqing Chi, also known as the Huaqing Pools or also known as Huaqing Palace.

As the treasure land in ancient times, it has enjoyed a very high prestige for thousand years. Emperors from different dynasties all took Huaqing palace as their leisure place, they spared no effort to build spectacular palace or hot spring place here. According to the ancient literature and some evidence from archaeologists, Huaqing palace has a history of 6000 years on hot spring and 3,000 years on royal palace construction.
Huaqing Palace (an optional destination for affordable China tours) make the best of the landscape during the construction, with hot spring palace as its center, plus pines trees forests and pavilions with different uses, Lichi garden, Pear garden, Eastern garden and others, forming a most spectacular palace construction group in ancient China. Many famous ancient Chinese poets also mentioned the beauty of Huaqing palace in their poems. In winter, they would use the circulation of hot spring water inside the wall to keep warm, when it snowed the snowflakes would turn into frost once it fell onto the wall, therefor it's also called the Flying Frost Palace.

On the front gate of Huaqing Palace, there is a plank board with its name, written by a famous Chinese poet called Guo Moruo. Stepping inside, two tall pine trees come into the sight, with two palace-like buildings sitting on both sides. On its back there is Nine Dragon Lake.The water is smooth and clear, with the shadows from the pavilion on the shore, looking all beautiful and peaceful.

One of the highlights of Huaqing Palace is the bathing pools, each of them are carefully designed for different uses. Lotus Pool is for an emperor called Xuanzong in Tang dynasty, covering an area of 400 square meters. At the bottom, there is a pair of 30cm long water inlet with the shape of lotus, symbolizing the love of the emperor and his concubine. How romantic is that during your China travel! Firstly built in 747 A.D, Begonia Pool is also called High-ranking concubine pool, with the shape of a begonia flower in full blossom . It was built for the favorite concubine of the emperor called Yang Guifei.

If you think the Pear Garden is a garden full of pear trees, you are way wrong. As a matter of fact, Pear Garden(Li yuan) is a traditional Chinese opera house (consider it for your China Holidays). It is also the first imperial music and art school in ancient China. At the best times of Tang Dynasty, emperor Xuanzong loved to watching operas and imperial dancing here. He was also good at music, together with Yang Guifei, they created a ton of nice songs.