Another Ancient Wall - Shou County Ancient Wall

Shou County was called Shouchun in ancient times. It is located in central Anhui and in the key position of Huai and Fei River (another famous city besides Yangtze River where you can enjoy the beautiful view by joining Yangtze River tour) area. Many important battles in Chinese history took place here. The former Qin army had “the battle of Fei Water” with Eastern Jin army here in AD 383. Some historical stories are from this famous battle, such as “throwing a whip to the river and the river stop slowing” (Tou Bian Duan Liu) and “When People were panic, they had illusion and saw a tree as a soldier”.

During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the Later Zhou Dynasty army had a big battle with the Southern Tang army in Shou County. The general Zhao Kuang Yin of Later Zhou Dynasty was trapped in Shou County in the beginning but won the battle in the end. The award-winning traditional cake “Shou Xian Da Jiu Jia” was named after this story.

Shou County Ancient City Wall China travel deals was one of the top seven ancient walls which preserved well in China. The existing wall was built in the Song Dynasty with a checkerboard layout of a Song Dynasty city. Shou County Ancient City is rigid and magnificent. It has a circumference of 7141 meterss and is 8.3 meters tall. It is boarded by the Hao river to the southeast, Fei River to the north, and Shouxi Lake to the west. There are four gates and each gate had dikes to protect the city.

Tags: China travel service

Travel Guide - Wulingyuan Scenic Area

Located in northwestern Hunan, the Wulingyuan Scenic Area consists of three parts: Zhangjiajie National Park China tour deals, Suoxiyu Nature Reserve and Tianzi Mountain Natural Reserve, covering a total area of 350 square kilometers. Being a complete quartz and sandstone geomorphological structure, Wulingyuan boasts some 3,100 peaks (of which over 1,000 rise at least 200 meters), which look like bamboo shoots: spectacular and grotesque, lofty and elegant. It is a real wonder to have such a large forest of natural peaks on the several hundred-meter-thick quartz and sandstone base. This, plus the mysterious deep valleys and grottos, offers fantastic views.

In dense forests Student tours to China covering over 90 percent of the scenic area grow rare species of trees and inhabited by rare species of birds and animals. There are also streams, brooks, springs, lakes and waterfalls. Zhangjiajie, in particular, is rich in forest resources, featuring both virgin and artificial secondary forests. It is home to some 3,000 species of high-grade plants of which 35 are rare species under state protection. There are also 116 types of animals living in Zhangjiajie, the first national park in China.

The Wulingyuan Scenic Area was listed as a world natural heritage in 1992.

More at chinatour.com such as Yangtze River tour & Shanghai Tourist Attractions

Travel Experience in Tiangtang Zhai

Taitang Zhai was called “Heng Mountain” or “Cloudy Mountain”. It was call “Tiantang Zhai” after the Yuan Dynasty. The changing scenery with four seasons here is like a “Paradise”. The perennial mist is covering the Tiantang Zhai (must-see during your China vacation deals). It is the best place to see sunrise and sea of clouds. If you come here at the right time, you can also see the color light of Buddha.

Tiantang Zhai is also “the sea of flowers and a paradise of plants and animals”. You can see Huangshan Pine, azalea, red maple, mixed forest, a secondary forest, high mountains, grassland, and bamboo forest. You can walk along the Xieyu Waterfall and pass through Shuijing Waterfall and arrive in the Niyu Lake. Niyu Lake is the habitat of giant salamanders with clear water. The biggest salamander was found here with 1.5 meters long and 26 kilograms.

Waterfalls and lakes are the main landscape in Tiantang Zhai for China Photography Tours . There are 18 waterfalls over 80 meters high. Longjing River is the main source water of the waterfalls No.1 to No. 5. Walking along the Longjing River, you can enjoy the beautiful scenery and refresh your mind.
In Tiantang Zhai, the best meal is to have farm feast and drinking some Small Hanging Wine. Farmers dug a diameter of 50-70cm, 30cm deep fire stove in their house. They hanged an iron pot above the stove and the pot can be lifted up and down easily. Family or visitors sit around the stove and keep warm.

Tags: China travel service

Wonderful Exprience to Splendid Zhaga Waterfall in Sichuan

Zhaga Waterfall is about 40 kilometers away from the county town of Songpan in Qiang Autonomous prefecture of Aba of today at the upstream areas of Mingjiang River Yangtze River tour. In the Tibetan language, Zhaga just means "the torrent in white rocks". Zhaga Waterfall is just one of two great landscapes of Mounigou scenic spot. Located at the foot of Zhaga Mountain, the altitude of the starting point in Zhaga Waterfall is about 3,270 meters, while its altitude of the landing point is about 3,176 meters.



Zhaga Waterfall China tour deals is about 104 meters in height and 35 meters in width. It is said to be the highest calcified waterfall in our country. The upper reaches of the waterfall is the lake, while its downstream is the stepped river bed. The water of the lake falls quickly from the large calcified steps in a series of cascades, flow down with rhythm through the three-staged calcified steps, swash against the huge sharp calcified towering cliff, and finally forms the waterfall on a monumental scale, and create a boom that reverberates for miles in the empty valley, as of ten thousand horses galloping ahead.



Zhaga Waterfall is one layers of piled waterfalls. The fine spray of water that permeates the valleys saturated high concentrations of negative ion of oxygen in the air, which makes you relaxed and refreshing. The waterfall rushed down from the calcified dike with the altitude of about 3,270 meters above sea level while raging loud, with turbulent current and the dashing sound of billows like thunders, through the three-staged brown khaki calcified steps with many twists and turns.



The swift current trotted forward unceasingly, popping up bubbles of spays and clumps of sparkle of water spray with each stride. The deep pool showed clear and smooth-looking in the glasses and, below the curl of falling water, the spray in the air from the waterfall was blowing in the wind. The drops of water streamed down from the waterfall, and could shine with such a supernatural radiance in the bright sunlight.



The waterfall and pool all seemed extremely beautiful and there was the incredible spectacle of "Its torrent dashes down three thousand feet from high; as if the Silver River fell from an azure sky." Identification by the professional geologists, Zhaga Waterfall is both the liquid waterfall and solid waterfall China Photography Tours.



This so-called solid waterfall is usually referred to as the fact that the river-bed of the waterfall is the calc-sinter one. The calc-sinter flow is just like the colorful liquid cascading down overwhelmingly as though a sea or a river had been overturned. But the water of calc-sinter waterfall is clear and shining.





Zhaga Waterfall is the calcified waterfall with the biggest fall that is currently found in China, which enjoys the fame as the first waterfall of China. The picturesque waterfall of the Zhaga Waterfall scenery area China travel video more often than not has the clear water as an inseparable companion. There're many scenic sights for your appreciating like Hongliu Lake that had the thick growth of patches of the juniper tamarisk.

Travel Guide - Beijing University Geological Exhibition Hall

The Peking University Geological Exhibition Hall affordable China tours, located in the campus of Beijing University, is the earliest museum of geological science in China. It used to be the exhibition room of the Geology Department of Peking University founded in 1909. By 1917, the Peking University Geological Exhibition Hall had collected more than 1,000 items of samples in the fields of paleontology, mineralogy, petrology, and structural geology.

In 1934, the Peking University Geological Exhibition Hall was completed, in which four exhibition rooms were set up, namely the Dynamic Geology Exhibition Room, the Paleontological Stratum Exhibition Room, the Paleobotany Exhibition Room, and the Mineralogy and Petrology Exhibition Room China Photographing Tours.

In 1952, all the samples in these Exhibition Rooms were moved to the newly founded Beijing Geological Prospecting College (now called the China Geology University in Beijing).

In 1955, the Geological Exhibition Hall was rebuilt in Peking University Student tours to China and started to collect various kinds of geological samples. Its rare samples include the trilobite, Maoming turtle, crystal pyrite cluster, orpiment calcite crystal cluster, stibnite crystal cluster, dolomite crystal cluster and the realgar monocrystal crystal with the weight of 225 grams.

The Peking University Geological Exhibition Hall covers a space of over 600 square meters, displaying ordinary geology, structural geology, paleontology, geological history, mineralogy, petrology, mineral deposit, and the minerals for arts and crafts.

More at chinatour.com such as Luoyang Sightseeing

Beijing Travel Guide - Beijing Museum of Traditional Opera

The Beijing Museum of Traditional Opera is located inside the China travel deals Beijing Huguang Guildhall Chamber of Cultural Prosperity and Ancestral Hall of the Local Worthy.

The museum's various exhibits have distinctively artistic characteristics. On display in the exhibition hall are several dozen biographies, cultural relics, and costumes and instruments that trace the history of Chinese traditional opera. Stage photos of Peking opera masters in performance are also exhibited. The most precious exhibits include a picture of Shouyun Xuan Accepting Congratulations, the pass to enter the imperial palace issued to opera star Chen Delin, the imperial phonograph, four famous Peking opera fiddles, and the Liyan Pictorial, all of which are of high artistic value.

Inside the exhibition hall is the most eye-catching exhibit - an admission pass to the imperial palace issued to Chen Delin, by the Court Theatrical OfficeEducational tours in China. Chen Delin was an opera performance artist, and the foremost Qingyi actor at the end of Qing Dynasty. He was the inspiration of many famous opera artists, from Wang Yaoqing, to the Four Famous Female Characters (Mei Lanfang, Xun Huisheng, Shang Xiaoyun and Cheng Yanqiu). The pass was issued in the 25th year (1899) of Emperor Guangxu's Reign, when Mr. Chen used it to gain admission to and perform in the imperial palace.

The pass is 9cm wide, 15.5cm high, and 1.4cm thick, and has a hole through which to insert and tie a length of thread. On its face are two rows of characters: Court Theatrical Office, made in Guangxu 25. On the right is written: Student Chen Delin, aged 38, and on the left are characters describing the facial features of the holder: yellow, clean-shaven face. On the back appear the two characters that mean "waist tag." On the upper half are the vertical, gilded characters, "Issued by Office of the Imperial Household Department," and on the lower half appear the Manchurian characters: "Governor of Imperial Household Department."

Vividly depicting Chen Delin and his six famous students: Wang Yaoqing, Mei Lanfang, Jiang Miaoxiang, Wang Huifang, Wang Qinnong, and Yao Yufu, the picture of Shouyun Xuan Accepting Congratulations exemplifies the opulence of Peking Opera, and is of high cultural value China travel video.

The four famous Peking opera fiddles were made by Shi Shanpeng, the most famous Peking opera fiddle producer. Their sound was intended to imitate the voices and singing styles of the Four Famous Female Characters. Their excellent workmanship and superior quality of tone have won high acclaim within theatrical circles.

The Beijing Museum of Traditional Opera currently offers a range of activities, including performances, exhibitions, academic seminars, and foreign cultural exchanges. In addition, in the last week of each month, it holds a series of lectures on traditional opera, free of charge, every day at 2:00 p.m. During performances, both Chinese and English subtitles are screened, and there is also English and Japanese simultaneous interpretation.

More at chinatour.com such as Luoyang tour packages

A Surprising Tang Dynasty Quadrangle Courtyard - Mingyueba Ruins

The Mingyueba market town ruins were situated about 78 km away from the new county proper of Yunyang China vacation deals. They were covered by wild reeds, shrubbery, Artemisia and creeping weeds. However, an archaeological team from the History Department of Sichuan University have dug out pits and ditches of different sizes, which look like trenches on a battlefield. Nearby, newly unearthed pieces of tiles, pottery and porcelain are laid out.

At the end of 2002, only one pit was made, measuring five meters in both length and width. Digging one meter deep, a building base appeared and further work brought to light a house site which was three rooms wide and two rooms deep. Traces show there were other buildings nearby. Further excavation led to two house sites at the east-west trend, where there were wing-houses on both sides of the former north-south house. While cleaning up the wing house ruins, archaeologists again found a new larger house base, sitting to the south of the first unearthed building base Student tours to China.

"This group of buildings looks like a siheyuan (quadrangle courtyard). We never expected to dig out a courtyard of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) in this area," said Li Yingfu, associate professor of archaeology in Sichuan University and head of the work team.

Huang Wei, also associate professor from the History Department of China Sichuan Tours Sichuan University who is responsible for the salvage excavation of the Lijiaba Ruins, northwest of Mingyueba, said, "You never know what you get in archaeological work. One layer after another, the excavation arouses your curiosity. It poses new problems and then gives you answers. This particular site is like a magic box. When you open it, you see unbelievable things in succession. None of us thought we would stay here for years." He was invited to Mingyueba by Li to discuss the courtyard.

The case is the same for Li Yingfu. When he arrived in October 2000, he had planned to return to his own specialty once finishing the work, i.e., Neolithic archaeology. But the rich and generous finds in Mingyueba have retained him.

More at chinatour.com such as Luoyang Sightseeing