The West Lake

West Lake（西湖）

The famous West Lake is like a brilliant pearl embedded in the beautiful and fertile shores of the East China Sea near the mouth of the Hangzhou Bay. The lake covers an area of 5.6 square kilometers. The view of the West Lake is simply enchanting, which offers many attractions for tourists at home and abroad.

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The Lantern Festival(元宵节)

The 15th day of the first lunar month is tranditional Lantern Festival of China!The Chinese people have the custom of enjoying lanterns and eating glutions rice dumplings.There is a common saying that "Playing on Lantern Festival".

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Guilin, the Most Beautiful Landscape Scene

Guilin

Enjoying the fame of being “the most beautiful landscape scene” even from ancient times, Guilin is an important tourism city of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It was honored as the national key landscape tourism city and famous

Jiuzhaigou 九寨沟

Nuorilang Waterfalls-诺日朗瀑布

The Ravine boasts a number of unique features. The mountains, lakes, natural primeval forest, beautiful flowers all make Jiuzhaigou a fairyland. Mountains ranging 1,980 to about 3,100 meters in height are covered by a variety of trees and plants such as green conifers, luxuriant broadleaf trees and colorful rare flowers and grasses. Scenes change according to 

Dragon Boat Festival

    
    Officially on falling on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as Double Fifth Day. While many stories regarding its origin abound, the most popular and widely accepted version regards Qu Yuan, a minister during the Warring States Period (475 - 221 BC)

Qing Ming Jie（All Souls' Day/Tomb-Sweeping Day/Pure Brightness Day）

Qing Ming is a time to remember the dead and the dearly departed. More important, it is a period to honour and to pay respect to one's deceased ancestors and family members. Because it reinforces the ethic of filial piety, Qing Ming is a major Chinese festival.

offer scarifices to the ancestors(祭祖)

    Literally meaning "clear" (Qing) and "bright" (Ming), this Chinese festival falls in early spring, on the 106th day after the winter solstice. It is a "spring" festival, and it is an occasion for the whole family to leave the home and to sweep the graves of their forebears. Chinese being practical people this sweeping of the graves is given an extended period, that is, 10 days before and after Qing Ming day. Among some dialect groups a whole month is allocated.

Tibet

The Potala Palace,Lhasa (拉萨布达拉宫)

Tibet Autonomous Region is located at the Southwest part of China, with a land area of 1.22 million square kilometers and a population of 2.3 million, in which, 95% are Tibetan nationality. There are also 30 other nationalities in Tibet, such as Han, Menba, Luoba, Hui, Mouggul, Naxi as well as Cheng and Sharba peoples.