Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival(端午节，字面意思是龙舟节), also called Double Fifth Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth moon of the lunar calendar. It is one of the most important Chinese festivals, the other two being the Autumn Moon Festival and Chinese New Year.

Talimu diversiform-leaved poplar forest park

Region: 
Xinjiang

The Luntai county is situated at south Tianshan the foothill, north the Tarim basin, the total area is 14789 square kilometers, Luntai is called cloth Gull too, the vowel is the Uygur “carves the hawk” meaning.Here is the ancient Silk Road center since the ancient times, now already is the Talimu petroleum prospecting development main battlefield.

Fruit ditch

Region: 
Xinjiang

The fruit ditch scenery is beautiful, landscape strange,.It is always regarded as the Xinjiang's place of scenic spot and  known as Ili “the first scenery” the laudatory name.Also calls the tower Lerch ditch, because in the ravine proliferates the wild apple to acquire fame.North it goes through vertically Tianshan, is 312 federal highway Urumqi--The Ili road must pass through the channel, also is Ili's natural gateway.

The Palace of Eternity

It is a play written by Hong Sheng (1645-1704), a playwright of the early Qing Dynasty. Based on the long poem A Song of Unending Sorrow written by the poet Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty and the play Chinese Parasol Rain by the playwright Bai Pu of the Yuan Dynasty, it tells us the love story between Emperor Xuanzong of Tang and his Consort Yang Yuhuan (Lady Yang).

Norbulingka Park

Region: 
Tibet

Norbulingka, meaning Jewel Park, was Dalai Lama's summer palace since the Seventh. Its light-hearted air makes it less demanding than most sights in Lhasa The Norbulinka is well worth a visit at festival times and public holidays. On Shoton Festival, the park is crowded with picnickers, and traditional Tibetan opera performances are also held there.

The Art of Guqin Music

 

Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity

Guqin, also called the seven-stringed zither, is China's oldest stringed instrument with a history of some 3,000 years. Attested by early literary sources and corroborated by archaeological discoveries, this ancient instrument is inseparable from Chinese intellectual history, particularly during the Han Dynasty (206BC-220AD).

The Art of Chinese Xinjiang Uyghur Muqam

Region: 
Xinjiang

Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity

The Art of Chinese Xinjiang Uyghur Muqam is a representative name of various kinds of Muqam in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, where people contrived this musical complex with songs, dances, and music.

Yaowang Hill

Region: 
Tibet Lhasa

Yaowang Hill is called Jiabori by the Tibetan people which located the right side of the Potala Palace,The peak is a mountain spire and  strange,It's 3725 meters above the sea level.

On the hill opposite the Potala palace, originally there was the Yaowang (Medicinal King) Temple or the College of Tibetan Medicines. The senior monks in the temple were doctors who served the Dalai Lamas. In the 1960s, the college was merged with the Hospital of Tibetan Medicines to the west of the Jokang Monastery. The temple is a ruin now.

Tickets: Tickets are 30 yuan/RMB

Lhasa River

Region: 
Tibet Lhasa

Rivers of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It's called "Jiqu"  in Tibetan. Nyainqentanglha originated in the south hill, through the southwest of Lhasa, to "qu shui county " into the Brahmaputra. Open the lower reaches of the valley is the main farming areas of Tibet.

The Pabang Kang

Region: 
Tibet

This small two-storey temple marks the site of Songtsan Gampo's living quarters before the construction of the Jokhang, as well as his favorite place for meditation. It can be found near Sera Monastery to the North of Lhasa city.

Photos Guide
 
 Beijing University
 

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