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Qiaoqi Tibetan village

Under the Jiajin Mountain, there is a long-history minority town called Yaoji ( Qiaoqi in mandarin, local people call it Yaoji ), 5000 people in the town , 95% ae Tibetans . located on the upstream of the Qingyi River, the closest Tibetan town to Chengdu. people speak Jiarong T...

Under the Jiajin Mountain, there is a long-history minority town called Yaoji ( Qiaoqi in mandarin, local people call it Yaoji ), 5000 people in the town , 95% ae Tibetans . located on the upstream of the Qingyi River, the closest Tibetan town to Chengdu. people speak Jiarong Tibetan language, as well as Sichuan dialect. the altitude is between 2000-3000meters in this area.

In the process of historical evolution, Qiaoqi culture has been in a diversified and dynamic development. 

        The local Tibetan people love dancing , which is necessary in their wedding, parties and celebrations. the dancing is surrounding a fire, people dance in a circle. which is called in Guozhuang in Chinese. it's created from their daily life such as working : harvest wheat. washing clothes etc. very happy and entertaining . there is a saying : if the Tibetan people can speak, they can sing, if they can walk, they can dance.

    recently , UNESCO, One Foundation and some other orgnizations are trying to teach the local people to record their life by camera , to reflect their surrounding natural environment, daily life and traditional culture

by private car 

public bus from Chengdu-Ya'an-Baoxing-Qiaoqi( Yaoji) 

Ditan Temple Fair

One of the city's busiest temple fairs since 1985, Ditan (Temple of Earth) Park is the site of the altar where sacrifices were formerly offered to the earth god. This year's fair will climax with a performance reenactment of a Qing Dynasty sacrificial ceremony.

The Ditan Temple Fair will fe...

One of the city's busiest temple fairs since 1985, Ditan (Temple of Earth) Park is the site of the altar where sacrifices were formerly offered to the earth god. This year's fair will climax with a performance reenactment of a Qing Dynasty sacrificial ceremony.

The Ditan Temple Fair will feature reenactments of traditional Ming and Qing ceremonies to worship the God of Earth. The park is the site of the altar where sacrifices were once made to the God of Earth.

This fair is one of Beijing's most popular and long standing. There will also be a range of folk performances, children's puppet shows and fashion shows, art exhibitions, ice lanterns and snow sculptures, and traditional Beijing snacks.

There will be a folk culture garden featuring song and dance of western China, as well as Red Storm Ditan Rock Concert. On the south side of the Sacrificial Altar, visitors can sing karaoke.

Other activities include a folk flower fair, an acrobatic show, Quyi performances, a fashion show, and a tea serving.

bus no. 13, 116 and 62 for the south gate; trolley bus 104, 108, or bus 27, 358, 119, 407, 328, 803 or 912 for the west gate. or take the subway to  Andingmen /  Yonghegong (Lama Temple) station.

Han Meilin Art Museum

In 2006, Mr. Han Meilin donated 2,000 of his works of art to the Tongzhou District Government of Beijing. To house and exhibit this precious gift, to show Mr. Han’s love of the country and Chinese culture, and to disseminate his aesthetic ideas, the local government built an art gallery in ...

In 2006, Mr. Han Meilin donated 2,000 of his works of art to the Tongzhou District Government of Beijing. To house and exhibit this precious gift, to show Mr. Han’s love of the country and Chinese culture, and to disseminate his aesthetic ideas, the local government built an art gallery in the Liyuan Cultural Theme Park. Two years later, a Palace in Art—Beijing Han Meilin Art Gallery opened to the public on June 25, 2008. It covers an area of nearly 10,000 square meters, combining the ideals of man and nature and integrating Eastern and Western architectural aesthetics. Quiet, spacious and bright, it interweaves time and space and displays unique architectural excellence, further adding cultural significance to the human landscape of the capital city of Beijing. It also shines in concert with the Hangzhou Han Meilin Art Gallery (opened October 19, 2005) located at the other end of the ancient Great Canal. Blending the historic and the modern, this cultural pattern highlights the attraction of the ancient canal’s history and culture. Mr. Han Meilin, whose father comes from Shandong in northern China and whose mother was born in Zhejiang in southern China, is a patriotic artist with a strong sense of belonging and gratitude to China.
  In addition to the Introductory Hall, Arts and Crafts Hall, Paperboard Ornamental Hall, Sculpture Hall, Chinese Calligraphy and Traditional Painting Hall, Newly-Created Works Hall, Video Hall, and Sculpture-Making Studio, there is the Seal-Book Building, and the Pottery Bar. Such cultural facilities provide visitors with an interactive cultural platform where they can enjoy the beauty of art in genetral as well as that of Chinese civilization.  
  Beijing Han Meilin Art Gallery was designed by the famous Chinese architect Kai Cui. His design concept is that the art gallery’s site and form have an important impact on Liyuan Park’s space as an integral part of the Cultural Theme Park. If we take the whole park as a natural landscape painting, the art gallery serves as a traditional Chinese seal affixed just when the painting is finished. The relation between the seal and the painting corresponds to that of the art gallery and the park. They are indispensible to and complementary to each other. Considering that Chinese calligraphy and seal cutting are also an aspect of Mr. Han’s artistic creation, the designer chose the Chinese character for “beauty” (美 mei) as the graphic design prototype of the art gallery. Looking down from above, the shape of the entire art gallery is like a “美” ; thus the strokes of the Chinese calligraphic character represent  the architecture’s functional space. Significantly, the word “beauty” (美 mei) is also second word of Han Meilin’s name which can also be understood as representing aesthetics and artistic beauty. These explanations are of the realistic and of the abstract as well.
  Our art gallery adheres to the “people-oriented development philosophy”, and the staff makes great efforts to provide the public with the most professional, most people-oriented services. In keeping with Mr. Han Meilin’s noble sentiments, art philosophy and purpose for founding the art gallery, guests have enjoyed free admission to the art gallery since opening day. We will be glad to see more art lovers come to visit this palace of art. Here, visitors can appreciate countless wonderful works of art created by Han Meilin with his open-heated, forthright and sincere love, deep emotion and magic whiteboard marker pens and brushes, all of which most ordinary people can’t imagine. Visitors can also experience a great artist’s life and better understand a versatile artist who has achieved extraordinary success in almost all artistic aspects. Mr. Han is like an active volcano which is incessantly erupting with artistic lava – the flower never ceases. As Mr. Han has said, “I just work hard on my art throughout my life, not for money, scholarly honors or official rank. It is God’s way of telling me that since I’m as stubborn as an ox, I’ll have to work as hard as one.”      

Get off at "tong zhou xiao jie qiao dong" station, Walking 150 meters front on the right side

Longtan Temple Fair

Temple Fairs are a staple event in the annual festivities surrounding the Spring Festival.

Temple fairs, or miàohuì, were used to being events of worship during which people could go to pray for happiness, peace and luck. In the course of the centuries, this tradition was widened and now is...

Temple Fairs are a staple event in the annual festivities surrounding the Spring Festival.

Temple fairs, or miàohuì, were used to being events of worship during which people could go to pray for happiness, peace and luck. In the course of the centuries, this tradition was widened and now is celebrate also in parks.

The history of the temple fairs goes back to the Tang and Song Dynasties, as Buddhists and Taoists competed to recruit followers and extend their doctrines.

The first events which took place in temple fairs were dances and entertainments. Then, merchants began to sell their goods eventually transforming the event into an animated bazaar.

Nowadays, temple fairs have nothing to do anymore with religion and are essentially commercial events and amusement time famous for attracting thousands of visitors (helicopters have had to be deployed to guarantee crowd security in past fairs in Beijing!).

The currently temple fair is a circus of traditional performances from all China, music, snacks and souvenirs and should be an inescapable passage, if you visit Beijing; experience this Chunjie the madness of the fair should be in your program at least once!

The Longtan Temple Fair

The Longtan Temple Fair held in Beijing’s Longtan Park provides guests with an authentic and festive celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year. Every year, thousands of tourists and locals mosey through this massive park, paying visits to the large collection of ancient temples, and eyeing the impressive display of traditional red lanterns covering the landscape. There are also plenty of local food and entertainment to keep you energized through all of that sightseeing.

Bus No. 686, 687, 35, 41, 957, 750, 561 Get off at the North Gate

Bus No. 60, 8, 116, 6, 12, 352, 958 get off at the Northwest Gate

Bus No. 122, 51 get off at the east gate

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$238 Per Day

Private Hangzhou Day Trip from Shanghai by Bullet Train

Take in the highlights of beautiful Hangzhou on a private full-day tour from Shanghai. After hotel pickup and transfer by high-speed train to Hangzhou, your private guide takes you to see some city attractions, such as Faxi temple. Moreover, enjoy a tasty lunch at a local restaurant before heading to Longjing village. There, learn about the process of farming and producing dragonwell tea, the region’s most famous product. Finally, enjoy a scenic boat cruise on UNESCO World Heritage-listed West Lake before returning to Shanghai.

This is a private, full-day trip from Shanghai to Hangzhou. After you are picked up in your hotel lobby in the early morning, you will take a bullet train to Hangzhou. This is the fastest way to Hangzhou and you can experience train speeds of up to 300 kilometers per hour. Your tour begins at one of Hangzhou's signature sites, the West Lake. Enjoy a lake cruise to see the top ten West Lake scenic views. You will then be taken to experience the wonderful cuisine of Hangzhou at a local restaurant. After lunch, you will visit Faxi temple, a well-known Temple dating back to the Jin Dynasty. See its famous wooden Buddha. Here, you will see fewer tourists and more locals. Finally, enjoy a cup of green tea when you visit the famous Longjing village to see wild fields of Longjing tea bushes where the locals produce the world famous green tea- Longjing Tea. In the village, all locals are tea farmers and you will see the entire procedure of making the famous tea and will get the chance to taste the best quality emperor tea. Afterwards, you will take the bullet train back to Shanghai and you will be returned to your hotel.


$150 Per Day

Guangzhou

Day 1 Arrive in Guangzhou

Arrive in Guangzhou in the morning, you will be met and transferred to hotel, then visit Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall. The Memorial Hall is a very famous historical scenic spot. It is in memory of Sun Yat-sen, the great revolutionary forerunner. After that proceed to visit the Ancestral Temple of the Chen Family. It is a unique site for offering up sacrifices to worship ancestors of 72 Chen families in Guangdong. This ancestral temple is also the largest, best preserved and best decorated ancient architecture existing in Guangdong province.

Day 2 Guanzhou Tour 

After breakfast, you will go to Yuexiu Park first, the largest and the most famous park in downtown Guangzhou. There are three artificial lakes and seven hills of Yuexiu Mountain. Then you will visit Temple of Six Banyan Trees, which is one of the four best Buddhist temples in Guangzhou and located on the Liurong Road (meaning the Six Banyan Trees Road). The Nanyue King Tomb Museum is a must-see Guangzhou attraction, which dates back to 2,000 years ago, is the earliest large scale painted stone chamber tomb ever found south of the Five Ridges. Buried with the tomb owner in a jade shroud are a gold seal and a lot of exquisite jade adornments. It has become a world famous museum. After the day tour you will be transferred to airport for your next destination.

$53 Per Day

Pingyao Highlights Walking Tour

Pingyao Highlights Walking Day Tour

With our guide to know the Ancient Pingyao better!

Our guide will meet you at your hotel lobby at 08:00 or 08:30, then show you the ticket office to get the ticket for the museums we will visit later.

First we will visit the 700 years old City wall, We will climb up from south gate and have a walk on the wall. We are not sure how many km we can walk, because of the renovating of the wall. Normally we will walk from south gate to the Yunlu Exit.

Then visit the Confucius temple, there is a old building named Dacheng Hall which is over 840 years old. From outside, we can see the big wood joints to lift the big roof around the building which is named Dougong. Due to this design, there are less columns inside the hall for giving the big space for the statues and the prayer. We have chance to see the Confucius statue and learn the philosophy of Confucius. If you like, you can pray for you and your children to get better study.

There is the Paper Cutting master named Wentao nearby the exit of Confucius temple. She is very smart and create the new style paper cutting with much more details and good wishes on it. Her products are made by hanks. It is worth to visit and buy as a souvenir from Pingyao. From the table standing and wall hangings. Please remember, take the red one because of red is the traditional and happy color. But the white one is the best. It is really difficult to choose, because of all of them are really nice.

Then you can have coffee break or tea break if you need at Chummy coffee, after this, visit the City god temple (ChenghuangMiao) which is most beautiful temple inside the wall. Because of the roof is covered by the colorful glazed tiles. There is not only city god and also the three money gods, Now you know why pingyao was the financial center.

Next we will visit the Ancient government building, to see the pingyao politics center in the ancient time. It is the complete building with officials bed room, kitchen and private garden. Follow the guide to look the official’s life from the 250km far away from the hometown.

Have a stroll in the alley to the Rishengchang exchange bank, which is the first bank all of china.You can not miss it.

After lunch, walk to the Ming and Qing street, this is the shopping street full of the stores on the both side of street. You can find alot things here , from post card to lacquered boxes, and wall panels. One more place to see, it is the Armed escort agency also named security and transport service for the business man before the bank founded.

Inlcusions

1.private english speaking tour guide servcie

2.bottle water for the tour