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Spring Festival is of the most important traditional Chinese holidays with a history of over 2,000 years. It is the occasion when all family members gather together. All people need go back home for a reunion no matter how far they live away from home....
Spring Festival is of the most important traditional Chinese holidays with a history of over 2,000 years. It is the occasion when all family members gather together. All people need go back home for a reunion no matter how far they live away from home. The legal holidays for Spring Festival are the last day of the old lunar year to 6th of 1st lunar month of the new lunar year. Nearly all the people can be released from workplace and stay with family during this festival.
The Spring Festival, also known as Chinese Lunar New Year, is often called “Guo Nian” in Chinese. It falls on the 1st day of the 1st lunar month, often one or two month later than the Gregorian calendar. For most Chinese people, the Spring Festival is the real start of a new year, instead of the 1st day of Gregorian calendar. The New Year season lasts fifteen days. The celebrations end on the Lantern Festival, the 15th day of the 1st lunar month.
After thousand-year evolution of history, many old customs are still popularly followed even now in the Spring Festival. These include playing firecrackers and fireworks, giving gift money to children, whisking the dust of house, preparing food, writing and pasting couplets, staying up late on the New Year’s Eve and paying a New Year visit/call to relatives and friends, etc.
The Christmas mood
Christmas is coming,everywhere is full of this mood. People are preparing to have a “Merry Christmas.”. It’s a western festival,but now seems very popular in Shanghai. People will celebrate as grand as they can.
The site of first meeting of Communist Party of China
This is the site of the first meeting of Communist party of China. That time was very dangerous to have such meeting in China,so at the middle of meeting ,Mao Zhedong and other people moved to a boat in the lake of Jiaxing Zhejiang. It’s an interesting history story.
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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.
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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.
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Bike Tour - "Shanghai by Night"
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- About 9 km ride, easy ride for all.
- From 18:15pm to 21:30pm
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