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The Travel News column gathers travel tips, destination news and local culture for Zhangjiajie and Hunan, for travellers planning a trip to Zhangjiajie and Hunan.

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Candle Lake and Qu Yuan's Recitation Folk Customs
Candle Lake and Qu Yuan's Recitation
🗓️ 2011-01-08 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Legend says after Qu Yuan questioned heaven at the Heavenly Platform, he lost fa
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Bai Ethnic Deity Parade Custom in Sangzhi, Zhangjiajie Folk Customs
Bai Ethnic Deity Parade Custom in Sangzhi, Zhangjiajie
🗓️ 2009-12-03 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Sangzhi Bai Ethnic Deity Parade originated from sacrificial activities commemora
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Tujia Children's Rhymes of Zhangjiajie Folk Customs
Tujia Children's Rhymes of Zhangjiajie
🗓️ 2009-11-09 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
"Woodpecker, pecking the treetop, pecked a carp weighing two and a half jin. Mot
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Three Great "Dark Arts" of Xiangxi Folk Customs
Three Great "Dark Arts" of Xiangxi
🗓️ 2009-10-23 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Xiangxi has three great dark arts: first, "Xiangxi corpse driving"; second, "poi
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Miao Village Gate-Blocking Wine Folk Customs
Miao Village Gate-Blocking Wine
🗓️ 2009-10-23 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Gate-blocking wine is an ancient custom of Miao villages, most prevalent and dis
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Zhangjiajie's Big Bowl — Wine Folk Customs
Zhangjiajie's Big Bowl — Wine
🗓️ 2009-09-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Big bowls of wine, filled to the brim; big bowls of wine, carried to the brim; b
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Zhangjiajie's Big Bowl of Meat Folk Customs
Zhangjiajie's Big Bowl of Meat
🗓️ 2009-09-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Big bowls of meat, steaming hot; big bowls of meat, mouths open wide; big bowls
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Zhangjiajie's Big Bowl of Rice Folk Customs
Zhangjiajie's Big Bowl of Rice
🗓️ 2009-09-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
"Man is iron, rice is steel, skip one meal and you'll starve!" "A tiger is fierc
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Tujia Wedding Custom of Crying Marriage in Zhangjiajie Folk Customs
Tujia Wedding Custom of Crying Marriage in Zhangjiajie
🗓️ 2009-08-02 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Visiting Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, besides enjoying the spectacular natu
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Tujia and Bai Costumes in Zhangjiajie Folk Customs
Tujia and Bai Costumes in Zhangjiajie
🗓️ 2009-06-23 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
According to historical records, Tujia clothing was called "xibu," "dongbu," or
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Tujia Folk Culture in Zhangjiajie Folk Customs
Tujia Folk Culture in Zhangjiajie
🗓️ 2009-06-23 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Jibai: Also called "adopting godparents." Tujia people, regardless of whether th
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Tujia Customs in Zhangjiajie Folk Customs
Tujia Customs in Zhangjiajie
🗓️ 2009-06-23 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Announcing Good News: After the birth of a child, the son-in-law reports the new
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Tujia Funeral Customs in Zhangjiajie Folk Customs
Tujia Funeral Customs in Zhangjiajie
🗓️ 2009-06-23 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
In the Zhangjiajie area, death is called "a hundred years of fulfilled life." It
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Tujia Religious Beliefs in Zhangjiajie Folk Customs
Tujia Religious Beliefs in Zhangjiajie
🗓️ 2009-06-23 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Although the Tujia people have been deeply influenced by the Han in religious be
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Tujia Taboos in Zhangjiajie Folk Customs
Tujia Taboos in Zhangjiajie
🗓️ 2009-06-23 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
The "36 Taboo": The number most taboo to the Tujia people is 36. In their minds,
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Tujia Language in Zhangjiajie Folk Customs
Tujia Language in Zhangjiajie
🗓️ 2009-06-23 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
The Tujia people originally had their own language, but with social development
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Zhangjiajie Folk Customs: Bench Dragon Folk Customs
Zhangjiajie Folk Customs: Bench Dragon
🗓️ 2009-06-06 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Dragon dance is a traditional sports culture of the Chinese nation, symbolizing
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Tujia Folk Architecture in Zhangjiajie: Stilted Houses Folk Customs
Tujia Folk Architecture in Zhangjiajie: Stilted Houses
🗓️ 2009-06-06 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Upon arriving in Zhangjiajie, everyone wants to see Tujia stilted houses. Becaus
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Tujia Seasonal Customs in Zhangjiajie Folk Customs
Tujia Seasonal Customs in Zhangjiajie
🗓️ 2009-06-06 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
On the morning of the first day of the first lunar month, they open the door and
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Zhangjiajie's 'Gan Nian': Seeing Off Brave Soldiers Folk Customs
Zhangjiajie's 'Gan Nian': Seeing Off Brave Soldiers
🗓️ 2009-06-04 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
The Tujia people living in Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, and Guizhou celebrate the New
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Zhangjiajie Folk Custom: Inviting Guests Home for Oil Tea Folk Customs
Zhangjiajie Folk Custom: Inviting Guests Home for Oil Tea
🗓️ 2009-06-04 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Tea culture is a major part of Tujia culinary culture. The Tujia region abounds
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Zhangjiajie Folk Custom: Water-Splashing Dragon—A Rain-Praying Revelry Folk Customs
Zhangjiajie Folk Custom: Water-Splashing Dragon—A Rain-Praying Revelry
🗓️ 2009-06-04 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Zhangjiajie's Water-Splashing Dragon, also called 'Watering Dragon,' originated
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Zhangjiajie Folk Custom: Tujia Bridal Lament—Joy and Sorrow of Tujia Girls Folk Customs
Zhangjiajie Folk Custom: Tujia Bridal Lament—Joy and Sorrow of Tujia Girls
🗓️ 2009-06-04 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
A girl's marriage is the greatest joy in a woman's life and should be filled wit
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Brief Introduction to Zhangjiajie's Ethnic Minorities Folk Customs
Brief Introduction to Zhangjiajie's Ethnic Minorities
🗓️ 2009-01-13 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Zhangjiajie is home to Tujia, Bai, Miao, Hui, and other ethnic minorities, with
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