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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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  • Industry:Destination news and travel updates for Zhangjiajie and Hunan.
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Reading Xiangxi (Sangongqiao Chapter I) Ethnic History & Culture
Reading Xiangxi (Sangongqiao Chapter I)
🗓️ 2011-12-19 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Sangongqiao Chapter: On the road to Fenghuang. From Jishou to Fenghuang is an ho
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Reading Xiangxi (Sangongqiao Chapter II) Ethnic History & Culture
Reading Xiangxi (Sangongqiao Chapter II)
🗓️ 2011-12-19 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Miao people living in Jishou and Fenghuang retain many traditional customs. Besi
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Reading Xiangxi (Sangongqiao III) Ethnic History & Culture
Reading Xiangxi (Sangongqiao III)
🗓️ 2011-12-19 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Chanting Scriptures: Fu, Bi, Xing. I did not obtain from this old man — his face
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Reading Xiangxi (Phoenix Town I) Ethnic History & Culture
Reading Xiangxi (Phoenix Town I)
🗓️ 2011-12-19 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
From Sangongqiao to Fenghuang (County Town). The drive from Sangongqiao to Fengh
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Reading Xiangxi (Phoenix Town II) Ethnic History & Culture
Reading Xiangxi (Phoenix Town II)
🗓️ 2011-12-19 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
The Tuo River Winds Around Fenghuang Day and Night. Only when one leafs through
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Reading Xiangxi (Phoenix Town III) Ethnic History & Culture
Reading Xiangxi (Phoenix Town III)
🗓️ 2011-12-19 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Former Residence of Xiong Xiling. Xiong Xiling (1870–1937), courtesy name Bingsa
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Reading Xiangxi (Phoenix Town IV) Ethnic History & Culture
Reading Xiangxi (Phoenix Town IV)
🗓️ 2011-12-19 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
"King of Xiangxi" Chen Quzhen. In Fenghuang today, the only remaining site conne
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Reading Xiangxi (Phoenix Town V) Ethnic History & Culture
Reading Xiangxi (Phoenix Town V)
🗓️ 2011-12-19 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Duocui Tower. Beside Huilong Pavilion stands the villa Huang Yongyu built in Fen
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Reading Xiangxi (Chadong) Ethnic History & Culture
Reading Xiangxi (Chadong)
🗓️ 2011-12-19 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
In Search of Cuicui — A Dream of a Journey to Xiangxi. Cuicui is not a person in
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Reading Xiangxi (Furong Town) Ethnic History & Culture
Reading Xiangxi (Furong Town)
🗓️ 2011-12-19 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
A Scene Passed in Haste. Furong Town is a place I missed. That day I was wanderi
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Travel Tips: Five Factors Tourists Consider When Choosing a Travel Agency [Selection] Ticketing
Travel Tips: Five Factors Tourists Consider When Choosing a Travel Agency [Selection]
🗓️ 2011-09-05 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide
Travel Tips: Five Factors Tourists Consider When Choosing a Travel Agency. Why d
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Detailed Guide to Independent Travel in Zhangjiajie and Fenghuang [In-Depth] Itinerary Guide
Detailed Guide to Independent Travel in Zhangjiajie and Fenghuang [In-Depth]
🗓️ 2011-08-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide
For those of us without money or connections, we have to search online for guide
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Reading Xiangxi (Jishou Chapter) Ethnic History & Culture
Reading Xiangxi (Jishou Chapter)
🗓️ 2011-05-15 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Jishou Chapter: Jishou Street. The streets have little shade and much dust, crow
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Fulfilling the Nuo Vow Folk Arts
Fulfilling the Nuo Vow
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
The Tujia people practice "fulfilling the Nuo vow," worshipping the Nuo deities.
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The Earth God Folk Customs
The Earth God
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Tourists visiting Zhangjiajie often see small stone huts made of a few slate sla
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Flowers as Matchmaker Folk Customs
Flowers as Matchmaker
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
"Flowers as Matchmaker" is not a play, not an anecdote, nor a script—it is a liv
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Tujia Weeping Wedding Songs Folk Arts
Tujia Weeping Wedding Songs
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Drinking the clear mountain spring water, Tujia girls grow up. When a young man
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Blocking the Gate Folk Customs
Blocking the Gate
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
When Tujia families in the countryside marry off a daughter, they set up a squar
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Stealing a Wife Folk Customs
Stealing a Wife
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
In some Tujia villages in Houping, Maogang, and other areas of Zhangjiajie, ther
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The Origin of the Bride's Dew Veil Local Legends
The Origin of the Bride's Dew Veil
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
When a Tujia bride is helped out of her sedan chair by the welcoming matron, her
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Village Bird-Fighting Gatherings Folk Customs
Village Bird-Fighting Gatherings
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
In the lofty mountains of Zhangjiajie, Tujia villages often hold bird-fighting g
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Chen Wen (Hunting Tattoos) Folk Customs
Chen Wen (Hunting Tattoos)
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
In winter, when heavy snow sealed the mountains, it was the best time for Tujia
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The Chongshan People Don't Eat Eel Folk Customs
The Chongshan People Don't Eat Eel
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Eel stewed with lettuce is a famous Tujia dish. But the Chongshan people of Zhan
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The Nine-Segment Ox Horn Folk Customs
The Nine-Segment Ox Horn
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
The founding ancestor of the Tian surname in Zhangjiajie was Tian Chengman, orig
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