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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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Tujia Folk Art in Zhangjiajie: Daliuzi Folk Arts
Tujia Folk Art in Zhangjiajie: Daliuzi
🗓️ 2009-06-06 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Daliuzi, commonly called "da jiahuo," is a unique folk instrumental music of the
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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 Cultural Heritage: Folk Literature Ethnic History & Culture
Zhangjiajie Cultural Heritage: Folk Literature
🗓️ 2009-06-05 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
The folk literature widely circulated in Zhangjiajie consists mainly of improvis
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Zhangjiajie Folk Art: Three-Stick Drum Folk Arts
Zhangjiajie Folk Art: Three-Stick Drum
🗓️ 2009-06-05 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Sanbanggu, called Sanzhanggu in the Tang Dynasty, was introduced to Zhangjiajie
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Zhangjiajie Folk Performance Art: Weigu Folk Arts
Zhangjiajie Folk Performance Art: Weigu
🗓️ 2009-06-05 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Weigu (including suona). Also called daliuzi or da paigu, it is an indispensable
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Zhangjiajie Folk Performing Art: Yugu Folk Arts
Zhangjiajie Folk Performing Art: Yugu
🗓️ 2009-06-05 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Among folk performing arts, yugu is the most popular form of entertainment singi
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Arts and Crafts of Zhangjiajie Folk Arts
Arts and Crafts of Zhangjiajie
🗓️ 2009-06-05 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Zhangjiajie crafts mainly include brocade, embroidery, bamboo weaving, and stone
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Zhangjiajie Folk Performing Art: Flower Drum Folk Arts
Zhangjiajie Folk Performing Art: Flower Drum
🗓️ 2009-06-05 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Miao flower drum originated in the Tang Dynasty and has a history of over a thou
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Xilankapu: The Beautiful Story of Tujia Culture in Zhangjiajie Folk Arts
Xilankapu: The Beautiful Story of Tujia Culture in Zhangjiajie
🗓️ 2009-06-04 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
In the Tujia language, 'Xilankapu' refers to Tujia brocade. 'Xilan' means 'quilt
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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's Ancient and Mysterious 'Nuo' Culture Folk Arts
Zhangjiajie's Ancient and Mysterious 'Nuo' Culture
🗓️ 2009-06-04 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
'Nuo,' according to Ciyuan, originally refers to rituals of welcoming gods and d
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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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Zhangjiajie Yangxi Opera: Emerging from Shamanic and Chu Traditions Folk Arts
Zhangjiajie Yangxi Opera: Emerging from Shamanic and Chu Traditions
🗓️ 2009-06-04 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Zhangjiajie Yangxi Opera, commonly known as 'Yanghualiu,' arose in a region that
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Zhangjiajie Gaohuadeng: A Living Fossil in Chinese Dance History Folk Arts
Zhangjiajie Gaohuadeng: A Living Fossil in Chinese Dance History
🗓️ 2009-06-04 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Gaohuadeng, also known as Gaohuangdeng, is a dance with strong ethnic characteri
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Maogusi and Baishou Dance in Zhangjiajie: Lifting the Veil on the Mysterious Tujia Ancestors Folk Arts
Maogusi and Baishou Dance in Zhangjiajie: Lifting the Veil on the Mysterious Tujia Ancestors
🗓️ 2009-06-04 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
'Maogusi and Baishou Dance' is a primitive theatrical form in which the Tujia pe
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Tian Huilin: Deputy General Manager of Tianmen Mountain Tourism Co., Ltd. Tourist
Tian Huilin: Deputy General Manager of Tianmen Mountain Tourism Co., Ltd.
🗓️ 2009-06-04 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide
Tian Huilin, male, born in June 1968, Han ethnicity, university education, CPC m
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Li Chunzhi: Deputy General Manager and Manager of the Korean Department of Hunan New Comfort International Travel Service Tourist
Li Chunzhi: Deputy General Manager and Manager of the Korean Department of Hunan New Comfort International Travel Service
🗓️ 2009-06-03 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide
Li Chunzhi, male, Korean ethnicity, 43 years old, university education, Deputy G
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Luo Xuanguo: Party Branch Secretary and General Manager of Zhangjiajie Yicheng Tianxia Environmental Protection Passenger Transport Company, Economist Tourist
Luo Xuanguo: Party Branch Secretary and General Manager of Zhangjiajie Yicheng Tianxia Environmental Protection Passenger Transport Company, Economist
🗓️ 2009-06-03 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide
Luo Xuanguo, male, Tujia ethnicity, 49 years old, postgraduate education, CPC me
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Wu Guanzhong: Professor of the China Artists Association, renowned contemporary Chinese painter Tourist
Wu Guanzhong: Professor of the China Artists Association, renowned contemporary Chinese painter
🗓️ 2009-06-03 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide
Wu Guanzhong Professor of the China Artists Association, renowned contemporary C
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Yang Fei: The first person to point his lens at Zhangjiajie Tourist
Yang Fei: The first person to point his lens at Zhangjiajie
🗓️ 2009-06-03 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide
Yang Fei Male, deceased, Xinhua News Agency reporter. [One of the narrators: Qin
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