Things to Do on Chinese's Valentine's Day

The Loving Knot

Jequirity (love pea)

Chinese lovers get two chances to celebrate their romance, with the Western holiday of Valentine's Day on Feb. 14, and the traditional Qixi Festival on July 7 of the lunar calendar.
China's Qixi festival falls on August 19 this year. The festival is based on an ill-fated love story involving a cowherd and a fairy seamstress. Niulang, the cowherd, and Zhinv, the fairy, fell in love and later ascended to the heavens, becoming two stars separated by the galaxy. They could only meet once a year on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, when thousands of magpies formed a bridge to allow them to cross the galaxy. Chinese started to pray for good lives and love on the festival in the middle of the Han Dynasty (202 B.C. to 220 A.D.).
So, here are some tips for lovers who want to experience a traditional Chinese romance.

The Most Beautiful Areas in China

Gulangyu Island

Only a tiny fraction of the world's settled places today ban motor vehicles, and only a small fraction of those, it seems, do so without it being an integral part of a tourist-development strategy. For the admirer of car free towns, it is refreshing to encounter a place that has both no cars and a tourist industry that has not overwhelmed the city's daily life. One such place is Gulangyu Island, in the city of Xiamen, China. Once an international settlement, there are many beautiful old mansions that were quite obvious collaborations between architects from different parts of the world. It is quite a lively place, uncharacteristically relaxed and clean for a Chinese city.
The Island Ring Road, which circles the island, allows you to fully enjoy all the sights of this small, charming island.

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Mount Tai -- Symbol Of The Chinese Spirit

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Mount Tai is located in the center of Shandong Province, north of Taian City , and is considered by the Chinese to be one of the nation's five "holiest" mountains. This is also one of the most interesting mountains in terms of history; long the haunt of emperors who took pride in surveying their vast empires from the summit here. The numerous temples and pavilions dotted about the slopes here are testament to this royal patronage.
The Mountain has been renamed by various emperors across the ages, all keen to pay great tribute to this holy Taoist spot. In 725, the Mountain was given the title of "King Equal to the Sky" and men of letters, artists and poets have all paid tribute to this holiest of spots too. The path ascending the mountain is littered with poems and tributes carved in stone, proclaiming the importance and beauty of the spot. Confucius and the poet Dufu both penned poems illustrating their respect, and legend has it that those who climb the mountain will live until they are one hundred years old.
The entire mountain covers an area of about 426 square kilometers with Qufu, the hometown of Confucius to the front and Jinan, the City of Springs in China. The peak of the Jade Emperor, the highest spot here, rises some 1545 meters above sea level.The trek from base to summit is about 8 km long and takes approximately five hours. The climb is relatively easy until the half way point at Zhongdian Gate, from where the steps become considerably more steep.
Although the Mountain carries considerable historical and religious weight, the inevitable influx of tourism has led to the "disney-fication" of the area and it is increasingly difficult to see the mountain for the historical grandeur it once represented. Stalls, shops, photo booths and tea houses are dotted about and there is even a bus station and cable car situated half way up.
It is possible however to escape all this, and the traditional western descent route tends to be more quiet and scenic. What's more, despite (or as a result of) its fame, hundreds of Taoist pilgrims still make the journey up here on a regular basis, including many women, ascending to pay tribute to the Princess of the Rosy Clouds (Bixia Yuan Jun), who it is said can help women conceive. For those feeling really keen, the annual Mount Tai race takes place in September each year, and includes a competition for the best foreign participant!

Garden of Perfect Brightness

History's most magnificent garden, the great Yuan Ming Yuan (Garden of Perfect Brightness), was tragically burned in 1860. Built by six generations of Qing emperors, the garden spanned a three-hundred-fifty hectare area with a fairyland of hills, ponds, lakes, ancient trees and palaces filled with one and half centuries of imperial treasure collecting. Through the immense magic of high quality computer graphics and multimedia technology, the world can once again journey to the garden - to learn, to meditate, to explore, to enjoy. The garden provides vast layers of experience and information for both the serious scholar and the curious tourist in a rich environment of animation, music, stories, characters, and games. At once a museum, a library, a playground, a park, a nature theatre and an art gallery, Yuan Ming Yuan will provide endless hours of fascination for people of all ages and cultures.

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A Place One Never Want to Leave

A friend described the beautiful site to me,so i appled by what he said ,and decided to visite it in person.

Only if you visit here ,you can feel how beautiful it is.No wander A famous traveller Arthur Miranda used to say that, "Once a traveller comes to Dali, he never wants to leave."

The Dali Three Pagodas, located in the Chongsheng Temple at the foot of the Cangshan Mountain, have a history of over 1,800 years. They have been eyewitnesses to Dali's history and embody the development of Buddhism in the area.

As the name implies, the Three Pagodas are made up of three ancient independent pagodas forming a symmetrical triangle, an arrangement which is unique in China. In order to understand the pagodas more deeply, we visit the site with Zhang Hongxia who, although still a young lady, is already a senior tour guide with the Three Pagodas park. She says the pagodas are not only a masterpiece of architecture, but also a place full of national treasures.

If you want to visit someplace,you can go Dali