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1.The Palace Museum (Omitted)

2.The Qinghai Lake (Omitted)

3.The Xi’an Terra-cotta Warriors

4.Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

Inner Mongolia came into being in 1947. It stretches through the widest longitudes in China, with vast outreaching grassland and deserts as well. Its capital is Hohhot. The tourist attractions in Inner Mongolia Automomous Region include Grassland Touris Zones, Genghis Khan Mausoleum, Genghis Khan Temple, Tomb of Princess Zhaojun, Nadam Fair and Wudangzhao.

The majority of tourists come here for the vast grassland.Its covering area is 880,000 square kilometers, or accounting for 21.7 percent of the nation’s total, the leading of China’s five largest grasslands. Major grassland tourist zones include the Hulunbuir, Xilin Gol, Xila Muren, Huiteng Xile and Gegen Tala. From May to September, the lands are covered with green grass and flowers, with big herds of cattle and sheep grazing in the meadows, ribbon-like rivers, pearl-like lakes and yurts resided by the Mongolians The all constituted beautiful majestic pictures.

5.Tibet Autonomous Region

Situated in southwest China, Tibet Autonomous Region is also called “Zang”for short. The region covers 1.2 million square kilometers, and has a population of 2.62 million, which includes Tibetan, Han, Monba, Naxi, Lhoba and Hui. The capital is Lhasa.

Besides the spectacular scenery, the long history and unique religious culture have bestowed Tibet colourful folklore and customs, and numerous culture relics. With unique culture, celebrated monasteries, and stark spectacular scenery, Tibet is one of the most exotic places in the world to visit. Main tourist cities in Tibet are lhasa, Xigaze and Gyangze, and so on. The busiest tourst months of Tibet are April, May, and July through October. Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, is the main point of entry to the roof of the world. The most important buildings to visit in Lhasa are the Jokhang Temple, Potala Palace, Sera Monastery, and Drepung Monastery. Tibet possesses more than 2700 temples, among which the Potala Palace, Jokhong Monastery and the Norbulinka are UNESCO-endowsed world culture heritage sites.

6. Yunnan’s Minority nationalities

As an important passageway in the southwest frontier region and multi-national province of China, Yunnan boasts charming frontier landscapes and ethnic folklore and customs, such as Yunan Ethnic Villages, Folk Dances, the Water Splashing Festival.

Yunnan Ethnic Villages, situated 6 kilometers south of Kunming, is a 2000 mu theme park bordering on the south by the Dianchi Lake and on the west by the famous Western Mountains Scenic Area. Each of the 26 ethnic people of Yunnan will have a village built on the premises, and there will also be a square symbolizing unity among various ethnic groups, atheatre for the performance of ethnic songs and dances, a folklore museum, and a museum of ethnic waxworks. When completed, the Yunnan Ethnic Villages will become an epitome of Yunnan as a multi-ethnic province, and an immense garden in south Chinese horti-cultural and landscaping traditions.

Folk Dances in Yunnan. Nobody knows exactly how many folk dances there are in Yunnan. Many believe that there are at least about 300 different dances with hundred names and thousands of dance steps, which categorized by how they dance, could falls into six big groups, namely, dance to drums, dance to songs, dance to strings, dance to lamps and random dances.

Many dances are carried down from generation to generation completely. Most of them have been refined, developed and standardized through years of festivals, performances and ceremonies. Being regarded as a live museum of history, the folk dances in Yunnan have been protected and preserved in the different places where the dances originated.

You may appreciate the pure beauty, primitive as Va and Jingpo people’s Dances or refined and graceful as Dai People’s Peacock dance, of the folk dances, and at the same time, get to know a little bit about their history and culture for there are rich social, historical and cultural information behind every dance.

The Water Splashing Festival. Dai nationality has a population of more than 840,000, and live mainly in Xishuangbanna, known as “Land of Peacocks”and Dehong Prefectures in which people believe in Hinayana of Buddhism. The Water Splashing Festival, held by the Dai Nationality in the sixth month of the Dai calendar (in the middle of April), is the grandest ceremonial occasion for the Dai. It is also know as the festival for bathing Buddha. The festival is related to the Buddhist legend of dragon sprinkling fragrant showers on Lord Buddha at his birth. The Buddhist legend has gradually been mingled with the customs of the Dai people since their conversion to Buddhism. Currently, the festival is a combination of the Flower Collecting Festival and the Water Splashing Fair.

At present, Water Splashing Festival is a traditional festival for the Dai people in Xishuangbanna and other places to celebrate Dai Calendar New Year, and to give best

withes to each other. The festive activities include bathing Lord Buddha, sprinkling water onto each other for good fortune, dragon boat racing, launching rockets and the kongming lantern, going to the fair, etc. Young girls dcance the Peacock Dance accompanied by the elephant leg drums. Young boy and girl throw a finely embroidered purse to the person he or she is in love.

7.Lijiang Ancient Town

To add to its list of attractions, UNESCO recognized the Ancient Town of Lijiang as a World Heritage site in 1997. Nestled beneath snow-capped peaks, Lijiang is a living museum as it is home to the Naxi people who have steadfastly preserved their centuries-old heritage. They still live in traditional homes, play ancient music and celebrate ethnic festivals with vitality. It is such qualities which now make Lijiang a prized draw card for Yunnan’s tourism promoters. Tourism in Lijiang experienced sharp growth in the past few years thanks to its rich toursist resources. Lijiang’s charms are due entirely to remaining an ordinary town and home to one of the China’s 55 ethnic group communities. Thanks to Lijiang’s remoteness, the Naxi people have successfully resisted the type of development, which is rapidly changing the face of China.

For the most part, it is ancient town of Lijiang, which is the magnet that pulls in tourists. The Naxi people settled in the town, formerly called Dayan, about 800 years ago. More than 4,00 families still live in the town. All the houses, both look like they did centuries ago. They have been built with the same rooftops, stones, and tiles and are linked together by a web-like net-work of narrow, criss-crossing pathways. And just as they did several hundred years ago, the canals still run past the households. Apart from the architecture, the Naxi’s cultural inheritance is very much evident in its music, which was brought into Lijiang during the Ming Dynasty. While the music died out in central China during the warring years. From the Qing Dynasty onwards, it has survived relatively intact in remote and peaceful Lijiang. Lijiang Lies 590 kilometers from Kunming and 196 kilometers north of Dali.

8. Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang City

Mogao Grottoes is situated 25km southeast of Dunhuang city, Gansu province, in Daquan river valley at the foot of Echoing-sand Mountain facing Sanwei Mountain. In 1961, Mogao Grottoes was recognized by State Council as a key historical site under state protection, and in 1987, UNESCO inscribed it on World Heritage List as a cultural heritage of the world.

On the cliff face over 1600m long from south to north 492 caves survived the

time, various in size and clustered higher or lower all over the cliff. In the caves are vivid statues, elegant apsaras, amazing murals, and exquisitely arranged lotus bricks, creating a holy world of Buddhism. The first Mogao grottoes were carved in 366, and the carving went on through the following dynasties of North Liang, North Wei, West Wei, North Zhou, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, Song, West Xia, and Yuan. There remain by now over 45 000 square meters murals and more than 2400 statues, the tallest statue exceeding 30 meters and the largest mural covering about 50 square meters. These statues and murals constitute a mirror of China in the thousand years from the 4th to the 14th century, reflecting the society, production, life, transportation, architecture, art, music, dance, customs, and religion of the people.

The artistic content of the grottoes is exceedingly rich as an integrated art of architecture, sculpture and fresco, reflecting not only the acceptance of Buddhism in Dunhuang area, but also the history and society as well as economy of the area, and the capacity of Chinese people in their absorbing and remodeling of foreign cultures.These artistic creations of religion, grand in scale and stunning in number, provide the valuable data fro the study of the social life, ethnic relation, and cross-culture exchange in ancient China.

9. Huangshan Mountain

Huangshan Mountain is located in the south of Anhui Province. It was called Yishan Mountain in the Qin Dynasty and acquired its present name Huangshan Mountain in 747.Its scenic area, covering 154 square kilometers of land, encompasses fascinating peaks, rocks, pines, clouds, springs and other rare scenes.

Huangshan Mountain is celebrated for having four wonderful mountain scenes: odd-shaped pines, bizarre rocks, cloud seas and hot springs.Rare geological formation and spectacular clusters of peaks are the natural characteristics of Huangshan Mountain. In the scenic area, unique granite peaks dotting the summits and cliffs; ancient pines stretching their branches in ever posture, bizarre rocks with strong resemblances to whatever in your imagination; and the seas of cloud so full of unpredictable changes --they combine to unfold a large scroll of Huangshan Mountain houses rich resources of protophyte and wild animals. The scenic area has a forest coverage of 83.4% and 1452 species of protophytes falling into 203 families. It is said that: “Trips to China’s five great mountains render trips to other mountain unnecessary, and a trip to Mount Huangshan renders trips to the five great mountains unnecessary.

8.Guiyuan Buddist Temple

Guiyuan Temple, situated on Guiwei Street, is one of the four biggest temples for Buddhist meditation in Hubei as well as an important Buddhist temple in China. First built in the early Qing dynasty(1644-1911) by two two monks named Baiguang

and Zhufeng on the base of Sunflower Garden owned by a poet, the temple got its name form Buddhist chants: “With purity kept in mind, one has the thoroughfare everywhere.” Guiyuan Temple has survived through more than 300 hundred years of repeated cycles of prosperity and decline above all else, it is always leading the other temple in Wuhan with prosperous public worship, flourishing Buddhist ceremony and many pilgrims. The temple was destroyed and rebuilt for several times in its history and the present temple dates from the early Republic of China(1912-1949).

Covering an area of 46900 square meters with a floor space of 20000 square meters, the temple mainly consists of Daxiongbaodian Hall, Arhat Hall, Sutta Collection Pavillion, etc. Guiyuan Temple was in fashion for a time although its history was shorter than White Horse Temple, the best Buddhist Temple in China. It is famous not only for spreading Buddhism throughout the whole country, but also for perfect architecture, excellent sculpture and rich collection of Buddhist doctrine among Buddhist temples. In 1956 Guiyuan Temple was listed as one of the key Buddhist temple of Han nationality district in China by the State Council.