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Nandan is the origin of Danquan Liquor. Located in the county seat, the winery of Danquan Liquor is the largest production base of wine spirit in Guangxi as well as a national industrial tourism demonstration site in China.
The 11th Annual Company Meeting Celebrating New Year in West Mountain of Guiping comes in our expectation. This is a glorious tradition of our Visitourchina.com . The 10th Annual Meeting was hold in Zhanjiang Guangdong last year The content of every Annual Meeting are almost same, like delicious banquet, funny activities, work summary and lottery drawing etc. For me, the most charming point of this Annual Meeting was the place of holding it.
Festivals of Chinese Ethnic Minorities
2014-03-28 | Cultures
China is a country with vast land and composed by 56 ethnic groups. Except the Han nationality which accounts for approximately 91.51% of the total population of China, other nationalities only accounts for 8.49%, and consequently the other 55 are called minority nationalities. Though the population of the other 55 ethnic groups is much fewer, their varied festivals account for about 70% of the total amount of Chinas festivals, and these colorful festivals constitute an important part of Chinese culture and lives.
People generally know Guilin but ignore other beauties of Guangxi Province. Actually, Guangxi offers so much more than just Guilin. The Miao Ethnical Minority villages in Rongshui County, Guangxi Province, has the very interesting Po Hui Festival(a popular activity for the locals to wish for good harvest through the reed-pipe wind instruments) every year, which is a kind of non-material cultural heritage that originates from nature and showed by dances, songs and various activities.
A Bite of China- gift from bamboo grove
2012-06-13 | China Food
With its diversified geographic environment and corresponding climate conditions, China is endowed with kinds of food materials which results in rich eating habits with distinguished features in different areas and regions. In traditional Chinese dietary, there is a particularly dainty come from the bamboo grove- bamboo shoots, which are fully employed in almost each of the four major Chinese cuisines- Cantonese, Sichuan, Shandong and Huaiyang (combining Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang). Chinese chefs love bamboo shoots because of its simplicity of material quality which make it easy to match and assimilate other tastes, in especial to produce a splendid balance with greasy meat.
The Tibetan New Year is the most important festival in a year for Tibetan people. The formal celebration starts from the first day of the first month in Tibetan calendar and lasts for 15 days, but preparations are usually made one month early. As a way of welcoming the New Year, all the men and boys have to have their head shaved, correspondingly, women and girls will wash and comb their hair. An overall house cleaning is always needed before the festival, but the cleaning of ceiling and chimney should be done on auspicious days such as the dates of 3, 5, 7, 9, etc.
Wedding Customs of Ethnic Minorities in Guangxi
2011-11-25 | Cultures
As one of China's five ethnic autonomous regions (Guangxi, Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia - equivalent to five provinces), Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is in fact the habitation of many Chinese ethnic groups, including the Han and 11 indigenous ethnic minorities among which the Zhuang accounts for majority. Having been being influenced by the outside world, more than more youth generation of the minorities are accepting modern lifestyle and concepts, fortunately, their peculiar ethnic customs are still well passed on in their remote hometown. In this post we would like to discover some traditional wedding customs in Guangxi.
Weizhou Island
2011-10-28 | China travel Guide
As an avid traveler I find great joy living in a large country like China.With an incredible variety of terrain and an equally diverse cultural landscape, the amount of traveling possibilities is seemingly endless.While I certainly cannot claim to have been to even half of the more famous cities and sites, I have at least been to some of the key regional destinations such asBeijing in the north,Chengdu in the west,Shanghai in the east, and of course, Guilin in the south.However, of all the locations I have personally traveled to in China, my favorite is probably the least known of all: Guangxi Autonomous Regions Weizhou Island (涠洲岛).