Chinese Culture
The Land Of China -- Explore by Province
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Hainan
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Sanya city is located at the southern end of Hainan Island and is an important part of China's foreign trade at the southern borders as well as the political, economic and cultural center in southern Hainan. In accordance with the overall planning of the city, promoting tourism and consequential bringing up the rest of business have been the strategic concepts for the economic development of Sanya City, with the utmost goal of making it an international tropical sea resort tourist city which transcends the turn of the century.
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Tianyahaijiao
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Tianyahaijiao means "the end of sky and the corner of the sea" and is a scenic spot located at the southwest seaside of Sanya. The overall plan of the area includes a land area of 10. 4 square kilometers and a sea area of 6 square kilometers.
In ancient China, the Tianyahaijiao was a place especially for exiled criminals during the feudal dynasties, and few of them succeeded in returning to their homes. With so many difficulties and barriers ahead of their lives, the exiles felt when looking out to the sea that they were staring at the edge of the sky and viewing the corner of the sea, as if there were no end to their strife. Roaming in Tianyahaijiao, anyone can see the dreamlike coastal scenery in the fantastic southern atmosphere and soon will be lost in wild and fanciful thoughts: Is there a sea beyond the sea and a sky beyond the sky? Thus, the name of Tianyahaijiao (the Remotest Cape of the Earth) came into being.
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The sunlight rays on the fences here offers green grasses and colourful flowers that make you feel like you're standing in country fields. The Tianya sunrise and the Haijiao sunset make you feel like you're standing in a fantasy world of the sun coming up at dawn or going down the rocks at dusk.
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Luhuitou (Turn Round Deer) Park was built in 1984 and is located in the Luhuitou Peninsula at the southern tip of Sanya. It has an area of 110,000 square meters and is composed of five hills, while its south, east, and west sides are surrounded by the sea. The East Hawkskill Turtle Island and the West Hawkskill Turtle Island always catches the eyes of tourists, and the Yulin Bay is at the east end of the park.
The name of the park "Luhuitou" comes from an ancient fairy story of the Li nationality. The ancient fairy story says that a young hunter of Li nationality, with a hankerchief surrounded his head and bow and arrows in hands, was chasing a hillside deer from the five-finger Mountains to the seashore of the South China Sea. A vast sea under the cliffs lying in front, the deer had no way to go as the hunter drew his bow, about to shoot at the deer. Suddenly, flames flashed and fog rose up to the sky, and the hillside deer turned her head around and became a beautiful young Li girl.
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They lived on this land, hacking their ways through brambles and thorns, building their thatched cottage, farming and weaving, fishing and hunting, and planting coconut trees to make their living . Generation after generation, a mountain village of the Li nationality came into being. According to this folklore, people called the village Luhuitou (Turn-round Deer).
The decison of sculpturing the statue of Luhuitou (Turn-round Deer) was made by the People's Goverment of the Hainan Li & Miao Autonomous Prefecture and Sanya People's Goverment in 1983.
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20 kilometers away from Sanya Phoenix International Airport, between the Yulin Harbour and the Sanya urban district, lies the Dadong Sea. The sea is known as China's "Golden Coast", with its beautiful sceneries that are full of attraction. The famous "Donghai Morning Sunlight" is one of the Eight Sights of ancient Yazhou. It's an ideal place for diving and sea bathing with its crystal-clear sea water, soft and white sand, bright sunshine, fresh air, rich woods, wonderful undersea worlds, stange rocks, colourful corals, shells, fish, and seaweeds.
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Yalong Bay
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Yalong Bay is 20 kilometers southeast of Sanya City and 270 kilometers from Haikou. Its climate is tropical monsoon, and the annual average temperature is 25.5° C.
Yalong Bay is at present a national tourist and holiday resort at the southern end of China. It clearly holds the potential to be a world-class first-rate tropical seaside resort with a rich and unique culture of different nationalities. In view of this, the State Council, on the fourth of October in 1992, approved the establishment of the Yalong Bay National Tourist and Holiday Resort. The tourist area faces the sea at its south like a crescent moon, and hills stand at its east, north, and west sides. The islets in the sea outside the Yalong Bay are really attractive with the Wild-pig Island at the center and the East Islet, the West Islet, the East Reefs, and the West Reefs scattered around.
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Xiao Dongtian
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The Haishan Spectacle Landscape Tourist Area (formerly called Ao Mountain Daxiao Dongtian) is located at Yazhou Bay, 40 kilometers west from the Sanya urban district. It has been 805 years since Zhou Kang and Mao Kui, the prefectures of the Song Dynasty, often came to pioneer here.
Haishan Spectacle Landscape, meaning the wonder of Hill and Sea, is characterized by its clear sea water, green hills, and pretty rocks, and is known as the best scenic spot ini Zhuya of Ancient China. Along the Yazhou Bay tourists can see sparkling and majestic sea water, thick woods, lush groves in the Ao mountains, and groups of cliffs of exceptionally graceful shape on the shore. The scenery looks like a beautiful archaic scroll of landscape. Many ancient poets composed many wonderful poems about the beautiful scenery.
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Hainan-China's Nationality Village is located in Tong Zha City, also known as the Jadeite City, and is famous for its summer resorts. The city is situated at the southern foot of the Five-Finger Mountain. The Cultural Village is invested by Tong Zha International Recreation Center and is a large complex of cultural landscapes consisting of various estates, architecture, folk customs, and folk arts of various nationalities.
Inside the cultural village are more than 20 different kinds of estates built on the basis of their original landscapes. There are bamboo buildings, boat-shaped houses, and log houses, triple-houses with a court buildings in front, eathern houses, mongolian tents and quadrangles. Visitors can also see other attractions such as a drum-shaped building, a wind and rain bridge, three pagodas, a calendar column, and the Great Wall. All of them are beside different villages, delicately arranged and in perfect harmony with the natual settings.
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The Cultural Village also offers different diets of minority nationalities, which are of unique flavour. These include Shanlan wine, Bamboo Rice, Three Brewed Tea, Salted Fish, and Fried milk. As the largest minority nationalities' customs sightseeing area in Hainan, the Cultural Village also owns a four-star hotel and some other complete sets of facilities designed for holidays and recreation.
