Dumpling is a traditional Chinese food. With a long history, this kind of food usually can be seen and enjoyed in northern China, cooking with small limps of dough either with meat or vegetables. Originally, this is just a common home-cooked meal, but with people’s creative idea, Dumpling BanquetChina tour dealsappeared. And also, it is reputed as ‘Three Matchless Foods in Xian’ together with famous Fang Tang Dish and Cruded Pancake in Mutton Soup.

History

As long as talking about the Dumpling Banquet, dumplings must be mentioned firstly. Dumpling was a popular food even can be traced back to over 2,000 years ago in ancient Chang’an city (today’s Xi’an city).

Then, how about the Dumpling BanquetChina tour deals? It is said one day Yang Yuhuan (one beloved imperial concubine of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang) would like to eat one food with stuffings and also it should be a steamed one. The clever cook knew that she was in favor of chicken, so made steamed dumplings with chicken for her; and the result was she liked very much. Hence, ‘Guifei Zhengjiao’ as a delicacy in court handed down even till today. Then we come to the existing one. Xi’an Dumpling Banquet Hotel is the first one offering Dumpling Banquet; originally, it was a dumpling restaurant in Jiefang Road. With more than 50 years history, their dumplings are famous and welcomed in Xian. Later, for a better development, since 1984, the restaurant set about learning how to make a successful Dumpling Banquet, not only to other cities but among the people.
Features and Breakthrough Points

Various materials: not only using general used materials, but with other delicious and eutrophic onesChina travel videos. For example, kinds of meat (chicken, duck, fish, pork etc.), in season fresh vegetables and also other delicacies.
Kinds of Taste: ‘one hundred dumplings, one hundred tastes’, people can enjoy kinds of taste in a Dumpling Banquet, such as spicy, sweet, curry and so forth.
Different Making Methods: there are basic four which are steam, fry, decoct and stew. But because of the different materials, other methods also can be used, such as stir-fry, quick-fry, braise, boil etc.
Fantastic Shapes: here, people will find a large number of dumplings in vivid shapes, such as goldfishes, pearls, butterflies, gold ingots, nests, flowers etc.
A Combination with others: traditionally, people eat dumplings only; but in a Dumpling BanquetChina travel videos, dumplings are the main role but not the only, together with cold dishes, hot dishes, drinks and so on.

Yulongsha Lake tourist area last minute China travel deals is one comprehensive tourist attraction that has gathered the deserts, plains, mountain forest, lakes and the customs of Mongol nationality merging into one organic whole, which has been known as the most recent and most beautiful great desert scenic area. It has been listed as the national AAAA ecological scenic spot.

The first dragon of China as the world-famous Hongshan culture landmark of the Neolithic Period had turned up at the site that had made the China's 5,000 long years ancient civilization's cradle had traced forward for more than a thousand years, thus it has got its present name of Yulongsha Lake. Yulongsha Lake holiday zone is very famous for its integrated desert, sandy area, ancient pines, grotesque rocks, picturesque cragged peaks, wetlands, grasslands and lakes.

Broad prairies with 50,000 mu in area is connected to the vast and boundless Inner Mongolia's Horqin Sands China travel service . There's a spring of clear cold water in sandy areas, which had accumulated water to become a lake in the desert. There's one lake with an area of about 14,000 mu in the desert. There're over ten Sand Islands in the lake, which had formed the unique sandy lake landscape of a lake in the desert, an island in the lake, the grasses on the island and the birds in the grass.

There's the beautiful and bright day under the clear blue sky from April to October every year, with the white sand and crystal clear water, the green grass and forest. Visitors all flocked to the Yulongsha Lake scenic area. The successive sand dune in Yulongsha Lake tourist area is very huge and steep, with the average vertical elevation of about 75 meters.

The crescent-shaped sand of the natural slope What & Where to buy in China is about 70 to 100 meters in height. The little grains of sand are the quartz grains of sand, its glittering and translucent particles spreading evenly. The sand groups with the huge and steep relative relief could serve as an ideal place for the public outdoor activities.

In order to let the mass travelers get in touch with the charm of the outdoor tourism culture, according to the features of the sandy geography, the scenic spot had settled the sandy projects on the different function areas, including wild camping, car camp and so on. The broad and level sand hill had even made the area the first choice for developing the cross-country race in the desert.

All visitors that came into the scenic spot for sightseeing could go by the professional desert cross-country vehicles, go into the hinterland of the great desert and drink in the beauty of the sea of sand that stretches for four hundred kilometers, one of the twelve largest deserts all over the country.

In the lake is also grown a wide variety of fishes like the carp, crucian carp, silver carp, catfish, etc. There's the boundless expanse of the edge of the great desert to the north of the lake. One very strange-looking Stone Mountain reared high on the plains.


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Reliably Speaking, Lingyin Temple China travel deals was built in326 when Southern China was in the reign of East Jin Dynasty. Up to today, the history of Lingyin Temple has been more than 1600 years. Lingyin Temple becomes the earliest Buddhist Temple in Hangzhou. Its name origins have been mentioned above. During the reign of Wuyue Kingdom (907-978), when China was separately under the administration of five Dynasties and roughly ten kingdoms, the King Qian Chu was a worshipper of Buddhism. Lingyin Temple with his help developed quickly, which was mainly embodied in the extension of buildings---there were 9 towers, 18 pavilions, 72 halls and more than 3000 monks in Lingyin Temple.

During Northern Song Dynasty, some scholars ranked buddhist temples of Jiangnan region, and Lingyin Temple was ranked first as the Top Zen Buddhist Temple. At the time, China had a list of Buddhist Temple named Wushan Shilin( Five Buddhist Mountains and Five Buddhist Forests China travel service), and Lingyin Temple was ranked the top of it. Lingyin Temple indeed has the surroundings of retreat, which is in harmony with its name. The whole temple was deeply surrounded diversity of peaks and forests. Fei Lai Feng and Cold Spring are the fantastic attractions around Lingyin Temple.

During the southward visit of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty, he was quite attracted by the gorgeous surroundings of Bei Gao Feng and joyfully inscribed the tablet for Lingyin Temple. But there was an interesting story. It was said that Emperor Kangxi made a mistake which embarrassed him a lot when him did not handle the layout of his handwritings well. The traditional Chinese of Ling. The upper part of the character is another independent character(rain), and the middle part is three口 in line and the bottom was also a character, 巫(wizard). Generally, traditional character of Ling is comprised of three parts. But he was too happy to care more about the whole structure of the character and wrote the Yu(雨) quite large, which did harm to the whole writing of Ling. He was troubled but could not tell followers. He considered for a minute. In a flash, he brought to mind that the surroundings of Lingyin Temple, especially the area of Bei Gao Feng always appeared the large scale of mist and covered the whole temple. He got an idea and added a character Yun, Cloud) below Yu, and imperially named Lingyin Temple Yun Lin Chan Si( Cloud-Forest Zen Monastery Public China Holidays ). Today’s huge tablet written by Emperor Kangxi is in front of Hall of the Heavenly Kings. However, the local people still preferred to call it Lingyin Temple.

Having experienced thousands of years, Lingyin Temple still kept well. During the period of Northern Expedition (1926-1927), The 31st Team's Colonel Xu Tujing under the leadership of Warlord Wu Peifu burnt down this time-honored temple rebuilt in the reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty just for getting illegally a quite treasured legacy----Ancient Crock of Sheng Tian Tang, which was an ancient big crock originally used for immortality of Monk Bibo, the first governor of Lingyin Temple. 


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Situated in Olympic Green Village, Chaoyang District, Beijing National Stadium (Bird Nest) last minute China travel deals is the main stadium of track and field, football, gavelock, weight throw and discus of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, as well as the place hosted the Opening and Closing ceremonies. Nowadays, it is the center of international and domestic sports competition and recreation activities, as well as a hot tourist attraction.

The design of this large stadium is very special, with the steel structures exposed entirely in the most natural appearance, which looks like a big nest. A bird nest embraces and nurses human beings. This stadium was designed together by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron and Chinese architect Li Xinggang and the others. The construction started from December 24, 2003 and finished in March, 2008, which cost over 33 million dollars totally.

With an area of over 258,000 sqm, this stadium could accommodate over 200,000 people with 80,000 fixed seats and 11,000 temporary seats. The tallest point of the stadium China travel service is 68.5 meters above the ground and the lowest point is 42.8 meters. The saddle-shaped top is covered by waterproof, semi-transparent air bubble film, with which the sunshine could penetrate into the stadium to help the lawns to grow well.

What’s more, The National Stadium is not only the symbol building of the 2008 Olympic Games, but also the good example to show the world’s architectural history and achievements. the designs of everything in the National Stadium Holidays in China are humanistic. With the bowl-like stands zone surrounds the court, the stands can be changed in many ways to meet the different competitions’ needs, besides, the temporary seats, which were set at the top of the scientifically distributed rows of stands, with the fixed seats to help the spectator to enjoy the game without any visual obstruction. With the electro-acoustic public address system, which makes the index of voice definition reaches 0.6, all the audience can hear the broadcast clearly.

Nowadays, besides sightseeing in the National Stadium, tourist can also go skiing here, which boasts the largest ski resort in urban Beijing.


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The highest peak of the Huangyang Mountain, in a height of 583 meters, stands within the confines of the Doumen County in the Zhuhai City known as "the first peak along the gateway to the Pearl River" Yangtze River tour. Take the Yexi highways at the foot of the mountain and look northward through bus window, visitors will see the Jintai Temple, a striking building in the style of ancient times with the orange-colored glass roof tiles.

Jintai Temple is located at the south foot of the Huangyang Mountain, overlooking the Yamen seaport China travel deals and lying at the back of the highest peak of the Huangyang Mountain. The sceneries there are graceful. The Green Dragon Mountain extends to the left and the White Tiger Mountain grovels to the right. In the front of Jintai Temple is a sheet of skyey water and on the opposite bank of the mountain is a high projecting rock named "Dengxian Rock". "Dengxian” means becoming immortal. Legend says the king of Doumen ascended to heaven and become immortal here.

Driving the car along the Huangyang Avenue China travel service , striking off into the reservoirs and straight to the mountain gate, and then ascending the stairs along the more than three hundred stone steps, you can see the eminent and magnificent Grand Hall of the Great Hero, in which there is a glorious statue of Buddha and an antique comprehensive room.


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Do you like birds? I believe most of answers are ’Yes’. They seem to be the pet of almost all nature lovers China tour deals.May you will tell me that you like the sweet singing of birds in the dense forest. You can experience a feeling of adoration when you see birds flying freely in the sky? No matter what the reason is, we love birds. Then, you can make full use of your imagination: now, you are stand in an island, there are countless birds around you, what you would feel like when you sight flocks of wild birds speading their wings over the broad lake? Now, it is not a dream, on Bird Land, which is renowned as the kingdom and paradise of birds, you can savor this wondrous world yourself. Of course, it is also the paradise for bird lovers.

Lying northwest of Qinghai Lake China travel service, which is one of the most beautiful lakes in China, Bird Island is connected to the bank on one side whilst the others are surrounded by water. There are two islands surrouded by the lake, one is Haixi Pi in the east, and in the west is the Haixi Shan, which is four times smaller than the former one but is where most of the birds of the lake congregate. When it comes to spring and summer, you can see many birds fly from faraway mountains and deserts breeded here. The number of birds can reach unbelieveable ten thousand, 80% to 90% of which stop on the Haixi Shan and lay eggs there. Can you image what pageantry scenery it will be? By the way, Haixi Shan is also called 'Egg Island' for the bird eggs interspreaded all over the island.

It is a puzzle that why these birds choose Birds Island rather than other islands. The answer is that it has a flat physiognomy and mild climate, and is close to the water, which produces rich float grasses and fishes. In order to breed smoothly, they need a quiet environment, this island meet their needs.

Now, Bird Island has been a must-see in Qinghai China Holidays for its enticing natural scenery and so many beautiful wildfowl. It has been listed as a national natural reserve mainly for the protection of birds here, but also provides an excellent place for the travelers and birdwatchers to visit. It is a wonder of nature and we should protect it.

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Huo Qubing (140 BC-117 BC), a very outstanding and brave general in the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-24), led his troops to repulse numerous incursions by the Huns and brought peace and prosperity to his country China travel deals and small countries in the north. However, in 117 BC, while on the march to Hun near Qilian Mountain, he died for some disease, a great loss to the whole society. Emperor Wudi (156 BC-87 BC) felt very sad for his death, and gave orders to hold a ceremonial funeral for Huo Qubing and built a spacious tomb for him just beside the Emperor's own. The tomb is the present Tomb of Huo Qubing.

Lies 1, 000 meters (about 1094 yards) northeast of Maoling Mausoleum China travel service, Tomb of Huo Qubing is a cone-shaped soil and rock mound, adjacent to the Maoling Museum and is surrounded by a scenic environment. There are 16 stone carvings in front of the Tomb of Huo Qubing, including a galloping horse, a recumbent horse, a bull, a tiger, a wild boar, a toad, a stone fish, a sleeping elephant, a stone man, an ape and a bear, all of which comprise an illustrious example of the art of stone caving in the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220). Meanwhile, it is the best preserved carving heritage in China.

The 1.9 meters (about 6.2 feet) long and 1.68 meters (about 5.51 feet) wide 'Horse Treads on the Hun' is the main statue palced in the front of the tomb, depicting a horse stands on the ground with perked head and long horsetail, while under its abdomen is a struggling Hun with bow and dagger in his hand.

About general Huo Qubing, there are many beautiful legends. According to the people in Jiuquan City, Gansu Province, after General Huo Qubing What & Where to buy in China and his troops defeated the Huns here, the Emperor vouchsafed good wine to this general. Instead ofenjoyying the wine all by himself, Huo Qubing pouered it into the spring pond and drank it with all his subjects. Then, the place was named as Jiuquan (the spring of wine).

Nowadays, the joss sticks, candles and paper money have never ceased burning throughout the year in the temple at the Tomb of Huo Qubing. Many people came to here to wish for 'avert disasters and cure their diseases,' for 'qubing' in Chinese means 'curing disease.'

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Weifang is commended as "the capital of kite in the world". The museum has collected more than one thousand delicate kites China travel deals from all over the world, plus hundreds of pieces of materials for visitors to learn kite skills.

Weifang World Kite Museum China travel service is China's first large-scale kite museum, occupying an area of 8100 square meters, the leading architectural style is a selected centipede characteristics, the ridge is a complete portfolio of ceramic dragon, peacock blue glazed tile paved the roof, like a dragon surfing in the sky. The design is unique and it is the the representative building of "World Kite Capital ".

The aim of Weifang World Kite Museum is to collect and display valuable kites and the cultural relics as well as information of kites of all times. There is a total of eight exhibition halls: the history and culture of kites, Weifang Kite Showcase, the world excellent kite exhibition, Chinese kite exhibition, comprehensive functions of kite exhibition Holidays in China, the Weifang International Kite Festival exhibition, Folk Hall and a video hall, respectively introduced the history of kites, application and evolution of the development of the genre and classification of Weifang kites, foreign kites and domestic kites, schools of kites and the exquisite kites and so on. Providing detailed information and photos, text, drawings, reproductions, visitors can better get a comprehensive sense of kite history, modern kite culture, international kite culture. Now Weifang has turned into a dissemination and exchange center of kite art and cultural.

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Facing the Yellow Sea, Mt. Laoshan is situated to the east of Qingdao. The Mt. Laoshan affordable China tours is noted for its remarkable scenery and coastal landscape. It also plays an important role in the development of Taoism. Mt Laoshan is the most famous mountain of all on the coast of China. So it is a must to see when touring in Qingdao.

As the most noted mountain on the coast, Mt. Laoshan is welcome among visitors. Three lines will lead you to 220 tourist attractions including historical and natural points of interest.

The Southern Line
On the first line there are not only beautiful scenery but also imposing Taoist Palaces. Main scenic spots include Xufu Islet, the Taiqing Palace China travel service and Longtan Waterfall. The culture of Taoist is profound and temples of Mt. Laoshan are quite famous. At the peak of Taoism, it was said that there were nine palaces, eight Temples and seventy-two nunneries. The number of Taoist had reached above one thousand. While later many buildings were demolished, amongst those still remaining the Taiqing Palace is the largest. The Taiqing Palace also has the longest history of more than two thousand years. Occupying an area of about 30,000 square meters, the Taiqing Palace houses 155 rooms. It has been well protected and holds the representative style of the Song Dynasty (960-1279). This style is distinctive in religious architectures in China.
Route: Bus 304 at the railway station and at the ferry from 6:30 to 17:00; Bus 106 at Licun (a village) from 7:15 to 16:20.

The Central Line
The second line mainly focuses on Beijiushui. The name Beijiushui derives its meaning from the mountain which has nine crooks, thus making the river turn nine times. The river begins from the north side of the Ju Peak which is the highest peak of Mt. Laoshan and flows into the valley. So many remarkable attractions are on this line that it is named 'the Jiushui Gallery'. At each corner, completely different sights will surely surprise you. The current here is quite torrential while further flows very gently. The flowers, odd rocks and trees on both sides of the river create the graceful beauty of the water. The most noted attraction of Beijiushui is Chaoyin Waterfall. During the rainy season the waterfall China Holidays is very grand.
Route: Bus 311 at the railway station and at the ferry from 6:45 to 16:40; Bus 107 at Licun (a village) from 8:00 to 16:00: the tour bus at Huaneng Square from 7:00 to 10:30.

The Eastern Line
The third line consists of the the Lion Peak, Taiping Palace, Naluoyan Cavern, Huayan Temple and other sights. Naluoyan Buddha Cavern is one such scene. It is a natural granite cavern with a width of 7 meters and a height of 15 meters. Over one hundred people can stand inside at the same time. Its structure is very distinctive. There is a smooth and round hole at the top of the cavern. Reportedly, the hole was made by the mysterious power of Naluoyan Buddha. Through this hole, sunlight can reach and thus light up the whole cavern.
Route: Bus 312 at the railway station and at the ferry from 6:30 to 16:40; Bus 123 at Licun (a village) from 5:10 to 18:00; the tour bus at Huaneng Square from 7:00 to 10:30.

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Located in Xijin West Road, Qilihe District Lanzhou, Gansu Provincial Museum last minute China travel deals is the biggest comprehensive museum in the province, which has over 350,000 exhibits ranging from fossils of prehistoric living beings, Neolithic Painted-Pottery Culture to porcelain, woodcarving, silk fabrics and paintings in Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. Gansu Provincial Museum covers a total area of 18,000 square meters. Besides, this museum was designed by the soviet experts. So travelers in Lanzhou should pay a visit to this container of miracle.

The museum best China travel service complex is made up of three separate buildings linked by corridors, and further divided into two sections, a natural resources section downstairs and historical exhibit upstairs. Beside the various color-painted potteries of Neolithic Age and treasures of ancient grottoes, this museum is the home to precious linen and silk fabrics, books, wooden and bronze vessels, a great many bamboo slips for writing from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220), frescos and so many other items. Moreover, there are also rare animal exhibits, such as pandas, golden monkeys and red -crowned cranes.

Some miracles
A 4-meter-tall Mammoth fossil replica
The remains of this Mammoth were excavated from the Yellow River Yangtze River tour basin in 1973.

Galloping Horse's Hoof Stepped on a Flying Swallow or Galloping Horse, which was excavated in Wuwei County, Gansu Province in 1969, is one of the nation’s treasures.

A galloping horse with three hooves in the air and the right back hoof lands on the back of a small flying swallow. The bird turns in surprise to look at the big creature on its back. At the same moment, the horse's head also turns slightly in attempt to know what has happened.

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