Life at Its Purest： A Dong Village

Q IANDONGNAN in southeastern Guizhou Province is an autono- mous prefecture for the Miao and Dong ethnic minorities. Life on the remote plateau is about as close to nature as you can get these days, and it is one of the world’s 18 preserves of ethnic culture. People of the 2,500-year-old Dong ethnic minority make up 31.5 percent of the local population. Known for hav- ing “Tang Dynasty hairstyles, Song Dy- nasty dress sense, and Ming and Qing Dynasty houses,” the region has been de…     

18 new ways to feel Shanghai Bund

Shanghai once had its most colorful days in 1930s, when the Bund was a center for entertainment and recreation nicknamed as ““““ten miles of foreign spectacles““““. Inthe early days of the 20th century, the government of Qing Dynasty(1616-1911 ) was forced to open the ports for foreign trade; Shanghai was then made a commercial port by the foreigners, and a street was constructed between Waibaidu Bridge and Dongjinling Road, named ““““Bund““““ or ““““Waitan““““ in Chinese.     

Village on a Monolith

In Yunnan Provnce,by theJinsha River 120 kilometers fromthe seat of Lijiang County,stands a monolith 200 metershigh covering 0.5 square kilome-ters.Built on it is a Village,known as Baoshan Stone City,site of 108 Naxi ethnic house-holdS.     

Seaside Pearl： A Modern Yet Ancient City

QINGDAO is situated on the Yellow Sea coast against a picturesque background of green mountains in southeast Shandong Province. It is a popular seaside tourist destination for people living on China's east coast. Qingdao has abundant cultural relics and famous historical sites, and is best known for its stunning seaside scenery and German architecture, built by colonizers during the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).     

Longzhou Village Theatrical Performances

SPRING festival celebrations inLongxian County,ShaanxiProvinee start during thetwelfth month of the lunar cal-endar (around January in the Gregoriancalendar),and reach their peak on the15th of the first lunar month .It is cus-tomary to prepare food,buy mew     

Kaiping Watchtower Houses

AN increasing number of travelers are heading for Kaiping, a small city 122 kilometers south-west of Guangzhou, to see the 1,833 fortress-fashioned resi-     

Pingyao-World Cultural Heritage

Watching the locals do business in the same houses as their ancestor did centuries ago is akin to stepping into a time machine.p INGYAO is located in Shanxi province, to the west of its capital Tai- yuan. All of the city walls, streets, buildings and shops are well preserved from the Ming and Qing dynasties. Today, the town looks much the same as it did when it was the county seat in ancient times. china’s Past Revealed to Foreign Eyes pingyao particularly appeals to two kinds of people.…     

Suzhou Gardens：the Master-of-Nets Garden

IN June 2003,the State Postal Bureau issued a set off our special stamps,third in the Suzhou Gardens series,celebrating the Master-of-NetsGarden.The previous two sets pictured the Lingering Garden(1980)andthe Humble Administrator’s Garden(1984).     

Visit Tibet with an Open Mind

I'm a graphic designer from San Francisco. I'd never been to Tibet before and had only seen a handful of pictures of it. I have a friend who's been here a couple of times, and whenever he talks about it, he gets a dreamy, faraway, happy look. Based on that, I was pretty sure I was in for a really special experience. The little I knew about the Tibetan political situation before the trip was that it seemed to be a mess: that China     

Zhuge Eight-Trigram Village——Living Monument to an Ancient Sage and Master Strategist

ZHUGE Liang (181-234) was prime minister of the Kingdom of Shu during the Three Kingdoms Peri- od (220-280). His legend- ary prowess as military strategist and thinker are chronicled in the classic Chi- nese novel The Romance of Three King- doms that, in China, is read by young and old alike. During the Ming (1368- 1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties this great statesman's descendants built Zhuge Bagua Village in the mountains of Lanxi, Zhejiang Province, in honor of their revered an…     

走近堂安

堂安，一个地处黔．湘、桂交界的火山深处，深藏“侗疆腹地”的侗族小山寨．以它古朴自然、和谐宁静的气质感染吸引着我，令我魂牵梦萦。     

The Attractions of China＇s “Tin City”

Early one January morning I sat in a modern Daewoo coach of Yunnan Express as it pulled out of Kunming‘s Long Distance Bus Station. I was heading to the warmth of southern Yunnan, to Gejiu, capital of Honghe Prefecture.     

The Oracles of Anyang

The many oracle bones of Anyang vividly relay countless records and because of them, researchers are now able to reconstruct odds and ends of historical data into a clear account of China's early past.     

寻访《小河淌水》的神秘源头

哎/月亮出来亮汪汪,亮汪汪,想起我的阿哥在深山,哥像月亮天上走天上走/哥啊,哥啊,山下小河淌水清悠悠。哎/月亮出来照半坡,照半坡,望见月亮想起我尼郎,一阵清风吹上坡吹上坡/哥啊,哥啊,你可听见阿妹叫阿哥。说起优美动听的云南民歌《小河淌水》可能无人不知,无人不晓。可是说到     

＇HAND IT’TO HANDAN！

AN old Chinese fable tells us about ayoung traveling man who found himself one day walking in the streets of Handan. He was out of money and since everyone viewed him as a stranger, he was unable to find work. He studied the habits of the Handan people day after day and found that they had a particular way of walking that seemed very highly cultured. He was determined to learn to walk like a Handan person,     

加拿大：一个多元文化的移民国家

去年在加拿大8个多月的时间里，我们深切地感到这是一个多元文化和开放型的国家，也是．个年轻的移民国家。我们住在第二大城市蒙特利尔较僻静的街区，这里住有黑人和亚洲的菲律宾人、越南人、印度人等；漫步街头或乘地铁和公交车，经常会看到身披长袍的阿拉伯人、头缠大帕的印度人、斯里兰卡人等；而和华人十分相像的日本人、韩国人也不少。     

Oiguya Village： A Fairytale World

To hear one of their hunters singing in the forest is to know the nature of the Ewenki people, anthropologist Bai Lan explains. ＂No matter how cheerful their songs, there is always a trace of graceful melancholy,＂ said the Ewenki anthropologist from Inner Mongolia. ＂Their songs come from the birch woods, from their love of the forest.＂     

老舍故居丹柿小院

可以说老舍写了一辈子北京,老舍作品中最精彩的部分是写北京,老舍一生在北京度过了42年,最后在北京去世。不过,在他从事写作的41年里,大部分时间却不在北京,只有在新中国成立后的17年是真正在北京度过,但他的心始终在北京,北京是他写作的源泉。老舍说过:“我爱北京就像爱自己的母亲,无论在哪里,我思念北京,就像思念我的慈母。”     

巧夺天工鹤立群——记云南大理州鹤庆县

在云南省大理白族自治州北部、丽江古城南边.有一个四面青山环抱的山间盆地,当地人称作坝子。坝子中间一条长河弯弯曲曲流淌.四周山脚下数十个被称为“龙潭”的天然湖自山脚喷涌而出,这就是大理白族自治州有名的“龙潭”之乡——鹤庆。 鹤庆是大理、丽江两大历史文化名城之间的连接点和延伸点.距丽江机场13公里。全县人口中白族占了一半以上,同时还有汉、彝、苗、壮、纳西等22个