Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Mount Long hu, Jiangxi

Mount Long hu is located in Yingtan which is a place with rich Taoist culture. There are also lots of mountains and beautiful rivers. Not only can you have a visit to the Taoist palace, but also you can take the bamboo raft to have a closer touch with nature.


Local heritage

Gateway Taoist
Taoist gate


Taoist
Taoist

Taoist turtle
Taoist turtle


Thursday, April 3, 2014

Wu Yuan, Jiangxi

WuYuan in Jiangxi Province is a traditional town with long history which has been long under jurisdiction of Anhui Province. It is hometown of Zhu Xi, a famous Confucian scholar of the Southern Song Dynasty.  You will peaceful in this small, cultivated ancient town where you will forget all anxiety and worries.

Food in Wuyuan
The cuisine in Wuyuan inherits the traditional HUICAI, steamed, steamed to paste food.Here is some main dishes with distinctive features: steamed pork with rice flour paste, bean curd, steamed redfish purse, sweet and sour gooseneck ,Yushan black pig, Lu Tian Guan heart sugar, Sweet steamed pear,  tea, rice cake, braised pork, Ge Fen, Ge piece tea, Rice noodles dry, lees fish, dried bamboo shoots, the whitebait,  redfish purse, Yushan rib Yan, the white lotus.

Shopping.
Wuyuan local people put the main products are "green red black and white", in addition to the "red" (red purse carp) can only be installed in the belly away, the remaining three are worth buying. Green as the "Wuyuan Green Tea", black refers to "the tailback ink stone," white "Jiangwan sydney".

Entertainment:

Shangrao has a rich folk art heritage, a string hall class, Tea Picking Opera, Northeast Jiangxi Yiyang chamber, Wuyuan opera, Wuyuan dance, local art, these are almost folk used to native or other drama evolved, to celebrate the birthday, wedding or marriage is said that Anqing's entertainment gods dance.

The yellow flower sea - Wuyuan
yellow flower sea in Wuyuan

Ancient town in flower sea -Wuyuan
















Water flows beneath the little bridge-Wuyuan
yellow flower sea
















Food - Qing Ming Baozi in Wuyuan
food in wuyuan















My friend and I in Wuyuan




Wuyuan- a

Wuyuan Ancient town



Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Mount Lu, Jiangxi

Mount Lu in Jiu Jiang

Mount Lu, also known as Kuang Shan or Kuang Lu, belonging to the Jiangxi of Jiujiang province. The legend of the Yin and Zhou Dynasties to the brothers seven people Jielu lived here, after the immortal away, it lives Lu turned into hill, hence the name. Located 36 kilometers south of Jiujiang, north of Yangtze River, the south side of Poyang Lake. About 25 km north-south, east-west width of 20 km. Most peaks over 1000 meters above sea level, Hanyang Feng peak 1474 meters above sea level, the mountain Guling town of about 1167 meters above sea level.

Mount Lu magnificent xiuba, wind around the clouds, the mountains more cliffside waterfalls and caves and places of historic interest and scenic beauty, in summer, cool and pleasant climate, is China's famous tourist scenic spot and summer resort, in 1996 was included in the "world natural and cultural heritage". The ancients cloud "the largest fresh water lake in China," since Sima Qian will Mount Lu in "historical records", the poets of letters have come here especially, Tao Yuanming, Xie Lingyun, Li Bai, Bai Juyi, Su Shi, Wang Anshi, Lu You, Xu Zhimo, Guo Moruo and so on more than 1500 poets have been climbing, left many precious works. Wang Ling side peaks as Su Shi wrote, "far different level. Do not know the true face of Mount Lu, just because in the mountains "depict the scenery of Mount Lu, thousands of years to win universal praise.

The famous waterfall in Mount Lu



Sunrise in Mount Lu


The time for Sunrise all around the year:
Jan - 7: 12 Feb - 6:56 Mar - 6:27 Apr - 5:50 May - 5:25 July - 5:26; August - 5:44, Sep - 6:00; Oct-6:17; Nov-6:40; Dec - 7:03.
Please try your best to get up and never miss the beautiful scene.