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This festival originates from the early “the Mid-July” harvest autumn to worship ancestors, the birth of “the Mid-July” can be traced back to the ancient ancestor worship and harvest festival. In ancient times, people often placed their blessings on the gods for the harvest of farming. Worship ancestors in spring, summer, autumn and winter, but the “taste of autumn” in early autumn is very important. Autumn is the harvest season, and people hold sacrificial ceremonies to the spirits of their ancestors, offering the season’s good products to the gods first, and then tasting the fruits of these labors and praying for a good harvest in the coming year.

Wind and Rain Bridge, also known as Flower Bridge and Blessing Bridge, is a distinctive bridge type mainly popular in Hunan province, Guizhou Province, Guangxi province, and other places. The whole body is covered with rain Bridges, mainly composed of Bridges, towers, pavilions, etc. The guardrail, chairs, and roof of the bridge are covered with tiles.

Due to its unique architectural type and strong cultural connotation, the Wind and Rain Bridge is called one of the world’s top ten unimaginable road Bridges, as it provides easy shelter from the rain.

Standing beside the river, the bridge combines the concrete moon-shaped single bridge with the characteristics of the Dong ethnic group. There are seven bridge pavilions in total.

This time, I followed the theme of “March 3 Guangxi Vacation Tourism” to walk into The Dong Autonomous County of Sanjiang, Guangxi, where I felt the learning atmosphere of the dong people, especially the Wind and Rain Bridge of Sanjiang river helped me to leave a deep impression.

The concrete architectural decoration material of the wind and Rain Bridge is centered on Chinese fir trees. During the construction, the architectural designer did not use nails completely. There are countless holes in the tree column, and the structure is slanted through with mortise and tenon joints.

In the eyes of tourists, the wind and rain Bridges of Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County in Guangxi province are numerous and varied, producing unique landscape gardens. “Wind and Rain Bridges of Sanjiang River” is the most magnificent, though not the most time-honored.

Standing on the “Wind and Rain Bridge of Sanjiang river”, you can have a panoramic view of Sanjiang County and feel the unique style of Dong Autonomous Region. With the development of tourism in Guangxi, Sanjiang has become a popular tourist destination for more and more people, and tourists from all over the world come here one after another. Every time to “three rivers wind bridge”, foreign tourists will be surprised by this elegant and generous traditional road bridge, have not thought of the “world’s first” wooden bridge? It is really hard to imagine, and I admire the great intelligence of the people.

Weizhou Island is located in beibu Gulf just south of Beihai City, the largest and youngest volcanic island in China. The origin of Weizhou Island can be traced back to millions of years ago, but the latest volcanic eruption was 30,000 years ago, which covered the island and established the modern volcanic landscape of Weizhou Island. Through sea erosion, the island is further sculpted with beautiful modern landform landscape, such as sea erosion platform, sea erosion cliff, sea erosion cave, sea erosion cave, sea erosion bridge, sea erosion mushroom, etc., all kinds of strange rocks and rocks, constitute an amazing scenery line.

Crocodile mountain, colorful beach, water screen, stone Dan screw scenic area, such as volcanic mechanism of China’s most typical, China’s most abundant volcanic landscape and China’s most complete multiphase volcanic geological relics, set in the sea cliffs cliffs or Marine platform on various bomb, volcano, as she volcanic murals, solidified lava dynamic process of the moment, A masterpiece of volcanic engineering.

Leye Tiankeng Group, the largest tiankeng group in the world, with 24 sinkholes distributed in a mountainous area of less than 20 square kilometers. It has developed Dashiwei Tiankeng, Baidongtiankeng and Chuandongtiankeng, etc. Among them, Dashiwei Tiankeng is the representative of Leye Tiankeng group and the pride of Leye people. Dashiwei Tiankeng Group is located in Baiyanjiao Village, Huaba Village, Tongle Town, Leye County. It was formed about 65 million years ago. It is a little-known secret land, combining danger, wonder, precipitousness, grandeur, beauty and beauty, and is a rare tourist wonder in the world.

Leye County has world-class brand tourism resources represented by Dashiwei Tiankeng group. After scientific investigation and verification by experts from more than 10 countries, such as China, the United States, Britain, Japan and France, 28 tiankeng have been found within 20 square kilometers, and the number and distribution density of tiankeng is the only one in the world. Leye County also has the world’s most magnificent water natural stone arch bridge – Buliuhe Xianren Bridge, as well as Bailang Grand Canyon, Wutai Mountain primeval forest and other scenic spots. The Tiankeng Group of Dashiwei in Leye has been awarded the titles of “National Geological Park”, “National Forest Park”, “International Karst and Cave Exploration Scientific Base”, “Chinese Youth Scientific Investigation and Exploration Base”, “World Geological Park” and so on.

Wuzhizhou Island is located in Haitang Bay in the north of Sanya, Hainan Province, far opposite to South Bay Monkey Island in the north and adjacent to Yalong Bay in the south, which is known as the first bay in the world.  Wuzhizhou Island is 2.7 kilometers away from the coastline and covers an area of 1.48 square kilometers. It is in the shape of an irregular butterfly, 1,400 meters long from east to west and 1,100 meters wide from north to south. Wuzhizhou Island is one of the few small islands around Hainan Island with fresh water resources and rich vegetation, with more than 2,000 kinds of plants and a wide variety of species.

The natural landscape here makes people relaxed and happy; the air is fresh and the sun is shining, a large number of tourists take photos of various scenic spots on the beach. This is also a great place to have a wedding party! Holding a romantic island wedding is absolutely what most brides have been longing for since their childhood. The blue sky, blue sea, floating white clouds and white beach, without any decoration, have shown the romantic and eternal beauty incisively and vividly

Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, one of the minority autonomous prefectures of the province. As a vital pass from China to the Indo-China Peninsula by land. Jinghong is the political, cultural and financial center of Xishuangbanna.

There is no doubt that Xishuangbanna is a must-see stop on a trip to Yunnan. This city boasts lush tropical rain forests with a variety of rare animals and plants. It’s easy to get close to beautiful peacocks, wild elephants, monkeys and other animals at Wild Elephant Valley and the Primeval Forest Park. The exquisite and unique Dai bamboo buildings and ancient Buddhist temples are all hidden in the green trees, showing a natural, peaceful and simple living atmosphere. The Water-Sprinkling Festival in April is a carnival of the whole city, which absolutely should not be missed.

As one of the key tourism cities in China, Xishuangbanna is quite famous for its magnificent tropical rain forest scenery and traditional minority customs. Besides, its special geographical position – borders Laos and Burma, adjacent Thailand and Vietnam, which made it important access to Southeast and South Asia and the gateway of Yunnan Province opening to the world outside.

The whole area of Xishuangbanna is a famous Scenic Area and Natural Reserve, which can be divided into 3 main areas – Jinghong City Scenic Area, Menghai County Scenic Area and Mengla Scenic Area. The whole area covers an area of over 1202.53 square kilometers.

Welcome to beautiful Xishuangbanna!

Began from Erhai Lake, and ended at the foot of Jade Dragon Mountain. Following the Ancient Tea & Salt — Horse Road, we went through Dali，Diqing, and Lijiang prefectures, 6 days and 600 kilometers. Beside the beautiful scenery，we also explored the colorful ethnic minority nationalities’ culture, discovered the beauty of the people, and enjoyed the peace and quietness of the old small towns. We visited the Tibetan Buddhist temple and the Tibetan family, tasted different foods and joined different kinds of local culture shows.

Riding a bike 40 to 70 kilometers each day, we were energetic again in the morning no matter how exhausted the day before. we climbed the high mountain that even the birds can not fly over, we arrived at the first bend of the Yangtze River. We made the impossible into possible. We were crazy! Yes, we are crazy but we are professional. Thanks to you all. We conquered all difficulties and challenges. What a wonderful trip!

Chaka means “salt lake” in Tibetan. located in Wulan county in the east of the Qaidam Basin of Qinghai province, Silhouetted by the azure sky and floating clouds as well as mountains in the distance, is regarded as “the mirror of the sky” in China for its splendid beauty.

It is included in “the 55 places you must go in your lifetime” list by China’s National Geographic magazine. Tourists are often enthralled by the various salt sculptures within the Chaka Salt Lake scenic spot.