China Cultural Chronicles September 20, 2012
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- The horse race starting point is 2 km away,Tibet 2012
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Between start and finish is a rolling grassland, the distance between start and finish is 2 km.
Horsing racing has its directly link to Tibetan people's religion and customs. Their belief reflects on the psycological level. And the custom of Horsing racing has close connection with religional consciousness of local nationality. We can see tibetan Buddhism has great influences on its people's history, culture and daily life. - Fashion Tourism on Kongtong Mountain
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下载安装Flash播放器Girls representing 8 different countries and regions as world tourism image ambassadors presented a fashion show on Kongtong Mountain at the 9th China Folk Art Festivalon in Pingling city, Gansu Province, on September 12, 2012. [China Daily]
The 9th China Folk Art Festival kicked off in Pingliang, Gansu province on September 12. The festival, themed "Beautiful Kongtong Mountain", aims to promote the Chinese folk art exhibition and tourism in Pingliang.
Twenty girls representing 8 different countries and regions as world tourism image ambassadors presented a fashion show on Kongtong Mountain on the first day of the festival.
Mao Weiyang, vice-president of the Pacific Asia Travel Association, said China's Taoist culture will present its unique charm by combining with travel culture, which also accentuates the advantage of regional culture. Differentiation is the essence of travel culture.
Pingliang is a well-known tourist destination for those traveling to the Kongtong Mountains, one of the sacred mountains of Taoism and highlighted as one of important places for health maintenance. During peak tourism months, organizers pull out all the stops, demonstrating Gansu's own paper-cutting art, lion dancing and local snacks.
The China Folk Art Festival is the largest national folk cultural event in China and was launched in 1989. It has made great contributions to preserve Chinese folk culture and promote the development of tourism.
- Tianjin festival to worship Mazu
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下载安装Flash播放器The 6th Chinese Tianjin Mazu Goddess Cultural Tourism Festival will be held in Tianjin on Sept 27 to 28. The theme of this year's event is "popularizing Mazu Culture and building a harmonious society".
The festival, to be held at Binhai Tourism Area, includes activities such as worship, theatrical performances and the inauguration ceremony of a Mazu statue, which at 42.3 meters high, is the world's tallest one. It is expected that the festival will attract more than 2,500 visitors from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao. Mazu was named after a woman in the Song Dynasty (960-1279) who forecast the weather at sea and was later deified as a goddess of the sea.
- Chinese restaurant chains face challenges
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下载安装Flash播放器Pedestrains on Guijie Street, the well-known food street in downtown Beijing with many Chinese restaurants side by side. One effective way to expand and develop Chinese restaurants is to learn from the experience of Western restaurant chains and to standardize the whole cooking process, said Su Qiucheng, president of the China Cuisine Association. [China Daily]
For a Chinese restaurant, expanding across the country or even outside the country can be much harder than starting from zero.
"I have five Chinese restaurants in Beijing but I am finding it very difficult to expand further because making sure every dish at every restaurant is exactly the same is problematic," said Liu Tao, general manager of a Yunnan cuisine restaurant in Beijing.
Take the famous General Tso's chicken or kung pao chicken as an example. Cooks have to mix the chicken, salt and egg white before heating the wok. Then dozens of seasonings are added to enrich the flavor, such as pepper, garlic, soy sauce, cooking wine, monosodium glutamate, vinegar, starch, sesame oil, Chinese onions and peanuts.
The dish will taste very different if the cooks add fewer or more seasonings or if it is cooked at a different temperature.
"In Chinese cuisine, one dish can taste totally different if it is made by different chefs," said Jia Guolong, board chairman of Xibei Restaurant.
Another Chinese fast food chain, Xinshang Fast Food in Qingdao, also struggled to satisfy customers while expanding locally. "Ensuring customers at each store have the same quality fast food is a major task," said Zhang Hongji, board chairman of the chain.
"Many problems lie in the way of the fast expansion of the Chinese catering industry," said Su Qiucheng, president of the China Cuisine Association. "These include the lack of specifications in the supply of raw materials, the lack of standards for kitchen jobs, the lack of logistics and distribution outlets, fragile franchisee management and vague brand development strategies, which Western fast food giants have already established."
Jia said one effective way to expand and develop Chinese restaurants is to learn from the experience of Western restaurant chains and to standardize the whole cooking process.
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下载安装Flash播放器The first direct air route between Hohhot, capital of north China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, and Hong Kong was launched on Monday.
The flight will be operated by Hong Kong Airlines using a Boeing 737-800 aircraft, according to the Inner Mongolia Hohhot Baita International Airport.
The round-trip flight will be provided each Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.
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