Travel To China

swollen_goat asked:


In the USA, it’s taught that diversity is basically the cure for cancer, so why exactly does USA appear to be losing and China winning?

Jason

Andrew Gibson asked:


In recent years China has developed into a very popular tourist destination. It is now possible to rent holiday home accommodation in China and experience the true culture of this unique country.

China is one of the world’s oldest continuous civilizations. This country has the highest population in the whole world and some amazing sights for tourists to see. It is famous for it electronic goods, travel and tourism.

A visit to China is like a visit to another world. It has different culture, different food and different people. China has several attractions to offer the tourists. It is like a treasure box that hides some of the best tourist places.

Beijing is the capital of the China. It is the most popular city of the country and famous for its cultural and historic places. Beijing has a number of temples, parks, museums and ancient houses. So, if you are willing to gather the information about the rich history and culture of China, Beijing is an ideal place for you. When staying in Beijing it is now possible to rent self catering holiday apartments.

If you are visiting China for the first time then you should explore The Great Wall Of China. It is one of the seven wonders of the world. It is China’s most important cultural and historic symbols. It starts from the Shanghaiguan in the east of China and ends in the Jiayuguan in the west of China. It covers a total distance of around 6,300 kilometers.

The Great Wall of China was first built as a defense line against the nomadic incursions. The construction of this wall was begun around seventh century BC. Every year millions of tourists visit the great wall and are amazed by its sheer scale. The Wall of China is also known as a paradise for photographers. So, if you have a passion for photography, take your camera and be sure to visit this amazing sight.

Another popular tourist destination of China is the Forbidden City. It is also known as the Palace Museum or Imperial Palace. It is located in the center of the Beijing. This place is ideal for those people who love to gather information about the history of the country. The Forbidden City is also one of UNESCO’s World Heritage sites.

For all those people who love to spend their holidays near to nature, the Heavenly Lake is the best place for them. This lake is situated in the east of Tianshan Mountain range. The lake is surrounded by the snow covered mountains that make it one of the most beautiful lakes of the world. This lake has an average depth of 60 meters and you can witness ice bergs, ice mushrooms and ice fountains. If you are lucky enough you will be able to rent holiday home accommodation in this region.

China also offers several places for worshiping like the Temple of Heaven. This temple is the largest temple and altar complex in China. You can get the experience of a peaceful atmosphere and also enjoy walking through its beautiful park. You can also watch local people doing Tai Chi and other forms of exercise like dancing. You can also relax in this place in a peaceful atmosphere.

To experience the marine life of China, you can explore the Ocean Aquarium in China. This is one of the favorite tourist spots of the country. Ocean Aquarium is the largest aquarium in the world. You can see several marine creatures here and it is well worth a visit.

China has made a real effort in the last few years to encourage tourists and has relaxed its regulations to accommodate them. In some parts of China it is now possible to rent holiday home accommodation. If you get the chance to rent a holiday home in China it will allow you to experience the real China and get a true feel of the culture of this unique country.



Sebastian

ezd asked:


OK, my girlfriend’s father is in China and has access to products that he wants to export to me. I am planning on starting the business as an internet retail shop in the beginning, allowing me to do it part-time (I have another job that pays well). The products could be electronics, medical supplies, etc. (Not pills or anything like that). Does anyone have any ideas on what i may need to start the business in Delaware, the state i will do business from? Think of it from the importing side. He would deal with the exporting aspect.

Thanks.

Kendall

Gisela Sommer asked:


Two years ago some Chinese friends of mine took me to NTDTV’s (New Tang Dynasty TV) live Chinese New Year Spectacular. It was a thrilling and enchanting music and dance performance, with traditional Chinese instruments and costumes faithfully recreated from old manuscripts, paintings and pottery. The dragons, drums and dancers all evoked the grandeur of China’s great dynasties and legends of remote history.

Ancient Chinese traditions speak of harmony between heaven and earth. They say that humans were created by Gods. Culture as well as moral and spiritual guidance were also imparted to humans by divine beings during different times in history. When humans respect the Tao, the “Divine Law or Way” and follow Heaven’s order, society will be prosperous and peaceful.

Like most Westerners I knew next to nothing about the Chinese New Year. So I asked my friends to tell me more and share their favorite New Year’s memories. I learned that Chinese New Year is actually celebrated by almost a quarter of the world’s population in several Asian countries where it is the most important holiday of the year. It follows the Lunar calendar, and the date varies each year, depending on the moon’s cycle.

Several friends shared about fire works and favorite foods–dumplings were often mentioned–and various traditions. One is to write poems or lucky phrases on red paper to be pasted around every family’s door. After breakfast there would be a round of visits. The first stop would be at a local temple to burn incense and honor the gods. Next came visits to relatives and friends. In many towns musicians paraded through streets to announce the arrival of spring.

The Lantern Festival marks the end of the New Year season. It evolved from the ancient belief of celestial spirits flying about in the light of the first full moon. Lanterns of many colors and shapes were lit during the night.

Maquiong, who grew up in a town near the Yangzi River, said, “Some communities would organize a lantern market. Usually, my mom would take us to watch the activities. Later she’d cook another good dinner which included dumplings filled with syrup, which symbolizes harmony in the family and sweetness of life.”

She said that in recent years traditions like these have been changing in China. In big cities fireworks were forbidden, and people have New Year’s dinner at restaurants. Also, many people exchange new year greetings by phone and don’t visit each other so much anymore. “But in my memories,” Maquiong said, “Chinese New Year always means having a good time.”

“Traditional Chinese culture and spiritual traditions were destroyed and outlawed by the Chinese Communist Party,” said Jason, a medical doctor. He said that the CCP smashed almost all the temples and burned the ancient manuscripts. Since coming to power in the late 40s, they have changed history books and brainwashed generations of Chinese with party culture, class struggle and Marxist ideology.

“Young people know nothing about true Chinese history or the deeper values of our ancient traditions,” Jason said. “NTDTV and its annual global Chinese New Year Shows are instrumental in promoting a rebirth of traditional Chinese culture. The performances are magnificent and full of nobility.”

The 2007 NTDTV New Year Spectacular will be touring Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Washington, DC, plus major cities in Canada, Europe and Asia. http://shows.ntdtv.com/



Sydney

huiya asked:


On a Yunnan tour, you can participate in different outdoors activities, go exploring the exotic ethnic cultures, or simply relax on the ancient town, breathe some fresh air and view the spectacular world landscapes. Yunnan has something for everyone.

Vacations in Yunnan can be full of romance, adventure and enthusiasm. A Yunnan tour package provides a hassle-free and economical holiday experience. You can choose the length of your tour, and how long you wish to stay at each site. The flights from one city to another, accommodation, transportation, and transfers to the airport/hotel, most meals and sightseeing in a package tour are also included.

The popular Yunnan tour combines all the must -see attractions including the Stone forest, the Jade Snow Mountain, the Tiger Leaping Gorge and the vast high-altitude meadow of the Dry Sea. You can also step back through time in the ancient town- Dali and Lijiang, appreciate mysterious tropical rainforests, feel the fantastic folk customs of Naxi groups and taste local life there.

To find a fairyland far from the bustling metropolises, Lijiang is inevitably a never-missed stop on a Yunnan tour. Lijiang has the best preserved ancient town in China - the Old Town which has been listed in the World Cultural Heritages by UNESCO in 1997. Built on the hillsides of three mountains, it is combined with nature in an organic and integral unity. The heritage site of Lijiang ancient town and the picturesque nearby surroundings like the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, the Tiger Leaping Gorge make up the unique city of Lijiang.

Kunming, the capital of the Yunnan province, is definitely another city which should not be missed by visitors to Yunnan. Kunming is home to China southern minority groups so the Village of Ethnic Culture is the best place to get a face to face touch with ethnic people and their customs. The jewel of Kunming is definitely the Stone Forest, where you will be amazed by the power of nature. Beside these, the spectacular view across Dianchi Lake from the vantage point of West Hills is another enjoyable experience for visitors there.

To find a place as the spiritual home, Zhondian is an ideal place to visit. Zhongdian, also known as Shangri-la, is a bright pearl mounted in the “Great Triangle” connecting Yunnan, Sichuan and Tibet. With the endless kilometers of back country just waiting to be discovered, Shangri-la offers unique hiking and horse trekking chances to the visitors there. A one-day trip to Shangri-la isn’t nearly enough, however it can help make one feel like the turmoil and stress of city life has never been farther away.

A Yunnan tour offers you the opportunity to experience the beauty and charm of rural China and to learn about its history and culture. These all make the reasons for people to travel to Yunnan.



Debra

Milan Matchev asked:


Do you have a vacation rental or holiday home that you want to allow someone else to stay in? If so, then this website, ArrangeYourVacation.com, has a special offer - free advertising of your vacation rental or holiday home. This offer comes with several advantages in order to allow you to advertise your rental and attract the right people to your property. Placing a free advertisement for vacation rentals or holiday homes will have unlimited opportunities. First, this site is not limited to a particular place in the world. From Canada to China and everything in between, you will be able to specify online the area where your rental is. This will allow the visitors to this site the option of discovering new areas where they think would be best for them to stay.

Another advantage to the advertising that is offered on this site is in relation to the different ways in which you can advertise. Several free services can be used as part of the listing process about your rental. Part of the free advertising includes five pictures that you can put next to your rental or home listing. You will also be offered a page that includes keywords within a customized article. These will be posted in relation to the property that you are advertising, allowing for more traffic flow to come to your particular listing.

When you go to this site to post your listing, you can also list a few other things in order to attract the right person to your vacation rental or holiday home. Pricing details for the area always helps to attract the right person. You can also provide a calendar stating when the property will be available. Arrange Your Vacation also provides a link to your own home page, allowing visitors to see other rentals you have available, as well as allowing them to know more about you as a person.

ArrangeYourVacation.com has organized and divided the listings of properties in several different ways. By doing this, it allows the customer to find exactly the type of rental for which they are looking. It will also allow you to find the desired type of person for your property. Destination areas, places that have special features, family and pet friendly properties, and new listings are all divided into certain sections. If you have a preference towards who you want to allow in your vacation rental or holiday home, then you can categorize it on this site as well. By placing your ad in a certain category, you will know that you are bringing the preferred renters to your property.

Arrange Your Vacation is only offering free advertising for your vacation rental and holiday homes for a limited time. By advertising here, you will be able to find great renters to stay on your property as well as allow more traffic flow to your personal site in order to see what offerings you have for your different properties. Now is the time to take advantage of the free advertising that this site have available for vacation rentals and holiday homes.



Kristine

MIKE SELVON asked:


Chinese herbal products have been around and in use for centuries. According to ancient Chinese history, the first herbalist was Shennong. Shennong is considered to be a mythical person who supposedly tasted many herbs and passed his knowledge onto of both medicinal and poisonous plants onto the people of the land.

From Shennong, the first Chinese book on pharmacology, the Shennong Emperor’s Classic of Materia Medica , lists over 365 medicines of which 252 are herbs. This book dates back all the way to the first century.

Needless to say, these products have been used for generations to help those who are afflicted with many ailments. If a person knows anything about these products, they can overcome almost anything.

One ailment that many people in today’s world are trying every way possible to stop is premature aging. This can be seen in wrinkles that suddenly appear out of nowhere, or hair that begins to grey with the morning light.

Chinese herbs for hair can help to not only slow down the appearance of random grey hairs, but they can also help with the premature aging process. One Chinese herb that is known for just these properties is Fo-Ti.

Fo-Ti is believed to be able to help a person to increase their longevity, and this can only be seen as a positive step for anyone.

Other Chinese herbal products that are desired are those that promote weight loss. Weight loss herbal products are hot on the retail market today.

One of the best ways to help with weight loss by using herbs is to find a supplement that has the hawthorn root in it. Hawthorn or crataegus, has been used in Chinese medicine to help aid in digestion.

This can also help to shed those last few pounds that plague so many individuals. A person can buy herbal products at the local discount store that have the hawthorn root extract in them and this will help to promote weight loss.

A benefit that hawthorn also gives the individual is lowering blood pressure and it can also help to treat some heart ailments. A person should consult a practitioner before using the hawthorn root to help with their ailments.

Such products are a wonderful alternative to conventional medicine. With the use of Chinese herbs, a person is continuing an age old tradition that started in the first century.

With the advancement of technology today, a person can find all they need to know by doing a search on the internet for the right herbal product to help with their ailment.



Brooklyn

Robert Thatcher asked:


Hong Kong features a diverse mixture of characters as a result of long British occupation and a great Chinese influence. As a state of China, Hong Kong provides a good introduction to who ever wants to know more about China without entering the mainland plus a venue for more attractions with western culture and Asian spirit.

1. Hong Kong Museum of Art - Located at 10 Salisbury Rd Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, the Hong Kong Museum of Art is open to anyone who wants to take a glimpse of Hong Kong’s culture and history through its large collection of over 14,000 items ranging from calligraphy, paintings, Hong Kong treasure, art objects, antiques, and lithographs. The museum is open from 10:00am-6:00pm daily except Thursday (public holidays not included).

2. Hong Kong Disneyland - The newly open and the first ever Disneyland in Asia offers total fun and excitement for the whole family. The park is divided into four major attractions: Tomorrowland, Adventureland, Fantasyland, and Main Street, USA.

3. Victoria Peak - Soaring 1810 feet above sea level, the Victoria Peak is premier destination for tourists who want to take a birds eye view of downtown Hong Kong, Kowloon, and Victoria Harbour. Go another step higher and take a 10-minute hike to the actual Victoria Peak.

4. Lantau Island - Travel Hong Kong and take a cruise around the waters of Lantau Island and watch pink dolphins that only live in this waters.

5. Ocean Park - Travel Hong Kong and visit Ocean Park. This is one Hong Kong attractions where you and your kids will have a great fun. The park is one big oceanarium containing Lowlands Gardens where pandas live, goldfish pagoda and butterfly house are located, Marine Land where atoll reef and shark aquariums are found, and Headlands amusement park where you can go and take a ride with cable cars and roller coasters.

6. Water World - Travel Hong Kong with kids would never be so much fun without taking a plunge on Water World. Enjoy wave pools, play area, and water slides.

7. Middle Kingdom - A miniature China that houses Chinese shrines, street scenes, temples, and palaces only at Middle Kingdom.

8. The Central district - If you travel to Hong Kong because you love to shop, you better go to the central Hong Kong district where big shopping malls and several Western designer and signature boutiques are located.

9. Lamma Island - If you want to see a different Hong Kong, try Lamma Island. It hosts several outdoor activities such as swimming and hiking. And if you love to taste fresh Hong Kong seafood in great dining ambiance, Lamma Island is still the preferred place to go.

10. Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery (Sha Tin) - Located at New Territories, the Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery features Buddha in different poses and colors.

11. Hong Kong Space Museum - See what’s in store for you in the future at Hong Kong Space Museum. The complex offers hundreds of displays ranging from telecommunications, robotics, energy, computers, and physics with hands on experience that will keep you interested.

12. Wet Market - In Hong Kong, everything is fresh. And when they say fresh, they mean it. If you happen to travel Hong Kong to visit a friend or someone you know, come along when they go to wet market where the freshest among freshest seafood are for sale.



Blaine

Fran Black asked:


The soybean has a long history and a very long journey through out the world. This journey, lasting almost 27 centuries, changed the world that we know today. Soy products feed a large part of nearly every country’s inhabitants, as well as various non-edible uses. The soybean was first cultivated by the Chinese. It then spread further throughout China and to other countries around it. Some time after the domestication of the soy plant, Europeans too learned about the uses of the soybean and they started to grow it. Much later, with a hand from Benjamin Franklin, the soybean made it’s journey to America. The soybean has had a lengthy journey, and one that has effected the whole world.

Soybeans were first used as early as the 11th century BC by the Chinese. Soybeans were honored by the ancient Chinese and the emperor Sheng-Nung named it as one of the five sacred plants. Included with soybeans rice, wheat, barley, and millet. Soybeans were used in this early civilization both as food and also as a medicine. Perhaps the soybean actually helped cure sicknesses because of the vitamins that it contains. Centuries after the soybeans were being used by the Chinese, they were domesticated and it is now said that they could be one of the first crops ever to be grown by humans. It wasn’t long after this when the rest of the world learned about the benefits of the soybean.

Hundreds of years after the Chinese first discovered the uses of the soy bean and the domestication of the soy plant, other parts of the world started using the soy bean too. By the first century countries such as Korea started using the soybean. Soybeans also became more widely used throughout china and had spread to Central and southern china. It want until the 7th century when many other countries started using the soy bean such as Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Burma, Nepal and northern India. Soy was commonly used as an ingredient in the early ages of it’s history and was used to make tofu, miso, and tempeh. Meanwhile the other European countries still were still not using the unfamiliar bean.

Long after Asia had started using the soybean, in the 17th century, Europeans started using the bean that they had seen in travels to Asia. Yet, even then all they did was import soy sauce from China. Finally by the 18th century soybeans were being grown in European countries. Much later, the first soy plant touched American territory. In 1770 Benjamin Franklin sent his friend, a botanist, seeds of a soybean. Unfortunately Franklin’s attempt was unsuccessful to spark the interest of America. The true time when soybeans were finally introduced into America was when a ship full of soy plants used as ballast landed at a dock. A few farmers interested in the plant decided to try and grow them, at last the soybean was being grown in America. Since 1929 the soybean crop has increased form 9 million bushels to over 2.8 billion bushels.

In America soybeans began to flourish flourish, on the farms and on the markets. In 1904 George Washington Carver a famous chemist discovered that soybeans contain large amounts of protein and oil. Later on in 1919 William Morse helped found the American Soybean Association. Henry Ford known for making automobiles made a car with all of the plastic made from soybeans! However it wasn’t truly until the 1940’s when Soybean farming rocketed.

Soy has a long history and despite it’s long journey,it still can not rest, for even today, people are still finding new uses for soybeans.



Ashley