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Sooth Your Soul on Fabled Yellow Mountain 3-Day, $811 USD - China Highlights

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Fantastic Tour of Ancient Lijiang 3-Day, $289 USD - China Highlights

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An Amazing Discovery Tour, Featured Lhasa and Shigatse 6-Day,$1094 USD - China Highlights

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China’s Five Most Beautiful Villages: A Photo Essay

- Text and Photos by Tom Carter

 

China is Asia's greatest paradox: the fastest growing economy in the world is also history's oldest civilization. It is where steel and glass skylines are haloed by crumbling walls, and well-heeled bankers rub shoulders with barefooted ethnic minorities.

 

During my two-year journey to every province and autonomous region in the People's Republic, I have been blessed to visit both the gleaming metropolises of China's future and the sepia-toned remnants of its past.

 

The following series of photos is taken from my upcoming book of photography ‘CHINA: Portrait of a People.' They capture those remote villages that have yet to meet China's wrecking ball. For a glimpse into China's true history, an excursion in the opposite direction from the crowds, off the proverbial beaten path, will reward the intrepid traveler with sites and experiences incomparable.



An Overview: Official Flowers of Chinese Cities


Chinese : 桂花 gui hua

English : Osmanthus

Latin : Flos Osmanthi Fragrantis

Suzhou Hefei Guilin Hangzhou

 

 

Three of the four cities that boast sweet osmanthus as their official flower are also some of the biggest tourist destinations in China. Tiny and delicate, they are particularly prominent in Suzhou's many world-renowned gardens. Similarly, Hangzhou has taken advantage of their autumnal blooming season to feature them during its annual West Lake Osmanthus Festival in September. Yet despite the efforts of these two cities to claim the flower as their own, Guilin, or ‘The Forest of Osmanthus," as its name means in Chinese, has them both beaten: botanists believe the plant has been in the city for more than 10,000 years, and you can still buy a sweet wine made from the flower in the city today.

 

Chinese : 梅花 mei hua

English : Plum Blossom

Latin : Prunus Mei

Nanjing Wuhan

 

 

The plum blossom blooms particularly early in the year, giving visitors a chance to see them in full force before these two summer ‘furnaces,' reach their unbearably hot peaks. In Chinese paintings and literature the flower represents courage, noble thoughts, hope, and strong will. A source of great pride, both cities have plum blossom festivals in late winter displaying not only the flowers, but also calligraphy and paintings that show off the plum blossom's beauty.



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