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Guiyang
Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou Province, is a metropolis, located on the
sunny side of the Guishan Mountain with an elevation of average 1250
meters.
Guiyang is in a subtropical region with a moist and warm climate, July is
the hottest month with average temperature 24ºC, and coldest month is
January with average temperature of 4.6ºC. In Guiyang, the annual average
temperature is 15.3ºC.
Kaili
Kaili city is the captial of the Miao & Dong Autonomous Prefecture in
Southeast Guizhou. Kiali is the best destinations for tourist interested
in the customs and cultures of ethnic groups in China, in this prefecture
ethnic peoples account for 70% of the population.
Kaili is well known for its attractive minority customs, there are dozen
of ethnic villages open to foreigners. Various celebrations, fascinating
minority customs, lushing dance, religious rituals and thousands of local
ethnic people in their unique pattern clothes singing and dancing. Some
villages as: Wengxiang (18km from Kaili), Matang (20km), Tonggu (30km),
Xijiang (75km).
Zhouxi Village, 16km south of Kaili, is a grand lusheng dance gathering
place, and held every year around the 20Jan in Chinese lunar calendar. On
this event, hundreds of lushengs sound in unison, spreading far and wide.
The minority girls dance with boys in their silver adornments, also hold
horse race and buffalo-fight as well.
Zunyi
Zunyi City is the centre of the tourist region in north of
Guizhou and one of the main historic cultural cities of the state. In
January 1935, the Red Army arrived in Zunyi and the Central Committee of
the CPC held the world renowned Zunyi Meeting here. And since then the
Chinese revolution was pulled through and on the correct path. After
liberation, the government has renovated the site of the Zunyi Meeting,
the dwelling house in which Mao Zedong once lived, the site of the former
General Political Department of the Red Army, the Meeting-Place of the Red
Army’s Cadres, the Cemetery of the Red Army Martyrs, the Loushan Pass
and other historic places. Simultaneously the economic construction in
large scale has been taken and in result, numbers of modern enterprises
under the central or local governments have been set up in Zunyi, such as
metallurgical, electric power, building materials, textile and food
industries. In addition, both the Sichuan-Guizhou Railway and Highway pass
by the city. However, Zunyi City becomes not only the political, economic
and cultural centre but also the pivot of the communications in the
northern region of Guizhou. Anshun
lies at thecenter of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and surrounded by
beautiful mountains of Jinzhong, Feihong and Shizhi. Anshun is the capital
of Anshun prefecture, with warm climate similar to that of Guiyang.
Anshun is an old established trading center going back to the 13th century
and linking North and South China with areas as remote as Burma, via
Kunmng.
The limestone karst setting of the region is pleasant and some of the
narrow streets are lined with interesting old wooden houses. It is the
best place from which to visit Huangguoshu Falls and Gragon Palace Cave.
Its now famous as a producer of Batiks, also Di Opera in the world (Caiguan
village). Xingyi
In the far south-west of Guizhou, is mainly a stopover for these
travelling between Guiyang and Kunming by bus. This area is very similar
to Yunnan, even the weather is better than in the rest of Guizhou. The
town is mainly populated by Han Chinese and Hui Muslims, through the
surrounding villages are largely made up of Black Miao and Buyi.
Minorities' Museum in Xingyi is formally devoted to the wedding customs of
Guizhou's minorities but the displays also encompass custume, festivals
and social structure. The wonderfull complex housing the museum was once
the home of the local Qing offical and is worth a visit.
South of the town of Xingyi is a beautiful landscape of karst hills that
could have been transplanted directly from Guilin. Zhenyuan
Zhenyuan is an old town with more than 2000years old, set on a bend in the
Wuyang River, is one of the 48 ancient cultural cities under state
protection. The locals of the past created splendid culture, inside the
town are 160 historic sites and attractives places, such as temples,
pavilions, towers, guildhalls, ancestral halls with a great number
of valuable cultural relics.
The pretty turquoise ribbon of river splits the town in half; the old part
on the north side known as Fucheng is a fascinating maze of
cobblestone streets, while the half-built/half-demolished new town on the
south bank known as Weicheng is becoming a modern town overnight.
Zhenyuan grew up as a garrison outpost on the trade route from Yunnan to
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