As you may know China is a big and wide country not just referred to its geography but also its life styles, cultures and nationality. Almost every western visited China has the same impression: amazing. Yes, it is an amazing country. As a represent of Asian culture, China has amazing variety of cultures, full of activity, not like industrially developed countries, everything seems in a frame, being similar by standardised.
The nationality difference and culture variety is mainly caused by geography isolation and traditional Chinese farming system in which people work in their farmland and supply themselves basic live necessary, no need to communicate much with others. So even for a Chinese, going to another county, he or she will sense fresh and unfamiliar to different customs and life styles. Now I would like to lead you to a beautiful ancient town which is thus fresh and unfamiliar.
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This ancient town named Fenghuang, in Chinese it means phoenix, a very noble bird, signalization of mythical, lucky, and dignity. Fenghuang is ancient but not dead or destroyed, on the contrast, it is still beautiful and fresh, with the river Tuo flowing through and the inhabitants living and working everyday. The combination of the live history and the nature itself is an amazing, just like the touring advertisement of the town says, "The most beautiful town in China, just there waiting for you for more than one thousand years."
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The local houses are built along the two banks of the river Tuo, which contributes much to the town's beauty by its forestgreen-color, flowing water. Most of the buildings are hundreds years old, timber and stone structure, with special styles and splendid sculptures features. Now some of the houses are transformed to family hotels, so you can live inside, watch scenes by window, sleep by the silent console of the river.
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The most inhabitants in Fenghuang are minor nations in China, such as Tujia nation, Miao nation, not Han nation, the most populated nation in China. From the inhabitants emerged two very famous artists in China: a writer named Shen Congwen, and a painter named Huang Yongyu.
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From this map you can tell the location of Fenghuang ancient town, about 350 km west of Changsha, capital of Hunan province, in central to south of China. At the north side of Fenghuang about 150 km, there is another famous scene spot, Zhangjiajie Scenery Area.
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