Bridging the Straits

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• Discover Taiwan
Taiwan - An Ideal Travel Destination. Prepare the holiday of your dreams as it has all: good food, a beautiful ocean, stupendous mountains and lots of sunshine!

• Dynamic Hongkong
Visit the land of amazing treasures and surf through them, to enjoy the vacations which would leave indelible mark on your heart.

• Chinese New Year's Eve
It seems that people show much more enthusiasm toward the New Year's Eve than the New Year itself. So what is happening on New Year's Eve?

• Fantastic Anhui
Covering an area of 139,600 square kilometers, Anhui Province lies in the hinterland of Yangtze Delta where there is great economic development potential. Hefei is the capital city of Anhui.

• Universities in China
In recent years, China has greatly expanded the number of admissions at state-owned universities and colleges.

• Confucianism's Background
Confucianism became a major system of thought in Ancient China, developed from the teachings of Confucius and his disciples, and concerned with the principles of good conduct, practical wisdom, and proper social relationships.

• The Yellow Emperor
Several thousand years ago, there lived on the Central Plains several tribes. The most famous ones were the Yellow Emperor and Yandi's tribes, which were two brothers. Another strong tribe was the Jiuli tribe in Eastern China, with Chiyou as their chief.

• Travel - Hetian City
Many people know of Hetian because of the jade it produces. In fact, this small city in the south of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was well known in ancient times, and as you arrive in Hetian, you'll find its charm extends far beyond the production and sculpture of jade.

• Custom - Tea Drinking
In China drinking tea has a long history of 4,000 years. It has become a special phenomenon and a form of art.

• "Fairy Poet" Li Bai
Li Bai was a famous poet during the Tang Dynasty. His extraordinary confidence, independent personality, unconstrained emotion, and romantic temperament embodied the character and spirit of writers in the High Tang period.

• "Historical Records"
A great book of historiography in China, "Historical Records" is also a great memoirist literal work that casts far-reaching influence on Chinese historiography and literature.

• Dunhuang Mogao Cave
Dunhuan Mogao Cave is the largest and best-preserved historical Buddhist site in the world. But why were such great works of art set up on a cliff in the desert in China's northwest.

• Facial Make-up in Beijing Opera
Specific types of facial make-up in Beijing opera are to put pigment on the actors' faces in order to symbolize the personalities, characteristics, and the fates of the roles.

• Modern Chinese Architecture
Modern Chinese architecture refers to those structures built since the mid-19th century.

• University Entrance Examination
University entrance examinations are based on a syllabus from the Chinese Ministry of Education and are set by national or provincial education departments.

• "Jiaozi" - Dumplings of China
In China, on New Year's Eve people have a custom to stay up until midnight, preparing a Chinese dumpling called Jiaozi.

• Art - Henan Opera
Henan opera is popular among Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Hubei, Ningxia, Xinjing etc, which is one of the most influential operas in China.