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Zigong Dinosaur Lantern Festival

The Dinosaur Lantern Festival in Zigong City, which is held around the Spring Festival, dates back to the Tang (618-907) and the Song (960-1279) Dynasties. At the festival are displayed China's colorful traditional lanterns made of bamboo, silk, paper and glass bottles, together with the colorful modern porcelain lanterns, underwater lanterns, gas-discharging lanterns, and the program-controlled lanterns. You can feast your eyes on more than 100 ...Thu 15 May 2008 0:00:00 GMTKittyhttp://www.chinatravel.com/sichuan/history.htm

Sichuan History

Sichuan, also known as The Land of affluence, is one of the birthplace of Chinese civilization. According to archaeological findings, primitive people lived, worked and reproduced as far back as 2.04 million years ago in this land and created an ancient civilization including a written history of 3,000 years. During the period of Yingzhou Dynasty the area was known as Bashu. Two kingdoms ruled today's Sichuan area, the Shu Kingdom occupied the west part; while the ...Thu 15 May 2008 0:00:00 GMTsunnyhttp://www.chinatravel.com/sichuan/transport.htmSochuan has 1,400 rivers of which 345 rivers have an catchment of more than 500 km, and 22 rivers have a catchment greater than 1,000 km2. Only two rivers flow into the Yellow River, they are the White River and the Black River in the northwest, and all the other rivers flow into the Yangtze River system. The main rivers include the Jinshajiang (the upper reach of the Yangtze), the Minjiang, the Jialingjiang, the Tuojiang and the Fujiang. They are all more than 500 kilometers long. Sichuan Prov...Tue 13 May 2008 0:00:00 GMTKittyhttp://www.chinatravel.com/sichuan/transport.htmThere are good highways connecting the region with other part of China. There ia a total of 1,760 kms of expressways. Sichuan-Tibet highway is one of the two passages into Tibet and is frequently used by travelers. Tips: Most towns in Sichuan are accessible by bus. However, as some roads are through mountainous regions with many winding roads and some roads which still being brought up to date, it is advisable to check travel times with the bus stations beforehand....Tue 13 May 2008 0:00:00 GMTKittyhttp://www.chinatravel.com/sichuan/weather.htmSichuan Basin has a subtropical monsoon climate, warm in winter, dry in spring, hot in summer and rainy in autumn. The average temperature in January is 5-8℃, the average temperature in July is 25-29℃ and the annual average temperature is 15-19℃. The annual frost-free time is 280-300 days. The average temperature in January in Sichuan Basin is 3℃ higher than that in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze. Even the coldest days are usually above 10℃. Humidity, fog and less sunlight character...Tue 13 May 2008 0:00:00 GMTKittyhttp://www.chinatravel.com/sichuan/Sichuan Province lies in the southwest of China and in the upper reach of the Yangtze River. The 130 meridian line of East Longitude divides the province into two distinctive parts in topography: the western part is high in altitude and belongs to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau while the eastern part is the hilly Sichuan Basin. The province sits between the Qingling Mountain and Yungui Plateau. Distance from the east to the west is about 1,200 kilometers and the distance in the widest part from the ...Tue 13 May 2008 0:00:00 GMTKittyhttp://www.chinatravel.com/sichuan/transport.htmThere used to be a saying It's harder to get into Sichuan than to get into the heaven While this was quite true in the past, the situation has been changed greatly. A complete transport network of rail, road, river and air has been set up with chengdu, teh capital city as its center. It is now the major transport juncture of southwest China....Fri 22 Feb 2008 3:01:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/sichuan/transport.htm Geography and Topography Sichuan Province lies in the southwest of China and in the upper reach of the Yangtze River. The 130° meridian line of East Longitude divides the province into two distinctive parts in topography: the western part is high in altitude and belongs to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau while the eastern part is the hilly Sichuan Basin. The Qingling Mountain lies to the north of the province and Yungui Plateau lies to the south. The distance from the east to the west of the provinc...Fri 22 Feb 2008 3:01:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/sichuan/transport.htmSichuan Province features over 20 categories and more than 5000 varieties local products in the food, textile, textile, arts and crafts, electronics, machinery, medical treatment and health care industries. Best known for its bamboo products, bamboo carvings, Yi handicrafts, silver products, hot broad-bean paste of Pi County, and the Shu (Sichuan) embroidery products. 1. Bamboo Products Bamboo products, the traditional Chengdu craftworks, are made exquisitely with inter-lacing bamboo str...Fri 22 Feb 2008 3:01:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/sichuan/transport.htm As the Chinese saying goes, “Wonderful eating is in Sichuan.” Sichuan cuisine, snacks and hot pot (chafing dish) are the indispensable parts of the Sichuan food.1.Sichuan Cuisine If eating is in China, then the wonderful taste is in Sichuan Province, which has been celebrated as “a cooking paradise”. Sichuan cuisine, as one of the four major cuisines in China, is well known at home and abroad for its hot and spicy dishes with many flavors, almost every dish having its own unique taste. The Si...