Tholing means 'hovering in the sky forever' in Tibetan, and this indicates the imposing position occupied by the monastery.
Located in the Luoxiao Mountains, Jinggang Mountain is called the "cradle of the Chinese Revolution" and has become a hot attraction for nature tours as well as patriotic education.
In Chinese culture, the 15th day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar is marked as Zhongyuan Jie, Ghost Day, which falls on Sunday August 10, this year. Here we take a look at some of the spookiest tourist attractions around the world.
You're not going to be dancing with wolves, but frontier traditions live on in the Inner Mongolian grasslands, even if some are just for tourists.
Taking a summer escape away from hot and stuffy air is not a modern idea. At a time when air conditioning and the refrigerator were not even a summer dream, traveling to a place for milder weather and cooler water seemed more important to people, including for the emperors.
Photos taken on Aug 3, 2014 shows the aerial view of Tekes county, which is designed as a shape of bagua (the eight trigrams), in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
As a city with a rich past, Beijing has quite a few spooky places that are thought to be haunted by the deceased.
As the Chinese equivalent of Valentine's Day, Qixi is an important festival that celebrates love and devotion. It falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of the Chinese calendar.
Many of Beijing's ancient hutong - alleys formed by the outer wall of courtyard homes - have been erased from the cityscape to make way for new roads and high rises in recent years, much - to preservationists' dismay.
Photo taken on July 10, 2014 shows the glaciers on the Sapukonglagabo Mountain in Biru county of Nagqu prefecture, Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region.
As an old Chinese saying goes: "Lakes are eyes of the ground," as lakes resemble the eyes of a human, containing wisdom and vitality.
Chinese celebrity author Han Han not only introduced his debut movie to the Chinese audience recently, but also a style of traveling: the road trip. The following are some of the best destinations for a road trip in China.
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