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Amazing scenery of rime appears in Zhangjiajie resort

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2011-01-04 13:32

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  Lanterns on stamps

  February 28th (January 15th in the lunar calendar) is the Lantern Festival, one of the great Chinese traditional festivals.So far, the stamps with the theme of festival lanterns have been issued in the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan.

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  Cuju

  The game of cuju was first mentioned in the Zhan Guo Ce (under State of Qi's section) and later in the Sima Qian's Shiji (under Su Qin's biography), written during the Han Dynasty.

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  Chinese Alcohol

  In China, alcohol is also called the "Water of History" because stories of liquor can traced back to almost every period in Chinese history.

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  Chinese herbal tea

  The Chinese herbal tea or cold tea is a drink concocted from medicinal herbals to ease the summer heat in human’s body or sore throat caused by the dry winter.

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  Chinese artworks

  This collection was produced during the Donghan dynasty and unearthed from the Guangling grave in Jiangsu province.

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  Dongba painting

  Dongba painting is the oldest and most representative religious painting of the ancient Naxi people

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