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Chinese travel trends

editor — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 13:09:00 +0000

This temple complex – 10km/6 miles north of the village of Fufeng, which itself is some 100km/60 miles west of Xi’an – is famous for its pagoda, in which is kept one of Shakyamuni’s finger bones. The bone was brought here on the instructions of the Tang Emperor Xianzong (806-821). The thirteen-storey brick pagoda, 28m/92ft high, was rebuilt in 1988. It towers up in front ofthe main hall ofthe monastery which houses a statue 1987 in an underground palace below the foundations of the previous pagoda. This palace, which had remained hidden for 1000 years, contained much valuable treasure from

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Chinese outbound travel

editor — Sat, 04 Feb 2017 15:48:00 +0000

Tea and water are not often drunk with meals; on festive occasions and particularly when foreign guests are present you will be served nonalcoholic refreshments such as orange lemonade, slightly alcholic drinks like beer or a strong brandy, usually from grain. This comes in a small glass and at banquets the convention is that the Chinese host makes the first toast, when you stand and drink to friendship, downing the whole glass (ganbei, literally dry glass) and the glass is then refilled to the brim. After the first full glass you need only take a sip for any further toasts.

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