Guilin 桂林 YuLong River – boating and bamboo rafting

BěiJīng, BěiJīng

The much-loved CCTV Chinese New Year's Gala (中国中央电视台春节联欢晚会) is a special yearly show produced by China Central Television that has a viewership of around 1 billion people. We have posted some songs from the 2013 gala too (all except one, for the first time). CNY Gala 2014 La Vie En Rose (玫瑰人生), performed by Sophie Marceau (France) and LIU Huan (苏菲·玛索、刘欢) CNY Gala 2013 Starting with NA Ying - Warm Spring with Blooming Flowers (Panda88 loves this !)

Hong Kong has quite a few beaches and some of these are very nice ...

HangZhou, in ZheJiang province, south from ShangHai ...

A Chinese brush artist since 1976, Virginia Lloyd-Davies has paintings in collections in the U.S., China, Britain, Europe, Japan, Mexico and Kenya. Her teacher for 26 years until his death was Master Painter I-Hsiung Ju, with whom she traveled regularly to China & Taiwan. Watch Virginia demonstrate a typical lotus painting .

On the south east coast of China, with ZheJiang to the north and GuangDong to the south. In part, FuJian is famous for its tea and lychee fruit. The largest cities include FuZhou (the capital) and XiaMen. Hakka, a Han Chinese people but with their own distinct identity, live in the southern parts of the province.

December 2013. From the tropical far south of China to the frozen far north, a temperature difference of around 50C in winter! The Harbin International Snow and Ice Festival starts in early January. In 2014, the festival celebrated its 50th birthday and was bigger than ever. See the snow sculptures by day and the ice lantern structures by night.

A beautiful film - don't miss it ...

The most southerly part of China, HaiNan is warm all year with a more or less tropical climate.

Keep the love ... Excellent cinematography

And JingShan Park. Filmed in early summer, 2012.