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Praying Activities and Outdoor Tour Popular in Hunan

Editor:李莎宁
Source:enghunan.gov.cn
Updated:2015-02-27 11:18:18

  On the second day of 2015 in the Chinese lunar calendar, third day of the Spring Festival holiday, Hunan witnessed its touring peak, with ancestor worship and outdoor tour increasingly popular. According to the statistics, 42 monitored scenic areas received 584,200 tourists in total.


  The praying ceremony "memorizing the earliest ancestors & praying for the new year" was held during the Zhuzhou Shennong Tower on the morning of the first five days of the first lunar month. Themed "enjoying the benefit and admiring virtues of the earliest ancestors", diverse praying activities during the holiday were held in the scenic area, attracting a large number of tourists mainly from Changsha, Zhuzhou, and Xiangtan in Hunan Province and from Pingxiang City of Jiangxi Province. Tourists meeting the national preferential policy enjoyed the discounted admission tickets. Emperor Shun's Mausoleum on Jiuyi Mountain of Ningyuan County in Yongzhou is available to tourists for free at the first seven days of 2015, with free performances. On February 22, 20,500 people visited Jiuyi Mountain and 11,200 arrived in the Emperor Shun Mountain.


  A lot of tourists chose the outdoor tour with family members during the holiday. oceans of tourists were seen in Chenzhou City's scenic areas such as Dongjiang Lake, Su Xian Ridge, and Mangshan Mountain. Taohuayuan (Peach Garden), Huayan River, Jiashan Mountain, Huping (Bottle-shaped) Mountain of Changde City received nearly 10,000 visitors in total, and Liuye Lake 15,000 people.