Scenic spots of Hibiscus Town reach a higher level in Town of Xiangxi

The Sheba Festival of Tu Nationality, also the media promotion of scenic spots in Hibiscus Town started at Hibiscus Town of Southwest of Hunan, which attracted a wide attention of the Media.

In two to three years, Hibiscus Town of Xiangxi known for the MovieHibiscus Town will be turned into a touring town with beautiful mountains and rivers and folk custom of Tujia, which makes it be a comfortable place to live in. Based on Hibiscus Town, together with surrounding Mengdong River, Red-stone forest, Zuolong Gorge, and Old City, touring of two-days or three-days "tourism product" will be created, thus scenic spots in Hibiscus Town will become a place of interest of high quality.
In the afternoon of April 23, Sheba Festival of Tujia Nationality, also the Media Promotion of the scenic spots in Hibiscus Town, will start. A reporter group consisting of Sina Net, Sohu Net, People's Net and other famous websites, many crucial medium in Hunan province participated the activity, interviewing the touring resource, planning and construction of Hibiscus.

Liuluping, the team leader of the construction of scenic spots in Hibiscus Town and the Director of the National people's Congress standing Committee in Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture, said that holding Sheba Festival with original meaning of Tujia Nationality and creating one-hour scenic spots intend to attract more tourists to know and touring the touring circus with minority folk custom.
Hibiscus Town, originating from the name ,Wang Village, was an ancient town of Qing and Han Dynasty with the specialty of Tujia nationality and a history of more than 2,000 years. There are green mountains and rivers surrounding the town, twisting and quiet streets and lanes stretching in it. The ancient Diaojiaolou and Five-Li of long-streets made of azury slabstones express the simple custom of Tujia. This is a place of interest that connect natural scenary and national custom. In 2011, Hibiscus was awarded with " the Ten beautiful towns of China".

Besides the Hibiscus Town with a title of historic and cultural town, the circus of scenic spots also includes nation-level scenic spots of Mengdong River, Old City, Buer Door, Copper Pillar of Xizhou, Little Stream, Zuolong Gorge, Tawo, Red-stone Forest, Gaowangjie at national level,and  scenic spots of Xifeng Lake, Old Rock at provincial level, with a total area of over 500 square kilometers. In the aspect of custom and amorous feelings, there are Maogusi Dance , Hands Waving Dance, Daliuzi, craftmanship of making brocade, crying marriage which are under the title of nonmaterial and cultural heritage at National level.

Luluping said that as construction of the Expressways of from Zhangjiajie to Huayuan, Jishou to Chandong, Enshi to Jishou and railway approaching Zhangjiajie between Qianjiang and Changde are finished. The circus based on Hibiscus Town only cost your within one hour to get other scenic spots. The largest across-valley Suspension Bridge--Aizhai Bridge of Hunan Province  finished to have had traffic service shortened the distance between scenic spots of Xiangxi and Southwestern Market with many potential customers. A new round of hot development will come to tourism of Xiangxi which focused on the scenic spots of Zhangjiajie, the Ancient Town of Fenghuang and Hibiscus Town.
"As a successor, the circus of scenic spots in Hibiscus Town aims to become a newly touring  destination with supplying each other with Zhangjiajie and the Ancient Town of Fenghuang". Liu said, at present, the circus of scenic spots basically created a "product" based on Hibiscus Town, companied with the special features of Mengdong River, Red-stone forest, Zuolong Gorge. And in the future, in order to meet the needs of various kinds of tourists, developing touring routes of exploration and expansion, national custom and amorous feelings, sightseeing of rivers and mountains will be continue.
 

Translated by JiangJuanjuan （Copyrights Zhangjiajie backpacking club, All rights reserved.）