My Spring Festival Trip to Kaifeng

Post Time: Mar 26 2012 By Tina Chan

Stroll around the Temple Fair is the famous traditional activity for during China Spring Festival. After the Chinese New Year’s Eve, family members will get together enjoy the happily moment of the traditional shows, food in the Temple Fair.

The ancient Kaifeng, one the eight ancient Capitals of China, was called Tokyo and Bianjing as well. It’s a city with long history and rich cultural connotations.

Travelers from all over the word are attracted by the Song Dynasty patrolling, Ancients Royal Wedding and lots of Purely Civil Handmade Products which is full of Chinese tradition in the Dragon Year Temple Fair

1. Worshiping the Ancestors’ Temple Fair in Hanyuan Garden of Kaifeng Spring Festival

2. Temple Fair in the Qingmin River Park, in the park you will feel like you’ve already travel back to the ancient times.

3. Chinese Ancient Acrobatic Show. They are real people on the top!

4. Song Dynasty Wedding Ceremony. Travelers can experience it by wearing cloth and enjoy the ancient wedding.

5. After watching the ancient wedding ceremony and the shows, you can also try the famous Kaifeng Tangbao (a steamed dumpling filled with minced meat and gravy)

6. Sugar painting, ancient films and morden sketch can be also seen in the Temple Fair

7、In the Xiangguo Temple, people pray for the peace and happiness for their family by light up the red candles and joss stick

8. In the evening, you can also enjoy the fantastic lantern show in Longting Kaifeng.

9. The whole city is decorate by the dazzling and shinning ;anterns.

10. The Qingming River Park, a huge Song Dynasty Historical Cultural theme park which is build based on the famous picture Riverside Scene of Pure Brightness

The Qingming River Park

Hanyuan Garden

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Hi, I’m Tina, a sales representative of Top China Travel. Traveling is one of my hobbies because it can enlarge my knowledge and can make friends with people around the world. What’s more, it can also give me a chance to enjoy the delicious food in different places. And I love sharing my travel experience and delicious food with others and I do believe that “the world will be more beautiful because of sharing” My biggest hope right now is to make every of my clients have an unforgettable travel experience in China.

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