Guangxi Society News (China)

For celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival, the locals in Yueyang built a unique model of the Yueyang Tower with 55,000 Zongzi. The model was listed in the official Guinness World Records book on Monday.

Adoring netizens have gushed over his intelligence these days. Some say he is not only good at higher mathematics but also computer program. Some even compared him with Yanhui, a talented student of Confucius in the Spring and Autumn Period.

He said to me "After a girl was born 2 or 3 years, her parents would bind her feet with the cloth shreds tightly in case for growing, this is called foot-binding." "In the old days a woman with bound feet was considered as 'beauty' in China."

In the first week of the fesitval, the world literature enthusiasts had participated in many literary sessions and made face-to-face communication with their idols.

Up to now,1707 foreign journalists have flock to China to report the celebrations commemorating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the PRC on Oct.1.

Sichuan Tourism Administration has made the first batch of earthquake sites public!

The May 12th will be one anniversary of Wenchuan Earthquake and many people may trip to Sichuan in the month. If you plan a tour in Sichuan Province during this time you'd better book hotels in advance.

On the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, ‘Feitian’ performance was applied to the ceremony of lightening Olympic flame. ‘Feitian’ means flying forward in the sky or flying apsaras in Chinese.

Chinese Olympic mascots, Chinese symbols, facts about China? The Five Friendlies will serve as the Official Mascots of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, carrying a message of friendship and peace--and blessings from China--to children all over the world.

The opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games was highly appreciated here with the international media. it was a grand cultural banquet with combination of Chinese traditional cultural elements, modern developmental signs and the Olympic spirit.