Foreword
China Tourism Day falls on the 19th of May each year since 2011. This Day treats travelers with a large basket of vouchers, ticket concessions, free entertainment, and performances. The theme of 2022 China Tourism Day is Explore a Beautiful Culture-embedded Journey and Jinzhong of Shanxi Province becomes the main host city of its celebrations.
Shanxi maybe not be on the A-list of a traveller to China. In fact it is a cultural and natural wonder-packed land and the more you know about it, the more time you’d like to spend there. Shanxi people hail their land ‘Magnificent Shanxi’, which lives fully to this name. Being home to numerous established business tycoons throughout history, Shanxi’s architecture and cultural heritages are richly mesmerizing.
The biggest name of Shanxi’s tourism is Pingyao Ancient City, a renowned UNESCO Cultural Heritage Site crowned as ‘Museum of Ancient Architecture’. Plus Pingyao, we’d like to invite you to meet the Top10 intangible cultural heritages in Shanxi, each with high aesthetic beauty, practicality, and historical values.
Thanks to Shanxi people’s down-to-earth attitude, amazing craftsmanship has been well-preserved and inherited. They’ve been dedicated their whole life to one thing and one thing only and their work has certainly paid off. Like doing magic out of clay, flour, minerals, fire and water, a kaleidoscope of colors come into being and wonderful wares are created. Stories behind could go endless…
Please join us online in the beautiful culture-embedded journey to Shanxi.
Shanxi Intangible Cultural Heritages
As one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization, Shanxi has a written history of 3,000 years and is known as the “Cradle of Chinese Civilization”.
In addition to the well-known and rich cultural relics of great value, Shanxi also have a large number of intangible cultural heritages such as traditional performing arts, folk activities, oral legends, ceremonial festivals and handicrafts. They are of great variety, rich in content, distinctive features, and preciousness, and are of great historical and practical significance.
Here we offer ten series of short videos, which includes The Three Precious Handicraft (Faahua, Polished Lacquer Ware, Jiangzhou Chengni Inkslab), Layered Brocade, Coloured Glazeware, Shanxi Dough Sculpture, Pingding Earthware, Pingding Black Glaze Carved Flower Porcelain, Pingyang Woodblock New Year Print, Lihou Cloth Tiger.
Let’s experience the ingenuity of Shanxi’s craftsmanship, listen to the stories of craftsmanship legends, explore unique national characteristics, and appreciate the craftsmanship masterpieces.
Shanxi Tourism
Shanxi, known as “Ancient Chinese Culture Museum”, has many relic sites that include architecture, grottoes, houses, murals, and sculptures with distinct features. Datong, Pingyao, Mount Wutai, Taiyuan, Linfen are the top destinations in Shanxi full of historic and cultural significance. Several sites like Pingyao Ancient City, Yungang Grottoes, and Wutaishan National Park are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Pingyao Ancient Town
Wutaishan National Park
Yungang Grottoes
As an important birthplace of China, Shanxi tourism resources features uniqueness and integrity, richness and humanism. Its farming civilization and the nomadic civilization, Buddhism culture, folk culture and the courtyard culture, root face culture enhance each other’s beauty. Shanxi regards the tourism industry as an important driver of the economy and social development.
Qiao's Family
Yanmenguan Pass
Nine Dragon Wall
