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January 20 - January 30, 2011
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Events and Tours for this weekend
Peking Opera Workshop
Sunday, Jan.23, 14:00-16:00
CCC will invite professional actors of Peking Opera to introduce you to the history, complexity and subtleties of this famous art form. Selected parts from Peking Operas will be performed to explain movements and gestures and voice adaption. >>> more
Talk/Hands-on: Spring Festival & Spring Couplets
Friday, Jan.21, 10:00-11:30
Learn all about Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) - meanings, customs and traditional activities. And hear the meaning of chun lian (spring couplets)-- a must for every Chinese family during the Spring Festival! Then try your hand writing them. >>> more
Light Hiking Tanzhe Monastery & Yangpoyuan Village
Saturday, Jan.22, 08:30-18:00
Tucked away in the mountains in the west suburb, Tenzhe Monasteries and Pagoda Forest remain authentic and peaceful. They are one of the oldest temples in Beijing with lots of old pines and stone scarvings. The village nearby is old & nice. >>> more
Beijing Longqing Gorge Ice Sculpture & Lantern Tour
Sunday, Jan.23, 15:00-21:00
Repeat: Saturday 29, and Sunday 30, January
Beijing Longqing Gorge is best known for its outdoor gallery of ice sculptures carved into animals and figures of all shapes and sizes, When illuminated at night they create wonderful visuals. Performances and toboggan add to its fun. >>> more
Chinese New Years Events
Beijing Temple Fair Tour
Thursday, Feb.3, 09:30-16:00
If you've never visited temple fairs of Beijing, then you must experience this style carnival with the locals and feel the bustle and lively New Year atmosphere of Beijing >>> more
Celebrate Chinese New Year in a Village
Saturday, Feb.5, 09:00-16:00
CCC will organized an exclusive event to celebrate the Spring Festival in a village of the suburb Beijing. We will be welcomed with firecrackers and gaily bedecked, lively folk dancers, performers and crowds of hospitable, curious farmers. We will >>> more
Chinese Bird-flower Painting Beginner's Class
Tuesday, Jan.25, 19:30-21:30
Chinese ink & water painting is a thousand-year tradition, and the xieyi style (free-hand) is one of the most unique style of Chinese painting. The CCCC painting course is specially designed for expatriates. >>> more
One Time Overview Instruction of Taichi
Wednesday, Jan.26, 10:00-11:30
Come and join this one time overview instruction of taichi, and learn all about Taichi from movements to breathing and mind cultivation. The English-speaking taichi master will guide you through this mind/body experience. >>> more
One Time Overview Instruction of Chinese Painting
Thursday, Jan.27, 10:00-12:00
During this two hours class, CCC's artist will teach you the basic knowledge of Chinese painting, from holding a brush, brushwork to style and artistic values. Then you will also try your hand at doing landscape or Bird & Flower Painting. >>> more
Cookery: hand-pulled noodles and dumplings
Saturday, Jan.29, 18:00-20:00
Try pulling dough into Beijing style thin longevity noodles in a minute! And then make dumpling (jiaozi) with two different fillings and flavours. CCC invites professional cook to instruct you for these two marvelous culinary skills. >>> more
Talk/Hands-on: Spring Festival & Spring Couplets
Sunday,Jan.30,10:00-11:30
Learn all about Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) - meanings, customs and traditional activities. And hear the meaning of chun lian (spring couplets)-- a must for every Chinese family during the Spring Festival! Then try your hand writing them. >>> more
Chinese Bird-flower Painting Beginner's Class
Tuesday, Feb.1, 19:30-21:30
Chinese ink & water painting is a thousand-year tradition, and the xieyi style (free-hand) is one of the most unique style of Chinese painting. The CCCC painting course is specially designed for expatriates. >>> more
Upcoming Out-of-Beijing Tours
Harbin - Ice Lantern Festival & Snow Sculpture Expo
Jan 28 eve.-30
Go by air or overnight train to Harbin to catch the famous Snow Sculpture Exhibition and Ice Lantern Festival; appreciate the old Russian style architecture; drive into the Siberian Tiger Park; and dine in the Ice Bar. >>> more
Yunnan's Yuanyang (Hani Rice Terrace) & Tropical Xishuangbanna
Feb 3-9
Yuanyang, southeast of Yunnan, is renowned for its rice terraces crafted out by bare hands by the Hani people since one thousand years ago and even today, the world largest nature wonder. Luoping is famous for its blossoming of rapeseed flowers. >>> more
Subtropical Hakka Round Buildings & City Xiamen
Feb 4-6
Get to know Fujian province, the southeastern end of China's mainland facing Taiwan across the strait. Xiamen, beautiful seaport city with Gulangyu Island; then dirve into the villages in the mountains south and west of Fujian for the magical earthen >>> more
Harbin - Ice Lantern Festival & Snow Sculpture Expo
Feb 3 eve.-5
Go by air or overnight train to Harbin to catch the famous Snow Sculpture Exhibition and Ice Lantern Festival; appreciate the old Russian style architecture; drive into the Siberian Tiger Park; and dine in the Ice Bar. >>> more
Discover Nepal £¨Kathmandu, Chitwan, Dhulikhel & Bhaktapur£©
Feb.4-10
Draped along the greatest heights of the Himalaya, Nepal is where the ice-cold of the mountains meets the steamy heat of the Indian plains. It's a land of yaks and yetis, stupas and Sherpas and some of the best trekking on earth. >>> more
Explore Guangzhou, Foshan and Pastoral Kaiping
Feb.4-6
Kaiping, 164km from the Macau border, is China at its most bucolic. Its old European style watchtowers are very unique residences. While Guilin & Yangshuo has China's most "Chinese" scenery, the limestone carst peaks are especially magnificent. >>> more
Temple Fairs and Lanterns in Xi'an (Terracotta Army)
Feb.4.eve.-6
Take 2 days trip to visit the famous Terracotta Warrior Site; Ancient City Wall, Shaanxi Museum; Great Mosque and Muslim Street; Wild Goose Pagoda, etc. >>> more
Harbin - Ice Lantern Festival & Snow Sculpture Expo
Feb 11 eve.-13
Go by air or overnight train to Harbin to catch the famous Snow Sculpture Exhibition and Ice Lantern Festival; appreciate the old Russian style architecture; drive into the Siberian Tiger Park; and dine in the Ice Bar. >>> more
Joining Yu County's unique New Year Celebration - Molten Iron Fireworks
Feb.16-17
The hundred-year old Yu County is a fortress-like township, famous for its paper-cutting, and throwing Molten Metals as fireworks during the Lantern Festival. The molten metals are thrown up in the air and onto the wall, creating magic firework effec >>> more
5-Day trip to Tibet
Feb 23-27
A trip to the "Roof of the World" with majestic moonlike landscape and the stunning cultures guarantees to be an amazing experience. The 5-day tour covers Lhasa, Samye Monastery, Yombulagang Palace and Yamdrok Lake, etc. >>> more
Hainan's Haikou Cultural Tour & Sanya Beach Retreat
Feb.23-27
Pearl-white beaches and swaying palms greet visitors to China's tropical paradise. Whether sipping coconut milk as the clean ocean water laps at your feet or floating through a coral jungle, Sanya is the place to go if the words” beach, sun and fun" >>> more
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