This year's Spring Festival,

Where did everyone go to shop and eat?

Xiaoxin knows a place,

this place,

Inspired Qu Yuan's "ci",

The "beauty" that gave birth to Zhaojun,

Also condensed Zhao Zilong's "fearlessness";

this place,

Lighted up Li Bai's "moon",

The "landscape" that has stirred up Lu You,

It also sublimated Su Dongpo's "taste buds".

In short, this place is delicious, fun and beautiful, with mountains and waters and interesting.

This place is the Pearl of the Three Gorges——

Yichang, Hubei.

have fun

Chinese New Year Lantern Festival

　　The 2023 Yichang New Year Lantern Festival has kicked off.

Qu Yuan, who uses a brush to define his "shape", Leizu, who is accompanied by silk, Zhaojun, who holds a pipa, cute cute rabbits in Q version, and a dreamlike ice and snow kiss... Various light groups echo the lights on both sides of the Yangtze River. Ambilight, shining brightly.

People's Spring Festival Gala

　　The Spring Festival Gala is an indispensable cultural feast for the New Year. In Yicheng, Yichang, there are various forms of programs such as singing and dancing, allegro, Nanguan, acrobatics, etc., which are warm, festive and brilliant.

fantasy galaxy

　　As night falls, the Yuquanshan Huaxi Wetland is lit up, and the 50,000-square-meter dream galaxy lights are dreamlike and beautiful.

Night Cruise on the Yangtze River

　　On New Year’s Eve, take the Three Gorges Cruise on the Yangtze River and watch the twinkling lights on both sides of the river, watching the rivers and mountains enter the galaxy, and the poetic ancient charm and fashionable buildings immersed in the gentle waves of the river.

alpine skiing

　　Romantic winter, passionate skiing, this is the correct way to start the Chinese New Year.

Yichang has many alpine ski resorts, where tourists can enjoy the magnificent snow scenery in the mountains while enjoying the speed and passion brought by skiing.

Xiling Temple Fair

　　The annual Xiling Temple Fair is full of "literature" and the flavor of the year. It reproduces the scene of "the ancient custom of traveling girls with buns and maids, and the abundance of wild witches singing and dancing every year" in the Three Gorges area written by Ouyang Xiu more than a thousand years ago.

New Year Parade

　　Every Spring Festival, Zigui County organizes a parade of intangible cultural heritage and folk culture, displaying folk culture such as dragon and lion, back box, Yanglintang drum, folk wind and percussion music, etc. The scene is full of dragons and lions, gongs and drums, presenting a picture of the Three Gorges reservoir area Happy New Year picture scroll.

enjoy eating

　　The taste of the new year is an experience that can warm people from the stomach to the heart. The blend of thousands of mountains and rivers creates the flavor of Yichang. It is history, nostalgia, and an endless inheritance of life.

Three Gorges Fat Fish

Photo courtesy of Financial Media Center, Wujiagang District, Yichang City

　　This is a famous traditional dish in the Three Gorges area. It is steamed with long-snout catfish and fatty meat. The fish is fresh and tender, the fish soup is plump, and the dishes are light and authentic. It is well received by Chinese and foreign eaters.

Tujia lattice

Photo provided by Propaganda Department of Wufeng Tujia Autonomous County Committee

　　In the deep winter, when the folks in the Tujia Shanzhai in western Hubei kill the new year pigs, they mix fresh pork, old pumpkins, radishes, potatoes, etc. with cornmeal, steam them in a big steamer, and put them on the dining table to entertain neighbors and friends. Lift the grid".

"Street" food

　　In the Zigui Intangible Cultural Heritage Alley, there are fried New Year’s goods (melon seeds and peanuts, corn puffs, peony fruit), fried New Year’s goods (rice crackers, potato chips, silver slices, Sanzi, fruit, Jin Guo), New Year’s goods (toon buns, pumpkin steamed buns), etc. The experience of making traditional Spring Festival delicacies has already started lively, and the long alleys are filled with thick fireworks.

fish cake

Photo provided by Propaganda Department of Zhijiang Municipal Party Committee

　　Fish cakes originated in the Chu State area during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It is processed and steamed from Yichang to Jingzhou today, using surimi, eggs and pork as the main raw materials.

The entrance is fresh and tender, fragrant and delicious, and rich in nutrition. It is the top grade for folk banquets.

cold shrimp

Photo courtesy of Financial Media Center, Wujiagang District, Yichang City

　　Cold shrimp is made from rice pulp mixed with lime water to make a paste, and then poured into a cold water basin with a colander. It is named for its large head and thin tail that resembles a shrimp.

It is mixed with brown sugar water, which is sweet and tender, cold in the mouth, soft and sweet.

Radish Dumplings

Photo courtesy of Financial Media Center, Wujiagang District, Yichang City

　　Radish dumplings are one of the famous traditional snacks in Yichang.

Cut the radish into shreds, mix with chili powder, pepper powder, garlic (scallion) seedlings, refined salt and other seasonings, wrap the rice milk into the pan and deep-fry. It is crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, spicy but not pungent.

Yiling Matang

　　Sesame candy is a traditional Chinese snack, which originated in the Ming Dynasty and has a history of more than 400 years.

Qinjiaping Village, Zhangcunping Town, Yiling District, Yichang City has always had the custom of making sesame candy before the Spring Festival, implying the sweetness of the New Year.

live comfortably

　　There are many B&B hotels in Yichang, each of which is outstanding in appearance and has its own characteristics. Stay overnight in a B&B hotel with local characteristics, and feel the idyllic charm of the mountains and rivers, making people want to stay here.

tent hotel

Photo by Dong Xiaobin

　　In the tea garden of Yanling Village, Xingshan County, the tent hotel is dotted among the rolling tea mountains like white clouds, attracting a large number of tourists from the surrounding area to stay in the hotel, pick tea, enjoy the beautiful scenery and watch the sunrise.

hot spring resort

Photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of Yuan'an County Party Committee

　　Located in Wuling Xiakou Ecological Hot Spring, Chenjiawan Village, Yangping Town, Yuan'an County, Yichang City, it is hidden in the mountains and canyons. The open-air pools and stone-house pools are arranged in a patchwork pattern. At first glance, it looks like a landscape pool , one mountain, one forest, one tree and one flower, there are scenery everywhere.

Qianshan Yunshe

Photo courtesy of Three Gorges Tea Tour Town

　　Located in Dengcun Township, Yiling District, Yichang City, Qianshan Yunshe, a tea tourism town in the Three Gorges, was built on the mountain, accompanied by clouds, and lived by the mountain. Through the panoramic glass windows, you can have a panoramic view of the tea garden.

Stone House

Photo by Leslie Cheung

　　Nanchawan Stone House in Yiling District, Yichang City is a high-value online celebrity homestay. The building shape maintains the existing stone house shape, and the environmental design maintains the local style and original ecology.

have a good time swimming

　　Yichang is a beautiful city,

　　The boat enters the Three Gorges,

　　The scenery of mountains and rivers unfolds slowly like a picture scroll;

　　Yichang is a city with a long history.

　　Qu Zi Lisao, Zhaojun Goes Out of the Fortress, Three Kingdoms Beacon

　　The immortal legend is performed here;

　　Yichang is a dynamic city,

　　The Gezhouba Dam and the Three Gorges Project took root here,

　　Achievement of China's century-old dream.

This is the hometown of Qu Yuan,

　　There is a legacy of Chu Yun that "the road is long and the road is long, and I will search up and down."

The Dragon Boat Festival in Qu Yuan's hometown.

Photo by Zhou Xingliang

This is the hometown of Zhaojun,

　　There is a beauty style of "the appearance of a closed moon and shameful flowers, and the appearance of a fish falling into a wild goose".

Zhaojun statue

This is the hometown of Lei Zu,

　　There is a Chinese legend that "Lei Zu planted mulberry silkworms and spun silk, and weaving and weaving silk made embroidery magical".

Yuan'an Leizu sacrificial activities.

Photo by Zhou Xingliang

This is the hometown of Bazu,

　　There is the Linjun culture of "a horn to Wang Tianzi, blowing out a Qingjiang River".

Eight Hundred Miles of Qingjiang River is Beautiful and Picturesque Photo by Guan Yonge

Here is the resort of the Three Kingdoms,

　　There is the loyalty and pride of "China's fame is in Jianghan, and the loyalty of Qiankun is in the Spring and Autumn Period".

Dangyang Guan Mausoleum is the mausoleum of Guan Yu. Together with Guan Lin in Luoyang, Henan and Guandi Temple in Jiezhou, Yuncheng, Shanxi, they are collectively known as the three major Guan temples in China.

Photo by Zhou Xingliang

Here is the Pearl of the Three Gorges,

　　There is a magnificent view of "the gorge opens to the sky and the sun rises, the mountains and rivers are wide and the city floats".


The scenery of Xiling Gorge is beautiful.

Dong Xiaobin

After the Three Gorges became a reservoir, a "high gorge and flat lake" landscape was formed.

Photo by Zhou Xingliang

Xiaoxin also got a piece of news,

33 A-level scenic spots in Yichang City,

Half price or free admission for all visitors!

Are you excited after watching it?

Make an appointment now!

But Xiaoxin still wants to remind:

When going out to play, please wear a mask correctly,

Keep a safe distance, pay attention to cleaning and disinfection.

Go out happily,

Go home healthy and healthy!

　　Authors: Guo Xiaoying, Dong Xiaobin, Zhang Qianlong

　　(WeChat public account of China News Service)