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Jin Shi Golf Club – Jin Shi Tan State Tourist Vacation District, Dalian, Liaoning, China, CN
Tel: +86 411 790 0543
The Jin Shi Golf Club is an excellent 18-hole golf course and can become particularly busy at times, making reservations essential, which should always be booked at least one day ahead for games during the week, and at least one week in advance when playing at the weekend.
Dalian golf course open: daily – dawn to dusk

Liaoning Dalian Country Club - Xiajia Hezi Village, Ganjingzi District, Dalian, Liaoning, 116035, China, CN
Tel: +86 411 645 8899
Featuring a popular par-72 course with a yardage of around 7,100 and a good driving range, the Liaoning Dalian Country Club is located close to Bohai Bay and offers club rental, caddies and great views.
Dalian golf course open: daily – dawn to dusk

Golden Pebble Beach Golf Club – Dalian Jinshi Tan State Tourist and Vacation District, Liaoning, 116650, China, CN
Tel: +86 411 8791 2343
The Golden Pebble Beach Golf Club boasts two separate 18-hole golf courses, both of which are par 72. Located around 50 km / 31 miles from the city centre and also the airport, both the Divine Tortoise and Jinying courses have much to offer and appeal to different abilities. Facilities include a large clubhouse with a restaurant and spa.
Dalian golf course open: daily – dawn to dusk

Dandong Wulong International Golf Club – Lishugou Village, Loufang Town, Zhen An, Dandong, Liaoning, 118000, China, CN
Tel: +86 415 417 1857
The Dandong Wulong International Golf Club stands next to the base of the Wulong mountain and offers breathtaking scenery. With a yardage of almost 6,900 and reasonably priced green fees, a round at this course is sure to be one that you will remember.
Dalian golf course open: daily – dawn to dusk

Orient Golf Country Club – Jingzhou, Economic and Technology Development District, Dalian, Liaoning Province, 116100, China, CN
Tel: +86 411 8768 6624
A busy 18-hole course where advance reservations are always a good idea, the Orient Golf Country Club offers around 6,600 yards in length and just a 20-minute drive from the city centre.
Dalian golf course open: daily – dawn to dusk

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The Shēngxiào 生肖, better known in English as the Chinese Zodiac, is a scheme that relates each year to an animal and its reputed attributes, according to a 12-year cycle. It is followed in several East Asian countries such as Korea and Japan.

The 12 animal’s appearance came from a legend that says that Buddha invited all animals to spend the New Year with him. Only twelve animals came and Buddha promised to give each year one of their names in order of their arrival which was the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig.

If you don’t know what Chinese Zodiac animal you are, check this chart.

The Chinese zodiac exists since the Han Dynasty (2000 years ago). The Chinese zodiac has spread to all neighboring countries of China.

The Chinese New Year is celebrated at the end of January or early February. The Chinese calendar is not used to predict the future, but rather to get information on the character of a person, these talents…

• Rat – 鼠 (Yang, 1st Trine, Fixed Element Water): Forthright, tenacious, intense, meticulous, charismatic, sensitive, hardworking, industrious, charming, eloquent, sociable, artistic, shrewd. Can be manipulative, vindictive, self-destructive, mendacious, venal, obstinate, critical, over-ambitious, ruthless,intolerant, scheming.
• Ox – 牛 (Water buffalo in Vietnam) (Yin, 2nd Trine, Fixed Element Water): Dependable, ambitious, calm, methodical, born leader, patient, hardworking, conventional, steady, modest, logical, resolute, tenacious. Can be stubborn, narrow-minded, materialistic, rigid, demanding.
• Tiger – 虎 (Yang, 3rd Trine, Fixed Element Wood): Unpredictable, rebellious, colorful, powerful, passionate, daring, impulsive, vigorous, stimulating, sincere, affectionate, humanitarian, generous. Can be restless, reckless, impatient, quick-tempered, obstinate, selfish, aggressive, moody.
• Rabbit – 兔 (Cat in Vietnam) (Yin, 4th Trine, Fixed Element Wood): Gracious, good friend, kind, sensitive, soft-spoken, amiable, elegant, reserved, cautious, artistic, thorough, tender, self-assured, shy, astute, compassionate, lucky, flexible. Can be moody, detached, superficial, self-indulgent, opportunistic, stubborn.
• Dragon – 龍 (Yang, 1st Trine, Fixed Element Wood): Magnanimous, stately, vigorous, strong, self-assured, proud, noble, direct, dignified, eccentric, intellectual, fiery, passionate, decisive, pioneering, artistic, generous, loyal. Can be tactless, arrogant, imperious, tyrannical, demanding, intolerant, dogmatic, violent, impetuous, brash.
• Snake – 蛇 (Yin, 2nd Trine, Fixed Element Fire): Deep thinker, wise, mystic, graceful, soft-spoken, sensual, creative, prudent, shrewd, elegant, cautious, responsible, calm, strong, constant, purposeful. Can be loner, bad communicator, possessive, hedonistic, self-doubting, distrustful, mendacious, suffocating, cold.
• Horse – 馬 (Yang, 3rd Trine, Fixed Element Fire): Cheerful, popular, quick-witted, changeable, earthy, perceptive, talkative, agile—mentally and physically, magnetic, intelligent, astute, flexible, open-minded. Can be fickle, arrogant, childish, anxious, rude, gullible, stubborn.
• Sheep, Goat, or Ram – 羊 (Yin, 4th Trine, Fixed Element Fire): Righteous, sincere, sympathetic, mild-mannered, shy, artistic, creative, gentle, compassionate, understanding, mothering, peaceful, generous, seeks security. Can be moody, indecisive, over-passive, worrier, pessimistic, over-sensitive, complainer, weak-willed.
• Monkey – 猴 (Yang, 1st Trine, Fixed Element Metal): Inventor, motivator, improviser, quick-witted, inquisitive, flexible, innovative, problem solver, self-assured, sociable,
  artistic, polite, dignified, competitive, objective, factual, intellectual. Can be egotistical, vain, arrogant, selfish, reckless, snobbish, deceptive, manipulative, cunning, jealous, suspicious.
• Rooster – 雞 (Yin, 2nd Trine, Fixed Element Metal): Acute, neat, meticulous, organized, self-assured, decisive, conservative, critical, perfectionist, alert, zealous, practical, scientific, responsible. Can be over zealous and critical, puritanical, egotistical, abrasive, proud, opinionated, given to empty bravado.
• Dog – 狗 (Yang, 3rd Trine, Fixed Element Metal): Honest, intelligent, straightforward, loyal, sense of justice and fair play, attractive, amicable, unpretentious, sociable, open-minded, idealistic, moralistic, practical, affectionate, sensitive, easy going. Can be cynical, lazy, cold, judgmental, pessimistic, worrier,stubborn, quarrelsome.
• Pig – 猪 (Boar in Japan and Elephant in Northern Thailand) (Yin, 4th Trine, Fixed Element Water): Honest, gallan, sturdy, sociable, peace-loving, patient, loyal, hard-working, trusting, sincere, calm, understanding, thoughtful, scrupulous, passionate, intelligent. Can be naïve, over-reliant, self-indulgent, gullible, fatalistic, materialistic.

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Although schools remain open, children do not attend class and are free of homework. Students participate in a wide variety of activities to strengthen allegiances to their country, have fun, and take part in, and join youth organizations such as the Communist Youth League.

The International Children’s Day is celebrated in numerous countries, usually on June 1 each year.

This day as it origin in the World Conference for the Wellbeing of Children in Geneva, Switzerland in 1925.

Children’s Day is a time of festivity for Chinese youngsters. The occasion is marked by the Children’s Day Celebration honoring model students from around Taiwan and the Peoples Republic of China and by numerous parent-children activities sponsored by government and civic organizations. Thus, the day not only lets the kids become king for a day, but also helps to strengthen the bond between parents and their children.

International Childrens’ Day is celebrated in many countries around the world. Lucky kids!

Major Features

OCR – Point your iPhone’s camera at a printed Chinese word to instantly look up its meaning. You don’t even need to take a picture, it works on the live camera video feed. Also includes experimental support for OCR from still images (a full page at a time)

Great Dictionaries – Eight of the world’s best Chinese dictionaries to embed in our software, including the ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary edited by John DeFrancis (with almost 200,000 entries), the brand-new ABC English-Chinese Dictionary also edited by John DeFrancis, the Chinese-Chinese Xiandai Hanyu Guifan Cidian, the 280,000-entry 21st Century English-Chinese Dictionary, and the Tuttle Learner’s Chinese-English Dictionary. (several free dictionaries like CC-CEDICT and HanDeDict are also available as free downloads)

Fullscreen Handwriting Recognizer – Fullscreen Chinese handwriting recognizer, letting you use the entire width of the iPhone’s screen to draw characters and clear / backspace / finish entering characters using multitouch (two-finger tap). It’s extremely accurate, tolerant of stroke order mistakes, and supports cursive writing, helpful for more advanced users.

Flashcard System – Create a card from any dictionary entry with a single button tap, import premade word lists, automatically optimize which cards come up the most often based on how well you remember them, and test vocabulary in a variety of ways including multiple-choice tests and tone drills.
Powerful Search – Look up words by Chinese characters, Pinyin (with or without tones), or a combination of characters and Pinyin, with support for wildcards and for full-text search to find words appearing anywhere in a dictionary definition.

Cross-referencing – Tap on any Chinese character / word in any dictionary entry to look up its definition; you can also magnify / look up those words, or bring up additional information (from the Unihan character database) on individual characters.

Audio Pronunciation – Instantly hear a native-speaker audio recording of each Chinese headword; recordings are available for over 34,000 words.

Stroke Order Diagrams – View beautiful, smooth animations of how to draw each character; over 20,000 characters are covered.

Document Reader – Open a Chinese-language text file (uploaded from your computer or downloaded via a built-in web browser) and look up unknown words simply by tapping on them. You can also look up characters on web pages and in Word documents via the pasteboard, and can bring in text from other iPhone apps through the pasteboard as well.

Go to itunes.com/apps/PlecoChineseDictionary to instantly download the free basic version of Pleco for iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad.

Bale will headline “Nanjing Heroes,” a WWII drama about the “Rape of Nanking”, from award-winning Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou. The film has a $90 million budget, which will make it the most expensive movie in Chinese history, where the most successful domestically produced film, “Aftershock,” raked in a worldwide box office gross of $90 mil.

Bale will play an American Catholic Priest who shelters a group of prostitutes and female students in his church during the Massacre of Nanking, a 1937 invasion in which Japanese soldiers stormed China’s then-capital and murdered and raped thousands of Chinese citizens.

Based on Yan Geling’s novel “The 13 Women of Nanjing,” the film will begin shooting in China in January, with roughly 40 percent of the dialogue spoken in English and the rest in Mandarin.

Maxxelli -blog: When was the Jiuzhai Valley National Park created and why?
Kieran: Established in 1984 to strengthen the works of conservation of Giant Panda habitats in the Jiuzhai Valley Nature Reserve.

Maxxelli blog: What kind of visitors do you receive?
Kieran: Vistors are nature lovers from all over China and the world. These range from young hikers from home and abroad, adventure travellers and older Chinese people who have been dreaming of coming here all their lives.

Maxxelli-blog:What can we do there?
Kieran: Many things:
• Nature holidays
• Site seeing
• Hiking and camping
• Learning about Tibetan culture
• Weekend getaways

Maxxelli-blog: When can we go there and how much does that cost?
Kieran: Jiuzhai Valley National Park is open 365 days a year and each season offers something different. Opening hours and entrance prices for the park differ according to the season. During the summer the park is a celebration of everything blue and green. The autumn colours have inspired many Chinese poets and during the winter, the park’s driest season the mountains can be a barron brown colour or a “winter fairyland” when covered in snow. Because of the destruction that fire could cause the region (most villagers still live in wooden homes) some trails and parts of the park are closed during the winter.

Official Park Opening hours:

May 1 – November 15 – 7:00am to 6:30pm
November 16 – April 30 – 7:00am to 6:00pm

Peak Season – April 1 – November 15
Off peak – November 16 – March 31

Ticket Price:

Full price adult
Peak – 220 RMB
Off-Peak – 80 RMB

Student* / OAP*
Peak – 170 RMB
Off Peak – 70 RMB

One Day Bus ticket:
Peak – 90 RMB
Off Peak – 80 RMB
Children under 1.3m travel on park busses free of charge

Student* / OAP*
Peak – 90 RMB
Off Peak – 80 RMB

Second day ticket:
From November 16th to April 30th the cost of a second days ticket is 20 RMB. The park staff will take your picture on entry to the park on your first day to validate your ticket for the second day
* Must have valid international identification.

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Contact

*Name en – Jiuzhai Valley National Park
*Name ch – 九寨沟
*Address en – Jiuzhai Valley National Park, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan, China.
*Adress ch – 中国 四川 阿坝藏族羌族自治州九寨沟管理局
*Phone number –  0873-7739753
*Website - http://www.jiuzhai.com/language/english/index.html