Country guide · CN
38 destinos y fiestas · 2 normas y tabúes
Before you go
Whoever starts it, taking part in a fight can bring a fine or detention, and the injured party usually demands compensation.
Verificado el 19 oct 2026Fuente: GOV.UK: China travel advice
Police make random ID checks and do not accept printouts; if you cannot show your passport, you may be fined or detained.
Verificado el 19 oct 2026Fuente: GOV.UK: China travel advice
Places & local life
'One pot, two pieces': a pot of tea with two dim sum — Guangzhou mornings begin in the teahouse.
A highland drink churned from tea, butter and salt — the first cup a Tibetan home offers a guest.
'Jinling's duck dishes are the best in the land': dry-cured, brined and simmered, with pale skin and tender meat.
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Red-braised pork belly named after Su Dongpo, the signature dish of Hangzhou cuisine.
Tear the bread into fingernail-sized pieces yourself, then hand it to the cook to simmer in lamb soup.
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From a Yuan court recipe to the old shops of Qianmen: six hundred years of duck rolled in pancakes.
China's northernmost city and village, the coldest place in the country in winter; the aurora is occasionally visible, but chances are slim.
'The river is a blue silk ribbon, the hills are jade hairpins': fishing lights are the last memory of fishing life on the Li River.
A 'fairy-tale world' of emerald lakes and terraced waterfalls, a highland paradise of Tibetan and Qiang culture.
3,000 stone peaks rising from the ground — the model for Avatar's floating mountains.
'After the Five Sacred Mountains, you'll never want to see another mountain' — the origin of Eastern landscape aesthetics.
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A jewel of Lingnan architecture, the pinnacle of brick carving, woodcarving and plaster sculpture.
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Eleven storeys of stilt houses lighting up the Jialing River — a magical night view of the mountain city's terrain.
Echoes of the Qing-dynasty 'Little City' and old Chengdu's slow life in a cup of gaiwan tea.
A museum of world architecture facing Lujiazui — one river to understand a century of China's modernisation.
The Hakka 'four dishes and a soup': a clan epic in giant rammed-earth buildings.
Yunnan's largest Tibetan Buddhist monastery, known as the 'Little Potala Palace'.
A 2,000-year-old Silk Road hub, with everyday Western Regions life in its maze of lanes.
Echoes of the Nanzhao and Dali capitals: 'wind, flowers, snow and moon' between Cang Mountain and Erhai Lake
A 'Suzhou of the plateau' without city walls, a living museum of Naxi Dongba culture.
A landmark of faith on the snowy plateau, the pinnacle of Tibetan architecture.
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The 'Louvre of the East', carved over more than 1,600 years — a visual epic of Silk Road civilisations meeting.
The Jiangnan Examination Hall bears witness to a thousand years of imperial exams, and the Qinhuai lantern festival carries on Nanjing's eleganc…
A Huizhou merchant village laid out in the shape of an ox, with horse-head walls reflected in South Lake and Moon Pond — a location for Crouchin…
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A fully preserved Jiangnan water-town district: an evening in Xizha and Mao Dun's former home explain the modern transformation of Jiangnan mark…
A lake layered with Bai Juyi, Su Dongpo and the legend of Xu Xian and Lady White Snake — an open-air museum of Chinese literati aesthetics.
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Ming official Wang Xianchen's 'government of a humble man': one garden distils the literati philosophy of 'seeing the large in the small'.
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More than a summer retreat: the political stage where Qing emperors won over Mongols and Tibetans and performed the unity of the empire.
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Kunming Lake and Longevity Hill embody the Chinese garden philosophy of 'made by man, yet as if created by heaven'.
Where Ming and Qing emperors worshipped Heaven in 'harmony between heaven and man' — the triple roof of the Hall of Prayer is a mathematical poe…
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The largest palace complex in the world, whose central axis distils six centuries of imperial ritual and craftsmanship.
A Song-dynasty market town rebuilt from the scroll 'Along the River During the Qingming Festival', bringing the splendours of Dongjing back to l…
China's best-preserved ancient county town, where the Rishengchang draft bank bears witness to the Shanxi merchants' financial legend of 'remitt…
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The joint tomb of Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Ma, where stone beasts on the Sacred Way and autumn plane trees form Nanjing's most poetic imperial …
The smile of the Vairocana Buddha, distilling the evolution of sculptural aesthetics from the Northern Wei to the High Tang.
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The largest and most complete ancient city wall surviving in China.
Where Xuanzang translated the scriptures — 'signing beneath the Wild Goose Pagoda' carries a thousand years of scholars' longing to pass the exa…
Three pits estimated to hold more than 8,000 figures — the most vivid monument to a centralised empire.
