Shunde Explore China

Booklet From AIESEC GDUFE

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Introduction

Art culture

Building

Kungfu

Food

Water town

Art culture

It has a long history, the most representative collection in China lies in the National Palace

Museum, it is complex but not chaotic composition, color magnificently dazzling, pin-step uniform and changeable, texture

clear.Some of the techniques are difficult and demanding, it is considered as one of the

most difficult embroideries. It is often made of velvet, silk, gold, silver, or gold velvet

mixed categories.

Canton Embroidery

Art culture

Gambiered Canton Gauze

It is the Lingnan region of an ancient manual. Weaving and dyeing and finishing plant

dyeing fabrics, with a history of more than one hundred years. Because it is unique

craftsmanship, scarcity, and needs long production time, it requires that the people,who make it,

should be highly skilled. When people wear it , it will make people feel cool. Due to the

characteristics of wiping out the bacterias, it also has health care function to the skin.

Art culture

Fish Lantern

"Spring Lantern Festival“ is popular in China. And the custom of the Lantern Festival is also

popular in Daliang.Fish Lantern is full of characteristics of a region of rivers and lakes

of the tie for the process, with bamboo bar fish shaped skeleton, covered with bright yarn,

painting and dyeing fins, lit candles, lifelike.

Ancient Buildings

Daliang, located in Qinghui Road, is called as one of the four Guangdong Middle Famous Gardens and is the key unit of cultural relic protection of

provincial grade. Inside the Park, the construction is exquisite with a unique style and combines the feature of South China's building and the garden

on the south of the Yangtze River.

Qinghui Garden

Ancient Buildings

Bijiang Jin Lou

The building is decorated with resplendent and magnificent woodcarving, basic of wonderful

article excelling nature, covers almost all of the techniques in wood carving art. Particularly it is

carved all adopt traditional Chinese subjects, infiltration of foreign artistic style, in kind

confirm the development of the lingnan culture.

Kungfu

Wung chun

Wung Chun is a kind of Chinese traditional Kungfu .The ancestral home of Shunde

International Martial Arts superstar, Bruce Lee will carry forward the martial arts

culture of Shunde .

Kungfu

Dragon And Lion Dancing

Dragon and lion dancing is a shining pearl in Chinese culture, originated in the Han Dynasty, initially as the ancestor worship, pray for rain a

ceremony, then gradually become holidays common a kind of recreational activities.

Food

In 2004, UNESCO announced that 28 cities join the UNESCO Creative Cities Network and Shunde is one of them because of its

gastronomy. Before it, Shunde has been honored as” The origin of Cantonese

cuisine” as well as ”land of cook”.

Cook Town——Food Culture

double skin milk

raw fish fillet

Daliang collapse sand

milk

Water town

The dragon boat rap is one of the famous han Chinese quyi in Guangdong area It begans in

The qing dynasty emperor qianlong years, based on The han folk wooden fish songs tone .

The dragon boat came out in Longjiang, Shunde first and there has been 260 years of history.

The "Dragon Boat Song"

Water town

It is onored by another name of Shunde Zhou Village, which locates in Xingtan, Shunde.

It is surrounded by river and water, and the ancient style is still remained .

It keeps a picture of river passing through The small bridge.

Fengjian Water Country

Transportation

Getting here

By train

By bus

By taxi

Getting Here

Travelling from Shunde is easy with many different options.There are ferries and buses that go directly to Hong Kong,including an option to Hong Kong International Airport. Bus tickets can be purchased at the New World Centre Hotel. Macau is easily accessible by train, taking less than an hour. Guangzhou is accessible by train, taxi or bus.

Shunde District, Foshan is located in the center of the Pearl River Delta, bordering Guangzhou to the north and close to Hong Kong and Macau, with an area of 806 square kilometers. As most of the land is alluvial plaint, the district is full of intersecting rivers, with the moderate climate and plentiful rainfall all the year round.

There is no independent railway station in Shunde so you need go to Guangzhou inter-city light-rail and then take train to Shunde from Guangzhou . The ticket price is 8 Yuan or so. Address: Lunjiao san chau, Da liang town,Shunde city, bus 910, 915, 916, 314, 349 all can reach Tel: 0757-98105688

By train

Or you can take the train to Foshan station, and Take bus to Shunde, such as: take the NO.4 bus (railway station – Foshan Shunde Po lam temple) and you can directly get to the Shunde city. From the long-distance passenger transportation center to Foshan Shunde are about 42 kilometers.It may take you 1 hour to shunde by car from that. Foshan shunde car passenger terminal address: west road south, Shunde district, Foshan Shunde bus address: Daliang, fengxiang industrial zone into traffic industry road no. 2 block buildings on the second floor

By train

At present, Shunde taxies demand is also huge especially during peak hours : from 8 am to 9 am and at lunch and dinner. Taking a taxi follows the principles of "marked prices": The starting price is 8 yuan for the first 2 kilometers, and it is 2.4 every additional kilometer after that. Shunde on-call taxi car call: 0757-22331888

By taxi

Bus system is perfect in Shunde. So you can get around by bus and it is not very expensive . Usually it will take you 2-5yuan from one place to another place.

By bus

Safety

Public security

Important phone number

Consulates in Guangzhou

Public security

During its rapid development, not only good people were attracted to the city, but also some who were dangerous. Consequently, public security there is less than that in any other Chinese city. Here we list some tips useful anytime you are away from home. 1.Be careful of your bags and valuables when in a railway station. 2.Avoid going out at night. 3.Take the taxi, especially yellow ones; never take a motorcycle. 4. Take good care of your belongings anytime you are in the street. 5.Avoid responding to strangers.

Important phone number

Police telephone 110 Fire telephone 119 Hospital telephone 120 24-hour tourist information hotline:86666666

Consulate General of the United States of America 美国总领事馆 Address: No.1, Shamian Nan Jie Phone:020-3814-5000 Consulate General of Australia 澳大利亚总领事馆 Address: Floor 14-15, Main Building, GITIC Plaza, No. 339, Huanshi Dong Lu Phone:(86-20) 8611-6100 Consulate General of Canada 加拿大总领事馆 Address: Room 801, China Hotel Office Tower, Liuhua Lu Phone:020-38140111 International SOS (China) Ltd. 国际救援中心（中国） Address: Room 1502, Dongshan Plaza, 69, Xian Lie Zhong Lu Admin Tel: 86-20-8732 6253 Admin Fax: 86-20-8732 6417 Related Links: http://www.travelchinaguide.com/embassy/

Consulates in Guangzhou 驻广州领事馆

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