The Bewitching Flower Of Wealth

In China, one of the most enduring and well-known symbol of wealth and beauty is the peony flower. Back when this area was relatively young, the peony was usually planted in the gardens of the Imperial Palace and this flower was used to symbolize nobility and wealth. Aside from that, the peony is also the flower that embodies the vibrant season of spring.

For the Chinese, the peony is a well-known flower of designers and it is usually featured on jewelry and decor for the home, in order to give it a touch of elegance and class. When showing gifts, the peony is usually included as it conveys a wish for prosperity and good luck for the recipient. This flower is usually combined with others so as to give or embody a different wish. For example, the peony is combined with a lotus flower to embody purity, rank, success, and beauty. To wish for a long and prosperous life for a confidant, one gives a peony and a peach blossom. On the other hand, if one wishes for unity throughout the year, the Chinese usually give an arrangement of peony, plum blossom, chrysanthemum, and lotus. To secure such a gift means that you have a caring confidant or loved one.

Financial Actions Is Straightforward In China

In any venture that involves traveling, money is always a major factor for vacationists. When it comes to monetary troubles, a visit in China will never involve financial concerns.

Vacationists should always bring along their credit cards when wandering to China. With the proliferation of credit card companies in the leading cities like Beijing and Shanghai, any venture involving money can be easily accomplished. In addition, the most established cards are appropriate to use in hotels as well as department stores. While cards are not useful in financing the cost of transportation, cash is always a good selection since exchanging the money is quite straightforward.

Moreover, vacationists will find it straightforward to convert foreign currency and travelers cheque in the head office of the Bank of China and diverse tourist hotels and department stores. A traveler's cheque is usually the best preference compared to cash due to insurance reasons. However, vacationists should check the honesty of the institution where they are exchanging their money.

Typically, financial transactions in the eastern section of China is more costly than in the western area. It may be a exhilarating task for tourists to keep the costs to a minimum when wandering the eastern section of China.

In the end, whether its cash or credit card, vacationists will have a guarantee that their voyage to China will be a convenient and enjoyable one.

Tasty and Yummy Breakfast Served Daily in China

I deem that to jump-start your day, you must have a healthy and tasty breakfast. This will help lift your energy and keep you in focus to the chores that will make you busy for the rest of the day. I used to be one of those people who cut breakfast because of my frantic schedule. But when I had the taste of a tasty Chinese breakfast when I went to Shanghai, I learned how to eat healthy cuisines every morning.

The very tasty morning meal that I had in China included youtiao, a common fried bread stick. I learned from my Chinese buddy that youtiao is stuffed inside a roasted flatbread or a shaobing to form a sandwich. I can still remember the smell of the youtiao that was wrapped in a yummy rice noodle roll and the taste of the soy sauce and the sesame paste used to cook the breakfast food. I chose to eat the youtiao that was served for me with a tasty rice congee while my buddy opted to eat her youtiao with her unsweetened soy milk.

Today, even if I am not in China, I make sure that I always have a tasty and nutritious breakfast. I can't wait to leave to Shanghai again and have a savor of youtiao.

Fashion Type and Model Personalities of China

Just like other Asian areas who are noted to have successful and promising fashion industries, China is also a proud home to a number of successful and famous personalities in the fashion world. The area's development in its fashion zone actually started even before the early 1900s. Until today, famous Chinese artists are continuously paving way to the advancement of the fashion zone of the country.

One of the foremost Chinese personalities that paved way to the development of the area's fashion zone was Ellery J. Chun. Highly acclaimed as the creator of the "Aloha Shirt", Chun was a graduate of Economics in Yale University. After he graduated, Chun returned home and administered his family's clothing boutique. He initiated the fashion of selling multicolored shirts, originally using pieces of kimono fabrics. Since his multicolored shirts became an instant fad among locals and foreigners, he apparently named them as "Aloha Shirts". Another well-regarded Chinese fashion personality was Anna Sui. Now well-regarded as one of the most famous international fashion designers in the zone, Sui honed her talents at the New York's Parsons School of Design and eventually in 1995, she established her first fashion house in New York. As for modeling personalities, the Chinese community was proud of Ling Tang, the first supermodel celebrity with Chinese ancestry. Tang became well-regarded for her modeling career with leading fashion designers and she was featured in numerous fashion magazines and product ads.

Success in the Year of the Dazzling Pig

It is the year of the Dazzling Pig, and I cannot say I am positive about it. But I have to say that Howard Johnson International’s move to create two new hotels in the main city district is very brilliant. No one is foreign about China’s communist past when business was scant for the average Chinese. Nowadays, it is my great gladness to recognize the fact that China is opening its door to Capitalism.

Before, only the government finances from China’s workpeople. But today, the masses gets a bite of the enormous pie. The hotel operator promises to expand new business opportunities as it opens the Howard Johnson Plaza Fuzhou and Howard Johnson Canton Hotel Taiyuan. Both hotels will be created by Fuzhou Greattown Group and Shanxi Caton Group, and they are projecting to open them in September.

In view of this new outcome, I see one project by the government that is rather funny to say the least. I see no good sense over the matter, but putting Bibles in hotels is over done. China is promising to prevent the world’s view on their country with no religion. So, this coming 2008 Beijing Olympics, ascertain to see Bibles in your hotel room if you mean to go there by that time.