Chinese Specialty

Chinese people get a dreamy impression of Phoenix from Border Town, a novel of the famous Chinese writer, Shen Congwen. This place fosters crystal characters and pure love of heroine of this novel, nice and broad-minded people as well as the lovely wooden houses projecting over water. This town is built aside the Tuo River. The river is as intoxicant as wine, and the buildings along the river are as cute as drunk beauties. Amongst the streets and allays in the town, there is aroma of bacon and spicy food issuing from everywhere. Lightly and elegantly, emotional local ladies are passing by. Every night when the sky highlights a bright moon, young men and women from Miao Nationality will merrily sing a question and answer duet. That is an interesting show before going to sleep.

Outside the town, you will see the steep and high Tianxing Mount ripping into the sky like a sword. In the gigantic crevice of the mountain, a limpid stream is traveling through. Not far from the stream, an ancient path lined up with old trees and odd-shaped stones leads straight upward to top of the mount. On the top, there is a flat land adorned with a pool that never stops flowing and is often visited by little animals and birds. Further, at the foot of the mount, the stream enters a crave which gathers marvelous views that are similar with those of Guilin and Zhangjiajie.