China National Silk Museum

China National Silk Museum is the first state-level professional silk museum in the country as well as the biggest of its kind throughout the world. It opened to the public in 1992 and since 2004 people can visit it for free.
The museum owns eight exhibition halls, including: the Preface Hall, Relics Hall, Folk-custom Hall, Dyeing and Weaving Hall and Modern Achievements Hall.

The Preface Hall introduces the 5000-year-long history of Chinese silk culture. China is the earliest country that engaged in sericulture, filature and making clothes with silk. This hall provides strong evidence for this fact and shows the history of the Silk Road through which silk was spread abroad.
Relics Hall presents several preserved relics, which cover almost every dynasty of ancient China, and a number of pictures to explain Chinese traditional silk culture. These relics are from various districts of the country, including those excavated along the Silk Road, on the grassland of Northern region of the country, and in the south region. It should be mentioned that tourists can appreciate a piece of fragmentary brocade that dates back 5,630 years. That is the earliest silk that has ever been discovered.
Folk-custom Hall displays some prominent products created by outstanding weavers. Dyeing and Weaving Hall tells people how to dye and weave silk and the scientific theory of it. There are also weavers showing the whole process. Tourists are welcome to participate in the activity and do it themselves. Modern Achievements Hall displays the new achievements in silk production, silk research and silk trade and so on.

English Signs Help You Get Around Beijing

Many people fear traveling overseas where signs and instructions are not in their native language. We native English speakers have a great advantage because most countries post signs in English. However, the English translations are not always clear enough to be understood, and many places have no English at all.
Until recent years, getting around China was not easy for international travelers who couldn't read Chinese. Just before the 2008 Olympics, Beijing made a great leap forward in the improvement of English signs and instructions. You'll still see some signs, like the one below, that will make you laugh and leave you

confused. In the past these hilarious translations were everywhere, but today most of Beijing's English signs are easy to understand even if you haven't been around long enough to get used to reading "Chinglish."
Today you can easily go almost anywhere in Beijing, guided by English signs and directions. Though some private businesses and a few government agencies still lack professional translation help, most of the English signs you see in Beijing are clear enough to point you in the direction you need to go. The sign below, for example, displays the price for a river boat ride from Xizhimen to the Summer Palace. The English translation is correct and explicable, making it easy for anyone from an English speaking country to understand the cost of a ride.
Some places are better than others at displaying readable English. The airport, subways, public busses and four and five star hotels have reasonably normal English. But if you stay in cheaper hotels or shop in small grocery stores you can expect to see signs and package labels displaying pretty strange English. Regardless of the translation quality, we must give the Chinese credit for an extraordinary effort to accommodate English speaking guests.  Back home very few venues care enough to display signs in Chinese.
It's the irony of English speakers traveling anywhere in the world. We make jokes about hilariously mistaken English. We complain when things aren't explained clearly in English. And we look down our long noses at establishments we think are unsophisticated because they can't perfectly imitate the English we're used to seeing and hearing in our own countries. However, back home very little, if any, effort is made to accommodate non-English speaking Chinese. At home and abroad we seem to think everyone in the world ought to speak and write English.
Chinese are among the most hospitable and forgiving people in the world. If we say so much as "nihao" (Chinese for "hello") they applaud our effort. Although many visitors refuse to learn Chinese, local people try hard to communicate with us in English. So, when someone in Beijing speaks to us with broken English, or when a few "Chinglish" signs make us laugh, we must remind ourselves that the English we hear and see here is far superior to the Chinese back home.
If I spot a sign with bad English in a little shop, I can still say, "Thank God for the excellent English signs that helped me get here in the first place." An English speaking person at the front desk pointed me in the direction of the nearest subway station, where I found clearly translated English signs. A website or other advertisement told me which station to get off at and where to walk from there. Excellent English is one of Beijing's features that makes it a convenient and welcoming city for people from all over the world to enjoy!

The Tiananmen Square's Night Life

The Tiananmen Square lies at the cross-section between the central axis of Beijing. When it was first built in the 15th year of Yongle (1417), it was called Chengtian Gate. It was twice destroyed in the Ming Dynasty, once by lightening, once by war. In 1651, or the 8th year of Emperor Shunzhi's reign in the Qing Dynasty, the Emperor named Fulin had it rebuilt on a large scale and changed its name to Tiananmen. Imposing and magnificent, it stands out among ancient city gates in China.

Tiananmen was the place for important ceremonies during the Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, when imperial edicts were issued for coronation of emperors or the conferring of the title of empress. Tiananmen has witnessed many important events in China's modern history.
Tiananmen Square was formerly a courtyard in front of the main gate to the Forbidden City. At that time it measured about 110,000 square meters. Since the fall of the feudal system, and especially since the foundation of the People's Republic, it has been renovated and expanded many times. Now the square, at 880 meters long and 500 meters wide, measuring 440,000 square meters. To its east is the National Museum; to its west, the Great Hall of the People. In the middle of it stands the Monument to People's Heroes, to the south of which is Chairman Mao's Memorial Hall. The national flag ceremony held in the square every day stirs strong patriotic feelings in the bosom of everyone who loves New China. Now, in this new age of reform and opening, the age-old Tiananmen, as a witness of the past and present of China's civilization, with its unrivaled political significance, attracts tourists from all over the world.  

Visit Beijing You Should Visit Eighteen Ponds

Eighteen Ponds lie within the borders of Anjiazhuang of Wangping Town in Mentougou District, and features deep valley, unique stones, special streams and uncommon flowers as one of rare natural scenic spots in North China.

The pools group is backed by the Qingshuijian which is one of top 4 peaks in Beijing. There are roaring streams along peaks over peaks, waterfalls down from each cliff, ravines forming pools in the valley, forming a famous the natural landscape of "three-waterfall, six-scene and Eighteen Ponds" with distinct seasons. While, another scenery is revealed at the mouth of the valley: two door-like mountains overlooking the valley, zigzagging peaks, peculiar cliffs and stones, flying spring hitting against cliffs. There are also a great amount of birds, animals and flowers.

Beijing Acrobatics Show – Stunning Show in Beijing Nightlife

Beijing Nightlife is also not less interesting with a day life. The city is not only offers the interesting destinations and entertainments in a day light. There lots of leisure activities that could be choose in Beijing night tour, such as, Beijing Opera Show, Acrobatics Show and Chinese tea ceremony and others that famous and popular among tourists. For young people, there have a lot option of bars, cafes, restaurants, etc there.

Acrobatics Show is one of the famous and nice one show that perform at night. It has long history, from the Tang Dynasty of China. It has become one of the arts form that popular among many communities in Chinese. At that time, each day acrobatics usually perform at street with simple equipments such as, chair, table, cups, plates, and many others. Because it very famous, the Beijing Acrobatics show artists also had been known around the world with their excellent and unbelievable skills. 

Time goes by, Acrobatics Show become more and more popular. And today, Acrobatics Show not only has performed in front of Chinese community, but it also becomes a favorite night show in Beijing that visitors could not miss. A lot of acrobatics symbol in China, bicycle is also has used in almost all the acrobatics show around China. The performers will ride a bicycle, they should balancing their body and make a certain forms with even more than 10 people above. In Beijing, one of the famous theaters where hold acrobatics show each night is Chaoyang Theater.

Visitors who come and see the performance will be very shocked in each action that performers do. The exciting acts will perform are the juggling of large porcelain urns, martial arts, balancing of bowls, umbrellas or stacked chairs, rope walking, pole climbing, roller skating, plate swirling, and many other dangerous actions will perform on the show. The show is perform every night and last for about one and half hours. All of the performers will dress up to the fabulous and proper flexible costume to make the show more brilliant and entertained. During the show, visitors also do not allow take any pictures.

For some recommendation, visitors could get the reservation first to see the acrobatics show when the hot season come. They could get the entrance ticket in the local Beijing tour or in the internet. Visit Beijing is not complete yet if do not come and enjoy the amazing and entertaining Acrobatics Show. Visitors will strongly impact both mentally and physically, when watch this acrobatics show.