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.

Life in Beijing Eating is The First So Try Baikui Laohao

Baikui Laohao is one of the most famous Muslim restaurants in Beijing offering roast mutton. In 1780 (the 45th year of Emperor Qianlong's reign) it was set up by a Muslim named Baikui in a small alley opposite Longfusi Temple, Dongcheng District. Roast mutton of Baikui Laohao has well-chosen materials, delicate processes, unique cooking methods and a marvelous flavor.

The mutton used is from a specific part of the sheep with appropriate muscle and fat and is roasted to perfection. Dozens of seasonings such as cloves, mushrooms and a chosen soy sauce and sugar are mixed in proper proportions. Cooked in several processes such as a dipping in broth, pressing, stacking, braising in broth and frying, the braised mutton has a mellow taste and color, is tender and delicious and the unpleasant smell of the mutton is gone.
After the founding of the PRC, Baikui Laohao Restaurant extended its business space on the original location and increased the food variety to include mutton in soy sauce, beef and mutton entrails in soy sauce and chicken in soy sauce. It has developed into to a grand Muslim restaurant offering Muslim food and banquet service.Featured dishes: Braised Mutton in a Pot, Deep-Fried Mutton, Stewed Mutton in Slices, Braised Mutton Maw, Sliced Mutton Maw Soup, Braised Mutton Head and Roast Pigeon.

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.  

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.