National Day Holiday Cultural Tourism

Cultural experiences and historic sites have drawn holiday tourism in villages and cities across China during the week-long National Day which started on Tuesday.

In the rural outskirts of the coastal city of Quanzhou in east China’s Fujian Province, tourists are given a chance to wear local traditional head-pinned flowers in Xunpu Village, where more than 100,000 tourist visits have been received every day during the holiday.

Cultural performances have also been staged in the village, including marionette puppet shows and Nanyin music, which features slow, elegant melodies and has been inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage.