1. My Hometown Shanxi Province Name:FengYanming

2. The basic situation of Shanxi Shanxi is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northern part of the country. It borders Hebei to the east, Henan to the south, Shanxi to the west, and Inner Mongolia to the north. The provincial capital city is Taiyuan. Shanxi is endowed with an abundance of cultural sites from its long history. Most of the ancient structures were built before the Liao and Song Dynasties. So it is the reason why Shanxi is often called the 'Chinese Ancient Architecture Museum'. The more obvious of these include: the Buddhist wonder of the Yungang Grottoes in Datong City, the Ancient City of Pingyao which was listed as a World Cultural Heritage site by UNESCO(United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization 联 合国教科文组织 ) in 1997.

3. Shanxi ’s history There is a old saying that Five thousand years civilization at Shanxi. Shanxi has a long history, the humanities ceremony, with rich historical and cultural heritage. She is known as "the Chinese ancient cultural museum", also known as "the cradle of Chinese civilization”. Do you know, “NvWaBuTian" legend happened in Shanxi. Historically, many emperors treated Shanxi as capitals. Such as Yao, Shun, Yu,Xia dynasty and so on. What’s more,I think Shanxi was famous for Traders and Shanxi exchange( 晋商和山西票号）.There were many ancient buildings witnessed of Shanxi economy thriving.

4. Dragon head( 龙抬头） According to legend, the second day of lunar February is a day that everything come back to life,we called this day “dragon head”. In shanxi, people are used to cut hair on this day. Haishijie( 寒食节 ) The day before the Qingming festival, jinzhong area of people, every family no fire, this day eating cold food, in order to remember Jiezitui.Locals called this day “HanShiJie ". Shehuo( 社火 ) On Lantern Festiyal,people will Take floats( 搭彩车 ) 、 Hang lantern( 挂 彩灯 )and perform all kinds of Street art performance( 街头表演 )like Hanchuan 、 Yage and so on.

5. Shanxi has much natural landscape and humanistic landscape. Well, Datong Yungang Grottoes( 大同云冈石窟 ) ， the Ancient City of Ping Yao （平遥古城） and Mount Wutai( 五台山 ) had been listed as world cultural heritages. Next, let us go into Shanxi’s scenery!

6. The Ancient City of Pingyao is located in the middle part of Shanxi province and it is 110km away from Taiyuan, the capital of the province. It keeps all the features of the cities of Chinese Han nationality during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, displaying a complete picture of the unusual cultural, social, economic and religious development. Pingyao is known mainly for three historical treasures: the ancient brick city wall, the Zhenguo Temple, and the Shuanglin Temple. The Ancient City of Pingyao

7. Yungang Grottoes

8. YunGang Grottoes Yunggang Grottoes is located in the north cliff of Wuzhoushan Mountain in west suburb of Datong city. The grotto was excavated by depending on the mountain and stretches for 1km from east to west. Now remain 45 grottoes and in the whole grotto group are more than 1100 big and small statues of Buddha, The whole grotto group is divided into 3 parts, i.e. east part, middle part and west part. In the grottoes of the east part are mainly Buddha pagodas, also called pagoda cave. The Tanyao five grottoes are the grotto group excavated earliest and of largest grandeur among Yunggang grottoes and was excavated in the period of Northern wei.

9. Mount Wutai Mount wutai is located in Xinzhou city, Wutai country, Shanxi province. It is one of four major buddhist mountain in china( Mount Wutai (Shanxi Province), Mount Ermei (Sichuan Province), Mount Jiuhua (Anhui Province) and Mount Putuo (Zejiang Province) )and one of five famous major buddhist holy places. Mount wutai is majestic and is surrounded by a circumference of 250 square kilometer, with a total area of 600 square kilometer. It is consist of five peaks. They are East Wanghai Peak, West Guayue Peak, South Jinxiu Peak, North Yedou Peak and Middle Cuiyan Peak. Mount wutai is one of the earliest places to build Buddhist temple in China. Since the eastern han (58 ～ 75)years, the ancient temples built with magnificent pagoda and temples. All of those are the ancient architecture and cultural resources.

10. 乔家大院 榆次老城

11. Courtyard of Family Wang 王家大院 Courtyard of Family Chang 常家庄园

12. Shanxi’s food : noodles Shanxi’s noodles with a long history. According to check, there are about 280 kind of noodles. They are not only tasty, but also have many special meanings. For example, a person who has birthday will eat “ Yigenmian ”, also called “longevity （长寿） noodle”, which made up by a piece of noodle. It means longevity.

13. Daoxiaomian 刀削面 Jiupian 揪片 Bulanzi 不烂子 Longxiuian 龙须面 Huamomo 花馍馍

14. Wantuo Lamian Youmianyuyu 莜面鱼鱼 Youmiankaolaolao 莜面栲栳栳 Wantuo 碗脱 Maoerduo 猫耳朵

15. I think Shanxi ’people are so hardworking and smart that they created lots of noodles. If you want to eat these delicious noodles, I will be very happy to be a hostess.Finally, I want to say, my hometown is not as developed as Shanghai, also her scenery can’t compare with Hainan’ s. But I just like her peaceful and slow-rhythm lifestyle, it make me feel comfortable and free. I love my hometown! If you go there, you will love this primitive and colorful place. Welcome to Shanxi!