【推荐3】The town of Xingping is on the east bank of the Li River. It is 63 kilometers from Guilin and 27 kilometers from Yangshuo. Xingping is well-known for its still waters and beautiful mountains.

Xingping is the oldest town in Yangshuo. It was set up in 265 and it was Xiping County in the past. It was the center of Yangshuo County until Yangshuo Town was set up in 590. It is the most important town beside the Li River for over 1, 700 years. The scenery (风景) from Yangdi to Xingping is the most beautiful part of Li River. In 1974, after one of the marshals of our country, Ye Jianying, visited Li River, he wrote a poem. It says “Xingping ranks first in Li River.”

This town has many landmarks (地标) such as Mural Hill, Snail Hill, Lotus Crag, and Fishing Village. You can enjoy these sceneries from the Li River cruise (巡航). You can walk up to Yangdi Town along the river from here (around 5 hours).

If you are interested in hiking, you can take hours’ walk to Yangdi or boat across the river and walk to the Stone City. Tengjiao Temple is there.

Wang Xin and her friends spent an afternoon eating snacks and fruits around a charcoal stove （炭炉）while enjoying freshly made white tea. For her, it has become a new way to stay away from the busy life in Beijing and also a way to connect healthy habits with modern lifestyles.

In fact, people in Yunnan, Guizhou, and Hunan have a tradition of making tea over charcoal. However, for most young people in other places, it is a new way to relax the body and mind. It has become popular in the past few years, which may give young people a chance to know more about Chinese tea. They may fall in love with tea culture as a result of a pop culture trend （潮流）.

To spread tea culture to more young people, many new-style Chinese tea houses are looking for ways to attract customers. Heytea（喜茶）, for example, provides comfortable seats and space for people to enjoy tea and talk with friends or read a book at the same time.

Sun Xuling, who started another tea house called Theater Tea, has found that people nowadays prefer tea with less sugar as they pay more attention to health. So, their tea is often with less or zero sugar. Theater Tea is also planning to start a tea experience store, where customers can try different ways of making tea and learn more about tea culture.

Connecting traditional tea culture with pop culture and modern life is an exciting new trend in China. With Chinese tea becoming more and more popular, tea makers and tea houses are continuing to look for ways to spread the culture while keeping its traditional customs.

【推荐2】Hanfu is a symbol of China’s national confidence. Jessica, a hanfu lover from the US, said, “Whenever I wear hanfu, I am always praised by my friends and my behavior has become more gentle. I feel like I am a fairy. I have to walk slowly and speak softly. Hanfu has become an art form.”

Cai Shangwei, the director of the center of culture industry in Sichuan University, said that different kinds of social and cultural reasons had led to the rise of hanfu. But in the end, the most important reason is that China has developed rapidly in the past few years. As our country is becoming stronger and stronger, our cultural confidence is also increasing.

“Since young people enjoy buying fashion items to express their personality, hanfu meets the need of the young people to stay special and unique. What’s more, the design of hanfu is very attractive and fascinating. Being chosen by more and more young consumers as their favorite style, hanfu is becoming more popular with Chinese people, and it is also very fresh for foreigners.” Cai added.