With the withering of typhoon Hato and Kappa occuring a week ago in South China, temperatures here fell a little and weather here is gradualling cooling. All reminds the editor that beautiful Autumn is coming. Autumn is a season for harvest, for reflection and for travelling in China. This passage introduces top reasons to come to China in Golden Autumn.
1. Good weather to enjoy.
As August ends and the coming of September, people won’t feel too hot anymore. Temperature of most part of the continent will fall and people will gradually enjoy a cooling and comfortable climate, especially in South China. Heat makes people easy to be angry while cool atmosphere tend to make people feel peace and in love. Actually in chinese history, many famous optimistic poets loved autumn and had written many touching poems to praise autumn as a beatiful season.
2. Tasty food to eat and interesting autumn culture to enjoy.
Autumn is a season for harvest. In south China, some farmers even havest their rice at the beginning of Octorber. Most rice fields are in a deep green and then light golden color in this season for harvest. Due to the geographic feature for harvesting rice in this season, people who are born in autumn are always believed to be very lucky and rich in their future life according to connotation of chinese culture. Even people who are born in this season are even named with characters containing a meaning of “autumn”. For example, a classmate of mine during my postgraduate stuty time name “Zhang Qiusheng”, which means he was born in “Qin” - Pinyin of “Autumn” in Chinese. If you were interested in rich chinese food in autumn and chinese culture relevant to this season, you must come to China to taste mooncakes in autumn in you life years.
3. Lovely people to meet and fantastic sceneries to enjoy.
In Autumn, there are two holidays loved and warmly welcomed by most chinese people — the Mid-Autumn Festival and China’s National Day, which will be gather at the same period this year. It’s a good time to have family union or travel out with family members. It’s an exciting experience to just enjoy a week long holiday once in a year. You’ll feel quite happy to gather with your lovely family members. And if you were travelling, you’re certainly going to meet pretty girls or handsome boys on your journey. Moreover, whether you choose to gather with your family members or carry out travelling plan, you’re going to enjoy fantastic scenaries of this sean in China. You can view the color changing of leaves in mountains or on both sides of the roads. You can watch the cloud fog in on the top of big mountains such as Huangshan. You can walk around the parks to see how Chinese people enjoy the spare time in public parks. You can even choose to visit a temple in Suzhou to trace back part of the history of Southeast China.
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