In recent years, there are more and more foreign students come to study in China. Some of them may have no idea what kind of course they should choose to learn, and I think intensive Chinese language courses are a good choice. For those who come to Keats School in Kunming as their places of studying in China, Meng Zi is a good place to visit.
The geographical position of Meng Zi should be learnt from your intensive Chinese language courses. Meng Zi County is located in the southeast part of Yunnan province, and the east of Honghe Hani and Yi Minority Autonomous Prefecture. There are many local products in Meng Zi County, such as New Year cakes, cross – bridge rice noodle, tobacco, white peaches and sweet pomegranates. If you go to the place after your intensive Chinese language courses, you should really try those foods. Kun He, Cao Guan, Meng railways and Kun He road go across the continent of Meng Zi County.
Meng Zi County has a long history of many years, which should be covered in your intensive Chinese language courses and it is a cultural heritage with nature attractions and ethnic tradition. Meng Zi County is the capital city of Honghe 州. The land area of Honghe County is about 2228 square km, and it has 1 towns, 4 villages, 86 neighborhood committee and 992 villagers groups. The population of Meng Zi County is 400,000 and there are 19 kinds of nationalities, such as Han, Yi, Miao, Zhuang and Hui. As is known to students who have intensive Chinese language courses, Meng Zi County has been granted as “the National Civilized County”, “National Health County”, “100 Economy Counties in China”, “the Most Unique City in Western China”, “Provincial Garden County” and so on.
The beautiful city, Meng Zi County, has stood at its new starting line to a historical height. The local government has planed to make Meng Zi County into an international commercial center as the best places for human to live in the next 20 years. It is also ambitious to be an open and modernized city in the Southeast Asia. Its development should be seen in textbooks of intensive Chinese language courses a few years later.
The third “China Meng Zi cross – bridge rice noodle festival” has been held in Meng Zi County. Everybody includes those who learn intensive Chinese language courses are welcome to the festival. The grand opening ceremony has combined the elements of sound, light and electricity, and brought a real visual and sound feast to the audience.
It is said that the theme of the third “China Meng Zi cross – bridge rice noodle festival” is “the homeland of the Chinese cross – bridge rice noodle”. The festival aims at showing the food culture that enjoyed fame at home and abroad to all the people, include those who take intensive Chinese language courses. On the opening ceremony, governmental organizations and social teams from Honghe prefecture came to take part in the performance. Those performances are good resource to lay your foundation of studying intensive Chinese language courses. Through art performance, performers showed to the audience a new image of Meng Zi County, which mixed western culture, eastern culture, local custom and army culture. The show applied new ways of saying national songs to display the brand new image of Meng Zi County.
After the opening ceremony, governors of Honghe prefecture enjoyed the famous cross bridge rice noodle with the audience, which made the people there so excited and put the ceremony to a higher stage. The third “China •Meng Zi cross – bridge rice noodle festival” will last to October 5, 2011. During the festival, there will be car exhibition, commercial display, gourmet Food Street and other interesting activities. When you have time after taking some Chinese courses, you can invite your friends and go to the beautiful Meng Zi County.