China on Monday began a three-day national mourning for the tens of thousands of people killed in a powerful earthquake which struck the country's southwest on May 12.

At 4:58 a.m., the national flag at the Tian'anmen Square in downtown Beijing flew at half-mast after a complete flag-raising ceremony.

And on Sunday, China Seismological Bureau Sunday revised the magnitude of the earthquake from 7.8 to 8.0 on the Richter scale.

A powerful earthquake in southwest China killed nearly 20, 000 people now and the death toll is expected to climb as rescue efforts are intensifying.

Sichuan is my hometown,a beautiful place.

In China,herbal medicine is made up of roots,bark,flowwers,seeds,leaves and branches.when herbs are combined,they can increase or promote medical effectiveness.

Herbal medicine has been a part of the written history of traditional Chinese medicine for over 4000 years.

Herbal therapy has three main functions as below:

1TREAT THE IMMMEDIATE problem

2strengthen the body and help it to recover.

3Maintain the body's health

China has an abundance of 1300 local operas.Sichuan opera is one of Chinese oldest local operas and is popular in Sichuan.It is the most sigificant and most interesting opera form from Southwest of China.

As a stage entertainment ,it convey the idea of time and space to the audience through performances.theopera is characterized by its unique solo singing,refined acting,rich percussion ,the changing faces is its unique skills.

The Wu Hou Shrine, located in the southern suburbs of Chengdu, is the memorial shrine of ZhueLiang, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Shu in the period of the Three Kingdoms. It was built in the sixth century A.D. and was merged into the Zhao Lie Temple at the end of the 14th century. Therefore the front gate lintel bears the characters“Han Zhao Lie Temple”. The existing halls were rebuilt in the 11thyear of Kang Xi’s Reign of the Qing dynasty(1672A.D.)

Illustration is a dragon on the “鼎”—an ancient vessel in the Shrine

Ghost food, as nicknamed by locals who are always up to labeling things in a disparaging way, has a long history in Chengdu, which also boasts a great number of top class restaurants serving glamorous foods. The ghost food sprang up as grassroots ingenuity many years ago when some poorer people set up shaky tables with wooden benches and planted ovens on the roadsider to carry on a catering business targeting at night owls and people who left off night-shifts. The original form of ghost food business has evolved into its modern version as some restaurants, even the top-notch ones in the city keep open deep into the early morning, serving a great variety of food (Sichuan,Cantonese or Western), instead of the cheap noodles, fried rice and Chuanchuanxiang of its obscure ...

I come from Sichuan.

Sichuan province is in southwest of China,at the upper reaches of the Changjiang Riverwith the huge Sichuanbasin in the east and mountainous areas of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the west.

Being rich in agriculture, forestry and hydroelectric resources,it is entitled "Land of Abundance"

The province boasts many beautiful scenic spots and numerous cultural relics ,such as Mt.Emei,Jiuzhaigou-Huanglong ,Mt.Gomngga,Siguniang.

Welcome to Sichuan