{"id":18181,"date":"2018-08-09T02:33:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T02:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinkerten.com\/wordpress\/?p=18181"},"modified":"2018-08-25T08:26:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T08:26:37","slug":"china-gansu-jiayuguan-hotel-review-luminous-cup-%e8%91%a1%e8%90%84%e7%be%8e%e9%85%92%e5%a4%9c%e5%85%89%e6%9d%af","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinkerten.com\/wordpress\/2018\/08\/china-gansu-jiayuguan-hotel-review-luminous-cup-%e8%91%a1%e8%90%84%e7%be%8e%e9%85%92%e5%a4%9c%e5%85%89%e6%9d%af\/","title":{"rendered":"Silk Road China : Gansu – Jiayuguan Hotel & Gansu Souvenir; The Luminous Cup Review – \u8461\u8404\u7f8e\u9152\u591c\u5149\u676f!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Most Attractive City in Western China – Jiayuguan<\/strong><\/h3>\n

When you are traveling silk road, one of the important stop is Jiayuguan. It boasts many historical relics and one of the important one is Jiayuguan Pass\/Tower<\/a>. During my stay in Jiayuguan, we stayed a night in Jiayuguan Hotel<\/a>.<\/p>\n


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Great Location<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Jiayuguan Hotel\u00a0is located in the bustling commercial downtown area of Jiayuguan city, so it is very convenient if you want to do some shopping at night.\u00a0 Just about 200 m away you can find restaurants & shops across the street.<\/p>\n

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Room Review\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

We stayed in non smoking room and it is spacious with comfortable beds and clean linen. Warm lighting are used in the room.<\/p>\n

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Square Dancing\/Plaza Dancing \u5e7f\u573a\u821e<\/strong><\/h3>\n

There is a window for you to look out to the street.\u00a0 You may find people doing Chinese “Square dancing” at the open space near the plaza.\u00a0\u00a0It is popular with middle-aged and retired women who have been referred to as “dancing grannies”.\u00a0 I wasn’t lucky enough to see any of the dancing grannies doing their exercise at the open space Plaza, I would love to see their street culture very much.\u00a0 But be warned that it can be quite loud with the Chinese popular music played.<\/p>\n

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Bring your own coffee!<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Bring your own coffee if you are particular about coffee.\u00a0 The free coffee provided here may not up to your standard and some don’t even provide coffee.\u00a0 Chinese people drink tea instead of coffee – that is their national drink.\u00a0 In fact they only started drinking coffee recently.\u00a0 Coffee is consider a luxury item and expensive in China. I saw the coffee cost up to USD 10 a cup at the airport in Urumqi Xinjiang.\u00a0 Well, if you travel in big cities like Beijing and Shanghai, the hotel may provide coffee but probably not in Gansu Province which is located north-west of China.\u00a0 Still, there are particular groups of people or new wealthy people, they and their kids like to flaunt their new-found riches with drinking Starbucks coffee, the\u00a0 pricey beverage.<\/p>\n

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Bathroom Review<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The lighting used in the bathroom is white light.\u00a0 There is a bathtub and shower head running with hot and cold water.\u00a0 What I like about the bathroom is; there is a glass door preventing the water from the shower to spill over to the toilet area.<\/p>\n

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Hotel Car Park<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Hotel Breakfast Review<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The buffet breakfast offer a wide variety of choices but most of them are in Chinese style.\u00a0 Choices here are a lot more compared to other hotels so far.<\/p>\n

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Huge Restaurant<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The restaurant is huge and can sit up to 1000 people. Luckily I was here during off-peak so there is no big crowd of mainland Chinese tourists.\u00a0 As you know the mainland Chinese people have the reputation for boorish behaviour \ud83d\ude42 That is why the hotel I went during my Eastern Europe<\/a> tour (probably Prague<\/a> or Budapest<\/a>, I can’t recall well which country), has to separate the mainland Chinese tourists with other tourists when arrange the seating for the morning breakfast.<\/p>\n

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Western food corner has lesser choices as compared to Chinese corner.\u00a0 Available choices are bread, pastries, bacon, sausages, eggs & bean.<\/p>\n

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Hot Noodle Bar & \u00a0omelette\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Business Center<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Business Center offers various other services such as booking plane and train tickets , photocopying and fax.\u00a0 Located at the lobby.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Shopping Store<\/strong><\/h3>\n

There are shopping stores at the lobby which offer foot massage & salon facilities.\u00a0 Several stores are open till late at night.<\/p>\n

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Chinese Salon\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The barber pole outside the barber & beauty salon is not the old fashion red, white & blue lighting but the shape is still the same though \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Gansu Most Popular souvenir – Luminous cup\/ \u591c\u5149\u676f<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Gansu is famous for it Luminous Cup. It is made of jade and it is named because it sparkles when fill with alcohol and placed under the moonlight. The origin of the Luminous Cup is at Jiuquan. Jiuquan is an ancient town with a 2,000-year history. (It was ashamed that we did not stopover at Jiuguan this time. ) Now Luminous Cup become of the most popular souvenir from Gansu. There is a very famous poem on “Luminous Cup<\/strong>” by Wang Han poet who also created\u00a0Three Hundred Tang Poems \/\u5510\u8bd7\u4e09\u767e\u9996.<\/p>\n

Luminous Cup Poem by\u00a0Wang Han \/ \u738b\u7ff0 (poet)\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u8461\u8404\u7f8e\u9152\u591c\u5149\u676f, Fine wine in luminous cup,
\n\u6b32\u98f2\u7435\u7436\u99ac\u4e0a\u50ac.\u00a0 Drinking with Pipa but was summon to fight.
\n\u9189\u81e5\u6c99\u5834\u541b\u83ab\u7b11,\u00a0 Please don’t laugh if we lay drunken in the battlefield!
\n\u53e4\u4f86\u5f81\u6230\u5e7e\u4eba\u56de?\u00a0 How many warriors ever come back safely?<\/p>\n

Translation :<\/strong><\/h3>\n

When the soldiers are about to drink fine wine in luxurious cup, they were suddenly being summoned to fight in the battlefield.<\/p>\n

The general said: “Please don’t laugh if I am drunk on the battlefield, ”<\/p>\n

From past to present,how many people who are going to the battlefield can return safely?<\/p>\n

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\u8461\u8404\u7f8e\u9152\u591c\u5149\u676f \/ Fine wine in luminous cup!<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This poem is mainly about the turbulent life and arduous environment in the border, making it difficult for the frontier soldiers to get a banquet. Fortunate enough to have one banquet, it is easy to imagine the scene of drinking and drinking. This poem is a portrayal of battlefield life and feelings. The wine in the poem is the grape wine that is abundant in the Western Region of China; the cup is said to be the wine-cup made in era of Zhou Muwang \/\u5468\u7a46\u738b. It is as bright as the “Bright Moon Night”, so it is called “Luminous Cup”; the instrument used by Hu people \/ \u80e1\u4eba called pipa \/ \u7435\u7436. There are also words such as “sand field” and “battle”. All of this shows a rich border color and the flavor of military camp life.<\/p>\n

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Shoes Polish Machine<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Guests are free to use the shoes polish machine.\u00a0 China hotel usually provide shoes polish machine.<\/p>\n

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Chinese Noodles Takeaway Shop<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Near the car park hotel, there is a noodle takeaway shop.\u00a0 Just few steps walk out from the front lobby. Price list were at the menu board beside the ordering window.<\/p>\n

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No More Bicycles<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Across the street are shops and commercial buildings.\u00a0 If you notice, there is no more bicycles these day in China compare to few decades ago.\u00a0 Cars became a status symbol in the 1990s, bikes became associated with the poor. But now\u00a0public bike share<\/a> emerged as a popular option especially in big cities such as Shanghai<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Final thoughts :<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Jiayuguan Hotel Review<\/a> :<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Jiayuguan Hotel is conveniently located in the downtown of Jiayuguan city.\u00a0 It is very affordable hotel and the room is up to our standard.\u00a0 The breakfast buffet has wide-spread of choice.<\/p>\n

I didn’t see many western tourists staying in this hotel and the staff here may not be able to speak fluent English.\u00a0 Probably you need to use google translator if you don’t speak Chinese or may be it is a good chance to practice your Chinese. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Luminous Cup – Review<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Glad to learn about the history of Luminous Cup in Gansu Region China.\u00a0 I have gotten a set of 4 pieces back home as souvenir. The cups are in mottled dark green colour and flecks of sparkle. This type of jade was found in the Qilian mountains in this region.\u00a0 Yet to test out the cup under moonlight, I hope it shines as bright as the moon light. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Nearby Attractions :<\/strong><\/h3>\n