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Unit 1 Traveling in Fujian 福建旅游 Anticipation This unit is a brief introduction about Fujian Province. The Main Reading is two journals of a blog written by an overseas Chinese girl, telling her impressions and understandings of what she visited. Here are some questions about traveling in Fujian. Discuss them with your classmates. a. What do you think of Fujian Province? Is it an ideal place to live in? b. Have you ever been to Meizhou Island and/or heard of Mazu? Would you like to share your impressions with us? c. Do you know how many peaks Wuyi Mountain has? d. Compare the places you have visited to the place you are living. e. What’s the difference between “on the seaside” and “in the mountains”? f. How do you understand the Chinese saying “Read ten thousand books and walk ten thousand miles”? About Fujian Province : ?? Fujian Province, with its capital Fuzhou, is on Chinas southeastern coast. It faces the island province of Taiwan across Taiwan Strait to the east. Neighboring provinces are Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Fujian occupies an area of around 120,000 square kilometers (about 46,335 square miles). Its permanent resident population（常住人口）is 34.88 million at the end of 2003. According to the fifth population census, Fujian has 48 ethnic groups, with the Han constituting the largest group and the 47 ethnic minority groups, with 580,000 people in total, comprising 1.67 percent of its population. The She（畲族）1is the largest ethnic minority group in the province, with a population of 350,000, accounting for more than 50 percent of its total population nationwide. The number of Hui people exceeds 10,000. Ethnic minority groups in Fujian are mainly distributed in Ningde, followed by Fuzhou City and Quanzhou City. When to go Fujian has a year-round warm and humid climate. Annual average rainfall ranges from a low of 1400 mm to a high of 2000 mm, and annual average temperature from a low of 17C to a high of 21C. It is ho