“Go to Niushou Mountain in spring and Visit Xixia Mountain in autumn”. Recently, The second Jiangsu Forestry Culture Tourism Festival, which also is The Ninth “Autumn Xixia” Maple Art Festival, unveiled. The reporter witnessed that the maple in Xixia Mountain Tourism Area have turned red. Now it is the best time to watch the maple.

Relaying on the unique resource of the Xixia Mountain, the program was set in the theme of Red maple art and forest concert. Organizer organized the opening ceremony of the culture festival and program series as Chance of Autumn, Sound of Autumn, Colour of Autumn, Love of Autumn, Charm of Autumn and Date of Autumn. During the festival from now to December 16th, Citizens can attend activities like forest concert, writing and painting meeting, adopting ancient trees, praying and vegetarian dishes competition besides viewing the red maple and enjoying the historical culture of Xixia Mountain. They can also visit the zoological tourism resource show of provincial forestry park, cultural exhibition of Xixia Mountain’s history, cultural exhibition of red maple and classic old military songs broadcasting in the name of “Emotion of Chinese •Soul of the Nation”, etc.（Nanjing Daily）