For the best TIME in a day and best MONTHS in a year to see pandas: Giant Pandas give us an impression as lovely and cute for their unique appealing markings, but also a lazy bone due to they spend half of their time to sleep in a day.  Nobody want to go so far away to Chengdu but just see some sleeping pandas, right?So better to notice their time schedule: when are they eating and active, when are they sleeping!

In the breeding center, panda's first feeding time starts at 9:00am~9:30am, they keep eating untill 11:00am, then fall into sleep untill the second feeding time, 2:30pm~3:00pm.

So the best time to set off  from Chengdu downtown hotel is 8:00am~8:30am, around half hour drive to there just catch up their first feeding time. Or set off after lunch to be there at 3:00pm to see the awake pandas.

For the BEST MONTHS in a year to see pandas and the SURPRISE is waiting for you:

The first time everybody see the few days old giant panda must be surprised, is this the new born cub of giant panda?!  A tiny pink rat???

Giant pandas usually gave birth to cubs in July and August,  so when you arrive there at the right months then you can see the giant pandas in most age varies:

In late July: the 1 week old pandas, the 1 year old pandas, 2 years old pandas....

In early August: 1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, 1 year, 2 years....

In middle August: 1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, 1 month, 1 year...

In late August: 1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, 1 month, 40 days, 1 year...

In September: weeks, months, years...

In October: months, years...

THE 8 PICTURES BELOW  in front show giant panda at 8 different ages, in order：

1 day, 2 days, 1 week, 1 month, 40 days, 80 days, 90 days, half year old.

Tourists can look at them through a glass wall, photogragh without flash is allowed.

The last picture shows the new born cubs from the same year. 

In China, people becomes vegetarian due to their faith, few of them are smart enough to understand that vegetarian food is good for their health, actually almost all Chinese trust that vegetarian food can’t offer enough energy and power to our body, and the reason for monks, nuns and Taoists are vegetarian, beside their faith, also because long term plain simple vegetable food will strengthen their mind, purify their spirit, calm their hearts down and resist temptation from outside normal society.
For normal people, we think if someone is vegetarian means he is impossible to be strong and brave, that’s why when a Chinese shout out: “don’t consider I am a vegetarian”, which means please treat me as a strong opponent, or means if you act further invasion, I will strike back or revenge. Such deep-rooted idea has some connection that most of herbivorous animals are weak and reduce to predators’ food, so no one want to be tame sheep and prefer to be strong tiger or lion in today’s fierce competition world.
Another reason is because Chinese families consider how many meals with meat in a week is one of important standard of life level, especially during food shortage time 20 or 30 years ago, so no one want to be vegetarian as will be consider as poor people.
Now more and more people realize that the vegetarian food is good for health, hypertension, hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia force people give up traditional food habit with too much meat and oil, and choose plain simply health food, which of course will try vegetarian food.
In the past, the vegetarian food from temples is plain and simple, just boil the vegetable with a little salt, that’s why only some Chinese old people who trust Buddhism or Daoism can accept and persevere. Young people can try occasionally for unique experience or when they need invisible help from Buddha, such as students hope to past important exam, new graduates hope to pass new company’s interview.
But now, some business people invest to open several good luxury vegetarian food restaurants here, they have downtown location, good decoration, nice surroundings, it seems more and more become a fashion to invite your business partners, sweet heart, and respectable olds go there to have a vegetarian banquet.

Upgrade vegetarian food is out of your imagination, far away from your old impression of plain simple vegetable food, although all ingredients are from vegetables, the well-done dishes can be looks like chicken, fish, pork, shrimps and crab, etc., even the taste can be close to meat. Without advance note, it’s not possible for you to tell from your tongue.

Recommended Chengdu vegetarian food restaurants:
Wenshu Monastery Vegetarian Restaurant
Add: No.66, Wushuyuan Jie
Tel:028-82690233
Daci Temple Vegetarian Restaurant
Add: No.23, Dacisi Road, 1st Section of Dongfenglu
Tel: 028-86658341
Qingyang Palace Vegetarian Restaurant
Add: No. 9, 2nd West Section of 1st Ring Road
Tel: 028-87766584
Zhaojue Monastery Vegetarian Restaurant
Add: inside Zhaojue Monastery, Qinglongchang Town, North Suburb
Tianyuan Vegetarian Restaurant
Add: 2nd Floor of Xiangbinwutong Building, No. 1 Chaoyang Road, Yiguanmiao Street.
Tel: 028-85186083
Caidie New Idea Vegetarian Restaurant
Add: 9th Floor of Qunguang Plaza, No. 8 South Section of Chunxi Road
Tel: 028-65970088
We Gain Vegetarian Restaurant
Add: No.33, Jialing Road,
Tel: 028-61813377
Sunflower Dad Western Vegetarian Restaurant
Add: 1-15 of No.5 Commercial Building of Gonghecun, Hongwasi Jie.
 

Besides popular Mahjong game,  some local Chengdu people are addict to do fishing whenever they have time, in most cases, this hobby is supported by their families and friends. Those fishing enthusiasts don't care about cold in winter, heat in summer, wet from head to foot from the shower, don't mind getting up early and backing home late, or even stay outside for whole night.

Fishing enthusiasts can be divided into three different classes.

Amateurs

They go to fish ponds in the park and holiday resorts, the owner of fish ponds offer all fishing equipment including bait, even arrange someone sit besides you to give you indication and help to brail the fish you get for you. The only purpose is let you can get as much as possible fish, because the cost is charged by fish weight. Although the fish price is higher than from the market, process is more important and with fun, all these places have restaurant attached and they can give the fish they got and pay a little commission, ask the restaurant to cook a fish meal. Fishing is so easy to addictive and forget the time, and always back home with too much fish and have to present to their friends. 

Gambling lover

There are some fish ponds are charged by fishing time, half day or whole day instead of by weight, of course it's more difficult for fishing enthusiasts to get the fish at such places, otherwise the pond owners will be on the rocks very soon. So this is gambling game between fishing man and fish, indeed it's between fishing man and fish ponds owners. high skill and unique hand-made bait are very useful, otherwise you will be loser for sure. of course sometimes a few of fishing man will laugh to the end, and sometimes fish pond owners have to cry on his wife's shoulder.

Hardcore lover

Usually speaking, hardcore lovers don't want to to above places for fishing, they go to nature rivers, lakes and reservoirs, they challenge fish varieties, quantities, weight and environment, they have top quality fishing instruments and secret bait recipe, they need to know fish life habit, weather and season influence on fish, they need to have strong body to make sure can fight with big fish for as long as 3 or 4 hours, they need to super patient to wait beside the water for hours, they need high confidence can persist to the end, and they need powerful psychological quality to face nothing. Their fun and happiness are out of your imagination.