– Photography Show & Lecture
The southeast of Guizhou Province is a cultural island of its own, the last sanctuary for some very rich and unique ethnic heritage. The area was hidden in China’s most remote and inaccessible hills since ancient times. It is not locate on the border but so marginal that no Chinese dynasty did care to bring in the central military force and direct administration until about 600 years ago. Only after that, waves of Chinese immigrants from different provinces began to settle down with a variety of regional Han Chinese culture. Since then these exotic people and culture took root in various localities in the tribal backwaters and went on separated paths of evolution. Generations later some did well and thriving in isolation, some merged with others, vanished or persisting on the brink of extinction. In most cases they had deeply intermixed with the local groups and ways, resulting in a huge diversity of fascinating ancient cultures remaining today.
Content Highlights
●Cultural Island Of Its Own
●Central Dynasties’ Indirect Rule
●Ancient Transportation & Han Chinese Immigrant Towns
●Central Dynasties’ Direct Rule
●Farmers’ Rebellions In Late Qing Dynasty 1855—1873
●Ethnic Festivals
●Folk Song & Singing Rituals
●Bronze Drum
●Lusheng Reed Pipe
●Periodic Rural Market
●Sustainable Forestry, Timber Trade & Ancient Document
●Rice Culture
●Wood-framed Residence, Drum Tower & Wind-and-rain Bridge
●Marriage Custom
●Ethnic Village Alliance
●Han Chinese or Ethnic Minority
●Cultural Fusion & Evolution
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