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BBC大型英文纪录片《中国》，讲述了中华上下五千年的文化，博大精深，源远流长，值得每一位华夏儿女深入了解！现在就抓紧时间学起来~
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China , a vast land, with one of the most diverse cultures on earth, now revealed like never before, this epic journey from the air would discover how ancient traditions, engineering, agriculture, and natural wonders shaped this great nation and continue to forge modern-day china. After centuries in seclusion ,china is now revealed.
China, a land of nearly 1.4 billion people, ninety-two percent are H an Chinese, but across its 3.6 million square miles, there are 55 other ethnic groups, speaking 120 living languages .
T his areal journey will cross china’s immense interior of mountains and deserts, mighty rivers and great forests to reveal a hidden culture of great complexity , only now opening up for the world to see.
In the far southwest, bordering Myanmar and Laos is Xi Shuang B an N a known for its great river. Home to the ancient Dai people, they observe a different calendar to the rest of china , and in April , celebrate their own version of the new year in a unique way .
The festival all revolves around water , at this their hottest time of the year. It all begins with an epic 200 - year - old Dragon Boat Race.
The whole festival kick starts in a distinctly Chinese way with a ban g. First prize is given to the fastest boat and that can be achieved with great wisdom and style. You could call it “show boating”. Unfortunately this year Yang’s boat was on the losing side.
The festival continues the next day with the main event , perhaps the most epic water fight on earth. Some 100,000 people gather here for the battle, you could say it’s the ultimate waterloo. Soaking your opponents on this grand scale has a religious basis. It’s to wash away the sorrows from the past years and welcome the new.
A tradition handed down for nine hundred years. By dusk the sorrow of the previous year have been well and truly washed away. As night falls the mighty Lan Cang River is host to one final ritual . Lighting lanterns has long been a Chinese tradition to ward off ghosts.
Far to the north in Song Shan mountain, is one of the most iconic Buddhist monasteries in Asia. The Buddhism wasn’t always about peaceful meditation. More than a millennium ago, its priests had to learn how to defend themselves in China’s warlike past.
According to legend, this secluded monastery is not the birthplace of Zen Buddhism. Here trained the legendary Shaolin monks. This 15 thousand years old fusion of Kung Fu and religion is kept alive by the neat order of monks that inspired over a hundred martial arts movies. And it still attracts Kung Fu apprentices from all over China .
The origins of the order are lost in legends. But it’s believed the first two Chinese disciples to join the monastery bought martial arts skills with them. Those skills were blended with Buddhism and Shaolin Kung Fu was born. T his balance between mastery of the mind and body made the monks a key fighting force during the Tang Dynasty , helping emperor Lee Shi Min to seize the throne in the early 7th century.
Today Yan Fei has a crucial assessment sparring with his weapons master. He must prove proficient with the complex San Jie Gui, also known as the triple stick. He’s already failed this once before. In the end Yan passes this most demanding of tests with flying colors.
Shao Lin’s legacy is monastic dedication and focus. Today this ancient fighting tradition is not just part of Chinese folk law, but has seeped into western popular culture too. Shaolin monks are the inspiration for countless books, comics and movies like the Jedi Knights of Star Wars .
China’s 244 million Buddhists the world’s largest population have a long history in Chinese culture. This is symbolized best by the Les Shan Buddha , an immense statue carved from a mountain. That took nearly a century to complete .
In the southwest province of Sichuan, the soft red sandstone of the region became the foundation for one of the great ancient wonders of China. The twelve hundred years old Le Shan Buddha, at 233 feet four times the height of the Mount Rushmore carvings. It’s the world’s largest Buddhist statue.
It took three generations of workers and incredible 90 years to chip away into mountain and complete this colossus . The middle finger alone is the height of a three-story building.
But why was this exceptionally large monument of Buddha built here. Carve to watch over and provide protection for travelers and sailors . This edifice succeeded but not by design. During excavation millions of cubic feet of stone what dumped into the water which inadvertently change the course of the river making it safer. This millennia old engineering feat was built to the time when this ancient economy was booming too.
4 00 miles away, deep in the heart to the Hunan Province is another epic holy site. But this time formed without human hands. A natural formation shaped by the area’s unusual geology. Tian Men mountain known as the heaven’s gate cave. To get here, you must first drive one of the world’s most dangerous roads, the Tong Tian Highway.
Marked by 99 short bends in just over six miles, it climbs over 3,000 vertical feet. The first stop, the mountain forests of Zhang Jia Jie. Thousand of precarious peaks reach out up to three times the height to the Empire State Building. It’s breathtaking mystical scene the provided inspiration for the alien landscapes of the movie Avatar, a wonder of geology that draws people from all over the world.
T o cope with a 30 million annual visitors, the Chinese have built the world ‘s highest outdoor elevator. The 100 dragons lift, ascends a vertiginous one thousand feet to the top of the jutting stones .
T o reach their final dramatic destination, the class catches the world’s longest cable way, a heart-stopping ride more than four miles long and then they climb 999 steps to reach at last their final destination. T his epic natural feature was seen to be a gateway to paradise
One great structure that didn’t rise naturally from the earth is China’s Great Wall. This thirteen thousand mile barrier was built by Chinese hands to protect the people from invading armies
China wasn’t always the peaceful nation it is today. Once upon a time is was all-out war between competing ethnic groups. It was destinated to be a nation of constant war with itself until one man decided to build the world’s largest man-made structure , the Great Wall of China. The longest man-made structure on earth runs from the pacific ocean to the Gobi Desert, laid out its individual sections stretch for 13,000 miles. Longer than the length of North and South America combined.
In 221BC the first emperor of China decided to stop the constant conflict by uniting the country against foreign invaders. He ordered existing and scattered fortifications to be connected into one Great Wall.
Today the horde still descend on the wall ten million annually, but the vast majority are Chinese tourists as a local saying goes “one who fails to reach the Great Wall is not a true man ” . From all corners of the country they come to pay tribute to an ancient feat of engineering that shaped their nation.
145 miles west in Shan Xi province, another monument to China’s living past is hanging on, clinging to this cliff for fifteen hundred years, the hanging temples of Hengshan. While millions visit The Great Wall, at any one time only eighty people are allowed inside this temple, but why did he ancients build a temple that could be dashed on the rocks below? Superstition.
246 feet above the canyon floor, it was built beneath and overhang to shelter it from the elements . Horizontal and vertical foundations were hand chiseled into the mountain and a grid of hard wood beams inserted to support three buildings and more that 40 rooms. Protecting the site from its own popularity is a seemingly impossible task. But Chang Shui Wen is undaunted .
Passing down centuries-old knowledge has been critical to China’s incredible population growth . Feeding the growing millions over the centuries was only possible due to ancient engineering projects still use today for the nearly 1.4 billion who call this country, home.
It’s the great Chinese riddle, how do you feed more than a billion people?
Only 11 percent to the country can be used to grow food. Over the centuries , those living in remotest places have had to come up with an ingenious methods to make the most of the land.
Turpan , home of the Uygur people , seen from the air is a dry and desolate dessert, dotted by thousands mysterious pock marks, holes that lead to a two thousand-year-old subterranean systems. That’s longer than the length of India. The Karez can a l network.
A thousand horizontal wells have sunk into the earth and then connected by canals over 3,000 miles in length, directing water from the Tian Shan mountain glaciers 100 miles to the north to their fields and villages. It was cutting edge ancient engineering that still works today, irrigating a land the would otherwise be a giant dust bowl.
It’s not just about clean drinking water, incredibly, this desert produces tons of grapes annually. Without the canals, the Uygur’s major export would wither on the vine. And the true scale of production is revealed from the air. They may look like honeycomb bit these mud brick blocks are used to air dry millions of grapes into raisins. Without modern materials and technology, the ancients triumphed turning nature to their advantage .
1 ,533 miles away in southeast Yunnan the locals have their own agricultural mountain to overcome. How to grow China’s greatest staple rice?
H ere there’s plenty of water but stopping it draining away is the problem. Thirteen hundred years ago the local Hani people miraculously transformed the landscape to grow their crops they hand carved rice paddies into the mountain to trap the water.
Rising above 6,000 feet and spreading over 300,86 square miles, larger that the size of New York City. The terraces harness the power of the mountain’s ecosystem . It acts like a giant recycling machine. The water evaporates from the river valleys to form fog and cloud. The clouds then trapped by the mountain forests and then rainfalls and flows back down through the terraces in a never ending cycle.
T his type of wet-field agriculture was invented in China and using these ancient farming traditions passed down through the generations is how China feeds the biggest population on earth.
Xia Pu county on the East China Coast has traditionally been home to a fishing community. But here some have turned to farming a crop that doesn’t grow on land but well below the waves. The seaweed called giant kelp.
I n the warm waters of the East China Sea the kelp is grown through the winter and then in spring hung to dry on bamboo poles before being harvested. Despite this year’s rain adversely affecting the dry process, the industry is booming. As a food source, kelp, a rich and sustainable crop is in demand. F or the ex-fishermen of Xia Gu, their returns justified the back breaking work . For the country it’s a way to feed the ever-growing masses without using the overpopulated land .
I n some part of China farming wasn’t an option so they turned to training wild animals to catch food. In the far northwest province of Xinjiang Qin He county, building rice terraces is not an option due to the climate.
In this rugged landscape food is scarce, made worse by harshest of winters. To survive , the local Kazakhs depend on a tradition more than a thousand years old . To do something most would imagine impossible. To train a wild eagle to hunt.
T he Golden Eagle one of the world’s most effective birds of prey. They can spy a rabbit at 2,000 yards and dive at a hundred and fifty miles per hour , the speed of a bullet train. And its talents, grip with ten times the force a man’s hand. Catching their food in this ingenious way has kept small villages from destitution. But it also helps to protect the species that’s now endangered.
Mature adults are released back into the wild and act as resonates with the Kazakh belief that eagles are symbol of freedom and their numbers in the region are reportedly once again on the rise.
I t isn’t just growing food as a trial of ingenuity in some parts of China. It’s just living there. 1700 miles southeast in Yunnan province is the parallel rivers National Park. Here Asia’s three greatest rivers run side by side , creating a spectacular landscape. From alpine peaks to steamy valley, it’s a beautiful but challenging place to live. But the locally Li Su people have been living here for more than a thousand years , adapting to living around these giant natural barriers.
H ere taking a trip to the market is not as simple as it seems. It involves at death-defying slide. Ziplining across several hundred feet of wild rapids doesn’t bother 60-year-old grandmother Pu . She’s been doing it all her life. This ingenious method now replaced with modern steel cable is the fastest way to make it across and a thrilling ride over the dangerous rapids.
At the market grandmother Pu is rewarder with a quick sale. Life is very tough here. It’s a world away from modern city life that her grandson maybe one day like millions of others decide to join. And for grandmother Pu, ziplining to and rom the village is one of the life’s small pleasures.
The Chinese people aren’t just goo at taming the landscape to their needs, the Kazak people were among the first humans to tame wild horses which they still do to these days.
China’s wild and varied land has helped to shape nation and its people form the remote mountains Hani to the multitude Han in the cities of the east , from the Dai of the steamy South to the desert dwelling Uygur. China’s culture and customs hidden from view for thousands of years are slowly being revealed to the world.
I n the farthest reaches of Xinjiang province is Zhao Su county . A land as remote as you can imagine with huge explains covering four thousand square miles. This is th e home of the K azak s. And it was here 5,500 years ago the Kazaks began to tame wild horses. The Kazaks have a millennia old reputation for breeding some other Asia’s best war horses. Today, the horses are bred and trained for the highly competitive annual event known as the heavenly horse festival.
T his year Tuoliewu’s son will be racing for the first time. The endurance event is a grueling and even dangerous three-day race. The race begins. On day one they cover 50 miles and on day three they endure a testing sixty-two mile final leg. For Ainiware and the Kazaks people this is not just a race but a chance to proudly display their horses and their skill homed over centuries.
After 62 mile in the saddle he finally finishes toward the back of the field. But next year he’ll return with dreams of winning.
Across the country, in the far northeast, people of Harbin aren’t practicing in age-old tradition like the Kazaks. They’re creating their own history to pass on . Renowned as the Ice City in China , it can reach minus 38 degrees Fahrenheit in Winter . Nearly 10,000 workers have been dragging and cutting giant blocks of ice from the frozen Songhua river . 550 pound ice cubes. This is a new festival but based on the 17 th century tradition.
When fishermen carved lanterns from ice, over the next week artists will race to transform this plentiful local resource into a giant frozen wonderland. The Harbin ice and snow festival. This event has grown into the largest Ice Festival in the world. Opening day is here. A city of ice has risen, covering an size of a 150 football fields. But it’s the night which sees the Ice City in its full splendor.
B y standing on the shoulders of their ancestors, Chinese agriculture and engineering traditions become a nation. That’s developed from a poor rural back water to one of the fastest developing countries in the history of mankind.
But what does the future hold for china on the threshold the 21 st century?
How will China tackle modern issues as energy and overpopulation and how does a nation have nearly 1.4 billion people work and play?
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