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CHINA
Yunnan 1 I visited Yunnan in the spring of 2017. |
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China's ethnic minorities have preserved their own folk song tradition, which are central in their festival, weddings and courtship rituals.*
China's thriving popular-music industry came about in the 1980s and has been greatly influenced by a growing exposure to international music treads.*
Traditional Chinese music scale differs from its Western equivalent.*
Traditional Chinese musical instruments include the two-stringed fiddle, four-stringed banjo, two-stringed viola, vertical flute, horizontal flute, piccolo, four-stringed lute, zither, and ceremonial trumpet.*
Shilin is a massive collection of grey limestone pillars...split and eroded by wind and rainwater, the tallest of the pillars reaches 30m high.*
All members (26 at last count) are Naxi and play a type of Taoist temple music (known as dongjing) that has been lost elsewhere in China.*
Sani song-and-dance are organized when there are enough tourists.*
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Unlike Western music, tone is considered more important than melody.*
Liuku is the humdrum but pleasant capital...an important transport hub...*
The pieces they perform are supposedly faithful renditions of music from the Han, Song and Tang dynasties, and are played on original instruments, some of which were buried during the Cultural Revolution lest they be smashed.*
The Vanishing Miao
Opening our eyes to the existence of diverse and different cultures allows us to see the world from other’s points of view.
With the rapid social and economic development that China has experienced, Miao traditions and culture have been invaded by outside forces. Driven by the market economy, many young Miao have moved to cities to find employment where they have no opportunity to inherit their traditional culture. |
Traditional Chinese painting is the art of brush and ink applied to paper or silk.*
Music was once believed to have cosmological significance and in early times, if a musician played in the wrong tone, it could indicated the fall of a dynasty.*
You can buy everything from tobacco, melon seeds and noodles to meat, jewellery and wardrobes.*
Shangri-la...is where you begin to breathe in the Tibetan world.*
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*These captions are from China's Southwest -- Lonely Planet's travel guide.