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23/10/2023

On September 17, the 45th UNESCO World Heritage General Assembly held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, adopted a resolution to inscribe China's "Pu'er Jingmai Mountain Ancient Tea Forest Cultural Landscape" on the World Heritage List, increasing the number of China's World Heritage sites to 57, and "Pu'er Jingmai Mountain Ancient Tea Forest Cultural Landscape" became the world's first tea-themed World Heritage site. The "Pu'er Jingmai Mountain Ancient Tea Forest Cultural Landscape" became the world's first tea-themed world cultural heritage

20/10/2023

As fingers pluck the strings, the melody flows and resonates, resembling ancient statues that have frozen the essence of time in history.
Music is a part of human history. In a string of notes, it encapsulates cultures and qualities that cannot be expressed in words. I love the idea of telling a people's heritage through sound.

12/10/2023

Although the Blang nationality has a long history of playing and singing, its musical heritage was once on the verge of extinction due to the influence of modernization.
In 2008, the Cultural Center of Menghai County successfully added the "Blang Playing and Singing" to the national intangible cultural heritage protection list. Then, it took a series of measures to implement a rescue protection program, achieving stage-by-stage results.
Now, the people who love and learn the Blang playing-singing range from the old and middle-aged Blang compatriots to increasingly younger and younger people. Furthermore, participation has diversified to include not only Blang people of all ages but also musicians from different nationalities and ethnicities.

12/10/2023

For thousands of years, the Blang tribe has been living on Pu'er tea, and the tribal leader Pa Aileng has led the tribal members to honor tea, love tea, and plant Pu'er tea trees, gradually forming tens of thousands of acres of thousand-year-old tea forests. For thousands of years, the people here have been enjoying themselves by playing and singing the Ding while working and have passed on their history through word of mouth from one generation to the next, telling their descendants that they should protect and expand the ancient tea forests because they depend on them for survival.

12/10/2023

As fingers pluck the strings, the melody flows and resonates, resembling ancient statues that have frozen the essence of time in history.
Music is a part of human history. In a string of notes, it encapsulates cultures and qualities that cannot be expressed in words. I love the idea of telling a people's heritage through sound.
I am Deng Yuanhao, from the International Department of Experimental High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University. In July 2022, I conducted fieldwork in the old tea forests of the Blang nationality, a World Heritage site in Jingmai Mountain, Yunnan Province. The local Blang playing and singing culture captured my attention. I discovered that the Ding used in the Blang singing has a unique sound called "microtone." I had a glimpse of the Ding then, but when I returned to Beijing, the Blang Ding and its wonderful microtone still lingered in my ears, and I couldn't help but want to learn more about the story behind the Blang Ding playing and singing.
So, in May 2023, I again traveled from Beijing to Jingmai Mountain in Yunnan Province.

12/10/2023

Blang playing and singing is an important part of the Blang culture and an essential part of the Blang people's life.
Blang playing and singing is not only a cultural symbol for the Blang people to express their identity but also an important carrier of cultural exchange between the Blang people and neighboring ethnic groups.

27/09/2023

September 17, held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, UNESCO's 45th session of the World Heritage Conference, China's declaration of the "Pu'er Jingmai Mountain Ancient Tea Forest Cultural Landscape" project was successfully included in the World Heritage List, becoming the world's first tea-themed world cultural heritage, the number of China's world heritage increased to 57 items.

31/05/2023

Southern Buddhism, also known as Pali Classic Buddhism, is commonly known as Theravada Buddhism. According to relevant literature records, Southern Buddhism was introduced from Myanmar to Xishuangbanna, Yunnan during the Sui and Tang dynasties. In the eleventh year of the Sui Dynasty's Daye reign (615 AD), the first Buddhist temple of this sect was established in Jinghong City today - Soba Sister Buddhist Temple, which was later renamed as "Baji Temple". It can be said that the Buddhist ethics of the Southern Theravada are extremely valuable resources for the construction of social morality (including social morality, professional ethics, and family ethics) in Yunnan's border ethnic minority areas, and are important factors in maintaining social stability and ethnic unity in the border areas.

24/05/2023

The production of Brown's four stringed Ding

On June 7, 2008, the Bulang folk song (played and sung by the Bulang ethnic group) was approved by the State Council of the People's Republic of China to be included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list, with heritage number II-114. Brown plays and sings with the accompaniment of a four stringed instrument.
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