Yunhe by Drone
Drone footage from Yunhe Rice Terraces in Zhejiang Province, China, in February 2018
Yunhe Forest School @ Zhonglu Danba登龍雲合森林学校 中路丹巴
Who we are?
Dragon Expeditions was founded in 2003 by a group of outdoor enthusiasts driven by the common goal to explore the great outdoors. Since then, we have dedicated ourselves to guiding groups of international tourists (both adult and student) on trips and expeditions to remote and stunning mountain regions across western China. Our commitment to practice responsible tourism has never failed and we have always been advocates for environmental protection.
Where?
The beautiful places we were guiding the tourists to slowly became our home, and the local people we were encountering along the way became our family. That was particularly true for Ganzi, a Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in western Sichuan Province located in the traditional Tibetan region of Kham. Our special attraction to Ganzi was mainly due to the region’s amazing sceneries of alpine forests, boundless meadows, deep rivers valleys, emerald lakes and, especially, to its high mountains that was making Ganzi the best trekking and hiking area of the Tibetan Plateau
Why?
Our (love) story with Ganzi, its landscapes and people, kept growing until this one day in 2015 when we had the chance to visit Zhonglu, a traditional Tibetan village situated in the beautiful Gyarong Valley. Zhonglu was going to share the same fate as other remote yet beautiful regions in the China that were earmarked with grand plans for development, which usually consist of building major roads, large Western-style hotels, and even cable cars to encourage mass tourism. We knew that the introduction of such unrestricted development was usually coming with extensive damage to the environment and could unravel the social fabric of the community.
We had to do something about it.Not only because we were profoundly attached to the area but also because we felt deeply involved. It was obvious then that we had grown into something different, something that had been shaped by the experience and the knowledge gained through all the past years of travelling.
A Fast Breakfast in Ganzi and The Road to Danba, China
The distance and day from Ganzi to Danba was one of the longer ones into the Eastern Tibetan Plateau. Many stops on very rough roads with heavy traffic. One pause was really interesting. A living Lama was giving a once-a-year speech to the locals along with prayers for good luck. The entire field was filled with the devout Buddhists praying and prostrating.
Closer to Danba, the scenery changed as we drove through a protected area with bear poachers.
Lake Karakul at 12,000ft
Lake Karakul at 12,000ft, is one of the highest lakes on the Pamir plateau, with beautiful scenery
The Forgotten Wonderland - Lishui, China 中国丽水
Lishui literally means beautiful water. Located in the southwest of Zhejiang province, the city of Lishui is at the center of 9 districts and counties. The region has a very long history; 4000 years ago during the Liangzhu Culture many tribes lived in the area.
This is part of NEXT Station, a travel documentary series independently produced by UtoVR in immersive 360° video.
Eastern Tibet: Danba (丹巴) 2/2 東チベット： 四川省ダンバ2/2
From my trip to Sichuan Province, China in May 2015. 2015年5月の中国四川省旅行から
China Daily - Travel Junket - Episode 11
In this episode the group visit the Ancient Weir Painting Home in Li Shui, and then wakes up early the next day to catch the sunrise at Yunhe Terrace followed by a visit to the Kenggen Stone Village, home to a small She ethnic minority community.
Xiandu , Jinyun - China Noe 2011.wmv
Σύντομο video από την επίσκεψη στην περιοχή Xiandu που πραγματοποίησαν τα μέλη της αποστολής του Δήμου Αίγινας που βρίσκονταν στην Κίνα τον Νοέμβριο του 2011 στα πλαίσιο επίσημης υπογραφής συμφώνου φιλίας και συνεργασίας με την πόλη Lishui ,
Golog Pema Tibetan Charity School《班瑪藏文慈善學校》—雲上學徒
Since 2004, HNA Group has been supporting the faculties and students with manpower, supplies and financial support to the Golog Pema Tibetan Charity School. Since 2011, to fulfill the college dreams of Tibetan children, the HNA Group has selected eight to ten students a year based on merit and sent them to study at the Sanya Aviation and Tourism College. After graduation, HNA provides them with jobs base on their abilities and wills.
【Tibetan-Relative】Northern Wildlife park
Happy Flower Song 花歡樂 by A Little Dynasty Chinese School Orchestra 小時代兒童國樂團
A Little Dynasty Chinese School's Chinese Children's Orchestra’s all acoustic performance of Happy Flower Song 花歡樂 at UC Irvine on September 16, 2018.
A Little Dynasty Chinese School’s Chinese Children’s Orchestra 小時代兒童國樂團 performed its debut concert: the 2018 A Little Dynasty Moon Festival Concert at UC Irvine’s Winifred Smith Concert Hall on September 16, 2018. This is the first pubic performance of a children’s Chinese orchestra in Southern California.
A Little Dynasty Chinese School’s Chinese Children's Orchestra is a symphony orchestra of young musicians from 6 to 12 years old playing traditional Chinese musical instruments. Chinese orchestra is similar to the Western orchestra in form but uses traditional Chinese instruments so the music produced has a distinctive Chinese flavor.
The Orchestra’s lively all acoustic performance celebrated a millennium of iconic Chinese music from the ancient General's Order 將軍令, to the 1930s with Full Moon Blooming Flowers 月圓花好, to the 1970s with The Moon Represents My Heart 月亮代表我的心, to the 2000s with Chrysanthemum Terrace 菊花台. The performance also included some Western rock and pop songs on traditional Chinese instruments. The music was specially arranged by A Little Dynasty’s Music Director Mr. Yunhe Liang.
A Little Dynasty Chinese School’s Chinese Children’s Orchestra is a strong supporter of the local community and participates in many volunteer performances at libraries, schools, senior centers, community celebrations, and music and arts festivals to help enrich the cultural life of the community.
All of our talented orchestra members are Chinese language students at A Little Dynasty Chinese School in Irvine, California. A Little Dynasty Chinese School Chinese Children's Orchestra is Orange County, California's only traditional Chinese children's orchestra.
Instruments played are: Erhu
Rong brag (Danba) County 44: DB' BO VILLAGE: EULOGIZING DANCE 表演者：敖日村村民
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དཔའ་བོ་སྡེ་བའི་བསྟོད་བྲོ།
DB' BO VILLAGE: EULOGIZING DANCE (PART 44)
敖日村颂舞（44）
བརྙན་རིས་འདི་ནི་༢༠༡༢ལོའི་བོད་ཀྱི་ལོ་སར་དུ་སི་ཁྲོན་ཞིང་ཆེན་དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ཉིན་དཀར་ཞང་དཔའ་བོ་སྡེ་བ་ནས་གཡུ་འབྲུག་གིས་བསྐྲུན་པ་ཡིན།(གཡུ་འབྲུག་ནི་༡༩༨༥་ལོར་སྐྱེས་པ་ཡིན།)
G.yu 'brug (b. 1985) recorded this video material in 2012 in Db' bo (Aori) Village, Nyin dkar (Neiga) Township, Rong brag (Danba) County, Dkar mdzes (Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, PR China.
本视频录制于2012年，中国四川省甘孜藏族自治州丹巴县聂呷乡敖日村，录制人拥忠（1985年出生）。
དཔའ་བོ་སྡེ་བར་ཁྱིམ་ཚང་༧༠་ཡོད་ལ།དེ་ནི་བོད་ཁྱིམ་༥༢་དང་རྒྱ་ཁྱིམ་༡༨་གིས་གྲུབ་པ་དང་།སྤྱི་སྡོམ་མི་གྲངས་༢༨༧་ཡོད།གནས་གང་གི་ཞིང་ལས་སྐྱེ་དངོས་ནི་སོ་བ་དང་གྲོ་གཡེར་མ།ཞོག་ཁོགམ་རྨོས་ལོ་ཏོག་སྲན་མ་བཅས་ཡིན་ལ།ལྷག་ཏུ་ཀུ་ཤུ་ལི་དང་སྟར་ཀའི་ཐོན་འབོར་ནི་ཤིན་ཏུ་ཆེ་བ་ཡིན།བརྙན་རིས་འདི་ནི་བསྟོད་བྲོ་ཡིན།བཀྲ་ཤིས་པའི་བརྟེན་འབྲེལ་སེམས་ཅན་ཡོངས་སུ་འབུལ།
The village is home to 70 households (52 Tibetan households; 18 Han Chinese households) for a total population of 287. Villagers cultivate barley, potatoes, wheat, peas, prickly ash (Sichuan pepper), apples, English walnuts, pears, and corn. The film includes an eulogizing dance that is danced on auspicious days - it offers auspiciousness to living beings.
敖日宗村有70户人家，其中有52户藏族18户汉族，总人数为287人。当地主要农作物为大麦、小麦、花椒、马铃薯、玉米和豆类，盛产苹果、梨子和核桃。本视频是赞舞，此舞在吉祥的日子里献给所有的生灵.
འཁྲབ་སྟོན་པ།དཔའ་བོ་སྡེ་མི།
Performers: Db' boVillagers
表演者：敖日村村民
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