Xinjiang: Exploring china’s new frontier ancient village tourism
For a long time, there have been many different views and voices expressed about China’s far western region, both near and far from the truth. We are trying to provide just one true picture of Xinjiang, and not THE true, definitive picture. We’ll take you to the heartland of this fascinating and vast region, with stories of ordinary people set against the backdrop of China’s overall development. The series is also about the challenges of change, and the price that has to be paid for the sake of modernization. In our first episode, our reporter Han Bin visits a village in northern Xinjiang’s Ili Prefecture. He found out how modernization has brought dramatic changes to this once isolated village, and resulted in new conflicts between different groups of people.
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Jun 3, 2012 China_Drought sweeps across parts of Xinjiang
Many parts of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have suffered from drought caused by high temperatures and spells of rainfall since the beginning of the year.
According to local media, more than 400,000 hectares' land have been affected by the drought, and many farmlands are said to have been damaged.
At least 2.6 hectares of wheat fields have dried up, said Dong Honglin, a farmer in Yumin county.
The drought area in Yumin county has reached 24,926 hectares and the situation is reported to be getting worse.
According to local Water Resources' Department, the rainfall of north Xinjiang and Tianshan Mountain region this year is 30 percent to 40 percent less than previous years, and water-storage in Xinjiang remains less than before.
We must pay more attention to the full use of underground water and water management, also the field management, said Zhang Zhiliang, an official from the Xinjiang Water Resources Department.
Meanwhile, the month of June presents a crucial period where water is utilized for agricultural production, which made the situation even worse for the Xinjiang region.
The local government has began taking measures to control the increasing drought.
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Sunshine on Tashkurgan 阳光照耀着塔什库尔干 - Asian Cultural Symphony Orchestra 亚洲文化乐团
Composer: Chen Gang 陳鋼 作曲
Conductor: Adrian Chiang 郑逸杰 指挥
Violin Soloist: Kong Xian Long 孔宪隆
12 Feb. 2017 Esplanade Outdoor Theatre, Singapore
2017 年 2 月 12 日 星期日滨海艺术中心户外剧场, 新加坡
~Synopsis~
“Sunshine over Tashkurgan” is based on music from the Tajik people of Xinjiang. The first section describes the scene of herdsmen riding horses, playing music and singing songs in the vast and beautiful plains while the second section paints a scene of the Tajiks dancing in joy.
《阳光照耀着塔什库尔干》取材于新疆塔吉克民族的音乐素材。具有浓厚的民族风情,“纵情高歌”展现了辽阔美丽的草原风光和牧民们骑在马上弹琴高歌的情景;“热烈欢舞”充分发挥了复杂多变敏捷灵活的技巧,表现了塔吉克人民欢腾的舞蹈的场面。
Scythians | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:04:33 1 Names and terminology
00:07:00 2 Origins
00:07:08 2.1 Literary evidence
00:08:22 2.2 Archaeology
00:10:10 3 History
00:10:19 3.1 Classical Antiquity (600 BC to AD 300)
00:13:54 3.2 Sakas of the Eastern Steppe
00:18:19 3.3 Khotan and kingdoms of the Tarim Basin
00:20:19 3.4 Indo-Scythians
00:21:13 3.5 Late Antiquity
00:23:04 4 Archaeology
00:25:03 4.1 Kurgans
00:26:29 4.2 Pazyryk culture
00:27:36 4.3 Bilsk excavations
00:28:26 4.4 Tillia Tepe treasure
00:29:36 5 Culture and society
00:29:45 5.1 Tribal divisions
00:32:52 5.2 Warfare
00:34:35 5.3 Clothing
00:38:50 5.4 Art
00:41:52 5.5 Religion
00:42:37 6 Language
00:44:12 7 Physical appearance
00:46:31 8 Historiography
00:46:40 8.1 Herodotus
00:50:04 8.2 Strabo
00:51:56 8.3 Indian sources
00:52:14 9 Genetics
00:58:22 10 Legacy
00:58:30 10.1 Early Modern usage
01:01:41 10.2 Descent claims
01:04:04 11 Related ancient peoples
01:04:14 12 See also
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The Scythians (; from Greek Σκύθης, Σκύθοι), also known as Scyth, Saka, Sakae, Sai, Iskuzai, or Askuzai, were Eurasian nomads, probably mostly using Eastern Iranian languages, who were mentioned by the literate peoples to their south as inhabiting large areas of the western and central Eurasian Steppe from about the 9th century BC up until the 4th century AD. The classical Scythians known to ancient Greek historians, agreed to be mainly Iranian in origin, were located in the northern Black Sea and fore-Caucasus region. Other Scythian groups documented by Assyrian, Achaemenid and Chinese sources show that they also existed in Central Asia, where they were referred to as the Iskuzai/Askuzai, Saka (Old Persian: Sakā; New Persian/Pashto: ساکا; Sanskrit: शक Śaka; Greek: Σάκαι; Latin: Sacae), and Sai (Chinese: 塞; Old Chinese: *sˤək), respectively.The relationships between the peoples living in these widely separated regions remains unclear, and the term is used in both a broad and narrow sense. The term Scythian is used by modern scholars in an archaeological context for finds perceived to display attributes of the wider Scytho-Siberian culture, usually without implying an ethnic or linguistic connotation. The term Scythic may also be used in a similar way, to describe a special phase that followed the widespread diffusion of mounted nomadism, characterized by the presence of special weapons, horse gear, and animal art in the form of metal plaques. Their westernmost territories during the Iron Age were known to classical Greek sources as Scythia, and in the more narrow sense Scythian is restricted to these areas, where the Scythian languages were spoken. Different definitions of Scythian have been used, leading to a good deal of confusion.The Scythians were among the earliest peoples to master mounted warfare. They kept herds of horses, cattle and sheep, lived in tent-covered wagons and fought with bows and arrows on horseback. They developed a rich culture characterised by opulent tombs, fine metalwork and a brilliant art style.
In the 8th century BC, they possibly raided Zhou China. Soon after, they expanded westwards and dislodged the Cimmerians from power on the Pontic Steppe. At their peak, Scythians came to dominate the entire steppe zone, stretching from the Carpathian Mountains in the west to central China (Ordos culture) and the south Siberia (Tagar culture) in the east, creating what has been called the first Central Asian nomadic empire, although there was little that could be called an organised state.Based in what is modern-day Ukraine, Southern European Russia and Crimea, the western Scythians were ruled by a wealthy class known as the Royal Scyths. The Scythians established and controlled the Silk Road, a vast trade networ ...