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Where Water Lives

The Mysteries of Losar

The Past and Present of Bai

Pollution: How it Effects Us and Our Environment

The Environment of Mongolia

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China

Swinging During Samjinal

The House of Naked Giants

Gaoshan Minority

What Makes a Dai Girl

An Open House

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By:Angeline. Y

- Manfeilong Pagodain Yunnan,Xishuangbanna.

Why is WhereImportant?

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It was as if the water had a soul.

Dancing in the air, with elegant poses. There was an occasional shriek or two once the water has found its target and falls. It was as if time has been slowed down, at this moment. Shimmering droplets of water magnifies the gleam-ing faces of the villagers.

Yunnan, Xishuangbanna. Maybe it was luck. As I approached the village, I could already hear the tell-tale signs of the festival—the booming beats and bashes of the drums , and the vibrant, vivid tunes lingering in the air. The moment I stepped in the village, the villagers

turned. Peered at me curiously, and then laughed.

One moment, I was comfortable and dry. The next, I was drenched in water.

During the water-splashing festival—a festival celebrated by the Dai on Chi-nese New Year that is said to bring happiness—the villagers dragon boat race, throw away old things, and, of course, splash each other with water.

A native girl, dressed in a matching hot pink top and skirt with orange stripes, and a magenta flower fastened in her bun, came up to me, and started dab-bing me with a milk white flower that was dipped in water.

Men at the Water-Splashing Festival, dumping water into the air. This is near the shore of the Lancang River, in Yunnan, Xishuang-banna. The Water-Splashing Festival takes place on the third day of the Chinese New Year celebrations.

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“Wish you good luck and fortune during the year”, she whispered, as t h e fl o w e r made a streak of water on my arm. This w a s c a l l e d w a t e r - d a b-bing.

After lunch with the villagers, my host took me to the Manfeilong Pagoda, also known as the Bamboo Shoot Pagodas. From a dis-tance, the bright chimes of the “bells” rode the gentle wind past my ears. As we walked up the hill, the tower rose up from the ground, like a bamboo break-ing up from the soil. A few moments lat-er, the breeze stopped and the “bells”—golden leaves positioned on a cone spire that was sitting on the lotus-flower seat on every pagoda—quieted.

A few native girls came out wearing sin-gle-colored, silky dresses with spots on it, instead of the colorfully striped native dresses. Slow, calming music sounded everywhere and there it was—the pea-cock dance. One girl, two girls, all the girls, lifted up their dresses over their heads. It was just like the peacock spreading its beautiful feathers. The wa-ter sprinklers on the sides sprayed wa-ter over the dancers and the spots sparkled with the shimmering water.

To the Dai people, peacocks bring good luck and happiness, so peacock danc-ing is very common. The dancers imi-tate the movements of a peacock, ac-companied with graceful music, and sometimes sprinkled with water.

In the evening, my host led me to his house.“Yunnan is a province that is very hu-

mid. There is lots of water.” my host told me. “We live on the second floor, and

the first floor is for storage. This way, the l iving rooms won’t be so damp.”

The Lancang and Nu Rivers surround X i s h u a n g b a n n a . With these rivers around, the air con-

tains a large amount of water, making the air very humid. In fact, the Lancang River is so close that the annual Dragon Boat Races takes place there.

I noticed that the sides of the house was full of hung up dried corn, like the orna-ments on a Christmas tree. Positioned around the brown, wood-based house, the faded yellow corn were exceptional-ly eye-catching. To the Dai, and many other minorities in China, corn is thought to bring good harvest.The first floor was crammed with stock-ings of wheat and grain. Next to that

“As we walked up the hill, the tower rose up from the ground, like a bamboo breaking up from the soil.”

A native girl dancing the peacock dance under a mist of water. The spots on the dress resembles the pea-cocks tail. When lifted up, it symbolizes the move-ment of the peacock spreading its tail feathers. The dress can come in many different colors, most of the time in: white, yellow, green or orange.

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was an area where there were chairs lined up around a table, a gathering place for neighbors and friends. It was great for avoiding the sun, but still being able to feel the breeze and feel out-doors.

Around the corner of the house, a nar-row flight of stairs came into view. It led to the second floor—the living quar-ters—of the house. It felt as if the stairs would collapse if there were more peo-ple—it creaked and wobbled as we went up.

The second floor was composed of three rooms. The bedroom, living/dining room and the balcony. The balcony took up around 1/3 of the floor.

Yunnan has very mild winters, with the temperature ranging from 8-17°C, and over 30°C during summer, so relaxing on the balcony was very common in this region. Leaning against the bamboo railing, the warm spring breeze gently swept across my face, like the waves lapping over your body on the beach.

Entering the living room, I was struck by how much bamboo there was. Bamboo hats, stools, and even a bamboo tea set. It does make sense for daily items to be made out of bamboo, since bam-boo is a native plant of Southern China, where it is warm and humid. Bamboo also regrows extremely fast, so the use of bamboo won’t harm the environment.

To the Dai, water symbolizes purity and goodwill amongst people. With water in the festivals and dances, it is like send-ing good luck and prosperity to every-one. Here, in Xishuangbanna, with the Dai people—this is where water lives.

Dai girls relaxing on the ground level of the house, where there is shade, but still warm, in the late afternoon.

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TRAVEL INFORMATION

Season: To catch the Water-

Splashing Festival, go on the day

of the Chinese New Year, but it

changes every year.

Hotels:

Fengweizhu Inn

King Land Hotel

Sheraton Xishuangbanna Hotel

Transportation: There are flights

from Beijing to the Xishuangbanna

Gasa Airport, but there're also take

high speed trains from Kunming.

In the city: There are three buses

that go to all the attractions, but

taxis and rickshaws are also

available. Biking is also a good

idea in the small city of Jinghong.

22°00′N 100°48′E

3,27

7 km

/ 2,0

36 m

i

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WHAT MAKES A

DAI GIRL?

A DAI GIRL!

An 'open' houseWhy the houses are the

way they are

The Lancang River is nextto Xishuangbanna

The water evaporates,causing the air to behumid and damp

The large amount of waterin the air causes walls toget moldy, especially inlower levels

That is why the Daihave two story houses,with the living quarterson the second floor, soit doesn't feel as dampand the walls won't bemoldy. Plus, woodenwalls don't get moldythat easily.

Looking ThroughTime

Past

Present

Villages,mountains, andsome traditionalbuildings

Much more modern anddeveloped, yet the oldarchitecture is still presentin the new buildings

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“That is for the children, not for the adults,” chuckled a man, with hair as silky and jet black as freshly spilt ink on a white sheet of paper.

“Are you the journalist?” Asked the woman standing next to him. She had hair just as dark and silky as his, but hers was so long and perfect, hair any female would envy. I stood up from the swing, very low to the ground, held together by large wood logs and two thick chains. Small, yet large enough, to fit anyone of any size, adult or child.

They turned out to be my hosts. I would be staying with for the next 24 hours — 24 hours that would change my view on this culture.

They invited me into their nice home, and while walking in, I noticed the various homes around me, reminding me of all the traditional Korean homes in various movies.

garden. The roofs of the homes were sloped straw, arranged so neatly together, like seeing the giant rolls of hay at farms. The homes were simple, white brick with a wooden lining on every corner and door. The windows with such a perfect grid across the front as if it was there for decoration and not for privacy. These homes are called Hanok. I asked the couple I was staying with, Mr. and Mrs. Kim, how they made sure their house stayed warm in the winter.

“The science behind heating the home is very interesting,” said Mr. Kim.

“To heat the home in the winter, we use a heating system called the ondol,” said Mrs. Kim. They then went on later to explain that the ondol helps their community survive the cold of winter by heating the floors of the home.

“When heat coming from the fire in the kitchen is connected to the other rooms, the layer of stone in the floor of the target room becomes heated,” Mr. Kim explained.

ABOVE: THE ROOF OF A KOREAN HOME. PHOTO BY: LILLIE JOSEPHSON

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ABOVE: THE ENTRANCE TO A KOREAN HOME PHOTO BY: LILLIE

“The warm air at floor level rises, keeping the temperature of the whole room comfortable,” continued Mrs. Kim. The summers do not get too hot, so they just open their windows.

People here love colors, and being colorful. There are gardens upon gardens, filled with bright flowers, of all kinds and of shades, the most charming are the large, radiant, fuchsia flowers that grow on bright green bushes. These flowers were growing in residents gardens, and I noticed them as I was walking along the stone path through the village.

The Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture is a majestic land with high mountains and deep valleys. The land rises to the highest peak of the White Head Summit —an extinct volcano. I happened to land in Yanji, the seat of the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, at the time of the Samjinnal festival.

ABOVE: “THE LARGE, RADIANT, FUCHSIA FLOWERS THAT GROW ON BRIGHT GREEN BUSHES.” PHOTO BY: LILLIE JOSEPHSON

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Samjinnal is the festive day that announces the arrival of spring, and falls on May 3rd every year. This day is known as the day the swallows came back from Gangnam, and the day the snake came out from its winter sleep. It is also the day birds and butterflies start to appear. During Samjinnal, people pick out azalea flowers and knead them with glutinous rice dough to make Hwajeon, a Korean traditional rice cake. Hwajeon is a small, sweet pancake or rice cake in Korean cuisine, made using any edible flower petals such as azalea or chrysanthemum; glutinous rice flour; and sugar.

Whenever there are festivals in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, the women wear simple and elegant traditional dresses, called Hanbok. The top part of the dress/skirt is called Jeogori. Jeogori is the basic upper garment of the hanbok, worn by both men and women. It covers the arms and upper part of the body. Women’s jeogori may have kkeutdong, a different colored cuff placed at the end of the sleeves. That being said, the form of Jeogori has changed over time. Modern jeogori for women is longer than its earlier counterpart, but the length is still above the waist line. The skirt part of the dress is called chima. Beneath the chima, is a petticoat. Chima are typically made from rectangular cloth that was pleated or gathered into a skirt band. This waistband extended past the skirt fabric itself, and formed ties so that the skirt could be fastened around the trunk of the body. Hanboks are nice for the short, yet very warm and humid summers in Yanji — because of their thin, silky, and flowy material.

ABOVE: HHANBOK DRESSES WORN BY THE WOMEN IN THE YANBIAN KOREAN AUTONOMOUS PREFECTURE. PHOTO BY: LILLIE JOSEPHSON

Later that evening, Mr. and Mrs. Kim took me to a dinner and a performance. The dinner was a dish called Jajangmyeon, a staple Koreanized Chinese noodle dish. This is an extremely popular in Korea as fast, take-out food. It’s made with a black

bean sauce, usually fried with diced pork, or seafood, and a variety of vegetables, including zucchini and potatoes. It is popularly ordered and delivered, like Chinese take-out food in other parts of the world. Just the smell of it as it was being

“T HE DAY THE SWALLOWS CAME BACK FROM GANGNAM, AND THE DAY THE SNAKE

CAME OUT FROM ITS WINTER SLEEP.”

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ABOVE: JAJANGMYEON NOODLE DISH PHOTO BY: WIKIPEDIA

delivered at my table made my mouth water.

After finishing my meal, the music started to play. The shrillness of the high-pitched instruments and voices in my ear, are quite annoying and loud, like the Arabian music a whirling dervish dances to yet in-tune and melodic. It is like a lullaby, but not the type that makes someone want to fall fully asleep;instead, it is the type that keeps people awake until it is all over. This lulling song is called “Arirang”. Arirang is a Korean folk song, and — from what I am told — is the unofficial anthem of Korea. It is not only a song about separation and lost love, but also about Korea’s distant past.

The next day I just asked Mr. and Mrs. Kim to live their everyday life. I wanted to capture their life as it was, and not how it was when they knew a person was noting every little thing they did. The ways of Mrs. Kims gardening is truly breathtaking.

“I am getting it ready for spring,” Mrs. Kim explained. “I am planting azalea for Hwajeon, it is Mr. Kim and I’s favorite type,” she said with a smile. She then explained to me that the Azalea grow well in the with the high and low temperatures of Yanji.

The style of the garden was the same as any other Korean garden. Natural, simple and unforced. The garden involves both the people within it, and the buildings, in an unforced and at times irregular asymmetry, where the total landscape flows in a natural and progressive way without being forced or ritualized. The nice amount of rainfall and sun in the spring and summer most likely contribute to the beauty of the gardens.

Spending 24 hours in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture helped me see the cultural diversity of two nearby places. We are all so different and similar at the same time, no matter where in the world.

ARTICLE BY: LILLIE JOSEPHSON

MRS. KIM’S BREATHTAKING GARDEN PHOTO BY: LILLIE JOSEPHSON

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I pull the noodles longer and longer,

praying that they don’t break again. My new Tibetan friend Jinpa and I have been making guthuk all evening, and I am simultaneously sweating to death from the heat and being suffocated by the many smells floating through the kitchen.

Jinpa told me that guthuk is a special noodle dish that they make during Losar, their New Years celebrations. They make a special dish on the first day of Losar called dough balls. The dough balls are filled with one of many ingredients like, coal, wool, salt, chilies, and glass. The dough balls are put into the guthuk.

“The ingredient you find in your dough ball is a lighthearted comment on your character,” Jinpa told me. The positive objects are: wool, a thread rolled inward meaning someone draws in luck and money, and sun or moon representing the goodness related to light. The unhappy objects are: chilies representing sharp tongue, salt meaning someone who is considered lazy, glass representing a good-time Charlie, someone who is there for the fun but disappears when it’s time to work, a small prickly ball representing a prickly person, and a thread rolled outward meaning someone spends or dissipates luck and money.

“If you find coal in your dough it means you have a black-heart,” my other friend Kunchen told me. “Finding coal in your

This is a picture of Tibetan houses showing the flat roofs. In other parts of Tibet the roofs are slopped because the summer rains are heavier, but here in central Tibet the average annual rainfall is only 16.6 inches so the roofs are built flat.

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dough today is like finding coal in your Christmas stocking.”

After hours of cooking in the kitchen it is time for the banquet. We also made a special type of noodles called, thukpa bhathuk. These go into the guthuk along with the dough balls and small dumplings. The soup in the guthuk is made of meat, wheat, rice, sweet potatoes, cheese, peas, green peppers, vermicelli and radishes. guthuk is the main dish at the New Year’s Eve banquet. They use the ingredients barley and wheat often in their main meals because they grow well in mountainous regions and do not need as much water, so they will grow well even in the drier climate of the central and western regions of Tibet with an average of only 16.6 inches of rainfall annually.

When guthuk is served, the first step is to take a handful of dough and wave it over any parts of our body that may be sick of injured with the wish that the ill h e a l t h w i l l b e expelled. After that it was time to eat so, I immediately p i c k e d u p a dumpling and bite into it, expecting meat and vegetables, but instead I heard a crunch and a bitter taste immediately filled my mouth. I resisted the urge to spit it out and instead excused my self and went into the bathroom. Once there I quickly spit out the dumpling and found that it was filled with wood.

After I got most of the wood out of my mouth, I went back out to the table and found Jinpa and Kunchen laughing their heads off. I accuse them for knowing it was filled with wood and get two guilty smiles in return.

After that I carefully pulled apart each dumpling, and I found dumplings filled with scraps of wood, paper and pebbles. Since Jinpa was still too busy laughing I asked

Kunchen about the dumpling fillings and between fits of laughter he told me, “These fillings foretell the future of those who find them, good or bad as the ingredient inside suggests, your not supposed to eat them.” Then he started laughing… again.

Finally, the dough balls were opened my dough ball was full of wool, which specifically means kind hearted. I looked over and saw that Jinpa’s dough ball was filled with sun, and Kunchen’s with moon. No one that I saw got actually coal in their dough, and when I pointed this out Jinpa told me that this was because it is rare for someone to be considered to have a black-heart.

When I arrived that morning the first thing I noticed was the colorful clothing. It was picturesque, covered in stripes of every color imaginable. The clothes are made of silk because, like barley, it can grow in the

d r y c l i m a t e o f c e n t r a l a n d western Tibet.

Everyone here is c l e a n i n g , t h e y clean everything from their kitchen to their chimney. I

wandered around the village for a few minutes before I met a kind Tibetan girl, who explained what was going on and told me, “The name of this village is Kalsang, which means good fortune in English”, she also told me that her name Jinpa means, generosity which is one of the Six Perfections. She invited into her house, and told me I was welcome to join in the celebrations.

As we are walking into Jinpa’s house I notice that the roofs are all flat. In most central and western parts of the Tibetan Plateau people build their houses with flat roofs because there is only 16.6 inches of rainfall annually, but in the eastern part of the plateau the summer rains are heavier,

I pull the noodles longer and longer, praying that they don’t break again.

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so sloping roofs covered in slate or shingles are necessary.

“Today, the first day of Losar, is the 29th day of the 12th month of the Tibetan calendar,” she explained. “Every year a new element, gender, and animal is represented. This year the element is wood, the gender is female, and the animal is a goat.” After she told me about Losar she asked me where I came from to get here and why I was here. I told her I had traveled southwest from Beijing to come here and celebrate New Year in Tibet.

The dancing, music, and merrymaking characterize this festival. While we waited for Jinpa to joins us we talked.

As we walked out of Jinpa’s house, I instantly fall in love with the bright colors and intricate designs decorating everything in sight. Jinpa told me that each design has a unique meaning and pointed out a few more common designs and their meanings. “The parasol, which means protection from suffering and harmful forces, the two golden fish, which represent luck and fortune, and zhi‘jam

meaning peaceful and gentle,” she told me.

When we finally walked i n t o t h e c r o w d e d square the first thing I noticed was the music floating through the air  towards  us. It was sweet and soothing like the a lullaby. Then we saw the dancers and I found myself swaying w i t h t h e m u s i c ent ranced by the i r graceful movements. Sleeves swishing, legs t w i r l i n g , t h e g i r l s danced across the

c r o w d e d s q u a r e a n d through their captivated audience to the beat of the

music. We watched dance after dance, heard song after song, each one more memorable then the next, each one more engaging.

Too soon the last dance began. It was an unforgettable solo featuring a Dramyin, a guitar like instrument with seven strings. Moving across the patterned carpet, the man gracefully strummed his Dramyin while singing a hauntingly irresistible song.

As we head back to Jinpa’s house, I am presented with a Hada, a strip of snow-white scarf made of silk. As she handed it to me Jinpa said, “It symbolizes goodwill and respect”. It also shows faithfulness and respect to the receiver. As I went to bed that night I smiled happy at the gift, promising myself I will cherish it forever.

Even though I will most likely never get the chance to experience Losar again, I am glad for the opportunity I had today to enjoy it. And as I get on the train home this morning I look out across Tibet and remember the music, haunting yet soothing, the music I will never forget.

A view of the fertile Tibetan Plateau

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The Environment of MongoliaMongolia has very high rates of deforestation. The rates for deforestation are up to 150 million trees annually. This is used for firewood, construction timber, encroachment in mining, grazing of livestock, and extensive forest fires.

Overgrazing and drought have combined to threaten Inner Mongolia's grasslands. Desertification in the Mamugeng grasslands, some 120 miles from Hohhot, has forced the government to place restrictions on some herders.

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Why is WhereImportant?

The

House

of the

Naked

Giants

By: Chaewon.M

- This is a statue ofthe naked giants atthe entrance of thevillage

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F or the people like me who hates

cold weather of winter would love this place. Burning Sun, birds twittering,wind blowing placid. It was like a movie. It was very hot day, or hot place. It was very hot and sunny, and even the wind was warm. As I arrived to the GaoShan (高山)village, I could feel very strong and strange power. Even the entrance was showing their life and tradition. The giant man made of wood was standing still and welcomed me. He looked very funny but also very strong. They were naked, butthey were wearing every kind of accessories. I wish them to wear clothes more than accessories. When I stepped in to the village, I could see people wearing little disconcerting clothes. Exposure is considered to be beautiful byGao shan people. NowWhen I stepped in to

the village, I could see people wearing little disconcerting clothes. Exposure is considered to be beautiful by Gao shan people. Now exposure of the clothes are less then before, but since the climate tis very hot,they wear thin and sleeveless clothes. I wonder around the street where people are

selling foods and fruits. When I saw the fruits there, I could notice that Gao Shan is tropical place. Tropical zone stretches from 23.4 º North latitude to 23.4 º South latitude, and that is where most of the tropical fruit grows . Gao shan minority is having

geographic coordinates of 25°03’N. So it’s in sub-tropical area. Almost all the fruits in there were tropical fruits, including banana, pineapple, papaya, coconut, orange, tangerine, longan and areca. Areca looks like dried coconut, and it tastes a little piquant. It is very charming fruit.

When I drink Oolong tea, I could smell fragrant and sweet smell. Lilac, lavender, jasmine- all in the Oolong tea.

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About a hour after I started to find the house I’ll stay, I found a small house. Before I go in to the house, the surface of the house caught my eye. It was made of stone. It was very smooth like a marble and cold like an ice. The roof is made of woods and wooden board. Woods on the top are carved into decoration which just looks same as the giant man made of wood that I saw at the entrance. They were also naked, and on the person’s head there were snakes decorations. Their wood carving arts are full of unique features of the primitive art of the Pacific region, and the wood carvings of Taiwan people are the most outstanding. Houses, weapons or household utensils are all carved with decorations, with primitive simplicity and rough carving skills. The images are mostly centered on the topic of human portraits, and also the combination of human head, snake, deer and geometrical images of totem features. The Gaoshans are animists who believe in immortality and ancestor worship. They hold sacrificial rites for all kinds of occasions including hunting and fishing. There are vestiges of the worship of totems – snakes and animals – and certain taboos still remain.

When I first stepped in to the house, family who lives in the house welcomed me with big smile. They were nice people. In the kitchen Mrs. Gu was preparing oolong tea and Black tea with fruits. Two different kinds of teas were poured in a pot made of bamboo, and they were also carved into decorations. The best place for Oolong tea and black tea’s leaves to grow is altitude 1200m~ 1500m. Gao Shan minority has altitude of 1645m, so it’s optimal environment for leaves to grow. When I drink Oolong tea, I could smell fragrant and sweet smell. Lilac, lavender, jasmine- all in the Oolong tea. I felt like I was in garden with the flowers full in bloom and a Shining big butterfly colored by yellow, white and pink flitting around the sky. A faint aroma lasted in my mouth for quite a long time.

After we drink some tea and chat a little bit, they introduce me their house.

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While I was looking around their house, I could see lots of small and big sculpture made of Bamboo. I could smell fresh air with little acrid smell. Mr Gu told me “Since Gaoshan minority is placed in Taiwan Island which is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, it is very humid . So the weather is optimal for bamboos to grow. Bamboo carving skill? World famous, and also their bamboo flute and folk song.” I could notice that he’s feeling very proud of carving skill of Taiwan. When I show the interest in the Bamboo, he suggested me to go to the park and see the performance. Mr Gu spoke excitedly, “Gaoshan minority is full of artistic talent. Singing, music, dancing , carving - all world famous folk arts of Gaoshan minority”.

When we arrived to the park, performance was already started. Gaoshan people regard the yearly Harvest Festival as the grandest day. They hold dinners and have various entertainments. Gaoshan ethnic minority likes music and dancing. When they get together for festivals, they play flutes and perform the hair dance or the hand-in-hand dance. Their dance was quite powerful. Hair flying, clothes fluttering, the girls jumped heartily. “ Songs and dances are very much a part of our life. On holidays, we gather for singing and dancing. We have many ballads, fairy tales, legends, odes to ancestors, hunting songs, dirges and work songs. Traditional instruments are the mouth organ, nose flute, and bamboo flute” Mr. Gu was excited again. His inarticulate pronunciation become even more inarticulate. After the dance performance, 3 men took their bamboo flute and start to play. At first I thought it sounds quite sharp and sound like someone whistling

so loud and noisy, but when my ears get used to the sound, I captivated by it’s attractive sound. I wanted to stay there and enjoy the performance, but I had no time to stick with one thing.

While I was going back to the house, I couldn’t be unsurprised. The skulls were displayed in the shelf made of stone. I was even more surprised because of Mr Gu’s calm voice. “Those are skulls of the other minority group. Those are the skulls which men in this minority hunt for their coming-of-age ceremony. Proud. Huh” All the coming-of-age ceremony I know is rose, perfume, and kiss. Not that skull thing. At that moment I felt the chills on my back. I asked “Are they still killing each other?”. He said “Not now, after Japan put a taboo on it, we’re not doing it. That’s just a historical one. Now we are putting the bones of the animals we hunted. ”.Still, I can’t remove that memory from my brain.

For the dinner, they prepared traditional and distinguishing food of GaoShan minority. In normal days, they used to eat chestnuts and upland rice. As everyone knows GaoShan means (高山)high mountain. Gaoshans, has

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subtropical climate with abundant precipitation and fertile land yielding two rice crops a year. The upland rice and chestnuts are the things you can easily get from the high mountain, so for GaoShan people, they use to eat it as their meal. But, today, for me, they have many different kinds of tropical fruits for desert and appetizer. Sanjong tree’s fruit which GaoShan people likes and for the main dish, they prepared potato and taro soup. The hare meat that their sons hunt from the mountain- which will be display on the bone shelf. Today’s special food was fish. Even if Gaoshan minority is surrounded by the sea, Gu’s family is living in mountain area. Most of the people who lives around the sea use to eat fish. But they went fishing early at the morning formy special dinner in this village. We chewed betel nut at the end. Betel nut is same as Areca, but they chew it. It also tastes very piquant, and also a little like medicinal herbs.

It was a short time in GaoShan minority, but I could feel the warm affection and happiness of GaoShan people. Still, they are trying to keep their own tradition and culture. Where the GaoShan minority is where the most tradition stays the same in Taiwan.

Where the tradition and culture stays, it’s GaoShan minority.

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Down 1. Five-colored Hada is very valued gift and can only be presented in the (?) 2. What was displayed in the shelf of Gaoshan minority?

4. large white pagoda in Xishuangbanna 7. Color of Hada that represents Cloude 9. cold, dry, and desolate area, almost no vegetation

12. What is the main ingredient of the house in Gaoshan minority?

Across 3. Every house in Tibetan minority has alter to

worship(?) 5. a festival celebrated by the Dai 6. Gaoshan minority is surrounded by (?)

8. What is the type of the fruits that grows in Gaoshan minority group?

10. Princess that first brought Buddhism to Tibet

11. Title of the article about Gaoshan minority: The House of the naked (?)

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