Jiarong Tibetan Area Culture Inheriteor

What We Do

In the flood of time and civilization, there have been countless dazzling artistic treasures, moving and mysterious stories. Volunteers went into the dialogue with non-hereditary bearers and craftsmen, interviewed embroiderers, and cultural inheritors, to understand the traditional crafts, appreciate the ancient wisdom and craftsmanship, the output of the documentary to help the inheritance and dissemination of non-hereditary culture, non-hereditary heritage "live", and help the development of the countryside.

About Tibet:

Zhonglu means "the place where people and gods yearn for" in Tibetan. Here and one of the four sacred mountains in Tibet, Murdoch Mountain, across the river, colorful Tibetan houses quietly scattered in the layers of terraced fields. In this land, harboring the secrets of the mysterious disappearance of the ancient East Women's Country, preserving a large number of ancient stone masonry towers, retaining the ancient and solemn rite of passage. In this myth flowing out of the thousands of mountains in Tibet, Jiajiu Tibetan residents have been living in seclusion, their lives and the vast majority of the world are not the same: a step of nine kowtow kowtow; valley with the wind fluttering wind horse flag; colorful Thangkas, Jiegong praise the virtue of the transmitting pipe.

The Tibetan village is also facing the plight of most Chinese villages: economic backwardness, few development opportunities, the loss of young people, the disappearance of traditional culture, the land has been abandoned, and has become a lost mountain village. How to pass on the non-heritage culture is a huge problem and challenge nowadays.

Volunteers went to Tibet to put forward a program for the inheritance of the Jiajung Tibetan culture, and record and disseminate it in the form of a documentary film.

Restoration of the ancient tower

  • Tibetan village in the past has its own stone masonry ancient tower system, the ancient tower is not only the basic culture ritual building, but also linked to the village and the relationship between people. However, in recent years, the village has lost its vitality in the modernization flood, and the villagers who stayed behind no longer have the heart to do the restoration, some of the stones of the ancient tower have been removed to become material for house building, and part of the section has even become a place to throw garbage. The change of the ancient tower has brought about a change in the way of communication and life style of the whole community.

  • Volunteers participate in the restoration of the ancient tower and become a part of the relay project, so that the local people can "see, recognize and believe" their traditional way of life, and the ancient tower can become the lifeline for the development of the local eco-tourism.

Immersion fieldwork

  • To understand the mechanisms and forms of national culture, and to learn the methods of studying the behaviors and perceptions of different groups of people.

  • Visit the farmer’s house and learn the life style and record daily work of the farming system.

Documentary Film making

  • The document video we made are currently being show in the tourist center of Jiarong.

  • Make Documentation Video

Documentation Video

After a week’s restoration of the ancient tower and the interview with local people, we finally present out our documentation video about the tower

Hear from Our Member:

In such a short period of time under the requirements, and to focus on the theme feeling is that we are not very good at it, but we try our best to the things we know, in the purest way to show it, feel that we were trying to communicate together, communication skills and team spirit is still very important, including in the interviews, because I'm one of the only two Sichuanese, and the locals can communicate with me, I took the responsibility of interviewing the locals accusations, feel that it is important to be brave enough to take the responsibility!

-Zihan.Y (Volunteer member)

Connection with the no privity:

On our way to explore, we met a different kind of "inheritor" - the owner of the Hankyu Manor, Zhamchu Zhaxi. at first he plan just to establish a studio close to nature, because friends often like to visit gradually opened into a hotel. The owner has collected many local material heritage to display in the hotel, and will be the combination of intangible culture and modern products, to the outside world.