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Chuankou Town of Minhe County-Bazhou-Xigou-Donggou-Gushan-Manping-Gangou-Sanchuan-Guanting-Zhongchuan-Songjia-E’Jia-Xiakou.

The total journey is more than 130km, in which we have to clime the highest mountain in Minhe County-Langtang Mount. Our destination is Sanchuan.

We spent four days in Sanchuan. In Jul 12 of lunar calendar, we arrived at Guanting. In the next day, we visit Nadun carnival in E’Jia, taking photos, interviewing artists and watching dances. In that evening, we classified materials and found errors. In the next day, we went to Xiakou, doing more interviews. In Jul 15, we returned.

 
The total journey from Chuankou Town to Guanting Town is more than 130km, in which we have to clime the highest mountain in Minhe County-Langtang Mount. When we were driving in the bus, we were deeply moved by the outside scene. It was so beautiful. It seemed that the land was covered by a green carpet. The other passengers told us that the government carried out returning farmland to forest to recover its natural environment. Ah, our government’s policy was beneficiary for our offspring.

——Wang Teng-jiao

Whenwe were 2km away from Nadun carnival, we have heard the excited sound of drum. When arrived, a large group of dancers were singing and dancing. We were quite interested in the foot paces of dancers and observed for quite a long time. Afterthe performance, a man told us that their basic foot pace was similar to Taiji picture. We guessed that maybe there was reglious implication in it.

----Wang Chun-yan

In Jul14 of lunarcalendar, our team members arrived at Nadun carnival early in the morning. We saw some seniors burning paper cuts in front of Buddha and some paper cuts were hanging on the long pole. We didn’t know what it meant. And then, we went ahead to do an interview with a senior. He told us that the paper cuts were sacrificial offerings to gods. In the past, when Tus had difficulty in life and production, we would bless help from gods; in the next year, we would repay our promise to gods so we burned those paper cuts. Ah, I saw.

———Qin Cheng-qian