Chinese Village Traditions: Vacation to Experience a New Culture

Most people plan vacations to relax or get away from the normal grind of everyday life. However, if you want to plan a vacation that is above and beyond the normal vacation, then consider joining the Chinese Village Traditions expedition offered by Earthwatch. This expedition will take you to the Yulin area of the the Shaanxi Province in China, and provide you with the chance to live in a traditional Chinese village. This is a great opportunity to learn about a traditional culture, to gain field research experience or to just have an amazing experience!

Chinese Village Traditions

Right now China is experiencing an amazing economical explosion. As a result, their environment is taking a huge hit. Now is the time that we all need to take a look at how economic and industrial growth impacts the health of the environment and to take steps to reduce the negative impacts that these develops are having. One way that this can be accomplished is to study traditional ways and relationships between commerce, religion and the environment.

The Chinese Village Traditions expeditions offered by Earthwatch takes researchers and volunteers into Miao Jia Getai, which is a traditional mountain village located on the Miaos terrace. This is a very small village that has only about 240 people. The people live in traditional cave dwellings. Surrounding these dwellings are beautiful temples. Led by Dr. Feng, Dr. Dang, Yanfeng Liu and Jiang Lu, this research project is determined to study traditional lifestyles of these people. The projects associated with this study include one that looks at religious activities, one that looks at architecture, one that looks at religious legends and one that looks that the settings of the local temples.

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