Chongqing, which means double/repeated happy
celebration, is a major city in Southwest China and one
of the five national central cities in China
Chongqing has a significant history and culture and
serves as the economic center or the upstream
Yangtze basin. It is a major manufacturing center and
transportation hub and reported by the Economist
Intelligence Unit in July 2012
Information
Population
Around 30,000,000
Language
Mandarin
Chongqing dialect
Traffic
Jiangbei international airport
Urban light railway system
Taxi & Bus & Train
Weather
The highest temperature can reach
39℃ in summer
Surrounding
Yangtze River & Jialing River
Gele Mountain & Daba Mountain
Yangtze river, the longest river in China is right running through the mountain city – Chongqing
where the origin of Bashu culture generated from. For thousands of years, people here
immerse themselves in the gorgeous culture and always proud of their unique culture. The
carrier of culture Sichuan Opera, Sichuan embroidery and tea art permeate Chongqing
people’s life
While, with the development of economy and to keep the pace with the globalization, some of
the culture seemed fading away in Chongqing people’s daily life, and the city seemed lost its way
in the rapid development. The young generation lost their interest for the culture which from their
remote ancestor. WE’ RE NOT THE OUTSIDER, WE SHOULD DO SOMETHING TO SAVE OUR CULTURE.
WE WILL PICK BACK UP THE LOST CULTURE just when you here with this project which is also an
amazing travel with the core of Bashu Culture
All of the global volunteers must arrive in Chongqing, and register in youth hotels or local police
stations, at the moment, each global volunteer is going to be paired with a local volunteer as a
group, which will complete all the experiences of the programme.
:
(7.23-8.4)
All of the volunteers are going to spend two weeks in Chongqing learning culture, for example,
tea art, calligraphy, paper cut and Sichuan opera. Each global volunteer needs to learn about at
least 2 traditional skills with the help of local volunteers. From the perspective of foreigners, a
sharing session is going to be held on August 5th,aimed to learn Bayu culture.
(8.6-8.10)
All of the volunteers are going to head for Youyang Forest Park by public transportation, to learn
local national culture and traditional opera like Youyang yang opera.
(8.11-8.17)
All of the volunteers are going to head for Chongqing Youyang to learn Tujia waving dance and
related culture, global volunteers are going to learn it with the help of the local volunteers.
(8.18-8.24)
All of the volunteers get back to Chongqing, and keep learning traditional culture and review
what they have learned, to prepare for the global village. Global volunteers are going to attend
global village on August 23rd, and perform their talent and what they have learned about the
culture in the past one month.
PS: There will be camera filming documentary during the programme, and global volunteers
need to record the daily life with words or pictures, which will be presented in the global
village.
July 21th Make sure you can arrive in Chongqing
July 22th Welcome party
July 22th Training day
July 23th Culture discovery start
August 6th – August 17rd Visit and Learn
August 23th Global Village
August 24th Closing day for Hey! Chongqing