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Volga Boatmen Song This was recorded at Kiev, a Russian restaurant in Beijing. This restaurant has superb food at reasonable prices, but its pride and joy is a world-class opera troupe from the Ukraine that performs a huge repertoire of Russian songs nightly. This is the work song of the Volga Boatmen, slaves who were forced to manually tow shipping boats up and down the Volga river, even against the current and through silt and ice. Tags: Volga boatmen russia russian folk music song opera kiev restaurant ukraine ukranian beijing china chinese

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Kalinka! This was recorded at Kiev, a Russian restaurant in Beijing. This restaurant has superb food at reasonable prices, but its pride and joy is a world-class opera troupe from the Ukraine that performs a huge repertoire of Russian songs nightly. This song is "Kalinka," a folk song from the steppes that is about a young man's love for a girl whom he calls his "Kalinka," a type of wildflower that grows in the Russian grasslands. Tags: kalinka russia russian folk music opera song kiev ukraine ukranian restaurant china beijing live

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Monks Playing Guitar At the west end of Qinghai lake there is a peninsula called "Bird Island", where each year tens of thousands of birds come to lay their eggs in the springtime, some species even crossing the Himalayas to do so. Near Bird Island, located halfway up a tall hill, there is a small monastery occupied by several lamas and several dozen monks. In this video, two of the younger monks sing some basic Tibetan songs whose meaning is difficult for them to translate into Chinese. Tags: monk music guitar tibet tibetan traditional folk china chinese qinghai lake bird island niao dao

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Qinghai Slideshow This is a collection of images from a trip to China's Qinghai Province in late April/early May 2007, set to the song "Cool Calm" by Kensuke Shiina & Irama Buyung. The trip covered Xining City, Qinghai Lake, Taer Monastery, Tongren Monastery, Xunhua City, Mengda Lake, Wendu Monastery, and Huzhu City. The man at 3:40 is not wearing a hat, rather, his hair is spun into a turban. Qinghai means "Turquoise Sea" in Chinese; even though this province is located very far from the coast, Qinghai lake is so massive that it resembles a sea horizon, and thus it justifies the moniker. Qinghai has traditionally been a part of ethnographic Tibet, but it also features other unique nationalities, such as the Sala muslims, descendants of Kazakh nomads who settled here 800 years ago, and the Tu people, who were once closely tied to northeastern Mongolian tribes, but have long since settled in the hills north of the Yellow River. Tags: qinghai china chinese tibet tibetan muslim islam Hui Sala culture tradition plateau religion buddha buddhism

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Halal Butcher A Hui muslim butchers a freshly skinned lamb near the town of "Black Horse River" on the Tibetan plateau in China's Qinghai province. Tags: halal butcher meat lamb Islam muslim China Chinese Tibet Tibetan Qinghai Heimahe Hui Sala

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Bird Feeder A future ornithologist in the making. Tags: Mother feed child bird noodles China train Chinese Qinghai

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Giant Prayer Wheel This is a giant prayer wheel located at the top of a hill beside a temple in the "old town" of Zhongdian city, or "Shangri-La." Tibetan buddhists believe that each time a prayer moves, it floats up into heaven. Therefore, in addition to moving prayers by whispering or chanting them, Tibetans also hang them up on prayer flags that send the prayer to heaven with each gust of wind, write them down and store them inside prayer wheels that they can spin in their hands, carve them onto prayer beads that they can run through their fingers, or, in this case, inscribe them on a tower-size prayer wheel that spins by the casual effort of two dozen monks, or the full strength of five. Tags: giant prayer wheel shangri la zhongdian tibet tibetan yunnan china chinese buddha buddhism religion spiritual ritual

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Chinese Wedding These clips are from a Valentine's Day wedding ceremony that took place in a village neighboring the city of Handan in Hebei province, China. The groom is an electronics repairman and the bride sells mobile phones. They both work in the city but they are from the countryside. The ceremony begins in the morning at the bride's home, where the groom and his uncle sit down with the bride's father and uncle and share a chat about the responsibilities of being a man of the house. The bride's sister then smears an oily paste on the groom's face called "yuan fen," which rhymes with a word meaning "fortune" and thus is meant to bring luck to the newlyweds. The groom then enters the bride's room, where he slips a pair of red gloves on her hands and red slippers on her feet before carrying her out into the courtyard and taking a family photo, with the bride's parents in the foreground. Everybody then meets at the groom's village for lunch, and then after the meal the groom's father hosts a "gift ceremony" where all the gifts are opened, counted, and attributed to the givers by name. This public spectacle provides an incentive to being generous and a serious disincentive to being miserly. Tags: wedding marriage china chinese bride groom culture tradition ceremony love valentine rural hebei handan family olowski

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Guzheng Master Beijing (zither) Master Song plays the Guozheng (zither) every evening outside of his favorite teahouse on the bank of Houhai Lake in Beijing. Tags: Guozheng zither master song string instrument performance solo music folk traditional china chinese beijing houhai

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Fireworks Afficionado On New Year's Eve of the Chinese Lunar Calendar I spotted this man casually lighting his home-made fireworks with a cigarette he was smoking. Tags: chinese new year pig fire work firework firecracker cracker home made bomb improvise explosive china celebration smoking

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World's Largest Buddha LeShan DaFo (Happy Mountain Big Buddha) is located in central China's Sichuan province. This seventy-one meter tall Buddha statue was carved into a cliff face about 1,300 years ago. It gained the title of "World's Largest Buddha" after the Taliban government destroyed the cliff-carved Buddha statues in Bamyan, Afghanistan. Tags: buddha leshan sichuan china world largest biggest buddhism record bamyan afghanistan lew jan olowski

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Monkey Eating Crackers There is a large population of monkeys living on Mt. Emei in China's Sichuan province. Legend has it that they are descended from the original Monkey King who introduced Buddhism to China. Tags: monkey sichuan china emei shan animal eat discovery channel feed cracker Lew Jan Olowski

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Handan Beef Sashimi This is the signature dish at "Fat Lucky Cow" in Handan city. It is a plate of beef sashimi (raw, thinly-sliced lean beef) with a dry-ice fog added for effect. The second plate of raw beef is intended for cooking in those small pots on the table, along with vegetables. Tags: beef sashimi raw china handan fat lucky cow hot pot chinese food japanese hebei han dan dry ice meat

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Monk Mantra This is the head monk of a six hundred year old temple located on a hill overlooking the "old town" section of Zhongdian city in Yunnan province, China. He is chanting in Tibetan. Though he did not pay any attention to us, he did eventually pause when his mobile phone rang to answer it and carry a conversation. Tags: tibet china yunnan mantra monk zhongdian shangri-la verse religion prayer meditation chant temple

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Shigu Panorama The village of Shigu (stone drum) is located at the first bend of the Yangtze river as it flows down from the Himalayas and towards central China. This was the site of a famous battle between the ancient Tibetan kingdom and the Naxi kingdom. The Naxi defeated the Tibetans and held on to this territory. Their war ended when the two kingdoms signed a peace treaty and set a large stone drum in this village to commemorate the end of their war. Communist guerrillas camped here during their "Long March" in retreat from Chang Kai Shek's Nationalist army, and so it also boasts a cliff-top monument to the Communist Revolution. Tags: china yunnan shigu revolution tibet naxi yangtze himalaya communist communism village river

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Silk Road Slide Show Images from the silk road arranged into a slide show accompanied by the track "Red Sands." The image at 4:55 was not taken by my camera. Tags: silk road china xinjiang shaanxi gansu uighur tibet hui desert gobi grassland mosque temple islam buddhism

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Mongolia Slideshow Images from Summer 2004 in Mongolia. The music is also from Mongolia; all the sounds are made by voice with "horse fiddle" harmony. Tags: Mongolia Ulaan Baatar Naadam grassland nomad throat horse fiddle music gobi

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May Holiday Slide Show A slide show from May Day 2004 featuring images from Harbin, Shenyang, Changbai Mountain, and the North Korean border. Tags: china may day harbin haerbin shenyang changbai shan mountain heilongjiang

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Guilan and Tai Shan Slideshow A slide show of images from Guilin in Guangxi Province and Tai Mountain in Shandong Province. Tags: guilan tai shan yangshuo dragon backbone mountain china

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Yunnan 2004 Slide show of images from Yunnan province in winter 2004 set to music from Lagaan. Tags: yunnan china slide show tibet dai lijiang dali zhongdian jinghong xishuangbanna bai naxi

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