The Tibetan Christians of Rural China 🇨🇳 I S2, EP79

Good morning everyone Welcome back to the channel Yesterday I drove from Deqin to Cizhong This small village And I descended from over 3000m To only 1800m This is quite a special place It's one of the very few places Where the tibetans are christians So in this village Half the population are Christian And the other half are Buddhists And today happens to be Sunday So soon I am going to see this Sunday worship In the morning Some buddists are walking the kora There is a small market outside the church Sister, what is this? This. That's naizha How much is that? 8 yuan half kilo Can I try it? sure There are quite a lot of products So there is naizha, the fresh cheese And I just got this 2 yuan Naizha, fresh cheese And er-kuai, they made it That's the rice cake And fresh tofu (They donate some money before entering) But how did catholic christian began to spread In this remote Yunnan mountain region There is a long story I try to keep it short So in the 1860s After the opium war Qing government had a treaty with French government They allowed missionaries to come to this area The French missionaries firstly built a church In a small village called ci-gu near here They tried really hard But nobody followed them Because traditionally This is a buddist area But then a turning point came One year The pandemic of smallpox began to spread And it took the lives of many kids But the few households near the church Were vaccinated by the missionaries And survived the pandemic And that's the time when people Began to believe in them And the church also provide health care They also started a school And they provided what people needed So more and more people join the church Wait, the story isn't over buddhists were not happy with the success of the missionaries In 1904, the British expedition to Tibet escalated their anger the Buddhists burned 10 churches killed the priests and the followers under diplomatic pressure the Qing government punished the monasteries paid the compensation and allowed the missionaries to rebuilt another church that is Cizhong Church In 1951, missionaries were expelled and later the church was destroyed during culture revolution And then after that rebuilt and returned to the local community today it is listed as a protected historical site as a remark to that special history The chant is so unique they chant in Tibetan and the melody is by no means similar to what I heard in western churches What are you doing with that thing This is a camera camera Let me see the back And the front That's you Let me see that That's not you That's big Are you Tibetan? No, I am han Han peopel And you? Also han I see, there are many Han peopel as well But where are foreign ethnic groups What? Foreign ethnic people Foreign ethnic people? They are outside china Outside china When the missionaries come here They not only brought gospel But also French wine So surrounding the church are vineyard And this grape variety is called rose honey Which is already extinct here in france But it stays here The missionary also taught people How to make wine So today there are also a few household Who know how to make wine There used to be only very few households In this area Nowadays most of the people were reallocated From the surrounding villages Do to a reservoir project But this village also very close to Two very famous trekking routes One is called Nanjiluo And the other is called Yubeng Both are extremely beautiful So if you like trekking, come here this is the famous San-jiang-bing-liu The 3 parallel rivers A few days ago I saw Jinsha river Which is the upper stream of Changjiang I.e. Yangtze river This is the 2nd one The one in the middle And there is another one further in the west It's called Nu-jiang Which is the upper stream of Salween river This is Lancangjiang The upper stream of Mekong river And before the end of April It's the raining season It rains a lot in the upper stream And that's why the water is so sandy Shidi village, let's check this out I feel as if I've reached some Some mountain region in the Alps There are some chalet in the mountains Except for here, it is Tibetan house Do you want to go up? No Not going up? no Do you want to go deep in the mountain? I just want to fly my drone here Fly the drone? Can I park here? Do you smoke? No, I don't Ok, I'll note down your name I have to not down (forest fire prevention) Are you a tourist? Yes. It's so beautiful There are monasteries Ok Do you need my ID No, just leave your info Are all residents Tibetans? Yes, tibetans Your name and contact It's nice up there, even more scenic Really? There is a monastery It's the largest here, there are more than 100， 108 About 98 are here Oh, I see. Up there. How long does it take? About half an hour with this Half an hour? Is it there? That's the office, with only 48 monks That one is bigger That also belong to our village I see. Half an hour ride We are the only village with 2 monasteries There is a stone cave that is not develped But there is For over 1000 years You can't see it You can only visit the monastery It's 2800m there And this is 2300m What's the name of it? Yu-zhu-ding-si Yu-zhu-ding-si Zhu, the buddist beads Ok. You can find it on baidu Ok, yu-zhu-ding-si. Wow, there is even a basketball court Yes, our village committee They even have a basketball court nihao To Yu-zhu-si Yu-zhu-si This way! I see Ok thanks Nihao There is a description But everything is written in Tibetan language So I don't understand at all From the outside, I can hear humming So I guess they are reciting the script they are studying Today I am going to try this for the 1st time It's a typical tibetan dish Pancake So it's bread more or less With Chao-nai-zha Which is basically Pure butter with Nai-zha Naizha is the leftover that When getting butter from milk This is the leftover And now, they mix them together It's super buttery This tastes like Pizza bread with mozzarella With some melting butter How do you eat this normally? Nai-zha If we don't fry it, we put it in butter tea And put it inside And drink it But the best way is to fry ti So this is the best way It tastes like.... Cheese? yes Maybe they are similar It is like pizza. It's the most nutritious part We couldn't afforded it in the past Now we are well off and can eat it yes You can eat it everyday I saw that it is sold on the street The pyramid shape... Oh, that's sour Only from Shangri-la We don't have it How about the cheese here It's round It's round like a moonkcake I didn’t finish my lunch after all, it is a bowl of butter and cheese! in the afternoon I biked north the landscape got drier and it felt a bit like southern Xinjiang Donkeys, donkey! There are so many grapes So many vineyards What a huge contrast to What I've seen in the morning Now the mountains are so arid and so dry I found many villages along Lancang river Grow grapes I guess the climate is very good for grape production So look at here Xizang (Tibet Autonomous Region) border I am at the border of Yunnan province Yunnan deqin And Xizang (Tibet automous region) Mangkang So that's the end of today's video And the beginning of the next video The salt mine on Tibetan Plateau Which is over 1300 years old And thanks for watching And stay tuned

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Id: PD9ulhnfK_w

Length: 20min 7sec (1207 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 22 2024