During 2008 Wen Chuan Earthquake, hundreds of thousands of Qiang villages and people are damaged and killed. Local and central government quickly reacts to initiate an emergency plan to restore this area and Qiang culture.
Almost eight years later, in 2016, Qiang region has been entirely different than it was eight years ago, highways are built, many young people from Qiang villages refuse to return to villages and moved into urban areas, minimal amount of tourists will come here because this is not a hot attraction spot. Given the fact that Qiang has so many beautiful and amazing cultural heritage, this is not a fair situation. But what can people do help protecting and promoting its culture? To me, it all starts with finding out flashing point of Qiang culture, I have already talked a lot of related stuff in this blog, such as Porcelains, paintings, crafts, music etc. Art investors and art event organizers should try to bring authentic and original cultural heritage to big cities for exhibition and show. Only in this way, more and more people will realize and experience beauty of Qiang’s culture. This will stimulates their willingness to explore Qiang culture by travelling to Qiang villages as well.
The whole purpose of this blog is to record precious culture of Qiang people and raise general public’s awareness towards appreciating this incredible culture and participating in the process of making it a better one.
Now it’s time to say goodbye, although I only did a small effort of showing grand picture of Qiang culture, I believe with the motivation of protecting and promoting Qiang culture in mind, I will definitely carry on and do more related endeavors in the future. We have to realize, there is no single standard of culture in society, like one of my favorite philosophers Bertrand Russell once said:” Diversity is essential to Happiness.”
-By Yang
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