The First "Hello World, This is Xingwen Stone Forest" Study Tour and Exchange Activity hosted by Sichuan Xingwen Stone Forest World Spectacle Cultural Tourism Investment Co., Ltd. was held in the Xingwen Stone Forest Scenic Area in Yibin, Sichuan on June 14th. A total of 30 foreign teachers and students from Chengdu University of Technology (CDUT) were invited to this activity, joining hands with more than 100 teachers and students from Sichuan University of Science & Engineering, Xihua University and Yibin University to visit Xingwen Stone Forest, known as "a karst landform museum and a textbook case of geological landscape", where foreign teachers and students explored the geologic wonder, felt the Bo and Miao cultures and listened to the stories of China.
Group Photo of Foreign Teachers and Students
Amid the bizarre rocks, beautiful mountains and spectacular stone "waves", the foreign teachers and students wandered through the stone forest to feel the magical geologic wonder. Around the Grand Funnel, there are towering cliffs. The teachers and students walked all the way down the trails to reach the most famous karst cave of Xingwen Stone Forest - Tianquan Cave. Tianquan Cave has the largest cave size and the longest system tour length among global caves. It is grand and magnificent, with exceedingly strange, gorgeous and varied stalactites that are breathtaking. The teachers and students also savored a characteristic Miao long-table banquet there, and they delved deeper into the caves to explore amazing sights such as the sunshine passing through the skylight, the vaulted high cave, the stones that look like immortal figures, the jade trees in bloom, and the steps that lead to a secluded stone wood.
Foreign Teachers and Students Visiting Tianquan Cave
In addition, the foreign teachers and students also sang and danced with the Miao people in the "Number One Miao Township in Sichuan" and watched the Bo people's prayer performance that involved geologic elements and cultural performing arts in the Bo stockaded village, to feel the rich Miao culture and look back at the history of the Bo people.
Foreign Teachers and Students Watching Performances in the Bo Stockaded Village
Despite the long journey, the foreign teachers and students said that the beautiful cave landscapes, the mysterious Bo and Miao cultures and the hospitable Miao people made them forget the fatigue of the long travel and that they not only witnessed the geological creations that exist for hundreds of millions of years but also felt the profound Bo and Miao cultures with a history of more than two thousand years. It was a rewarding and memorable journey of perceiving Chinese culture.
