The story of two modern Chinese explorers?
Modern Chinese explorer ---- Deng Tingliang He is the first person in China to investigate the whole Southwest Silk Road on foot, and is an authority in the fields of researching the "Southwest Silk Road", "Ancient Tea-horse Trail", and "Hengduan Mountain Ethnic Corridor". "Over the past 30 years, he has planned a number of activities such as the Southwest Silk Road Expedition, Heizhugou Scientific Expedition, etc. ...... He wrote the image of the perseverance of Chinese explorers with his solid feet. He said he hoped that every footprint he left in the west would grow small turquoise trees. He is stout, "Tibet red" face always hangs a friendly smile. He has the unique boldness, honesty and fortitude of a Khamber man. Jie arrogant hair straight up to the sky, while talking also biting the cigarette butt, laughing, feet "unconsciously" stretched to the table. These behaviors seem to be somewhat inconsistent with Deng Tingliang's title: vice chairman of the Sichuan Association of Scientific Exploration, a famous historian, humanist, researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Since the 1960s, Deng Tingliang spent every year in the snowy mountains and grasslands, he has spent more than ten Spring Festival in the ethnic areas, and sometimes even do not return for the whole year, known as the "yak" professor. "Yak what's wrong with it, no bad habits, just a little capricious," said Deng Tingliang, a lifelong insistence on engaging in humanities, science and adventure, to the reporter. Mountaineering is often cold and hot areas, Deng Tingliang is mostly a solo adventure. The loneliest time, tell yourself a story Deng Tingliang was born in Chongqing in 1943. The research he is now engaged in is full of complete serendipity. When he was 11 years old, he went to play at his brother's place in Songpan, where the peculiar ethnic minority customs and dense primitive forests aroused his interest. Since then, hunting with hunters and visiting folklore became Deng Tingliang's favorite thing to do. Later, he became a rural teacher and a staff member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. When he was still working as a teacher in the history department of Southwest Normal University, Deng Tingliang always longed for the opportunity to explore the secrets of the Hengduan Mountains in Southwest China. Just over the "not confused" years, he made a "capricious" decision: hiking the entire investigation of the Southwest Silk Road, for which he sold his own 24 square meters of a set of huts in downtown Chongqing, and then hitched to the years of savings! ...... "This exploratory trip along the Southwest Silk Road to examine the human geography is a real scientific research experience." 60 kilometers a day, sometimes stopping to visit folk customs, more than 2,000 kilometers long Southwest Silk Road, he surprisingly walked for 2 years. Often, the only company he had was the banging of the kettle, "the loneliest, I really want to cry out loud, sometimes, really can not stand, just tell yourself a story." He has the yak's stubbornness, do not believe that the ancient books said that the cold weather in June, only two pieces of clothing to go on an expedition, the results of the freezing half dead Hard to hard, all the way down, Deng Tingliang obtained a large number of literature and history, and later he wrote according to his own experience of the expedition into the Southwest Silk Road Expedition Notes, the Southwest Silk Road, the Silk Road Culture and many other works. "These are rigorous, not written capriciously," said Deng Tingliang, still chewing on his cigarette butt. One day, he came down from the Miyaro Mountains, to a Tibetan family "begging for food", but he was surprised to find a yak's head on the wall of the household, very interested. Later, he published an article pointing out that not only the local people belonged to the "yak tribe", but also other ethnic groups. In order to understand this "other ethnic groups", Deng Tingliang traveled to Tibet, Yunnan and other places in the next 10 years, and said, "I found that the Naxi people also use the yak as a totem." Sometimes, Deng Yak's stubbornness kicked in and he wanted to pick on the ancients. Dasangling, at an altitude of 3,300 meters, was recorded as snowy and cold in summer. "3300 meters above sea level, is not high, summer cold?" Deng Tingliang do not believe in evil, wearing two pieces of singlet went up. "Mamma, also really cold, freezing half dead, jumping down the mountain." Southwest Hengduan Mountain area as vast as the ocean of folk culture, let Deng Tingliang as mesmerized, he spends a lot of time every year in the snowy mountains and grasslands, in the wilderness, jungle, river valleys, the foothills to visit the rugged, amiable tribal inhabitants. He has spent more than ten Spring Springs in the ethnic areas, sometimes even not returning for the whole year. Last Spring Festival, he also spent 10 days or so in Kehe, the source of the Dadu River in Qinghai, where he had also been on a scientific expedition more than 10 years ago. A strong impression is that the place is even more barren. He used his heart and soul to "record" folklore, he said, later people are afraid that it is not easy to understand the deeper connotations of the ancient traditions Deng Tingliang on the study of ethnic minority sports, from a new perspective found that: Eskimos love the traditional dance and the Sichuan Qiang folk dance "Shalang" has many movements similar to the "Shalang," a folk dance. The Eskimos' traditional dance is very similar to the Sichuan Qiang folk dance "Shalang", and the Eskimos' drums are comparable to the shaman's instruments of ancient peoples from the southwest to the northeast. There are many intriguing mysteries about the influence and spread of culture, especially in prehistoric times when written records were lacking. Starting from seemingly banal cultural phenomena, layers of history can be peeled off. The impact of modern civilization on ancient folklore is enormous, "I'm afraid that many of the people who come after us will not be able to easily understand the deeper connotations of the ancient traditions!" Deng Tingliang sighed.