AIESEC SCISU (2015-2016)

Reception Booklet

About Chongqing Yangzi river, the longest river in China is right running through the mountain city-Chongqing where the origin of Bashu culture generated from. For thousands of years, people here immerse themselves in the gorgeous culture and always proud of their unique culture. The carrier of culture Sichuan Opera, Sichuan embroidery and tea art permeate Chongqing people’s life. Chongqing, which means double/repeated happy celebration, is a major city in Southwest China and one of the five national, central cities in the People’s Republic of China(PRC)

Chongqing has a significant history and culture and serves as the economic center of the upstream Yangtze basin. It is a major manufacturing center and transportation hub and in a July 2012 report by the Economist Intelligence Unit, was named as one of the 13 emerging megacities, or megalopolises, in China.

Facts • Population Around 30,000,000 • Language Mandarin(official) Sichuan Dialect • Surrounding Yangtze River & Jialing River Daba Mountain & Huaying Mountain • Traffic Jiangbei international airport Urban light railway system Taxi & Train station • Weather The highest temperature can reach 38℃ in summer Need to pay attention to sunstroke

Light railway

Ropeway

Landmark Architecture

Jiefangbei Chaotianmen

Ciqikou Hongyadong

Chongqing is rich in tourism resources according to not only its mountatinous terrain, but its cultural deposits.

Wulong Youyang

Dazu Rock Carvings

Tourism Attractions

Food in Chongqing is very spicy, for friends is keen on pepper and Chinese prickly ash, Chongqing is the perfect place for you!

1、HOTPOT 2、NOODLES 3、ROAST FISH

Famous Food

Background of Sichuan Opera Sichuan Opera is the face of the special skills of the performing arts one. It is the characters inner thoughts and feelings of the performance of a romantic way. Face approach can be divided into three types-hand face, blowing face, push face.Sichuan Opera is the treasure house of Chinese opera in a Guangcaizhaoren the pearl. It has a long history of keeping the fine traditions of a lot of repertoire, and rich melodies and superb performing arts. Overall the art form is well known for its singing, which is less constrained than that of the more popular Beijing opera form. Sichuan opera is more like a play than other forms of Chinese opera, and the acting is highly polished. The music accompanying Sichuanese opera utilizes a small gong and an instrument called a Muqin,which is similar to the Erhu. The traditional formula is quite systematic with a combination of stunts like face-changing, tihuiyan, sword-hiding, fire-spitting and beard-changing with the plot and different characters.

Bayu Culture

Background of Tea Art The Chinese people, in their drinking of tea, place much significance on the act of ”savoring.””Savoring tea” is not only a way to discern good tea from mediocre tea,but also how people take delight in their reverie and in tea-drinking itself. Snatching a bit of leisure from a busy schedule, making a kettle of strong tea, securing a serene space, and serving and drinking tea by yourself can help banish fatigue and frustration, improve your thinking ability and inspire you with enthusiasm. The sado is take leads a pious life obtains enlightenment drinks the tea art as the objective, contains the betrothal gift, the etiquette, the environment, to lead a pious life four big essential factors. The tea art is the sado foundation, is the sado essential condition, the tea art may the independence exist in the sado. The sado take the tea art as a carrier, depends on each other in the tea art. Tea art key in “skill”, in the custom tea art ,obtains again enjoys esthetically; The sado key point is saying, is for the purpose of cultivating the mind through the tea art grows the soul, perceives through meditation the main road. The tea art connotation is smaller than the sado, the sado connotation containing tea art. The tea art extension is bigger than the sado, its extension is situated between the sado and the tea culture.

Marco Liu Team leader of AIESEC SCISU 2015-2016 in Mainland of China E-mail: marcoliu.liu@aiesec.net Mobile: +86 15683415912 Skype: marcoliu9520

Hope to see you in Chongqing