3. Introduction
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.
Yangzi river, the longest river in China is
right running through the mountain city -
Chongqing where the origin of Bashu
culture generated from.
About Chongqing
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 andtea 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).
4. 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 & Bus & Train station
* Weather
The highest temperature can reach
38℃ in summer
Need to pay attention to sunstroke
5. About AIESEC CQU
AIESEC CQU was founded in early 2008, initially only for students
in Chongqing University, but now it focus on all the university
students of Chongqing. AIESEC CQU has totally 37 members in
IGX,OGX,TM and Finance, of which 13members working in the LC a
leadership role.
Until September,2010, AIESEC CQU has been formed
with a number of cooperation between enterprises in
Chongqing, including Southwestern University Oversea
Consulting Center , Kayaneer, Owen English, Hampson.
And the EP of AIESEC CQU had been sent to Central and
Eastern Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia and South Asia.
At the beginning
of as for the iGCDP
function, we have
launchedmany projects such as “Human Library” ,”Dare to
Dream”, ”HEY! Chongqing”, “HEY!DOVE”, “Empowered Youth”,
and we have provide a very good experience for the exchange
participants from all over the world such as Poland, Lithuania,
Switzerland, Oman, Thailand, Austria, Australia and so on……
7. Tourism Attractions
Chongqing is rich in tourism resources according to not only its mountainous terrain, but
its cultural deposits. In 2012, Chongqing was awarded as “Hot Spring resort of World”.
The Fairy Mountain Black Valley
Dazu Rock Carvings
8. Tradition
Food in Chongqing is very spicy, for friends
is keen on pepper and Chinese prickly ash,
Chongqing is the perfect place for you!
1.ROAST FISH
2.HOTPOT
3.DUCK BLOOD IN CHLI SAUCE
Famous Food
9. Bayu Culture
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.
10. Background of Shu Embroidery
Shu embroidery is renowned for its superb workmanship, smooth and bright in quality. It has
strong expression and artistic effect. The features of it are said as "fine and smooth
needlework, simple and elegant colors, graceful and easy lines and the traditional Chinese
paintings' style ". Its needling characteristics lie in "the even stitches, bright threads,
closeness and softness in texture, and both centrifugal and centripetal needling". The
embroidery takes locally-produced colorful satin and threads as its materials.
Shu embroidery (Shu is the shortened form of Sichuan), also called "Chuan embroidery", is
one of the four famous embroidery styles in China. It has enjoyed high reputation as "a
treasure of Sichuan" ever since the Han Dynasty (206BC-220AD).Shu embroidery is
particularly characterized by the closeness of its stitching, which allows Shu embroiderers to
highlight miniscule details in the subjects they produce. A Shu embroidered piece may
include hundreds of thousands of stitches in a single figure or animal, and may take many
days or even week s to complete.
11. 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.
12. Iris Sun
Team leader of Local Committee CQU 2014-2015
AIESEC in Mainland of China
E-mail: iris.sun@aiesec.net
Mobile: +86 18580258078
Skype: iris.sun_1
contact
Hope to meet you in Chongqing!
