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Entrance to the Provincial Minority Languages Committee, a branch of Provincial Ethnic and Religious Committee.

We spent hours and hours here for a couple of months. Negotiations, discussions, presentations, doubts, persuasions......all took place here. 

Servicios de preservación del idioma xiandao

Ofrecemos una gama de servicios para satisfacer sus necesidades.

Under approval of Yingjiang County Government

What You’ll Find Inside

🔸1. Cultural Exhibition Core — 100 m² of Heritage (100㎡文化展示区)

Explore the full timeline of migration, language, rituals, craftsmanship, and festivals — curated with precision and approved by the Xiandao People’s Cultural Council (仙岛人文化理事会).

Featuring:

  • Full-scale reconstructed dwellings

  • Traditional bamboo crafts and hunting tools

  • Festival scenes recreated with sound and light

  • AR exhibits + the world’s first “Xiandao Language Pronunciation Simulator (仙岛语发音模仿器)”

  • Archival photography & documentary screenings

This is where tradition meets technology.

🔸 2. Outdoor Interactive Zone — Culture You Can Touch

600 m² of hands-on engagement:

  • Traditional rice-pounding trough (舂碓)

  • Folk competitions: archery (射弓) and spinning tops (转陀螺)

  • Craft stations: weaving, dyeing, carving

Think:
A playground for anthropologists.
A festival ground for visitors.
A classroom for the next generation.

🔸 3. Ethnic Culinary Experience Hall (民族食谱体验馆)

A 100 m² culinary center where you can taste the culture:

  • Guoshou Rice Noodles (过手米线)

  • Pounded vegetable dish (舂菜)

  • Seasonal festival meals

  • Open kitchen demonstrations

  • Displays explaining food origins and ecological wisdom (食物起源、采集传统、生态智慧)

This is cultural memory you can eat.

🔸 4. Visitor & Support Zone

Thoughtfully designed facilities:

  • Multi-language visitor center

  • Shaded seating area with long benches

  • Solar-powered eco-friendly toilets (生态厕所)

  • Drinking water and resting areas

  • Parking, landscaping, cultural totems

  • Built with sustainable materials: bamboo-steel composite (竹钢) and solar courtyard lights (太阳能庭院灯)

Why This Project Matters

✔ 1. Cultural Rescue Operation

Language, songs, rituals, oral histories — all documented before they disappear.

Many elder speakers average 82 years old (平均年龄82岁).
This is a last-minute preservation effort.

✔ 2. Rural Revitalization with Real Numbers

Projected community benefits:

  • +20% growth in local products

  • 30%+ employment increase

  • Tourism-driven income

  • Experience-based workshops & cultural products

  • Revenue model: 40% tickets (门票40%) + 30% experiences (体验30%) + 30% cultural products (文创30%)

This is not charity — it’s a sustainable cultural economy.

✔ 3. Community-Led, Legally Protected, Zero Drama

  • 92% approval (92%通过率) at the village assembly

  • Cultural authenticity supervised by Cultural Council’s one-vote veto (一票否决权)

  • Clear land rights

  • 5% guaranteed land-share dividend (5%保障分红)

  • 30% reinvested into the community

This is how preservation should be done!

Government Support & Infrastructure

This project is fully aligned with major policies:

  • Yunnan Provincial Ethnic and Religious Affairs Commission (云南省民宗委)

  • Beautiful Countryside Construction Policy 

  • Designed by Yunnan Provincial Design Institute Group (云南省设计院集团)

Infrastructure is already in place:

  • Road, water, electricity 

  • 4G network, with 5G planned 

Everything is ready.

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