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BBC：WildChina美丽中国Wild China 美丽中国“Wild China”（中文名：《美丽中国》或《锦绣中华》），由英国BBC自然历史制作小组和中国中视传媒联合制作，拍摄时间历经3年，摄制组踏过了26个省、直辖市和自治区，拍摄了50多个国家级的野生动植物和风景保护区，86种中国珍奇野生动植物，还有30多个民族的生活故事。

从极北的赫哲人的生活、到桂林的船上人家，从中华民族标志性的长城、到西南边陲的苗族村寨，从青藏高原的藏羚羊，到秦岭的野生大熊猫，再到云南的亚洲象……不论是风土，还是人情，都在这6个小时的全景描述当中，用美丽的镜头呈现了出来。

即使是对很多中国人来说，也是第一次看到中国鲜为人知的一面。

第01集锦绣华南第02集云翔天边第03集神奇高原第04集风雪塞外第05集沃土中原第06集潮涌海岸影评:波澜壮阔的《美丽中国》文：铁志如果说BBC的《行星地球》产生了一次视觉上的震慑的话，那么,《美丽中国》就是一次心灵上的清洗。

一、国内外纪录片的角度对于这次记录首先说一下拍纪录片的角度，纪录片贯彻的宗旨就是客观，客观是纪录片本质，我国很多纪录片，尤其央视的格调与世界上其它国家迥然不同，其原因在于我们常常把纪录片拍成宣传片，当一个记录轻飘飘的煽情与美化时它也变的不足为信甚至让人反感，失去了呈现真实，揭露真相，纪录片也就变的没有力量。

有人说《美丽中国》肤浅时，我们想一下《迁徙的鸟》，全片几乎没有什么对白，但是震撼了全世界人的心，因为有太多看似简单的事物却被我们忽视了，纪录片的工作就是用心来观察周围任何看的到的事物。

就好像在中国，我们周围有很多的穷人、沿街乞讨乞丐，当他屈膝于你时，你可能和你女朋友厌恶地躲开了。

但是各个论坛都在发什么最震撼国人照片，这个时候你又被莫名其妙的感动了。

这不是在说现代人的虚伪和被蒙蔽，而是在说一个好纪录片不在于把一个事物诠释的多么全面与挖掘的多深，比方泱泱中国怎么可能用6集就展示它的美？六万集都不够，而是如何把与我们生活息息相关的东西深入浅出的表现出来。

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NARRATOR: The last hidden world,China.For centuries, travellers to China have told tales of magical landscapesand surprising creatures.Chinese civilisation is the world's oldestand today, its largest,with well over a billion people.It's home to more than 50 distinct ethnic groupsand a wide range of traditional lifestyles,often in close partnership with nature.We know that China faces immense social and environmental problems.But there is great beauty here, too.China is home to the world's highest mountains,vast deserts ranging from searing hotto mind-numbing cold.Steaming forests harbouring rare creatures.Grassy plains beneath vast horizons.And rich tropical seas.Now for the first time ever,we can explore the whole of this great country,meet some of the surprising and exotic creatures that live hereand consider the relationship of the people and wildlife of Chinato the remarkable landscape in which they live.This is Wild China.Our exploration of China begins in the warm, subtropical south.On the Li River, fishermen and birds perch on bamboo rafts, a partnership that goes back more than a thousand years. This scenery is known throughout the world,a recurring motif in Chinese paintings.And a major tourist attraction.The south of China is a vast area,eight times larger than the UK.It's a landscape of hills but also of water.(THUNDER RUMBLING)It rains here for up to 250 days a year,and standing water is everywhere.(THUNDER RUMBLING)In the floodplain of the Yangtze River,black-tailed godwits probe the mud in search of worms.But isn't just wildlife that thrives in this environment. The swampy ground provides ideal conditionsfor a remarkable member of the grass family.Rice.The Chinese have been cultivating rice for at least 8,000 years.It has transformed the landscape.Late winter in southern Yunnan is a busy time for local farmers as they prepare the age-old paddy fields ready for the coming spring.These hill slopes of the Yuanyang County plunge nearly 2,000 metresto the floor of the Red River valley.Each contains literally thousands of stacked terraces carved out by hand using basic digging tools.Yunnan's rice terraces are among the oldest human structures in China.Still ploughed, as they always have been,by domesticated water buffaloes,whose ancestors originated in these very valleys.This man-made landscapeis one of the most amazing engineering featsof pre-industrial China.It seems as if every square inch of landhas been pressed into cultivation.As evening approaches, an age-old ritual unfolds.It's the mating seasonand male paddy frogs are competing for the attention of the females.But it doesn't always pay to draw too much attention to yourself.The Chinese pond heron is a pitiless predator. (SQUAWKS)Even in the middle of a ploughed paddy field,nature is red in beak and claw.This may look like a slaughterbut as each heron can swallow only one frog at a time,the vast majority will escape to croak another day. Terraced paddies like those of the Yuanyang Countyare found across much of southern China.This whole vast landscape is dominated by rice cultivation. In hilly Guizhou Province,the Miao minority have developed a remarkable rice culture. With every inch of fertile land given over to rice cultivation,the Miao build their wooden houseson the steepest and least productive hillsides.In Chinese rural life, everything has a use.Dried in the sun, manure from the cow shedswill be used as cooking fuel.(WOMEN CHATTERING IN CHINESE)It's midday, and the Song familyare tucking into a lunch of rice and vegetables. (SPEAKING IN CHINESE)Oblivious to the domestic chit-chat,Granddad Gu Yong Xiu has serious matters on his mind. Spring is the start of the rice growing season.The success of the crop will determine how well the family will eat next year,so planting at the right time is critical.The ideal date depends on what the weather will do this year, never easy to predict.But there is some surprising help at hand.On the ceiling of the Songs' living room, a pair of red-rumped swallows,newly arrived from their winter migration,is busy fixing up last year's nest.In China, animals are valued as much for their symbolic meaningas for any good they may do.Miao people believe that swallow pairs remain faithful for life,so their presence is a favour and a blessing,bringing happiness to a marriage and good luck to a home. Like most Miao dwellings, the Songs' living room windows look out over the paddy fields.From early spring, one of these windows is always left open to let the swallows come and go freely.Each year, granddad Gu notes the exact day the swallows return.Miao people believe the birds' arrival predicts the timing of the season ahead.This year, they were late.So Gu and the other community elders have agreedthat rice planting should be delayed accordingly.As the Miao prepare their fields for planting,the swallows collect mud to repair their nestsand chase after insects across the newly ploughed paddies.Finally, after weeks of preparation,the ordained time for planting has arrived.But first the seedlings must be uprooted from the nursery beds and bundled up ready to be transported to their new paddy higher up the hillside.All the Songs' neighbours have turned out to help with the transplanting.It's how the community has always worked.When the time comes, the Songs will return the favour. While the farmers are busy in the fields,the swallows fly back and forth with material for their nest. Many hands make light work.Planting the new paddy takes little more than an hour.Job done, the villagers can relax,at least until tomorrow.But for the nesting swallows, the work of raising a family has only just begun.In the newly planted fields, little egrets hunt for food. The rice paddies harbour tadpoles, fish and insectsand the egrets have chicks to feed.This colony in Chongqing Province was established in 1996, when a few dozen birds built nests in the bamboo grovebehind Yang Guang village.Believing they were a sign of luck,local people initially protected the egrets and the colony grew.But their attitude changed when the head of the village fell ill.They blamed the birds and were all set to destroy their nests, when the local government stepped in to protect them. Bendy bamboo may not be the safest nesting place,but at least this youngster won't end up as someone's dinner. These chicks have just had an eel delivered by their mum, quite a challenge for little beaks.(CHIRPING)Providing their colonies are protected,wading birds like egrets are among the few wild creatures which benefit directly from intensive rice cultivation. Growing rice needs lots of water.But even in the rainy south,there are landscapes where water is surprisingly scarce. This vast area of southwest China,the size of France and Spain combined,is famous for its clusters of conical hills,like giant upturned egg cartons, separated by dry empty valleys.This is the karst, a limestone terrainwhich has become the defining image of southern China. Karst landscapes are often studded with rocky outcrops, forcing local farmers to cultivate tiny fields.The people who live here are among the poorest in China.In neighbouring Yunnan Province,limestone rocks have taken over entirely.This is the famous Stone Forest,the product of countless years of erosion,producing a maze of deep gullies and sharp-edged pinnacles. Limestone has the strange property that it dissolves in rainwater.Over many thousands of years water has corroded its way deep into the heart of the bedrock itself.This natural wonder is a famous tourist spot,receiving close to two million visitors each year.The Chinese are fond of curiously-shaped rocksand many have been given fanciful names.No prizes for guessing what this one is called!But there's more to this landscape than meets the eye.China has literally thousands of mysterious caverns concealed beneath the visible landscape of the karst.Much of this hidden world has never been seen by human eyes and is only just now being explored.(MAN SPEAKING CHINESE)For a growing band of intrepid young Chinese explorers, caves represent the ultimate adventure.Exploring a cave is like taking a journey through time. Ajourney which endless raindrops will have followed over countless centuries.Fed by countless drips and trickles,the subterranean river carves ever deeper into the rock. The cave river's course is channelled by the beds of limestone.A weakness in the rock can allow the riverto increase its gradient and flow-rate,providing a real challenge for the cave explorers.The downward rush is halted when the water table is reached. Here the slow-flowing river carves tunnels with a more rounded profile.(MEN CHATTERING)This tranquil world is home to specialised cave fishes,like the eyeless golden barb.China may have more unique kinds of cave-evolved fishes than anywhere else on earth.Above the water table,ancient caverns abandoned by the river slowly fill upwith stalactites and stalagmites.Stalactites form as trickling water deposits tiny quantities of rockover hundreds or thousands of years.Stalagmites grow up where lime-laden drips hit the cave floor. Oi!Whoo-hoo!So far, only a fraction of China's caves have been thoroughly prospectedand cavers are constantly discovering new subterranean marvels,many of which are subsequently developed into commercial show caves.Finally escaping the darkness,the cave river and its human explorers emerge in a valley far from where their journey began.For now, the adventure is over.Rivers which issue from cavesare the key to survival in the karst country.This vertical gorge in Guizhou Provinceis a focal point for the region's wildlife.This is one of the world's rarest primates,Fran鏾is' langur.In China they survive in just two southern provinces, Guizhou and Guangxi, always in rugged limestone terrains. Like most monkeys, they are social creaturesand spend a great deal of time grooming each other.Langurs are essentially vegetarianwith a diet of buds, fruits and tender young leaves.Babies are born with ginger fur,which gradually turns black from the tail end.Young infants have a vice-like grip, used to cling on to mum for dear life.As they get older, they get bolder and take more risks. Those that survive spend a lot of time travelling.The experienced adults know exactly where to find seasonal foodsin different parts of their range.In such steep terrain, travel involves a high level ofclimbing skill.These monkeys are spectacularly good rock climbersfrom the time they learn to walk.In langur society, females rule the roostand take the lead when the family is on the move.One section of cliff oozes a trickle of mineral-rich water which the monkeys seem to find irresistible.These days there are few predators in the Mayanghe Reserve which might pose a risk to a baby monkey.But in past centuries, this area of south Chinawas home to leopards, pythons and even tigers.To survive dangerous night prowlers, the langurs went underground,using their rock-climbing skills to seek shelter in inaccessible caverns.Filmed in near darkness using a night vision camera,the troop clambers along familiar ledgesworn smooth by generations before them.During cold winter weather, the monkeys venture deeper undergroundwhere the air stays comparatively warm.At last, journey's end.A cosy niche beyond the reach of even the most enterprising predator.But it's not just monkeys that find shelter in caves. These children are off to school.In rural China that may mean a long trek each morning, passing through a cave or two on the way.But not all pupils have to walk to school.These children are boarders.(LAUGHING)As the day pupils near journey's end,the boarders are still making breakfast.In the schoolyard, someone seems to have switched the lights off.But this is no ordinary playground, and no ordinary school. It's housed inside a cave!A natural vault of rock keeps out the rainso there's no need for a roof on the classroom.Zhongdong cave school is made up of six classes,with a total of 200 children.As well as the school, the cave houses 18 families, together with their livestock.(COW MOOING)These could be the only cave-dwelling cows on earth.(PIG SQUEALS)With schoolwork over, it's playtime at last.In southern China, caves aren't just used for shelter,they can be a source of revenue for the community.People have been visiting this cave for generations.The cave floor is covered in guano,so plentiful that 10 minutes' work can fill these farmer's baskets.It's used as a valuable source of fertilizer.A clue to the source of the guano can be heard above the noise of the river.The sound originates high up in the roof of the cave.The entrance is full of swifts.They're very sociable birds.More than 200,000 of them share this cavein southern Guizhou Province, the biggest swift colony in China.These days, Chinese house swifts mostly nest in the roofs of buildings,but rock crevices like these were their original home,long before houses were invented.Though the swifts depend on the cave for shelter,they never stray further than the limits of daylight,as their eyes can't see in the dark.However, deep inside the cavern,other creatures are better equipped for subterranean life.A colony of bats is just waking up,using ultrasonic squeaks to orientate themselves in the darkness.Night is the time to go hunting.Rickett's mouse-eared bat is the only bat in Asiawhich specialises in catching fishes,tracking them down from the sound reflection of rippleson the water surface.This extraordinary behaviourwas only discovered in the last couple of years,and has never been filmed before.If catching fish in the dark is impressive,imagine eating a slippery minnow with no hands while hanging upside down.Dawn over the karst hills of Guilin.These remarkable hills owe their peculiar shapesto the mildly acid waters of the Li River,whose meandering course over eons of timehas corroded away their bases until only the rocky cores remain.The Li is one of the cleanest rivers in China,a favourite spot for fishermen with their trained cormorants. (SPEAKING IN CHINESE)The men, all called Huang, come from the same village.Now in their 70s and 80s, they've been fishermen all their lives.Before they release the birds, they tie a noose loosely around the neckto stop them swallowing any fish they may catch. (SPLASHING)Chanting and dancing,the Huangs encourage their birds to take the plunge. Underwater, the cormorant's hunting instinct kicks in, turning them into fish-seeking missiles.(CHANTING)Working together, a good cormorant teamcan catch a couple of dozen decent-sized fish in a morning. (FISHERMEN EXCLAIMING)The birds return to the raft with their fishbecause they've been trained to do so.From the time it first hatched, each of these cormorants has been rearedto a life of obedience to its master.The birds are, in effect, slaves.But they're not stupid.It's said that cormorants can keep a tally of the fish they catch,at least up to seven.So unless they get a reward now and then they simply withdraw their labour.The fishermen, of course, keep the best fish for themselves. The cormorants get the leftover tiddlers.With its collar removed, the bird at last can swallow its prize.Best of all, one it isn't meant to have!(FISHERMAN SHOUTING)These days, competition from modern fishing techniques means the Huangs can't make a livingfrom traditional cormorant fishing alone.And this 1,300-year-old traditionis now practised mostly to entertain tourists.But on Caohai Lake in nearby Guizhou Province,an even more unusual fishing industry is alive and well. Geng Zhong Sheng is on his way to set out his nets for the night.Geng's net is a strange tubular contraption with a closed-off end.More than a hundred fishermen make their living from the lake. Its mineral-rich waters are highly productive,and there are nets everywhere.The next morning, Geng returns with his son to collect his catch.(SPEAKING CHINESE)At first sight, it looks disappointing.Tiny fishes, lots of shrimps, and some wriggling bugs. Geng doesn't seem too downhearted.The larger fish are kept alive,the only way they'll stay fresh in the heat.Surprisingly, some of the bugs are also singled out for special treatment.They're the young stage of dragonflies,predators that feed on worms and tadpoles.Nowhere else in the world are dragonfly nymphs harvested likethis.Back home, Geng spreads his catch on the roof to dry.This being China, nothing edible will be wasted.There's a saying in the far south,"We will eat anything with legs except a table,"and anything with wings except a plane."Within a few hours, the dried insects are ready to be bagged upand taken to market.It's the dragonfly nymphs that fetch the best price. Fortunately, Caohai's dragonflies are abundant and fast-breeding.So Geng and his fellow fishermenhave so far had little impact on their numbers.But not all wildlife is so resilient.(MONKS CHANTING)This Buddhist temple near Shanghai has an extraordinary story attached to it.In May 2007, a Wild China camera teamfilmed this peculiar Swinhoe's turtle in the temple's fish pond.According to the monks, the turtle had been given to the templeduring the Ming dynasty, over 400 years ago.It was thought to be the oldest animal on earth.Soft-shelled turtles are considered a gourmet delicacy by many Chinese,and when it was filmed,this was one of just three Swinhoe's turtles left alive in China,the rest of its kind having been rounded up and eaten. Sadly, just a few weeks after filming,this ancient creature died.The remaining individuals of its species are currently kept in separate zoosand Swinhoe's turtle is now reckoned extinct in the wild.In fact, most of the 25 types of freshwater turtles in China are now vanishingly rare.The answer to extinction is protection.And there is now a growing network of nature reserves throughout southern China.Of these, the Tianzi Mountain Reserve at Zhangjiajie is perhapsthe most visited by Chinese nature lovers,who come to marvel at the gravity-defying landscapeof soaring sandstone pinnacles.Winding between Zhangjiajie's peaks, crystal clear mountain streamsare home to what is perhaps China's strangest creature. This bizarre animal is a type of newt,the Chinese giant salamander.In China it is known as the baby fishbecause when distressed it makes a sound like a crying infant. It grows up to a metre and a half long,making it the world's largest amphibian.Under natural conditions, a giant salamander may live for decades.But like so many Chinese animals, it is considered delicious to eat.Despite being classed as a protected species,giant salamanders are still illegally sold for foodand the baby fish is now rare and endangered in the wild. Fortunately, in a few areas like Zhangjiajie,giant salamanders still survive under strict official protection.The rivers of Zhangjiajie flow north east into the Yangtze floodplain,known as The Land of Fish and Rice.On an island in a lake in Anhui Province,a dragon is stirring.This is the ancestral home of China's largest and rarest reptile,a creature of mystery and legend.Dragon eggs are greatly prized.These babies need to hatch out quick!It would seem someone is on their trail.For a helpless baby reptile,imprisoned in a leathery membrane inside a chalky shell, the process of hatching is a titanic struggle.And time is running out.(CHIRPING)It's taken two hoursfor the little dragon to get its head out of the egg.It needs to gather its strength now,for one final, massive push.Free at last,the baby Chinese alligators instinctively head upwards towards the surface of the nest and the waiting outside world. (CHATTERING)But the visitors are not what they seem.(BOTH SPEAKING CHINESE)She Shizhen and her son live nearby.She has been caring for her local alligators for over 20 years, so she had a fair idea when the eggs were likely to hatch. Back home, she's built a pond surrounded by netting to keep out predators,where her charges will spend the next six monthsuntil they're big enough to fend for themselves.For the past 20 years,small-scale conservation projects like thisare all that have kept China's 150 wild alligators from extinction.Just south of the alligator country,dawn breaks over a very different landscape.The 1,800-metre-high granite peaks of the Huangshan or Yellow Mountain.To the Chinese, Huangshan's pines epitomisethe strength and resilience of nature.Some of these trees are thought to be over 1,000 years old. Below the granite peaks,steep forested valleys shelter surprising inhabitants.Huangshan macaques, rare descendants of the Tibetan macaques of western China,are unique to these mountain valleyswhere they enjoy strict official protection. (SCREECHING)After a morning spent in the treetops,the troop is heading for the shade of the valley.A chance for the grown-ups to escape the heatand maybe pick up a lunch snack from the stream.As in most monkey societies,social contact involves a lot of grooming.Grooming is all very well for grown-ups,but young macaques have energy to burn.(SCREECHING)Like so much monkey business,what starts off as a bit of playful rough-and-tumble,soon begins to get out of hand.The alpha male has seen it all before.He's not in the least bothered.But someone, or something, is watching,with a less than friendly interest.The Chinese moccasin is an ambush predator with a deadly bite.This is one of China's largest and most feared venomous snakes.But the monkeys have lived alongside these dangerous serpents for thousands of years.(MONKEYS SCREECHING)They use this specific alarm call to warn each other whenever a snake is spotted.Once its cover is blown, the viper poses no threat to the monkeys,now safe in the treetops.And life soon returns to normal.By late summer, the rice fields of southern China have turned to gold.The time has come to bring in the harvest.Nowadays, modern high-yield strainsare grown throughout much of the rice lands,boosted by chemical fertilizers and reaped by combine harvesters.This is the great rice bowl of China,producing a quarter of the world's rice.Insects, stirred up by the noisy machines,are snapped up by gangs of red-rumped swallows,including this year's youngsters,who will have fledged several weeks ago.This could be their last good feast before they head south for the winter.Mechanized farming works bestin the flat-bottomed valleys of the lowlands.To the south, in the terraced hills of Zhejiang Province, an older and simpler lifestyle persists.It's 7:00 in the morningand Longxian's most successful businessman is off to work. In the golden terraces surrounding the villagethe ears of rice are plump and ripe for harvesting.But today, rice isn't uppermost in Mr Yang's mind.He has bigger fish to fry.Further up the valley, the harvest has already begun.Yang's fields are ripe, too, but they haven't been drained yet.That's because for him, rice is not the main crop.The baskets he's carried up the hillside give a clue to Yang's business.But before he starts work,he needs to let some water out of the system.As the water level drops, the mystery is revealed.Golden carp.Longxian villagers discovered the benefits of transferring wild caught carp into their paddy fields long ago.The tradition has been going on here for at least 700 years. As the water level in the paddy drops, bamboo gates stop the fish escaping.The beauty of this farming methodis that it delivers two crops from the same field at the same time.Fish and rice.Smart ecology like this is what enables Chinato be largely self-sufficient in food, even today.Back in the village, Yang has his own smokehousewhere he preserves his fish ready for market.Longxian carp have unusually soft scales and a very delicate flavour,perhaps as a result of the local water.Meanwhile, outside the smokehouse,there's something fishy going on.(PEOPLE CHATTERING)To mark the harvest, the village is staging a party.Children from Longxian schoolhave spent weeks preparing for their big moment.Everyone from the community is here to support them.The rice growing cycle is complete.By November, northern China is becoming distinctly chilly. But the south is still relatively warm and welcoming. Across the vast expanse of Poyang Lake, the birds are gathering.Tundra swans are long-distance migrants from northern Siberia.To the Chinese, they symbolise the essence of natural beauty. The Poyang Lake Nature Reserve offers winter refugeto more than a quarter of a million birdsfrom more than 100 species,creating one of southern China's finest wildlife experiences. The last birds to arrive at Poyangare those which have made the longest journey to get here, all the way from the Arctic coast of Siberia.The Siberian crane, known in China as the white crane,is seen as a symbol of good luck.Each year, almost the entire world populationof these critically endangered birdsmake a 9,000-kilometre roundtripto spend the winter at Poyang.Like the white cranes, many of south China's unique animals face pressure from exploitation and competition with people over space and resources.But if China is living proof of anything,it is that wildlife is surprisingly resilient.Given the right help,even the rarest creatures can return from the brink.If we show the will, nature will find the way.（注：可编辑下载，若有不当之处，请指正，谢谢!）。

BBC美丽中国（1—6集）

BBC美丽中国（1—6集）
BBC美丽中国（1—6集）
BBC 美丽中国
BBC Wild China
【内容简介】
《美丽中国》是由中英联合摄制小组拍摄的一部关于中国野生动物和自然风光的系列记录片，其中有些野生动物和风景的镜头从未在银幕上出现过。

这部系列片将成为中英两国联合电视制作的一个里程碑，片名为《美丽中国》，在北京的一个典礼上上映，现场观众有幸对这一将成为经典之作的记录片投以惊鸿一瞥。

《美丽中国》由世界闻名的英国BBC自然历史制作小组和中央电视台影视制作主力——中视传媒——合作制作。

该片也是BBC和中国
电视台的首次合作。

《美丽中国》将全部以高清晰度方式拍摄，将使观众置身于中国的多彩风光中，包括汉代宫殿、蒙古草原和维吾尔的沙漠、丝绸之路、青藏高原。

影片还包括罕见的大熊猫和一种珍稀的中国特有的食鱼蝙蝠的珍贵生活记录。

BBC环球公司已经授权全球超过25个国家可播放《美丽中国》系列片，今后这一数字还将扩大。

英国驻华大使欧威廉爵士在谈到这一系列片对中英两国关系的重要性时说：“《美丽中国》是一部具有空前雄心壮志的自然历史系列片。

该片的成功拍摄及制作不仅是两国电视节目制作合作的成功，也是中英两国创意产业领域的一次成功合作。

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美丽中国第一集（中文版）
美丽中国第二集（中文版）
美丽中国第三集（中文版）
美丽中国第四集（中文版）
美丽中国第五集（中文版）
美丽中国第六集（中文版）。

《美丽中国》是中央电视台（CCTV）和英国广播公司（BBC）联合摄制的作品

《美丽中国》是中央电视台（CCTV）和英国广播公司
（BBC）联合摄制的作品
《美丽中国》是中央电视台（CCTV）和英国广播公司（BBC）联合摄制的作品。

影片从长江以南的稻米之乡开始，到酷热的西双版纳雨林，极寒的珠穆朗玛峰，中国的标志长城，中华文化发源地黄河流域以及蜿蜒曲折的1.8万公里海岸线等。

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05、沃土中原
06、潮涌海岸。

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Beneath billowing clouds,in China's far southwestern Yunnan province,lies a place of mystery and legend.Of mighty rivers and some ofthe oldest jungles in the world.Here, hidden valleys nurture strangeand unique creatures,and colourful tribal cultures.Jungles are rarely found thisfar north of the tropics.So, why do they thrive here?And how has this rugged landscape come to harbour the greatest natural wealth in all China?In the remote southwest corner of China,a celebration is about to take place.Dai people collect water forthe most important festival of their year.The Dai call themselves the people of the water. Yunnan's river valleys have been their homefor over , years.By bringing the river water to the temple,they honour the two things holiest to them - Buddhism and their home.The Dai give thanks for the rivers and fertile lands which have nurtured their culture.Though to some it might seem just an excusefor the biggest water fight of all time.Dai lives are changingas towns get bigger and modernizebut the Water Splashing Festivalis still celebrated by all.The rivers which lie at the heart ofDai life and cultureflow from the distant mountains of Tibet, southward through central Yunnanin great parallel gorges.The Dai now live in the borders of tropical Vietnam and Laos,but their legends tell ofhow their ancestors came hereby following the rivers from mountain landsin the cold far north.Lying at the far eastern end of the Himalayas, the Hengduan mountains form Yunnan'snorthern border with Tibet.Kawakarpo, crown of the Hengduan range,is a site of holy pilgrimage.Yet, its formidable peak remains unconquered. Yunnan's mountains are remote,rugged and inaccessible.Here the air is thin and temperaturescan drop below minus degrees.This is home to an animal that's foundnowhere else on Earth.The Yunnan snub-nosed monkey.It's found only in these fewisolated mountain forests.No other primate lives at such high altitudes. but these are true specialists.These ancient mountain dwellershave inspired legends.Local Lisu people consider them their ancestors, calling them "the wild men of the mountains". During heavy snowfalls,even these specialists cannot feed.It seems a strange place for a monkey.Between snows, the monkeys wasteno time in their search for food.At this altitude,there are few fruits or tender leaves to eat.% of their diet is made up ofthe fine dry wisps of a curious organism.Half fungus, half plant -it's lichen.How have monkeys,normally associated with lowland jungle,come to live such aremote mountain existence?This is not the only remarkableanimal found within theseisolated high peaks.A Chinese red panda.Solitary and quiet, it spends muchof its time in the tree tops.Despite its name,the red panda is only a very distantrelative of the giant panda.It's actually more closelyrelated to a skunk.But it does share the giantpanda's taste for bamboo.Southwest China's red pandas are known for their very strongfacial markingswhich distinguishthem from red pandas foundanywhere else in the Himalayas.Like the monkeys, they wereisolated in these high forestswhen the mountains quiteliterally rose beneath themin the greatest mountain-building event in recent geological history. Over the last million years,the Indian subcontinent has been pushing northwards into Eurasia.On the border between India and Tibet the rocks have been raisedeight kilometres above sea level, creating the world's highest mountain range, the Himalayas.But to the east,the rocks have buckled into a series of steep north-south ridges,cutting down through theheart of Yunnan,the parallel mountains ofthe Hengduan Shan.These natural barriers serve to isolate Yunnan's plants and animals in each adjacent valley.While the huge temperaturerange between the snowy peaksand the warmer slopes belowprovides a vast array ofconditions for life to thrive. Through spring,the Hengduan slopes stage one of China's greatest natural spectacles. The forests here are among the most diverse botanical areas in the world. Over , plant species grow here,of which , are foundnowhere else.Until little more than a century ago, this place was unknown outside China. But then news reached the Westof a mysterious, hiddenworld of the orient.Hidden among the mountains,a lost Shangri-la paradise.Western high society, in the gripof a gardening craze,was eager for exotic speciesfrom faraway places.This gave rise to a newbreed of celebrity adventurers, intrepid botanist-explorersknown as "the Plant Hunters".Yunnan became their Holy Grail. Indiana JonesThe most famous was Joseph Rock,a real life Indiana Jones. Remarkable film footage captured his entourage on a series of expeditions, as they pushed into thedeepest corners of Yunnan.In glorious colour he recordedthe plant life he foundon special photographic glass plates. Sending thousands ofspecimens back to the West,the Plant Hunters changed the gardens of the world forever.Rock's success was bornof a massive effort.For, to find his Shangri-la,not only had he to traverseendless mountain ranges,but some of the deepestgorges in the world.The Nujiang is calledThe Angry River.This -kilometre stretchof raging rapidsis as much a barrier to lifeas are the mountains above.WAVES CRASHBut the plant hunters weren't the first people to travel here.Along the Nujiang,less than rope crossings allow locals passage across the torrents. Tiny hamlets cling to the slopes. This morning, it's market day, drawing people from upand down the valley.PIG OINKSGOAT BLEATSHanging from simple rope slings, people have been using the crossings for many hundreds of years.In such narrow, precipitous gorgesit's by far the easiestway to get around.Once across, the steepsides mean it's still a hike.Many trek for hours byfoot before they get to the market. The immense valley ishome to over a dozen ethnic groups. Some, like the Nu people,are found only here.The markets bring themountain tribes together.To continue his expeditions,Rock had to get his entire entourage across the giant Yunnan rivers.He commissioned especially thick ropes made from forest rattanand filmed the entire event.With yak butter to smooth the ride, men and mules made the journey. Not all made it across.On the far side of thegreat Nujiang gorge,the Plant Huntersmade a remarkable discovery.Far from the tropics,they seemed to be entering a steamy,vibrant tropical jungle,the forest of Gaoligongshan.The flora here is unlikeanywhere else in the world.Next to subtropical species,alpine plants grow in giant form. Crowning the canopy, rhododendrons, up to metres high.In April and May, their flowersturn the forests ruby red,attracting bird speciesfound only here.Constant moisture in the airmeans that the branches are laden with flowering epiphytes,fiercely guarded by tiny sunbirds, unique to these valleys.Nectar feeders, these are the humming birds of the Old World tropics.The forests of Gaoligongshan are home to some of China's rarest wildlife. This is a female Temminck's Tragopan. She has a colourful male admirer.He's hoping to woo her with his peculiar peekaboo displaybut she's not about to be rushed.His colourful skin wattlereflects more light than feathers do. To her, this is like a neon sign. Seeing his chance,the male makes his move.Constant moisture inthe Gaoligongshan forestsmeans that throughout the yearthere are always fruits on the trees. Such abundance of food encouragesa high diversity of fruit eaters more commonly found in the tropics. The black giant squirrel is found only in undisturbed rainforest.At close to a metre in length, it's one of the world's largest squirrels. The mystery is that these forestsare growing well outside the tropics.By rights, none of this jungle,or its animals, should be here. These are bear macaques.They're found only intropical and sub-tropical jungle. With a tiny home range ofjust a few square kilometres,they depend on the abundant fruit that only true rainforestscan provide all year round.To the European plant hunters,these northern rainforests must have seemed a fantastic andmysterious lost world.Yet, when they came here, they would have found beautifully constructed ancient stone pathwayson which the forestcould be explored.Winding westwards into the hills, these were once some of the most important highways in Asia,the southwestern tea and silk road. Built thousands of years ago,the southwestern tea and silk road gave access to the worldbeyond China's borders,carrying tradesmen and travellers from as far away as Rome.Wars were fought over accessto this tiny path,the only sure route inor out of China,that was guaranteed tobe clear of snow all year round. So, what causes Gaoligongshan's strange and remarkable climate?In late May, gusts of wind arrive, bringing with them the key to Gaoligongshan's mystery.The winds are hotand saturated with water.They come all the wayfrom the Indian Ocean.Channelled by Yunnan'sunique geography,they bring with them themoisture of the tropical monsoon. The giant river valleys,created millions of years ago,act like immense funnels.The gorges are so deep and narrow, that the moist warm air is driven right up into the north of Yunnan. The result is rain, in torrents! Four months of daily rainstorms sustain luxuriant vegetation.The arrival of the monsoonawakens one of the forest'smost extraordinarymoisture-loving inhabitants.The crocodile newt is one ofthe most unusual of the many amphibian species found here.As the rains arrive,they emerge to mate.The newts are said toleave an odour trail thatpotential mates can follow.The crocodile newt gets its name from the bumps along its back. These are its defence.If grabbed by a potential predator, the tips of its ribs squeeze a deadly poison from the bumps.The deluge wakesanother forest inhabitant.This one is particularly astounding in its vigour!It can grow up to a metre a day, fast overtaking the otherplants around it.The taller it grows,the faster its growth rate,so that in a matter of days it towers above the undergrowth,and continues reaching for the sky. Not bad for what isessentially a grass.It's bamboo.Given the chance,bamboo will create immense forests, dominating entire areas.Bamboo forests occuracross southwest China,all the way to Shanghai.But probably the highest diversityof bamboos in the worldis found on the hillsand valleys of Yunnan.Though incredibly strong,bamboos have hollow stems,a perfect shelter for anycreatures which can find a way in. This entrance holewas made by a beetlebut it's being used by avery different animal.A bamboo bat.The size of a bumblebee, it's oneof the tiniest mammals in the world. The entire colony, up to bats,fits into a single section of bamboo stem, smaller than a tea cup. It's quite a squeeze!Half the colony are babies.Though barely a week old, they are already almost as big as their mums. Feeding such a fast-growingbrood is hard work.The mums leave to huntjust after dusk each night.Back in the roost,the young are left on their own. Special pads on their wings help them to grip on the bamboo walls -most of the time.The young bats use the extra space to prepare for a life on the wingby preening and stretching.Packed in like sardines, they would make an easy target for a snake.But the snake has nochance of getting in.The entrance is thinnerthan the width of a pencil.When the mothers return,they can push through the narrowentrance only because oftheir unusually flattened skulls.But it's still a squeeze.Bamboos are exploited in a verydifferent way by another forest dweller.Fresh bamboo shoots arean important forest crop.Ai Lao Xiang is of the Hani tribe,from the mountain village of Mengsong. Roasted, the tender shoots hegathers will make a tasty dish.The Hani have many uses for thedifferent bamboos they growand find in the forest around.Though flexible enough to be woven,bamboo has a highertensile strength than steel.Succulent when young,in maturity it's tough and durable,ideal for making a tableand strong enough for a pipe to last a lifetime. The people of southwest Chinahave found an extraordinary number ofways to exploit this mostversatile of plants.THEY SPEAK IN NATIVE LANGUAGEPart of bamboo's phenomenal successis that it's so toughthat few animals can tackle it.Yet, bamboo does come under attack.A bamboo rat.Feeding almost exclusively on bamboo,they live their entire lives intunnels beneath the forest.The thinner species of bambooare easy to attack and pull below.She has a fantastic sense of smelland can sniff out the freshgrowth through the soil.Bamboo spreads along underground stems. By following these, new shoots are found. Once a shoot is detected,she snips it free and dragsit down into her burrow.This female has a family.At just a few weeks old,the youngsters can already tacklethe hardest bamboo stemsand are eager to try.Bamboo's tough reputation is such,that another bamboo specialist wasknown by the Chinese as,"The Iron Eating Animal".The giant panda is famousfor its exclusive diet.Giant pandas are thought tohave originated in southwestChina, millions of years ago,but they are no longerfound in Yunnan.Recently, their specialiseddiet has had dire consequences.Bamboo has a bizarre life cycle, flowering infrequently, sometimesonly once every hundred years or so.But when flowering does occur,it's on a massive scale,and it's followed by thedeath of all of the plants.Sometimes an entirebamboo forest may die.In undisturbed habitat, pandassimply move to another areawhere a different bamboo species grows. But as human activity has fragmentedtheir forest home,pandas find it increasingly hard tofind large enough areasin which to survive.Wild pandas are now found onlyin the forests of Central China,far to the east.But in the hidden pockets of lowland jungle in Yunnan's tropical south,live one of China'sbest-kept wildlife secrets.DEEP BELLOWThe wild Asian elephant.Elephants once roamed acrossChina as far north as Beijing.But it's only in the hidden valleysof Yunnan that they have survived. Elephants are thearchitects of the forest.Bamboos and grasses are theirfavourite foodbut saplings, tree leaves andtwisted lianas are alltaken, with little care.As they move through the forest,the elephants open up clearings, bringing light to the forest floor. This has a major impact on their home. The richest forests are now known to be those which from time to time experience change.The Jinou people are incredibly knowledgeable about their forestsand claim to have uses for most ofthe plants that they find there.They have names for them all,those good for eating and some which even have strong medicinal qualities. By working here, the Jinou playa similar role to the elephants, opening up the forest,bringing space, light and diversity. Green, fast growingspecies are encouraged.Insects are in high abundance here, together with the animalsthat feed on them.Knowledge of the forest enablesthe Jinou to find not just plants,but other tasty forest food too. Forest crabs are common here,feeding on the abundant leaf litter. This will be a tastyaddition to the evening meal.Flowing through Yunnan'ssouthern valleys,the once angry riversare now swollen,their waters slow and warm.These fertile lowland valleysare the home of the Dai.The "People of the Water"live along streams whichoriginate in the surrounding hills. Each family keeps a kitchen garden modelled on the multi-layered structure of the surrounding forests, which the Dai hold sacred.The gardens are made more productive by inter-planting different crops. Tall, sun-loving species give shelter to plants which thrive in the shade. As companions,the plants grow better.Yunnan's forests are home to more than a dozen wild banana speciesand banana crops grow wellin most Dai gardens.The huge banana flowers are richin nectar for only two hours a day, but it's enough to attract a rangeof forest insects, including hornets. With their razor sharp mandibles, they find it easy to robthe flowers of their nectar.But hornets are predators too.They hunt other insects andcarry them back to their nest.An ideal target,but this grasshopper is no easy meal. There may be a price to pay.The Dai men, Po and Xue Ming, take advantage of a hunter's instincts.A hornet sting is agony.But for now it's distracted,intent on cutting awaya piece of grasshoppersmall enough to carry back home. Success!The white featherhardly slows the hornet,and, more importantly,it can be seen.Now the hunter is the hunted.So long as Po andXue Ming can keep up!Back at the nest,the other hornetsimmediately begin to cutthe feather free.But it's too late. The nest'slocation has been betrayed.The relationship between the forest animals and the people who live here was never one of harmony.Yet the fact that the Dai and other ethnic groups considered theseforests to be sacred,has ensured their survivaland now many have been givenextra protection as nature reserves. Ingenuity and hard workpays off at last.The fattened larvae areconsidered a delicacy by the Dai. Although these forests have experienced a great deal of change, they are still host to someancient and incredible relationships. Almost centimetres high,this is the immense flowerof the Elephant yam.Locals call it the"Witch of the Forest".As the stars rise,the witch begins to cast her spell.The forest temperature drops,but the flower starts to heat up.A heat sensitive camera revealsthe flower's temperaturerising by an incredibleten degrees Celsius.At the same time, a noxious stench of rotting flesh fills the forest air. As the flower's heat increases,a cloud of odour rises up.The foul perfumecarries far and wide.It doesn't go unnoticed.Carrion beetles arrive on the scene. The beetles come in searchof a feast of warm decaying flesh, but they've been tricked.Slippery sides ensure they tumble straight into the centreof the monster flower.There's not enough room to spread their wingsand the waxy walls ensurethat there's no escape.But there's nothing sinisterin the flower's agenda.The beetles will beits unwitting helpers.Dawn arrives,but the flower remains unchanged, holding its captives through the day. As the second night falls,the witch stirs again.In a matter of minutes, the flower's precious golden pollensqueezes from the stamensand begins to fall,showering onto the captivebeetles below.Now, at last, the prisonersare free to go.The flower's wall changes texture, becoming roughto provide the ideal escape ladder.Loaded with their pollen parcels, they can now climb to freedom,just as other forest witchesare beginning to open.Seduced by the irresistible perfume, the beetles are sure to pay a visit, so ensuring pollination,and another generation of incredibly big, smelly flowers.As dawn arrives, forest birds claim their territories in the canopy. BIRDSONGBut there's one callwhich stands out among the rest - virtuoso of the forest symphony. STRANGE CALL RINGS OUTIt's a gibbon.UNDULATING CALL CONTINUESLiving on a remote mountainrange in south central Yunnanis one of the few remainingwild gibbon populations in China. The black-crestedgibbons of Wuliangshan.They are confined tothese forest mountains,so remote and steepthat few hunters ever come here. The Wuliangshan gibbons areunusual for their social structure. Most gibbons live in smallfamily groupsconsisting of a mating pairand their offspring.But these gibbons exist in troops. One male can have twoor sometimes three femalesand all of these can have young. Often even the juvenilesstay in the community.BABY SQUEAKSRarely glimpsed,this baby may be only a day old.If it survives infancy,then it has a promising futurein these few valleyswith its close-knit family.GIBBON CALLS RING OUTGibbon song once inspiredthe ancient poets of China,their glorious callsechoing far across the hills.But now, new, strangely quiet forests have come to Yunnan.These trees are here to producean important and valuable crop. When the tree bark is scored,it yields copious sticky sap,so bitter and tackythat nothing can feed on it.It's the tree's naturaldefence against attack.It's collected daily,bowl by bowl.It will be boiled and processed into one of the most important materials to a fast developing nation - rubber. The expansion of the rubberforests began in the 's when China, under a world rubber embargo,had to become self-sufficientin this vital product.Beijing turned to the only place where rubber could grow,the tropical south of Yunnan.With efficiency and speed,some of the world's richest forests were torn up and burned.Replaced with mile upon mileof rubber plantation.But there was a problemfor the rubber growers.While Yunnan's uniquenatural forestscan survive on the valleyslopes which stretch to the north... ..just one severe frost will kill off these delicate rubber trees.So Yunnan's terrain puts a limit on how far the plantations can spread, halting at leasttheir northwards advance.The jungles of Yunnanare increasingly under pressure. HORN BEEPSNew roads criss-crossthe tiny remnant forests,the infrastructure needed for trade, industry and, increasingly, tourism. It's a meeting of two verydifferent worlds.ELEPHANT TRUMPETSThat elephants still exist in China is remarkableconsidering the immense pressuresin the world's most highlypopulated country.The or so wild elephantswhich still live hereare now strictly protected.And each year youngare born to the small herds.If elephants were to survive anywhere in China,it could only have been here,in Yunnan.The same mountains which guidethe monsoon rains northand which made Joseph Rock's journeys so treacherous,also guarded Yunnan's forestsand its wildlife.ELEPHANTS GRUNT AND TRUMPETFor the moment, the mountains are still carpeted in a rich green, deceptive in its simplicity.Below the canopy lies perhapsChina's richest natural treasure. Delicate and unique,a complex world of intricate relationshipsbetween animals, plants and people,beneath the clouds.For our troubled but beautiful motherlandVCTT proundly presentsMore information:you have any questionpls feel free to let us know.。

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Beneath billowing clouds, 在翻騰的雲霧之下 3 in China's far southwestern Yunnan province, 處在中國西南邊境的雲南省 4 lies a place of mystery and legend. 是個充滿神秘與傳奇的地方 5 Of mighty rivers and some of the oldest jungles in the world. 這裏有浩瀚的河川及世上年代最悠久的森林 6 Here, hidden valleys nurture strange and unique creatures, 隱密的溪谷培育出不可思議及罕見珍奇的生物7 and colorful tribal cultures. 和多采多姿的民族文化8 Jungles are rarely found this far north of the tropics. 離熱帶地區這麼遠的北邊森林是很罕見的景觀9 So, why do they thrive here? 那麼此區為何會有茂盛的森林？10 And how has this rugged landscape come to harbor the greatest natural wealth in all China? 這麼惡劣的地理環境是如何庇護全中國最重要的自然資源？14 In the remote southwest corner of China, 在中國西南方的偏僻角落一個慶典即將舉行15 a celebration is about to take place. 16 Dai people collect water for the most important festival of their year. 傣人為他們一年中最重要的節慶取水17 The Dai call themselves the people of the water. 傣族人自稱為水鄉之人18 Yunnan's river valleys have been their home for over 2,000 years. 兩千多年來他們一直以雲南的河谷為家19 By bringing the river water to the temple, 他們將河水帶到佛寺20 they honor the two things holiest to them -以河水浴佛來體現他們認為最神聖的兩件事21 Buddhism and their home. 佛教與家庭23 The Dai give thanks for the rivers and fertile lands which have nurtured their culture. 傣族以此敬謝河川與良地豐富了他們的文化與生活25 Though to some it might seem just an excuse for the biggest water fight of all time. 也許對某些人來說這個潑水儀式只是藉口讓他們打場最過癮的水戰27 Dai lives are changing as towns get bigger and modernize 由於城鎮的擴大及都市化傣族的生活形態正逐漸改變28 but the Water Splashing Festivals still celebrated by all. 但大家仍會慶祝潑水節29 The rivers which lie at the heart of Dai life and culture 河川深深影響傣族的生活和文化30 flow from the distant mountains of Tibet, 河流源自遙遠的西藏高山31 southward through central Yunnan in great parallel gorges. 往南流經雲南中部穿越重重的巨大峽谷32 The Dai now live in the borders of tropical Vietnam and Laos, 如今傣族居住在鄰近越南與泰國的熱帶地區33 but their legends tell of how their ancestors came here 但他們的傳奇故事敍述了祖先如何沿著河流34 by following the rivers from mountain land sin the cold far north. 從遙遠寒冷的北方高地來到這裏35 Lying at the far eastern end of the Himalayas, 橫斷山脈位於喜瑪拉雅山最東邊36 the Hengduan mountains form Yunnan's northern border with Tibet. 是雲南北方與西藏的邊界37 Kawakarpo, crown of the Hengduan range,is a site of holy pilgrimage. 橫斷山脈的頂峰卡瓦格博雪山是朝聖的聖地38 Yet, its formidable peak remains unconquered. 然而它令人畏懼的山頂至今無人能征服39 Yunnan's mountains are remote,rugged and inaccessible. 雲南群山偏僻、崎嶇，人類很難接近40 Here the air is thin and temperatures can drop below minus 40 degrees. 這裏的空氣稀薄溫度能降到零下40度42 This is home to an animal that's found nowhere else on Earth. 但地球上有某種動物卻只生活在這裏43 The Yunnan snub-nosed monkey.雲南金絲猴44 It's found only in these few isolated mountain forests. 它們只在這些孤立的山林出沒45 No other primate lives at such high altitudes. 沒有其他的靈長類動物能居住在這麼高的海拔46 but these are true specialists.它們是真正的專家47 These ancient mountain dwellers have inspired legends.這些古老的山居動物造就許多傳奇故事48 Local Lisu people consider them their ancestors, 俚索族視它們為自己的祖先50 calling them "the wild men of the mountains".稱它們為山中野人51 During heavy snowfalls,even these specialists cannot feed.遇上大雪時期就連這些森林專家也無法覓食52 It seems a strange place for a monkey.這對猴子來說似乎是個奇怪的居住地53 Between snows, the monkeys waste no time in their search for food.雪一停歇，這些猴子立刻把握時間去尋找食物54 At this altitude,there are few fruits or tender leaves to eat. 在這高度很少有果子及嫩葉可吃56 90% of their diet is made up of the fine dry wisps of a curious organism. 它們九成的食物來自一種很像束狀乾草的奇怪有機物體58 Half fungus, half plant -it's lichen. 半菌半植物的地衣59 How have monkeys,normally associated with lowland jungle, 按理該住在低地森林的猴子60 come to live such are mote mountain existence? 怎麼會跑來住在偏遠的山區？61 This is not the only remarkable animal found within these isolated high peaks. 在這些孤絕的高峰之中還有更多奇特的動物62 A Chinese red panda. 一隻中國紅色熊貓63 Solitary and quiet, it spends much of its time in the tree tops. 生性安靜獨居大部份的時間都在樹上64 Despite its name, 不管其名65 the red panda is only a very distant relative of the giant panda. 紅色熊貓只是大熊貓的遠親66 It's actually more closely related to a skunk. 它跟臭鼬反而有較近的血緣關係67 But it does share the giant panda's taste for bamboo. 但它確實跟大熊貓一樣喜歡吃竹葉68 Southwest China's red pandas are known for their very strong facial markings 中國西南方的紅色熊貓以明顯的臉部斑紋聞名69 which distinguish them from red pandas found anywhere else in the Himalayas. 這和其他生活在喜馬拉雅山的紅色熊貓大不相同70 Like the monkeys, they were isolated in these high forests 就像金絲猴一樣它們也被孤立在這些高海拔森林71 when the mountains quite literally rose beneath them 這是因為近代地質史上的造山運動72 in the greatest mountain-building event in recent geological history. 將它們腳下的山地整個托起拔高73 Over the last 30 million years, 在過去三千萬年74 the Indian subcontinent has been pushing northwards into Eurasia. 印度板塊一直向北推擠歐亞大陸板塊75 On the border between India and Tibet 位於西藏與印度邊界的岩石76 the rocks have been raised eight kilometers above sea level, 已經被推升到高達海平面8公里77 creating the world's highest mountain range, the Himalayas. 造就出世上最高的喜馬拉雅山脈78 But to the east, 但往東方看去79 the rocks have buckled into a series of steep north-south ridges, 連綿的山岩形成南北向的懸崖峭壁80 cutting down through the heart of Yunnan, 直接深入雲南中心81 the parallel mountains of the Hengduan Shan. 平行的橫斷山脈82 These natural barriers serve to isolate Yunnan's plants and animals 這些天然屏障阻絕了雲南境內的動植物互通有無83 in each adjacent valley. 每個山谷幾乎都自成一區84 While the huge temperature range between the snowy peaks 這裏的溫差很大，上面是積雪的山峰85 and the warmer slopes below 下方是溫暖的緩坡86 provides a vast array of conditions for life to thrive. 氣候的多元性讓各種生命得以欣欣向榮87 Through spring, 整個春季88 the Hengduan slopes stage one of China's greatest natural spectacles. 橫斷山脈的山坡呈現中國最壯觀的自然風光89 The forests here are among the most diverse botanical areas in the world. 這裏的森林蘊藏全世界最豐富的植物品種90 Over 18,000 plant species grow here, 1萬8千多種植物有3千種是其他地區沒有的91 of which 3,000 are found nowhere else. 92 Until little more than a century ago,this place was unknown outside China.還不到一百年前這裏是不為外界所知的93 But then news reached the West但後來消息傳到西方94 of a mysterious, hidden world of the orient.原來東方還有這麼一個神秘、不為人知的世界95 Hidden among the mountains,a lost Shangri-la paradise.隱藏在群山中的世外桃源96 Western high society, in the grip of a gardening craze,西方上流社會的園藝熱潮97 was eager for exotic species from faraway places.讓他們渴望遙遠國度的奇花異草98 This gave rise to a new breed of celebrity adventurers,引領新一代的名人探險風99 intrepid botanist-explorers known as "the Plant Hunters".大膽的植物學家勘探者亦稱為植物獵人100 Yunnan became their Holy Grail.雲南成了他們的聖杯101 Indiana Jones The most famous was Joseph Rock,a real life Indiana Jones.最出名的是喬瑟夫拉克現實生活中的印第安那鐘斯102 Remarkable film footage captured his entourage on a series of expeditions, 卓越的記錄片記錄他和同伴一系列的遠征104 as they pushed into the deepest corners of Yunnan. 進入雲南最深的角落105 In glorious color he recorded the plant life he found 他用特別照相玻璃板106 on special photographic glass plates. 記錄五彩繽紛的植物107 Sending thousands of specimens back to the West, 把數千種樣本送回西方108 the Plant Hunters changed the gardens of the world forever. 植物獵人一舉改變了世界的花園109 Rock's success was born of a massive effort. 拉克的成功來自他的努力以赴110 For, to find his Shangri-la, 為了找到香格里拉111 not only had he to travers eendless mountain ranges, 他不只橫越數不清的山脈112 but some of the deepest gorges in the world. 還跨越一些世上最深的峽谷113 The Nujiang is called The Angry River. 怒江被稱之為忿怒的河流114 This 300-kilometre stretch of raging rapids 這條300公里的湍急河流115 is as much a barrier to life as are the mountains above. 如上述的山脈一樣成為許多生物的屏障116 WAVES CRASH 117 But the plant hunters weren't the first people to travel here. 但是植物獵人不是最早到此地的人118 Along the Nujiang,沿著怒江119 less than 30 rope crossings allow locals passage across the torrents.會發現不到30條的繩子吊索讓當地人渡過洪流120 Tiny hamlets cling to the slopes.小小村莊緊帖著山坡地121 This morning, it's market day,今早是市集日122 drawing people from up and down the valley.山坡上下的居民紛紛出門123 PIG OINKS 124 GOAT BLEATS 125 Hanging from simple rope slings,吊在吊索上126 people have been using the crossings for many hundreds of years. 這已是人們幾百年渡江的老辦法127 In such narrow, precipitous gorges在這麼狹窄的險峻峭壁128 it's by far the easiest way to get around.這是最容易的交通方式129 Once across, the steep sides mean it's still a hike.一旦渡過陡峭的山坡意味著還有一段徒步130 Many trek for hours by foot before they get to the market. 許多人要徒步幾個小時才到市場131 The immense valley is home to over a dozen ethnic groups. 這無邊無際的山谷聚集超過12個少數民族132 Some, like the Nu people,are found only here.像怒族就只生活在此區133 The markets bring the mountain tribes together.市集讓山上的族群聚在一起134 To continue his expeditions, 為了繼續探險135 Rock had to get his entire entourage across the giant Yunnan rivers. 拉克必須讓全隊通過浩瀚的雲南大河136 He commissioned especially thick ropes made from forest rattan 他以樹藤做的粗繩為輔137 and filmed the entire event. 並拍攝整個過程138 With yak butter to smooth the ride,40 men and 15 mules made the journey. 利用犛牛油使過程平順40個人及15只騾上路了139 Not all made it across. 並不是每個人都過140 On the far side of the great Nujiang gorge, 在怒江峽谷遙遠的另一邊141 the Plant Hunters made a remarkable discovery. 植物獵人有個很棒的發現142 Far from thetropics, 雖然遠離熱帶143 they seemed to be entering a steamy,vibrant tropical jungle, 他們似乎進入了充滿蒸氣與生氣的熱帶雨林144 the forest of Gaoligongshan. 高黎貢山的森林145 The flora here is unlike anywhere else in the world. 這裏的植物不像世界其他地方146 Next to subtropical species,alpine plants grow in giant form. 緊臨亞熱帶植物的是生長茂盛的高山區植物147 Crowning the canopy, rhododendrons,up to 30 meters high. 萬綠森中點點紅那是高達30公尺的杜鵑花148 In April and May, their flowers turn the forests ruby red, 杜鵑花在4、5月染紅翠綠的森林149 attracting bird species found only here. 150 吸引只在此地生長的鳥類151 Constant moisture in the air means that the branches are laden with flowering epiphytes, 空氣中充滿了濕氣152 樹枝開滿美麗的花朵153 fiercely guarded by tiny sun birds,unique to these valleys. 山谷有種獨特的小太陽鳥極力保護這些花森154 Nectar feeders, these are the hummingbirds of the Old World tropics. 它們採集花蜜155 這些蜂鳥穿梭在東方世界的熱帶地區156 The forests of Gaoligongshan are home to some of China's rarest wildlife. 高黎貢山的森林有許多中國最罕見的珍禽異獸157 This is a female Temminck's Tragopan. 這是母的紅腹角雉158 She has a colorful male admirer. 它的愛慕者鮮豔奪目159 He's hoping to woo her with his peculiar peekaboo display 希望以獨特的偷窺方式贏得佳人芳心160 but she's not about to be rushed. 但母雉不急著表態161 His colorful skin wattle reflects more light than feathers do. 公雉鮮豔的肉垂比羽毛還亮眼162 To her, this is like a neon sign. 對母雉來說就像個霓虹燈163 Seeing his chance,the male makes his move. 公雉看到機會馬上行動164 Constant moisture in the Gaoligongshan forests 高黎貢山森林的濕氣165 means that throughout the year there are always fruits on the trees. 讓樹木終年結實累累166 Such abundance of food encourages a high diversity of fruit eaters 167 豐沛的食物遠勝於一般熱帶林地168 more commonly found in the tropics. 所以也聚集各式各樣的食果動物169 The black giant squirrel is found only in undisturbed rain forest. 巨松鼠只生活在這片原始的雨林170 At close to a metre in length, it' sone of the world's largest squirrels. 它長達1尺171 是世上最大的松鼠172 The mystery is that these forests are growing well outside the tropics. 奇怪的是這些森林竟在熱帶地區以外茂盛生長173 By rights, none of this jungle,or its animals, should be here. 按理說這些森林和動物不應該在此174 These are bear macaques. 這是熊猴175 They're found only in tropical and sub-tropical jungle. 只居住在熱帶及亞熱帶森林176 With a tiny home range of just a few square kilometers, 生活範圍只有幾平方公里177 they depend on the abundant fruit 它們需要進食大量果子178 that only true rain forests can provide all year round. 只有真正的雨林才能終年提供如此數量179 To the European plant hunters, 對於歐洲的植物獵人來說這些北方的雨林180 these northern rain forests must have seemed a fantastic and mysterious lost world. 181 簡直就像奇幻神秘的遺忘世界182 Yet, when they came here, they would have found beautifully constructed ancient stone pathways 但當他們到此183 卻發現精心鋪設的古老石路184 on which the forest could be explored. 已經伸入森林之中185 Winding westwards into the hills, 蜿蜒通往西邊山坡186 these were once some of the most important highways in Asia, 這曾經是亞洲最重要的公路187 the southwestern tea and silk road. 西南方的茶與絲路188 Built thousands of years ago, 這條西南茶絲之路建於幾千年前189 the southwestern tea and silk road gave access to the world beyond China's borders, 190 連接中國和境外的世界191 carrying tradesmen and travelers fromas far away as Rome. 帶來遠自羅馬的商人及旅客192 Wars were fought over access to this tiny path, 過去為了爭奪這條小路引發不少戰爭193 the only sure route in or out of China, 畢竟這是唯一得以進出中國194 that was guaranteed to be clear of snow all year round. 又保證終年無雪的通道195 So, what causes Gaoligongshan's strange and remarkable climate? 是什麼造成高黎貢山奇怪又獨特的氣候？196 In late May, gusts of wind arrive, 5月下旬的強勁季風197 bringing with them the key to Gaoligongshan's mystery. 足以解開高黎貢山的神秘面紗198 The winds are hot and saturated with water. 風很熱而且充滿了水份199 They come all the way from the Indian Ocean. 一路從印度洋吹來200 Channeled by Yunnan's unique geography, 因雲南獨特的縱谷地形201 they bring with them the moisture of the tropical monsoon. 帶來熱帶梅雨季節的濕氣202 The giant river valleys,created millions of years ago, 幾百萬年前形成的高山縱穀203 act like immense funnels. 就像是巨大的漏斗204 The gorges are so deep and narrow, 這些溪穀又深又窄205 that the moist warm air is driven right up into the north of Yunnan. 促使濕暖空氣直接進入雲南北部206 The result is rain, in torrents! 結果是大雨如注！207 Four months of daily rainstorms sustain luxuriant vegetation. 連續4個月的暴雨讓植物茂盛生長208 The arrival of the monsoon 梅雨季節的來臨喚醒209 awakens one of the forest's most extraordinary moisture-loving inhabitants. 森林中最愛濕氣的動物210 The crocodile newt is one of the most unusual of the many amphibian species found here. 鱷魚蠑是一種兩棲動物211 也是其他地方找不到的奇特生物212 As the rains arrive,they emerge to mate. 當梅雨降臨，蠑螈開始交配213 The newts are said to leave an odour trail that potential mates can follow. 據說它們會留下氣味蹤跡214 讓未來的伴侶得以尋跡而至215 The crocodile newt gets its name from the bumps along its back. 鱷魚蠑因背部的突起而得名216 These are its defense. 那是它的防禦系統217 If grabbed by a potential predator, 如果被潛伏的食肉動物抓住218 the tips of its ribs squeeze a deadly poison from the bumps. 肋骨的尖端就會從凸塊釋放致命毒液219 The deluge wakes another forest inhabitant. 洪水喚醒另一個森林居住者220 This one is particularly astounding in its vigor! 它有特別驚人的活力！221 It can grow up to a meter day, 一天能長1公尺222 fast overtaking the other plants around it. 很快就追上周遭的植物223 The taller it grows,the faster its growth rate, 它長得越高，生長速度就越快224 so that in a matter of days it towers above the undergrowth, 所以一天之內就比矮樹森高225 and continues reaching for the sky. 繼續朝天空發展226 Not bad for what is essentially a grass. 對禾本科植物來說這樣的速度還不賴227 It's bamboo. 這就是竹子！228 Given the chance, 如果有機會竹子會發展成很大的林子229 bamboo will create immense forests,dominating entire areas. 230 佔領整個區域231 Bamboo forests occur across southwest China, 竹林主要生長在中國西南方232 all the way to Shanghai. 一直到上海233 But probably the highest diversity of bamboos in the world 但世界上竹子種類最多的地方234 is found on the hills and valleys of Yunnan. 還是在雲南的山谷235 Though incredibly strong,bamboos have hollow stems, 雖然竹子很堅韌，但中心是空的236 a perfect shelter for any creatures which can find a way in. 對任何能找到方法進入的生物是最佳的庇護所237 This entrance hole was made by a beetle 入口是被甲蟲弄的238 but it's being used by a very different animal. 但卻被完全不同的動物所使用239 A bamboo bat. 竹蝙蝠！240 The size of a bumblebee, it's one of the tiniest mammals inthe world. 如蜜蜂的大小241 是世上最小的哺乳動物242 The entire colony, up to 25 bats, 整群可住到25只243 fits into a single section of bamboo stem, smaller than a tea cup. 通通擠入一段竹節裏244 比茶杯小245 It's quite a squeeze! 還蠻會擠的！246 Half the colony are babies. 一半都是幼獸247 Though barely a week old, they are already almost as big as their mums. 雖然只有一個星期大248 它們已經跟媽媽一樣大249 Feeding such a fast-growing brood is hard work. 養一窩生長如此迅速的孩子實在很辛苦250 The mums leave to hunt just after dusk each night. 蝙蝠媽媽每天傍晚後出去獵食251 Back in the roost,the young are left on their own. 寶寶被留在竹節的窩巢裏252 Special pads on their wings help them to grip on the bamboo walls -翅膀上的肉趾幫助它們緊緊抓住竹壁253 most of the time. 但偶爾還是會失足254 The young bats use the extra space to prepare for a life on the wing 幼蝙蝠利用多餘的空間255 用喙理毛及伸展它們的翅膀為飛行做準備256 by preening and stretching. 257 Packed in like sardines, they would make an easy target for a snake. 它們擠得像沙丁魚258 很容易成為蛇類覬覦的目標259 But the snake has no chance of getting in. 但是蛇沒機會進入260 The entrance is thinner than the width of a pencil. 入口的大小比鉛筆還細261 When the mothers return, 當母蝙蝠回巢後262 they can push through the narrow entrance only because of their unusually flattened skulls. 它們能擠過那窄小的門263 因為它們有特殊的扁骨架264 But it's still a squeeze. 但還是需要擠一下265 Bamboos are exploited in a very different way by another forest dweller. 另外一群森林居民266 以不同方式善用竹林267 Fresh bamboo shoots are an important forest crop. 新鮮竹筍是森林重要產物268 Ai Lao Xiang is of the Hani tribe, 謝阿泰來自梅山的哈尼族269 from the mountain village of Mengsong. 270 Roasted, the tender shoots he gathers will make a tasty dish. 採集的竹筍在烤過會很好吃271 The Hani have many uses for the different bamboos they grow and find in the forest around. 哈尼族懂得物盡其用272 對野生和自種的竹有不同的處置273 Though flexible enough to be woven, 雖然竹子柔軟到可以編織274 bamboo has a higher tensile strength than steel. 但它比鐵有更強的韌性275 Succulent when young, 幼筍鮮美多汁成熟的竹子牢固耐用276 in maturity it's tough and durable,ideal for making a table 277 做成桌子最理想了278 and strong enough for a pipe to last a lifetime. 279 做出煙管一輩子也不會壞280 The people of southwest China 中國西南方的人們發明許多非凡的方法281 have found an extraordinary number of ways to exploit this most versatile of plants. 282 來利用這多用途的植物283 THEY SPEAK IN NATIVE LANGUAGE 284 Part of bamboo's phenomenal success 竹子這麼厲害有部份原因是285 is that it's so tough that few animals can tackle it. 很少動物能突破它的堅韌286 Yet, bamboo does come under attack. 但是竹子還是會被攻擊287 A bamboo rat. 竹鼠288 Feeding almost exclusively on bamboo, 專門吃竹子289 they live their entire lives in tunnels beneath the forest. 它們一生都住在森林底下的隧道290 The thinner species of bamboo are easy to attack and pull below. 越細小的竹科越容易被攻擊然後被拉到地下291 She has a fantastic sense of smell 它的嗅覺非常靈敏292 and can sniff out the fresh growth through the soil. 能在土裏嗅出新生竹293 Bamboo spreads along underground stems. 竹子是由地底紮根而生294 By following these, new shoots are found. 隨根部就能找到新生筍295 Once a shoot is detected, 一旦筍子被發現296 she snips it free and drag sit down into her burrow. 它馬上咬斷拖到洞穴裏297 This female has a family. 這只母鼠有家累298 At just a few weeks old, 只有幾個禮拜大299 the youngsters can already tacklethe hardest bamboo stems 這些幼鼠已經能應付最硬的竹莖300 and are eager to try. 還很樂意去試301 Bamboo's tough reputation is such, 竹子以過人的韌性聞名另一位專家因為能啃食竹子302 that another bamboo specialist was known by the Chinese as,"The Iron Eating Animal". 303 被中國人稱為食鐵動物304 The giant panda is famous for its exclusive diet. 大熊貓是以專吃竹子而出名的305 Giant pandas are thought to have originated in southwest China, millions of years ago, 據說幾百萬年前306 起源于中國西南方307 but they are no longer found in Yunnan. 但如今在雲南已經找不到了308 Recently, their specialized diet has had dire consequences. 最近它們偏愛的食物呈現緊迫的狀態309 Bamboo has a bizarre life cycle, 竹子的生命週期很特別310 flowering infrequently, sometime sonly once every hundred years or so. 不常開花311 有時一百年才一次312 But when flowering does occur,it's on a massive scale, 但一旦開花，就會大規模盛開313 and it's followed by the death of all of the plants. 最後整株死亡314 Sometimes an entire bamboo forest may die. 有時整片竹林都死了315 In undisturbed habitat, pandas simply move to another area 在不受干擾的生態區熊貓只要遷移到另一區就好了316 where a different bamboo species grows. 那裏還有不同的竹子317 But as human activity has fragmented their forest home, 但人類的活動已截斷它們的棲息地318 pandas find it increasingly hard to find large enough areas in which to survive. 熊貓越來越難找到足夠的活動範圍生存319 Wild pandas are now found only in the forests of Central China, 現在只有中國的中部還能找到野生熊貓320 far to the east. 離東部已經很遠了321 But in the hidden pockets of lowland jungle in Yunnan's tropical south, 但在低地森林隱密的地區322 在雲南的熱帶南區323 live one of China' s best-kept wildlife secrets. 還秘密藏著一種野生動物324 DEEP BELLOW 325 The wild Asian elephant. 野生亞洲大象326 Elephants once roamed across China as far north as Beijing. 大象曾經遍及中國最北甚至遠及北京327 But it's only in the hidden valleys of Yunnan that they have survived. 但現在只生活在雲南隱密的山谷中328 Elephants are the architects of the forest. 大象是森林的建築師329 Bamboos and grasses are their favorite food 竹子跟草是它們最愛吃的食物330 but saplings, tree leaves and twisted lianas are all taken, with little care. 但幼樹、樹葉及藤蔓植物331 也會被它們一併拔起332 As they move through the forest, 當它們穿越森林333 the elephants open up clearings,bringing light to the forest floor. 等於辟清一些空地讓陽光照入森林的地面334 This has a major impact on their home. 這對此區生態有很大的影響335 The richest forests are now known tobe those which from time to time experience change. 最豐饒的森林是那些336 不時在變化的森林337 The Ji nuo people are incredibly knowledgeable about their forests 基諾族對他們的森林幾乎無所不知338 and claim to have uses for most of the plants that they find there. 聲稱他們認識大多數植物也都知道各自用法339 They have names for them all, 他們替每種植物起名字340 those good for eating and some which even have strong medicinal qualities. 這些很好吃341 有些有很強的藥效342 By working here, the Jinou play a similar role to the elephants, 在這裏工作343 基諾族與大象有異曲同工之效344opening up the forest,bringing space, light and diversity. 清除森林，帶來空間、光與多元化345 Green, fast growing species are encouraged. 所以此區的綠色植物能快速成長346 Insects are in high abundance here, 昆蟲在這裏也很多347 together with the animals that feed on them. 以昆蟲為食的動物自然也多348 Knowledge of the forest enables the Jinou to find not just plants, 身為森林通的基諾族不但能找到植物349 but other tasty forest food too. 還有其他美味的食物350 Forest crabs are common here,feeding on the abundant leaf litter. 森林蟹在這很常見它們以枯枝落葉為食物351 This will be a tasty addition to the evening meal. 這會是晚餐美味的佳餚352 Flowing through Yunnan's southern valleys, 流過雲南南方山谷353 the once angry rivers are now swollen, 曾經湍急的怒江如今進入寬廣的區域354 their waters slow and warm. 水流變得緩慢溫和355 These fertile lowland valleys are the home of the Dai. 這些低地水域是傣族的家356 The "People of the Water" 他們沿著溪流而居357 live along streams which originate in the surrounding hills. 這些溪流源自周遭的山地358 Each family keeps a kitchen garden 每戶人家都有菜圃359 modeled on the multi-layered structure of the surrounding forests, 是依周遭森林地形而建的多層次建築360 which the Dai hold sacred. 傣族相當崇敬這片森林361 The gardens are made more productive by inter-planting different crops. 菜圃因交叉耕作而產量增加362 Tall, sun-loving species give shelter to plants which thrive in the shade. 喜日曬的高品種給予喜陰暗的植物遮蔽所363 As companions,the plants grow better. 混合種植讓蔬果長得更好364 Yunnan's forests are home to more than a dozen wild banana species 雲南的森林有超過12種野生香蕉品種365 and banana crops grow well in most Dai gardens. 而傣族的菜圃也種了許多366 The huge banana flowers are rich in nectar for only two hours a day, 碩大的香蕉花蘊藏豐富的花蜜367 但一天只開兩個小時368 but it's enough to attract a range of forest insects, including hornets. 但已足夠吸引許多森林昆蟲前來369 包括大黃蜂370 With their razor sharp mandibles, 它們的下顎如剃刀般鋒利371 they find it easy to rob the flowers of their nectar. 能輕易掠取花中的蜜汁372 But hornets are predators too. 但大黃蜂也是肉食性昆蟲373 They hunt other insects and carry them back to their nest. 它們捕捉其他昆蟲，將之帶回巢穴374 An ideal target, 理想的目標375 but this grasshopper is no easy meal. 但這蚱蜢並非簡單的大餐376 There may be a price to pay. 那是有代價的377 The Dai men, Po and Xue Ming, take advantage of a hunter's instincts. 378 傣族人波和祟明，他們就如黃雀在後379 A hornet sting is agony. 大黃蜂的蜇針是很痛的380 But for now it's distracted,intent on cutting away 但現在它忙著別的事381 a piece of grass hopper small enough to carry back home. 急切的想要切割蚱蜢的一部份382 小得讓它帶回巢去383 Success! 成功了！384 The white feather hardly slows the hornet, 大黃蜂不因白色羽毛而慢下來385 and, more importantly, 最重要的是遠遠就能看見它386 it can be seen. 387 Now the hunter is the hunted. 現在是螳螂捕蟬，黃雀在後388 So long as Po and Xue Ming can keep up! 但波和祟明必須跟得上389 Back at the nest,the other hornets 否則等它回蜂窩390 immediately begin to cut the feather free. 其他的大黃蜂馬上割開那羽毛391 But it's too late. The nest's location has been betrayed. 但太遲了蜂窩的所在地已經被發現！392 The relationship between the forest animals and the people who live here 森林動物與此地居民的關係393 永遠不會是和諧的394 was never one of harmony. 395 Yet the fact that the Dai and other ethnic groups considered。

bbc纪录片美丽中国第一集观后感英文

bbc纪录片美丽中国第一集观后感英文The last hidden world ----ChinaAfter watching the video for the second time, I was still fascinated by the well-bedded terraces, endless steppes, beautiful mountains and etc. There is no doubt that this video is a completely outstanding documentary which reflects Chinese Human Geography. To be honest, as a Chinese, I feel ashamed that I have not seen the most sceneries in this video. Our country is so attractive that I can not wait to learn more about it.In addition, when I was attracted by the beautiful scenery, I still thought about the development of our country. China has the largest population and the most ancient culture in the world, developing is the most important problem now. Land desertification, water resources crisis, more and more Industrial wastes, we need to face all those problems.Although China has vast territory and abundant resources, we should take care of it. There are so many species have disappeared forever, what we can do is to do our best to protect them. I hope our country will be wild not only in the past but also in the future.。

BBC美丽中国英文字幕(1、2)——香格里拉__龙之心

美丽中国英文字幕（2）——香格里拉Beneath billowing clouds,in China's far southwesternYunnan province,lies a place of mystery and legend.Of mighty rivers and some of the oldest jungles in the world.Here, hidden valleys nurture strange and unique creatures,and colourful tribal cultures. Jungles are rarely found this far north of the tropics.So, why do they thrive here?And how has this rugged landscape come to harbour the greatest natural wealth in all China? In the remote southwest corner of China, a celebration is about to take place.Dai people collect water for the most important festival of their year.The Dai call themselves the people of the water.Yunnan's river valleys have been their home for over 2,000 years.By bringing the river water to the temple, they honour the two things holiest to them Buddhism and their home.The Dai give thanks for the rivers and fertile lands which have nurtured their culture. Though to some it might seem just an excuse for the biggest water fight of all time.Dai lives are changing as towns get bigger and modernise but the Water Splashing Festival is still celebrated by all.The rivers which lie at the heart of Dai life and culture flow from the distant mountains of Tibet,southward through central Yunnan in great parallel gorges.The Dai now live in the borders of tropical Vietnam and Laos, but their legends tell of how theirancestors came here by following the rivers from mountain lands in the cold far north. Lying at the far eastern end of the Himalayas,the Hengduan mountains form Yunnan's northern border with Tibet.Kawakarpo, crown of the Hengduan range, is a site of holy pilgrimage.Yet, its formidable peak remains unconquered.Yunnan's mountains are remote,rugged and inaccessible.Here the air is thin and temperatures can drop below minus 40 degrees.This is home to an animal that's found nowhere else on Earth.The Yunnan snub-nosed monkey.It's found only in these few isolated mountain forests.No other primate lives at such high altitudes but these are true specialists.These ancient mountain dwellers have inspired legends.Local Lisu people consider them their ancestors,calling them "the wild men of the mountains".During heavy snowfalls, even these specialists cannot feed.It seems a strange place for a monkey.Between snows, the monkeys waste no time in their search for food.At this altitude, there are few fruits or tender leaves to eat.90% of their diet is made up of thefine dry wisps of a curious organism.Half fungus, half plant it's lichen.How have monkeys, normallyassociated with lowland jungle,come to live such a remote mountain existence?This is not the only remarkable animal found within these isolated high peaks.A Chinese red panda.Solitary and quiet, it spends much of its time in the tree tops.Despite its name,the red panda is only a very distant relative of the giant panda.It's actually more closely related to a skunk.But it does share the giant panda's taste for bamboo.Southwest China's red pandas areknown for their very strong facial markings which distinguish them from red pandas found anywhere else in the Himalayas.Like the monkeys, they were isolated in these high forestswhen the mountains quite literally rose beneath themin the greatest mountain-buildingevent in recent geological history.Over the last 30 million years, the Indian subcontinent has beenpushing northwards into Eurasia.On the border between India and Tibetthe rocks have been raised eight kilometres above sea level,creating the world's highestmountain range, the Himalayas. But to the east, the rocks have buckled into a seriesof steep north-south ridges,cutting down through the heart of Yunnan,the parallel mountains of the Hengduan Shan.These natural barriers serve toisolate Yunnan's plants and animals in each adjacent valley.While the huge temperaturerange between the snowy peaks and the warmer slopes below provides a vast array of conditions for life to thrive. Through spring, the Hengduan slopes stage one ofChina's greatest natural spectacles.The forests here are among the most diverse botanical areas in the world.Over 18,000 plant species grow here,of which 3,000 are found nowhere else.Until little more than a century ago,this place was unknown outside China.But then news reached the West of a mysterious, hidden world of the orient.Hidden among the mountains,a lost Shangri-la paradise.Western high society, in the gripof a gardening craze,was eager for exotic species from faraway places.This gave rise to a newbreed of celebrity adventurers, intrepid botanist-explorers known as "the Plant Hunters". Yunnan became their Holy Grail.The most famous was Joseph Rock, a real life Indiana Jones.Remarkable film footage captured his entourage on a series of expeditions,as they pushed into the deepest corners of Yunnan.In glorious colour he recorded the plant life he foundon special photographic glass plates.Sending thousands of specimens back to the West,the Plant Hunters changed thegardens of the world forever.Rock's success was born of a massive effort.For, to find his Shangri-la,not only had he to traverseendless mountain ranges,but some of the deepest gorges in the world.The Nujiang is called The Angry River.This 300-kilometre stretch of raging rapids is as much a barrier to lifeas are the mountains above.WAVES CRASHBut the plant hunters weren't the first people to travel here.Along the Nujiang,less than 30 rope crossings allowlocals passage across the torrents.Tiny hamlets cling to the slopes.This morning, it's market day,drawing people from upand down the valley.PIG OINKSGOAT BLEATSHanging from simple rope slings,people have been using the crossingsfor many hundreds of years.In such narrow, precipitous gorges it's by far the easiest way to get around.Once across, the steep sides mean it's still a hike.Many trek for hours by foot before they get to the market.The immense valley is home to over a dozen ethnic groups.Some, like the Nu people, are found only here.The markets bring the mountain tribes together.To continue his expeditions,Rock had to get his entire entourageacross the giant Yunnan rivers.He commissioned especially thick ropes made from forest rattanand filmed the entire event.With yak butter to smooth the ride, 40 men and 15 mules made the journey.Not all made it across.On the far side of the great Nujiang gorge, the Plant Hunters made a remarkable discovery. Far from the tropics,they seemed to be entering a steamy,vibrant tropical jungle,the forest of Gaoligongshan.The flora here is unlike anywhere else in the world.Next to subtropical species, alpine plants grow in giant form.Crowning the canopy, rhododendrons,up to 30 metres high.In April and May, their flowersturn the forests ruby red,attracting bird species found only here.Constant moisture in the air means that the branches are ladenwith flowering epiphytes,fiercely guarded by tiny sunbirds,unique to these valleys.Nectar feeders, these are the hummingbirds of the Old World tropics.The forests of Gaoligongshan are home to some of China's rarest wildlife. This is a female Temminck's Tragopan.She has a colourful male admirer.He's hoping to woo her with his peculiar peekaboo displaybut she's not about to be rushed.His colourful skin wattlereflects more light than feathers do.To her, this is like a neon sign.Seeing his chance,the male makes his move.Constant moisture inthe Gaoligongshan forestsmeans that throughout the yearthere are always fruits on the trees.Such abundance of food encouragesa high diversity of fruit eatersmore commonly found in the tropics.The black giant squirrel is foundonly in undisturbed rainforest.At close to a metre in length, it'sone of the world's largest squirrels.The mystery is that these forestsare growing well outside the tropics.By rights, none of this jungle,or its animals, should be here.These are bear macaques.They're found only intropical and sub-tropical jungle.With a tiny home range ofjust a few square kilometres,they depend on the abundant fruitthat only true rainforestscan provide all year round.To the European plant hunters,these northern rainforests must haveseemed a fantastic andmysterious lost world.Yet, when they came here, they wouldhave found beautifully constructedancient stone pathwayson which the forestcould be explored.Winding westwards into the hills,these were once some of the most important highways in Asia,the southwestern tea and silk road. Built thousands of years ago,the southwestern tea and silk road gave access to the worldbeyond China's borders,carrying tradesmen and travellers from as far away as Rome.Wars were fought over accessto this tiny path,the only sure route inor out of China,that was guaranteed tobe clear of snow all year round. So, what causes Gaoligongshan's strange and remarkable climate?In late May, gusts of wind arrive, bringing with them the key to Gaoligongshan's mystery.The winds are hotand saturated with water.They come all the wayfrom the Indian Ocean.Channelled by Yunnan'sunique geography,they bring with them themoisture of the tropical monsoon. The giant river valleys,created millions of years ago,act like immense funnels.The gorges are so deep and narrow, that the moist warm air is driven right up into the north of Yunnan. The result is rain, in torrents! Four months of daily rainstorms sustain luxuriant vegetation.The arrival of the monsoonawakens one of the forest'smost extraordinarymoisture-loving inhabitants.The crocodile newt is one ofthe most unusual of the many amphibian species found here.As the rains arrive,they emerge to mate.The newts are said toleave an odour trail thatpotential mates can follow.The crocodile newt gets its name from the bumps along its back. These are its defence.If grabbed by a potential predator, the tips of its ribs squeeze a deadly poison from the bumps.The deluge wakesanother forest inhabitant.This one is particularly astounding in its vigour!It can grow up to a metre a day, fast overtaking the otherplants around it.The taller it grows,the faster its growth rate,so that in a matter of days it towers above the undergrowth,and continues reaching for the sky. Not bad for what isessentially a grass.It's bamboo.Given the chance,bamboo will create immense forests, dominating entire areas.Bamboo forests occuracross southwest China,all the way to Shanghai.But probably the highest diversity of bamboos in the worldis found on the hillsand valleys of Yunnan.Though incredibly strong,bamboos have hollow stems,a perfect shelter for anycreatures which can find a way in. This entrance holewas made by a beetlebut it's being used by avery different animal.A bamboo bat.The size of a bumblebee, it's oneof the tiniest mammals in the world. The entire colony, up to 25 bats,fits into a single section of bamboo stem, smaller than a tea cup. It's quite a squeeze!Half the colony are babies.Though barely a week old, they are already almost as big as their mums. Feeding such a fast-growingbrood is hard work.The mums leave to huntjust after dusk each night.Back in the roost,the young are left on their own. Special pads on their wings help them to grip on the bamboo walls -most of the time.The young bats use the extra space to prepare for a life on the wingby preening and stretching.Packed in like sardines, they would make an easy target for a snake.But the snake has nochance of getting in.The entrance is thinnerthan the width of a pencil.When the mothers return,they can push through the narrow entrance only because oftheir unusually flattened skulls.But it's still a squeeze.Bamboos are exploited in avery different way by anotherforest dweller.Fresh bamboo shoots arean important forest crop.Ai Lao Xiang is of the Hani tribe, from the mountainvillage of Mengsong.Roasted, the tender shoots hegathers will make a tasty dish.The Hani have many uses for thedifferent bamboos they growand find in the forest around. Though flexible enough to be woven, bamboo has a highertensile strength than steel. Succulent when young,in maturity it's tough and durable, ideal for making a tableand strong enoughfor a pipe to last a lifetime.The people of southwest Chinahave found an extraordinary number of ways to exploit this mostversatile of plants.THEY SPEAK IN NATIVE LANGUAGEPart of bamboo'sphenomenal successis that it's so toughthat few animals can tackle it.Yet, bamboo does come under attack.A bamboo rat.Feeding almost exclusively on bamboo, they live their entire lives in tunnels beneath the forest.The thinner species of bambooare easy to attack and pull below. She has a fantastic sense of smell and can sniff out the freshgrowth through the soil.Bamboo spreads alongunderground stems.By following these,new shoots are found.Once a shoot is detected,she snips it free and dragsit down into her burrow.This female has a family.At just a few weeks old,the youngsters can already tacklethe hardest bamboo stemsand are eager to try.Bamboo's tough reputation is such, that another bamboo specialist was known by the Chinese as,"The Iron Eating Animal".The giant panda is famousfor its exclusive diet.Giant pandas are thought tohave originated in southwestChina, millions of years ago,but they are no longerfound in Yunnan.Recently, their specialiseddiet has had dire consequences. Bamboo has a bizarre life cycle, flowering infrequently, sometimes only once every hundred years or so. But when flowering does occur,it's on a massive scale,and it's followed by thedeath of all of the plants. Sometimes an entirebamboo forest may die.In undisturbed habitat, pandas simply move to another areawhere a differentbamboo species grows.But as human activity has fragmented their forest home,pandas find it increasingly hard to find large enough areasin which to survive.Wild pandas are now found onlyin the forests of Central China,far to the east.But in the hidden pockets of lowland jungle in Yunnan's tropical south, live one of China'sbest-kept wildlife secrets.DEEP BELLOWThe wild Asian elephant.Elephants once roamed acrossChina as far north as Beijing.But it's only in the hidden valleys of Yunnan that they have survived. Elephants are thearchitects of the forest.Bamboos and grasses are theirfavourite foodbut saplings, tree leaves andtwisted lianas are alltaken, with little care.As they move through the forest,the elephants open up clearings, bringing light to the forest floor. This has a majorimpact on their home.The richest forests are now known to be those which from time to time experience change.The Jinou people are incredibly knowledgeable about their forestsand claim to have uses for most of the plants that they find there. They have names for them all,those good for eating and some which even have strong medicinal qualities. By working here, the Jinou playa similar role to the elephants, opening up the forest,bringing space, light and diversity. Green, fast growingspecies are encouraged.Insects are in high abundance here, together with the animalsthat feed on them.Knowledge of the forest enablesthe Jinou to find not just plants, but other tasty forest food too. Forest crabs are common here,feeding on the abundant leaf litter. This will be a tastyaddition to the evening meal.Flowing through Yunnan'ssouthern valleys,the once angry riversare now swollen,their waters slow and warm.These fertile lowland valleysare the home of the Dai.The "People of the Water"live along streams whichoriginate in the surrounding hills. Each family keeps a kitchen garden modelled on the multi-layered structure of the surrounding forests, which the Dai hold sacred.The gardens are made more productive by inter-planting different crops. Tall, sun-loving species give shelter to plants which thrive in the shade. As companions,the plants grow better.Yunnan's forests are home to more than a dozen wild banana speciesand banana crops grow wellin most Dai gardens.The huge banana flowers are richin nectar for only two hours a day, but it's enough to attract a rangeof forest insects, including hornets. With their razor sharp mandibles, they find it easy to robthe flowers of their nectar.But hornets are predators too.They hunt other insects andcarry them back to their nest.An ideal target,but this grasshopper is no easy meal. There may be a price to pay.The Dai men, Po and Xue Ming, take advantage of a hunter's instincts.A hornet sting is agony.But for now it's distracted,intent on cutting awaya piece of grasshoppersmall enough to carry back home. Success!The white featherhardly slows the hornet,and, more importantly,it can be seen.Now the hunter is the hunted.So long as Po andXue Ming can keep up!Back at the nest,the other hornetsimmediately begin to cutthe feather free.But it's too late. The nest'slocation has been betrayed.The relationship between the forest animals and the people who live here was never one of harmony.Yet the fact that the Dai and other ethnic groups considered theseforests to be sacred,has ensured their survivaland now many have been givenextra protection as nature reserves. Ingenuity and hard workpays off at last.The fattened larvae areconsidered a delicacy by the Dai. Although these forests have experienced a great deal of change, they are still host to someancient and incredible relationships. Almost 60 centimetres high,this is the immense flowerof the Elephant yam.Locals call it the"Witch of the Forest".As the stars rise,the witch begins to cast her spell. The forest temperature drops,but the flower starts to heat up.A heat sensitive camera revealsthe flower's temperaturerising by an incredibleten degrees Celsius.At the same time, a noxious stench of rotting flesh fills the forest air. As the flower's heat increases,a cloud of odour rises up.The foul perfumecarries far and wide.It doesn't go unnoticed.Carrion beetles arrive on the scene. The beetles come in searchof a feast of warm decaying flesh, but they've been tricked.Slippery sides ensure they tumble straight into the centreof the monster flower.There's not enough room to spread their wingsand the waxy walls ensurethat there's no escape.But there's nothing sinisterin the flower's agenda.The beetles will beits unwitting helpers.Dawn arrives,but the flower remains unchanged, holding its captives through the day. As the second night falls,the witch stirs again.In a matter of minutes, the flower's precious golden pollensqueezes from the stamensand begins to fall,showering onto the captivebeetles below.Now, at last, the prisonersare free to go.The flower's wall changes texture, becoming roughto provide the ideal escape ladder. Loaded with their pollen parcels, they can now climb to freedom,just as other forest witchesare beginning to open.Seduced by the irresistible perfume, the beetles are sure to pay a visit, so ensuring pollination,and another generation of incredibly big, smelly flowers.As dawn arrives, forest birds claim their territories in the canopy. BIRDSONGBut there's one callwhich stands out among the rest - virtuoso of the forest symphony.STRANGE CALL RINGS OUTIt's a gibbon.UNDULATING CALL CONTINUESLiving on a remote mountainrange in south central Yunnanis one of the few remainingwild gibbon populations in China. The black-crestedgibbons of Wuliangshan.They are confined tothese forest mountains,so remote and steepthat few hunters ever come here.The Wuliangshan gibbons areunusual for their social structure. Most gibbons live in smallfamily groupsconsisting of a mating pairand their offspring.But these gibbons exist in troops. One male can have twoor sometimes three femalesand all of these can have young. Often even the juvenilesstay in the community.BABY SQUEAKSRarely glimpsed,this baby may be only a day old.If it survives infancy,then it has a promising futurein these few valleyswith its close-knit family.GIBBON CALLS RING OUTGibbon song once inspiredthe ancient poets of China,their glorious callsechoing far across the hills.But now, new, strangely quiet forests have come to Yunnan.These trees are here to producean important and valuable crop.When the tree bark is scored,it yields copious sticky sap,so bitter and tackythat nothing can feed on it.It's the tree's naturaldefence against attack.It's collected daily,bowl by bowl.It will be boiled and processed into one of the most important materials to a fast developing nation - rubber. The expansion of the rubberforests began in the '50s when China, under a world rubber embargo,had to become self-sufficientin this vital product.Beijing turned to the only place where rubber could grow,the tropical south of Yunnan.With efficiency and speed,some of the world's richest forests were torn up and burned.Replaced with mile upon mileof rubber plantation.But there was a problemfor the rubber growers.While Yunnan's uniquenatural forestscan survive on the valleyslopes which stretch to the north... ..just one severe frost will kill off these delicate rubber trees.So Yunnan's terrain puts a limit on how far the plantations can spread, halting at leasttheir northwards advance.The jungles of Yunnanare increasingly under pressure. HORN BEEPSNew roads criss-crossthe tiny remnant forests,the infrastructure needed for trade, industry and, increasingly, tourism. It's a meeting of two verydifferent worlds.ELEPHANT TRUMPETSThat elephants still exist in Chinais remarkableconsidering the immense pressuresin the world's most highlypopulated country.The 250 or so wild elephantswhich still live hereare now strictly protected.And each year youngare born to the small herds.If elephants were to surviveanywhere in China,it could only have been here,in Yunnan.The same mountains which guidethe monsoon rains northand which made Joseph Rock'sjourneys so treacherous,also guarded Yunnan's forestsand its wildlife.ELEPHANTS GRUNT AND TRUMPETFor the moment, the mountains arestill carpeted in a rich green,deceptive in its simplicity.Below the canopy lies perhapsChina's richest natural treasure.Delicate and unique,a complex world of intricaterelationshipsbetween animals, plants and people,beneath the clouds.美丽中国英文字幕（1）——龙之心The last hidden worldChinaFor centuries, travellers to China have told tales of magical landscapes and surprising creaturesChinese civilization is the world's oldestand today it's largestwith well over a billion peopleIt's home to more than 50 distinct ethnic groupsand a wide range of traditional life stylesoften in close partnership with natureWe know that China faces immense social and environmental problemsbut there is great beauty here tooChina is home to the world's highest mountains,vast deserts ranging from from searing hotto mind numbing coldsteaming forestsharboring rare creaturesgrassy plains beneath vast horizonsand rich tropical seasNow, for the first time everwe can explore the whole of this great countrymeet some of the surprising and exotic creatures that live hereand consider the relationship of the people and wildlife of Chinato the remarkable landscaping which they liveThis is wild ChinaOur exploration of China begins in the warm subtropical southOn the Li River, fishermen and birds perch on bamboo raftsa partnership that goes back more than a thousand yearsThis scenery is known throughout the worlda recurring motif in Chinese paintingsand a major tourist attractionThe south of China is a vast areaeight times larger than the UKIt's a landscape of hillsbut also of waterIt rains here for up to 250 days a yearand standing water is everywhereIn a floodplain of the Yangtse Riverblack-tailed godwits probe the mud in search of wormsBut it isn't just wildlife that thrive in this environmentthe swampy ground provides ideal conditions for the remarkable member of the grass family riceThe Chinese have been cultivating rice for at least 8 thousand yearsIt has transformed a landscapeLate winter in southern Yunnan, it's a busy time for local farmersas they prepare the age-old paddy field ready for the coming springThese hill slopes of Yuanyang countyplunge nearly 2 thousand meters to the floor of the Red River Valleyeach contains literally thousands of stack terraces carved out by hand using basic digging toolsYunnan's rice terraces are among the oldest human structures in Chinastill ploughed as they always have beenby domesticated water buffaloeswhose ancestors originated in these very valleysThis man-made landscape is one of the most amazing engineering feats of preindustrial China It seems as if every square inch of landhas been pressed into cultivationAs evening approachesan age-old ritual unfoldsIt's the mating seasonand male paddy frogs are competing for the attention of femalesBut it dosen't always pay to draw too much attention to youselfThe Chinese Pond Heron is a crapulous predatorEven in the middle of a ploughed paddy fieldnature is red in beacon clawThis may look like a slaughterbut as each heron can swallow only one frog at a timethe vast majority will escape to croak another dayTerrace paddies like those of Yunyang county are found across much of southern ChinaThis whole vast landscape is dominated by rice cultivationIn here in Guizhou province, the Miao minority have developed a remarkable rice culture With every inch of fertile land given over to rice cultivationthe Miao build their wooden houses on the steepest and least productive hillsidesIn Chinese rural life, everything has a usedried in the sun, manure from the cowsheds would be used as cooking fuelIt's midday and the Song family aretucking into a lunch of rice and vegetablesOblivious to the domestic chitchatgranddad Guyong Song has serious maters on his mindSpring is a start of the rice growing seasonthe success of the crop will determin how well the family will eat next yearso planting at the right time is criticalThe ideal date depends on what the weather will do this yearnever easy to predictBut there is some surprising help at handOn the ceiling of the Song's living rooma pair of red-rumped swallows newly arrive from their winter migrationis busy fixing up last year's nestIn China, animals have value does much for their symbolic meaning as for many good they may doMiao people believe that swallow pairs remain faithful for lifeso their presence is a favor and a blessingbringing happiness to a marriage and good luck to a homeLike most Miao dwellings, the Song's living room windows look out over the paddy fields From early spring, one of these windows is always left open to let the swallows come and go freelyEach year, granddad Gu knows the exat day the swallows returnMiao people believe the birds arrival predicts the timing of a season ahead。

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The last hidden worldChinaFor centuries, travellers to China have told tales of magical landscapesand surprising creaturesChinese civilization is the world's oldestand today it's largestwith well over a billion peopleIt's home to more than 50 distinct ethnic groupsand a wide range of traditional life stylesoften inclose partnership with natureWe know that China faces immense social and environmental problemsbut there is great beauty here tooChina is home to the world's highest mountains,vast deserts ranging from from searing hotto mind numbing coldsteaming forestsharboring rare creaturesgrassy plains beneath vast horizonsand rich tropical seasNow, for the first time everwe can explore the whole of this great countrymeet some of the surprising and exotic creatures that live hereand consider the relationship of the people and wildlife of Chinato the remarkable landscaping which they liveThis is wild ChinaFor our troubled but drop-dead beautiful motherlandOur exploration of China begins in the warm subtropical southOn the Li River fishermen and birds perch on bamboo raftsa partnership that goes back more than a thousand yearsThis scenery is known throughout the worlda recurring motif in Chinese paintingsand a major tourist attractionThe south of China is a vast areaeight times larger than the UKIt's a landscape of hillsbut also of waterIt rains here for up to 250 days a yearand standing water is everywhereIn a floodplain of the Yangtse Riverblack-tailed godwits probe the mud in search of wormsBut it isn't just wildlife that thrive in this environmentthe swampy ground provides ideal conditions for the remarkable member of the grass familyriceThe Chinese have been cultivating rice for at least 8 thousand yearsIt has transformed the landscapeLate winter in southern Yunnan is a busy time for local farmersas they prepare the age-old paddy fieldready for the coming springThese hill slopes of Yuanyang countyplunge nearly 2000m to the floor of the Red River Valleyeach contains literally thousands of stack terraces carved out by hand using basic digging toolsYunnan's rice terraces are among the oldest human structures in Chinastill ploughed as they always have beenby domesticated water buffaloeswhose ancestors originated in these very valleysThis man-made landscape is one of the most amazing engineering feats of preindustrial ChinaIt seems as if every square inch of landhas been pressed into cultivationAs evening approachesan age-old ritual unfoldsIt's the mating seasonand male paddy frogs are competing for the attention of femalesBut it dosen't always pay to draw too much attention to youselfThe Chinese Pond Heron is a crapulous predatorEven in the middle of a ploughed paddy fieldnature is red in beak and clawThis may look like a slaughterbut as each heron can swallow only one frog at a timethe vast majority will escape to croak another dayTerrace paddies like those of YunYang county are found across much of southern ChinaThis whole vast landscape is dominated by rice cultivationIn heated Guizhou province the Miao minority have developed a remarkable rice cultureWith every inch of fertile land given over to rice cultivationthe Miao build their wooden houses on the steepest and least productive hillsides In Chinese rural life everything has a usedried in the sun manure from the cowsheds would be used as cooking fuelIt's midday and the Song family aretucking into a lunch of rice and vegetablesOblivious to the domestic chitchatgranddad Guyong Song has serious maters on his mindSpring is a start of the rice growing seasonthe success of the crop will determin how well the family will eat next yearso planting at the right time is criticalThe ideal date depends on what the weather will do this yearnever easy to predictBut there is some surprising help at handOn the cielling of the Song's living rooma pair of red-rumped swallow newly arrive from their winter migrationis busy fixing up last year's nestIn China animals are valued does much for their symbolic meaning as for many good they may doMiao people believe that swallow pairs remain faithful for lifeso their presence is a favor and a blessingbringing happiness to a marriage and good luck to a homeLike most Miao dwellings, the Song's living room windows look out over the paddy fieldsFrom early spring, one of these windows is always left open to let the swallows come and go freelyEach year granddad Gu knows the exact day the swallows returnMiao people believe the birds arrival predicts the timing of a season aheadThis year, they were lateso Gu and the other community elders have agreed that rice planting should be delayed accordinglyAs the Miao prepare their fields for plantingthe swallows collect mud to repair their nestsand chase after insects across the newly ploughed paddiesFinally, after weeks of preparationthe ordained time for planting has arrivedbut first the seedlings must be uproot from the nursery bedsand bundled up ready to be transported to their new paddyhigher up the hillsideAll the Song's neighbors have turned out to help with the transplantingIt's how the community has always workedwhen the time comes, the Songs will return the favorWhile the farmers are busy in the fieldsthe swallows fly back and forth with material for their nestMany hands make light workplanting the new paddy takes a little more than an hourJob done, the villagers can relaxat least until tomorrowBut for the nesting swallows, the work of raising a familyhas only just begunIn the newly planted fieldslittle egrets hunt for foodsThe rice paddy harbor tadpoles fish and insectsand egrets have chicks to feedThis colony in Chongqing province is established in 1996when a few dozen birds build nests in thebamboo grove behind YanGuang villageBelieving they were assigned of lucklocal people initially protected the egrets and the colony groveBut their attitude change when the head of the village fell illThey blame the birds and were all set to destroy their nestswhen the local government stepped in to protect themBendy bamboo may not be the safest nesting placebut at least these youngsters won't end up at someone's dinnerThese chicks have just had a meal delivered by their momquite a challenge for litter beaksProviding their colonies are protectedwading birds like egrets are among the few wild creatures which benefit directly from intensive rice cultivationGrowing rice needs lots of waterbut even in the rainy south, there are landscapes where water is surprisingly scarceThis vast area of southwest Chinathe size of France and Spain combinedis famous for its clusters of conical hillslike giant upturned egg cartonseperated by dry empty valleysThis is the karsta limestone terrain which has become the defining image of southern ChinaKarst landscapes are oftenstudded with rocky outcropsforcing local farmers to cultivate tiny fieldsThe people who live hereare among the poorest in ChinaIn neighboring Yunnan provincelimestone rocks have taken over entirelyThis is the famous Stone Forestthe product of countless years of erosionproducing a maze of deep gullets and sharp-edged pinnaclesLimestone has a strange property that is dissolves in rain waterOver many thousands of years, water has corrode its way deep into the heart of the bedrock itselfThis natural wonder has a famous tourist spotreceiving close to 2 million visitors each yearThe Chinese are fond of curiously shaped rocksand many have been given fanciful namesNo prices for guessing what this one is calledBut there is more to this landscapethan meets the eyeChina has literally thousands of mysterious cavernsconcealed beneath the visible landscape of the karstMuch of this hidden world has never been seen by human eyesAnd it's only just now being exploredFor a growing band of intrepid young Chinese explorerscaves represent the ultimate adventureExploring a cave is like taking the journey through timea journey which endless raindrops would have followed over countless centuriesFed by countless drips and tricklesthe subterranean river carves ever deeper into the rockThe cave river's course is channeled by the beds of limestoneA weakness in the rock can not allow the river to increase its gradient flowrateproviding a real challenge for the cave explorersThe downward rushes halted when the water table is reachedHere the slow flowing river carves tunnels with a more rounded profileThis tranquil world is home to specialized cave fisheslike the eye-less Golden BarbChina may have unique kinds of cave evolved fishesthan anywhere else on EarthAbove the water tableancient caverns abandoned by the river slowly fill up with stalactites and stalagmitesStalactites form as trickling water deposites tiny quantities of rockover hundreds or thousands of yearsStalagmites grow up where lime laid and drips hit the cave floorSo far, only a fraction of China's caves have been thoroughly prospectedand caves are constantly discovering new subterranean marvelsmany of which are subsequently developed into commercial show cavesFinally escaping the darknessthe cave river and its human explorers emerge in a valley far from where their journey beganor now the adventure is overRivers which issue from cavesare the key to survival in the karst countryThis vertical gorge in Guizhou provinceis a focal point for the region's wildlifeThis is one of the world's rarest primatesFrancois's langurIn China, they survive in just two southern provincesGuizhou and Guangxialways in ragged limestone terrainsLike most monkeys, they're social creaturesand spend a great deal of time grooming each otherLangurs are essentially vegetarian with a diet of buds, fruits, and tender youngleavesBabies are born with ginger furwhich gradually turns black from the tail endYoung infants have a vise-like gripused for cling on to mom for dare lifeAs they get olderthey get bolder and take more risksThose have survive spend a lot of time travellingYet experienced adults know exactly where to find seasonal foodin different parts of their rangeIn such steep terraintravel involves a high level of climbing skillThese monkeys are spectacularly good rock climbers from the time they learnt to walkIn langur societyfemales rule the roostand take the lead when the family is on the moveOne section of cliffwoops is a trickle of mineral-rich waterwhich the monkeys seem to find irresistibleThese days there are few predators in the Mayanghe Reserve which might pose a risk to baby monkeybut in past centuries, this area of south Chinawas home to leopards, pythons, and even tigersTo survive dangerous night prowlersthe langurs went undergroundusing their rock climbing skills to seek shelter in inaccessible cavernsFilmed in near darkness using a night vision camerathe troop clambers along familiar ledgesworn smooth by generations before themDuring cold winter weatherthe monkeys venture deeper undergroundwhere the air stays comparatively warmAt last, journeys end,a coated niche beyond the reach of even the most enterprising predatorBut it's not just monkeys that find shelter in cavesThese children are off to schoolIn rural China, that may mean a long trek each morningpassing through a cave or two on the wayBut not all pupils have to walk to schoolThese children are boardersAs the day pupils near journey's endthe boarders are still making breakfastIn the school yard, someone seems to have switched the lights offBut this is no ordinary play groundand no ordinary schoolIts houseinside a caveA natural vault of rock keeps out the rainso there is no need for a roof on the classroomZhongdong cave school is made up of 6 classeswith a total of 200 childrenAs well as a school, the cave houses 18 familiestogether with their livestockThis could be the only cave dwelling cows on EarthWith school work over, it's play time at lastIn southern China, caves aren't just used for shelterthey can be a source of revenue for the communityPeople have been visiting this cave for generationsThe cave floor is covered in guanoso plentiful that 10 minutes' work can fill these farmer's basketsThis used as a valuable source of fertilizerA clue to the source of the guano can be heard above the noise of the riverThe sound originates high up in the roof of the caveThe entrance is full of swiftsThey are very sociable birdsmore than 200,000 of them share this cave in southern Guizhou provinceThe biggest swift colony in ChinaThese days, Chinese house swiftsmostly nest in the roofs of buildingsbut rock crevasses like these were their original homelong before houses were inventedThough the swifts depend on the cave for shelterthey never stray further than the limits of daylightas their eyes can't see in darkHowever, deep inside the cavernare the creatures are better equippedfor subterranean lifeA colony of bats is just waking upusing ultrasonic squeaks to orientate themselves in the darknessNight is the time to go huntingRickett's mouse-eared bat is the only bat in Asia which specializes in catching fishestracking them down from the sound reflection of ripples on the water surface This extraordinary behavior was only discovered in the last couple of yearsand has never been filmed beforeIf catching fish in the dark is impressiveimagine eating a slippery minnow with no hands while hanging upside downDawn, over the karst hills of GuilinThese remarkable hills owe their peculiar shapesto the mildly acid waters of the Li Riverwhose meandering course over eons of time has corrode away their basisuntil only the rocky course remainedLi is one of the cleanest rivers in Chinaa favorite spot for fishermen with their trained cormorantsThe men, all called Huang, come from the same villagenow in their seventies and eightiesthey've been fishermen all their livesBefore they release the birdsthey tie a noose, loosely around the neckto stop them swallowing any fish they may catchChancing and dancing, the Huangs encourage their birds to take the plungeUnderwaterthe cormorant's hunting instinct kicks inturning them into fish seeking missilesWorking together,a good cormorant team can catch a couple of dozen decent-sized fish in a morningThe birds return to the raft with their fish because they've been trained to do soFrom the time it first hatchedeach of these cormorants has been reared to a life of obedience to its master The birds are, in effect, slavesBut they are not stupidIt's said the cormorants can key the tally of the fish they catchat least up to sevenSo unless they get a reward now and then,they simply withdraw their laborThe fishermen of course keep the best fish for themselvesThe cormorants get the leftover tiddliesWith its collar removed，the bird can at last swallow its prizeBest of all,when it isn't meant to have...These days,competition for modern fishing techniquesmeans the Huangs can't make a living from traditional cormorant fishing alone And this 1300-year old traditionis now practiced mostly to entertain touristsBut on Caohai lake in nearby Guizhou Provincean even more unusual fishing industry is alive and wellGeng Zhongsheng is on his way to set out his net for the nightGeng's net is a strange tubular contraption with a closed off endMore than a hundred fishermen make their living from the lakeIts mineral-rich waters are highly productiveand there are nets everywhereThe next morning, Geng returns with his son to collect his catchAt first sight, it looks disappointingTiny fishes, lots of shrimps, and some wriggling bugsGeng doesn't seem too down heartedThe larger fish are kept alivethe only way they'll stay fresh in the heatSurprisingly, some of the bugs are also singled out for special treatmentThey are the young stage of dragonfliespredators that feed on worms and tadpolesNowhere else in the world are dragonfly nymphs harvested like thisBack home, Geng spreads his catch on the roof to dryIt's being in China, nothing edible would be wastedThere is a saying in the far south"We will eat anything with legs, except a table;and anything with wings, except a plane."Within a few hours, the dried insects are ready to be backed up and taken to marketIts the dragonfly nymphs that fetch the best priceFortunately, Caohai's dragonflies are abundant and fast breedingso Geng and his fellow fishermen have so far had little impact on their numbers But not all wildlife is so resilientThis buddhist temple near Shanghaihas an extraordinary story attached to itIn May 2007A Wild China camera team filmed this peculiar Swinhoe's turtlein the temple's fishpondAccording to the monks, this turtle had been given to the temple during the Ming dynastyover 400 years agoIt was thought to be the oldest animal on EarthSoft shell turtles are considerd a god-made delicacy by many Chineseand when it was filmedthis was one of just three Swinhoe's Turtles left alive in ChinaThe rest of its kindhaving been rounded up and eatenSadly, just a few weeks after filmingthis ancient creature diedThe remaining individuals of its species are currently kept in seperate zoosand Swinhoe's Turtle is now reckoned extinct in the wildIn fact, most of the 25 types of fresh water turtles in Chinaare now vanishingly rareThe answer to extinctionis protectionAnd there is now a growing network of nature reserves through southern China Of these, the Tianzi Mountain Reserve at Zangjiajie is perhaps the most visitedby Chinese nature loverswho come to marvel at the gravity-defying landscape of soaring sand stone pinnaclesWinding between Zhangjiajie's peakscrystal clear mountain streams are home to what is perhaps China's strangest creatureThis bizarre animalis a type of newtthe Chinese Giant SalamanderIn China, it is known as the baby fishbecause when distressed, it makes a sound like a crying infantIt grows up to a meter and a half longmaking it the world's largest amphibianUnder natural conditions, a Giant Salamander may live decadesBut like so many Chinese animalsit is considered delicious to eatDespite being classed as protected speciesgiant salamanders are still illegally sold for foodand the baby fish is now rareand endangered in the wildFortunately in a few areas like Zhangjiajie,Giang Salamanders still survive under strict official protectionThe rivers of Zhangjiajie flow northeast into the Yangtse floodplainknown as the land of fish and riceOn an island in a lake in Anhui provincea dragon is stirringThis is the ancestral home of China's largest and rarest reptileA creature of mystery and legendDragon eggs are greatly prizedthese babies need to hatch out quickIt would seem someone is on their trailFor a helpless baby reptileimprisoned in a leathery membrane inside a choky shella process of hatchingis a titanic struggleAnd time is running outIt's taken 2 hours for the little dragon to get its head out of this eggIt needs to gather its strength nowa final massive pushFree at lastthe baby Chinese alligators instinctively head upwards toward the surface of the nestand a side worldBut the visitors are not what they seemSheshuzhen and her son live nearbyShe has been caring for her local alligators for over 20 yearsso she had fair idea when the eggs will likely to hatchBack home, she's built a pond,surrounded by netting to keep out predatorswhere her charges will spend the next 6 monthsuntil they are big enough to fend for themselvesFor the past twenty yearssmall scale conservation projects like this are all that have kept China's 150 wild alligators from extinctionJust south of the alligator countrydawn breaks over a very different landscapeThe 1800 meter high granite peaksof the Huangshanor yellow mountainTo the ChineseHuangshan's pines are peak mines,the strength, and resilience of natureSome of these trees are thought to be over a thousand years oldBellow the granite peakssteep forest in the valleysshelter surprising inhabitantsHuangshan macaquesrare descendents of the Tibetan macaques of western Chinaare unique to these mountain valleys where they enjoy strict official protection After a morning spent in the treetopsthe troop is heading for the shade of the valleya chance for the grownups escape the heatand maybe pickup a lanch snack from the streamAs in most monkey societiessocial contact involves a lot of groomingGrooming is all very well for grownupsBut young macaques have energy to burnLike so much monkey businesswhat starts off is a bit of playful rough-and-tumblesoon begin to get out of handThe alpha male has seen it all beforehe's not in the least botheredbut someone or something is watchingwith a less than friendly interestThe Chinese Moccasin is ambush predator with a deadly biteThis is one of China's largest and most feared venomous snakesBut the mondkeys have lived alongside these dangerous serpent for thousands of yearsThey use this, specific alarm call, to warn each other whenever a snake is spotted Once its cover is blown, the bite proposes no threat to the monkeysnow safe in the treetopsAnd life soon returens to normalBy later summer, the rice fields of southern Chinahave turn to goldThe time has come to bring in the harvestNowadays, modern high yield strains are grown throughout much of the rice lands Boosted by chemical fertilizersand reaped by combine harvestersThis is the great rice bowl of Chinaproducing a quarter of the world's riceInsects, stirred up by the noisy machines,are snapped up by gangs of red-rumped swallowsincluding this year's youngsterswho have fledged several weeks agoThis could be their last feast before they head for the winterMechanized farming works best in the flat bottom valleys of the lowlandTo the south, in the terraced hills in Zhejiang provincean older and simpler lifestyle persistsIt's 7 in the morningand Longxian's most successful business manis off to workIn the golden terraces surrounding the villagethe ears of rice are plump and right for harvestingBut today, rice isn't upon the most in Mr Yang's mindHe has bigger fish to fryFurther at valley, the harvest has already beganYang's fields are ripe toobut they haven't been drained yetThat's because for him, rice is not the main cropThe baskets he's carried up the hillside give a clue to Yang's businessBut before he starts workhe needs to let some water out of the systemAs the water level dropsthe mystery is revealedgolden carpLongxian villages discoverd the benefits of transferring wild caught carp into their paddy fields long agoThe tradition has been going on herefor at least 700 yearsAs the water level in the paddy dropsbamboo gate stop the fish's escapingThe beauty of this farming methodis that it delivers two cropsfrom the same field at the same timefishand riceSmart ecology like thisis what enables China to be largely self-sufficient in foodeven todayBack in the villageYang has his own smoke housewhere he preserves his fish ready for marketLongxian carp have unusually soft scalesand a very delicate flavorperhaps as a result of the local waterMeanwhile, outside the smoke housethere is something fishy going onTo mark the harvestthe village is staging a partyChildren from Longxian schoolhave spent weeks preparing for their big momentEveryone from the community is here to support themThe rice growing cycle is completeBy Novembernorthern China is becoming distinctly chillybut the south is still relatively warm and welcomingAccross the vast expanse of Poyang lakethe birds are gatheringTundra swans are long-distance migrant from northern SiberiaTo the Chinese, they symbolize the essence of natural beautyThe Poyang Lake Nature Reserve offers winter refuge to more than a quarter of a million birdsfor more than 100 speciescreating one of southern China's finest wildlife experiencesThe last birds to arrive at Poyangare those which have made the longest journey to get hereAll the way from the arctic coast of SiberiaThe Siberian Crane, known in China, the White Craneis seen as a symbol of good luckEach year, almost the entire world population of these critically endangered birdsmake a 9000km round tripto spend the winter at PoyangLike the white cranesmany of southern China's unique animals face pressure from exploitation and competition with peopleover space and resourcesBut if China is leaving proof of anythingit is that wildlife is surprisingly resilientGiven the right helpeven the rarest creatures can return from the brink If we show the willnaturewill find the way.。