Home - China Tales - China Tales: Minqin：The lost oasis along the Silk Road

China Tales: Minqin：The lost oasis along the Silk Road

Mar 8, 2011

Host: Roseann Lake

Lam Li a website editor who has a considerable travel experience along the modern Silk Road with particular interest in Minqin County. The region was formerly a desert oasis, now almost swallowed by yearly sandstorms. Li relates her story of the geography, local culture, local customs and life in Minqin County.

Tags: Minqin Silk Road,Culture,Customs

TEXT COMMENTS(0)

WRITE A COMMENT(maximum 1000 words)

ALL PROGRAMS

RELATED PROGRAMS

China Tales: Cuisine along the Silk Road

Jen Lin-liu , chef and writer , has travelled along the most of Silk Road in China, and she plans to finish the journey to Europe. She is going to introduce the cuisine along the silk road while also introducing a few famous places like Xi’an, Shanxi and Xinjiang.
Xinjiang - Singing Camel Bells on The Silk Road

Through the winds of many years, bell sounds linger over the burning or frigid land. Winds blow, sands move. So many old dreams of prosperity on the Silk Road have been buried under this limitless desert.
Take Me To China: Episode 9

Travel reality show Take Me to China: Xinjiang heads to an oases city along the ancient Silk Road. There the guests delve three long-traded products: jade, cotton and wine.
Xinjiang - Qiuci Charms

Kuch, where the ancient Qiuci Kingdom on the Silk Road lay, held the strategic Silk Road passage, and was historically the economic and cultural center of this western China region.
Maritime Silk Road Secrets

China is the world's oldest surviving civilization, and for much of its history, a mystery to the outside world. Now, as Andrew Livingstone reports, a new discovery indicates China's involvement with the ancient world may have been more extensive than many believed.
Take Me To China: Episode 12

Travel reality show Take Me to China Xinjiang heads to one of the furthest trading outposts in the world: Kashgar. There the guests explore two products of the Silk Road: musical instruments and carpets.
China Driven: Xi'an

Brendan and Dave drive into traffic-heavy Xi'an, bike the old defensive walls, and explore three Silk Road religions still flourishing in communist China. Later, they leave the city to glimpse new editions to the Terracotta Army.
Faces of China Episode 8: Uyghur B

More on the Uyghur people of China, whose Muslim beliefs were adopted via the ancient Silk Road.