![]() Our Private Trips are fully tailored itineraries, curated by our Travel Experts specifically for you, your friends or your family. Our Rail Trips are our most planet-friendly itineraries that invite you to take the scenic route, relax whilst getting under the skin of a destination. Our Trips are suitable for both solo travelers, couples and friends who want to explore the world together.Ĭulture Trips are deeply immersive 5 to 16 days itineraries, that combine authentic local experiences, exciting activities and 4-5* accommodation to look forward to at the end of each day. That is why we have intensively curated a collection of premium small-group trips as an invitation to meet and connect with new, like-minded people for once-in-a-lifetime experiences in three categories: Culture Trips, Rail Trips and Private Trips. Increasingly we believe the world needs more meaningful, real-life connections between curious travellers keen to explore the world in a more responsible way. We are proud that, for more than a decade, millions like you have trusted our award-winning recommendations by people who deeply understand what makes certain places and communities so special. ![]() Since you are here, we would like to share our vision for the future of travel - and the direction Culture Trip is moving in.Ĭulture Trip launched in 2011 with a simple yet passionate mission: to inspire people to go beyond their boundaries and experience what makes a place, its people and its culture special and meaningful - and this is still in our DNA today. Usually found panicking over some form of essay or translation crisis, she also tries to keep up a (sporadic) blog, which can be found here. She loves Asian cooking, reading plays, and trying to decipher inscriptions in crazy languages. ![]() By Tara Heuze Tara Heuze is a 20-year-old undergraduate living in Sunny Albion. With related instruments being popular in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, India, Iran, and Pakistan, as well as China, the yángqín has enjoyed several evolutions and modifications over the centuries, thus providing a wonderful variety of different effects and sounds according to the differing materials and techniques applied to it. Using what is usually compared to ‘drumsticks,’ the yángqín can be used both as an accompaniment in a larger orchestral piece, as well as in a solo composition. Interestingly enough, the Chinese used to call it a ‘yángqín’ 洋琴 (literally meaning a ‘foreign zither’), but the name changed over time to ‘yángqín’ 揚琴, which instead means ‘esteemed zither. One of the few instruments that is struck as opposed to plucked, within the Chinese string instruments, the yángqín is a hammered dulcimer that was brought into China from the Persian Empire (modern-day Iran). There is such a great tradition for playing the gǔqín that several schools in different parts of China has been set up over the centuries, dedicated towards the teaching of playing technique. The instrument itself requires a wide variety of techniques (1070 in total) that aid in providing three types of sound: ‘scattered sounds,’ in which the required string produces an open sound ‘floating sounds,’ which are harmonics in which a clean and crisp sound is produced and ‘stopped sounds,’ which are by far the most common and are produced by a method that is comparable to the Western slide guitar. Apparently, there is a famous Chinese saying which claims that ‘a gentleman does not part with his qín…without good reason.’ It is also considered the ‘father of Chinese music,’ as it is an instrument with deep associations with the famous Chinese philosopher Confucius (500 BCE). Categorised as a ‘silk’ (絲) instrument, due to the silk material used for its strings, the gǔqín is a seven-stringed zither greatly favored by the literati for its qualities of refinement and subtlety.
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