文档介绍：Beneath billowing clouds,
in China's far southwestern Yunnan 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 e 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 , 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 modernize
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 their ancestors 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 essible.
Here the air is thin and temperatures
can drop below minus 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 primat