• Developing characteristic resource plants to build a Beautiful China

    Subjects: Statistics >> Social Statistics submitted time 2024-03-27 Cooperative journals: 《中国科学院院刊》

    Abstract: It is an important way to solve the contradiction among ecology, production and life in natural protected areas and ecologically fragile region by constructing the three-production integration mode of characteristic resource plants. In order to fully tap and make use of the outstanding characteristics of oil tree peony, wine grape and aromatic plants, this study carried out technology integration of variety screening, planting, harvesting, processing, product research and development, and industrialization demonstration in and around natural protected areas and ecologically fragile region. Through the economic benefits generated, the life of the people in the natural protected areas and ecologically fragile region no longer depends on wild resources. Meanwhile, it can help to achieve the effective protection of biodiversity and meet the people’s yearning for a better life, promote the sustainable development of ecological civilization construction, and build a Beautiful China.

  • 青海热贡唐卡的生物文化初探

    Subjects: Biology >> Botany >> Applied botany submitted time 2023-07-13 Cooperative journals: 《广西植物》

    Abstract: The loss of biodiversity not only means the loss of genes, species and ecosystems, but also threatens the cultural diversity. Thangka is known as the ‘encyclopaedia’ of traditional Tibetan culture, covering social, historical, cultural, religious and medicinal aspects. Qinghai Regong Thangka is one of the most important sects of Thangka, which have vivid and delicate depiction of images, and the numerous depictions of natural landscapes. By combining the methods of literature analysis, work analysis and ethnobiological fieldwork, the biocultural aspects of Regong Thangka are studied in terms of the traditional knowledge related to biodiversity in the painting techniques of Regong Thangka and the analysis of the connotation of biological images. The results were as follows: The study revealed the biological origins and production processes of the traditional painting tools and 12 natural plant-derived pigments for Regong Thangka; explored the origins and functions of the biological images often found in the Thangka works; explained the ecological concepts conveyed from Regong Thangka. In general, Regong Thangkas are not only resulted from nature, but also provide feedbacks to nature in their content. In the future, we should pay attention to the protection and inheritance of the traditional skills and biodiversity related traditional knowledge of Regong Thangka, and further explore its functions of traditional knowledge dissemination and nature education.