Synopsis

In October 2005, Yuan Sheng Fang concluded a 30-day tour of the United States. In November of the same year, with the personal support of Mr. Zhang Songren from Hong Kong, they established the first traditional ethnic music and dance inheritance class in the countryside. In June 2006, they converted a multi-functional art space in the Chuangku Art Community in Kunming. Yuan Sheng Fang, a non-profit folk organization dedicated to the rescue and preservation of traditional music and dance culture of Yunnan's ethnic minorities, thus obtained its own workspace in Kunming. This documentary, filmed from 2006 to 2015, captures how Yuan Sheng Fang organized and relied on folk artists from Yunnan's rural areas to explore and navigate the challenging path of cultural self-rescue and preservation amidst the impacts of China's economic boom and their own financial shortages.