Building a New Benchmark for Mutual Learning Among Civilizations Amid Mountains and Waters — The “Hundreds of Universities, Thousands of Participants” International Communication Study Tour and Field Research Activity Was Successfully Held at Tianzhushan
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2026-06-30Ancient charm lies hidden in the mountains and waters, while fresh understanding rises with the breeze.
In June 2026, a major national youth cultural event centered on landscape, study travel, and exchange — the “Hundreds of Universities, Thousands of Participants” large-scale study tour and field research activity — was successfully held at Tianzhushan in Anhui.
As a national youth study event with broad reach, high participation, and strong influence, it brought together students from dozens of universities across China, with nearly 400 young participants, including almost 100 international students, forming a diverse and integrated youth field-research community that bridged China and the wider world.
This in-depth journey across institutions and cultures was not only an immersive experience of mountains, waters, and cultural heritage, but also a major gathering for national youth aesthetic education and cross-cultural mutual learning.
This event stood out for its scale, systematic design, and international character.
Connecting the Tianzhushan Study Travel Base, Valley Spring Cultural Park, and the core scenic area of Tianzhushan, it created a multidimensional study-tour system that combined natural science education, cultural tracing, and experiential aesthetic learning in real settings.
Chinese students revisited cultural heritage from a local perspective, while international students interpreted Eastern landscapes through a global lens. With nearly a thousand participants traveling together and sharing mutual understanding, what began as individual sightseeing became a collective cultural immersion, turning Tianzhushan’s landscapes into a vivid medium for mutual learning between civilizations.
Study Travel Base: Universities gathering together to put learning into action
At the first stop of the field trip, students from many universities and nearly one hundred international students gathered at the Tianzhushan Study Travel Base, where they began an immersive course focused on the local culture and intangible heritage of Qianshan.
Unlike ordinary study tours centered only on natural science, this program was rooted in Qianshan’s local cultural traditions and deeply explored region-specific intangible heritage resources, integrating living local culture into practical teaching.
Chinese and international students came into close contact with Qianshan’s traditional customs, folk craftsmanship, and local cultural stories, experiencing the unique charm of this thousand-year regional culture in a vivid and immersive way.
With hundreds of universities and many participants learning, exchanging, and experiencing together, international students moved beyond textbook knowledge to directly encounter the vitality of southwestern Anhui’s intangible heritage, while Chinese students rediscovered memories of their own local culture.
Through this collective study experience, participants gained a deeper understanding of the contemporary value of Qianshan’s intangible heritage transmission and of the enduring cultural essence of Chinese civilization, deeply rooted in local life and passed on from generation to generation.
Valley Spring Cultural Park: A thousand participants tracing the cultural lineage carved into stone
The journey then continued to Valley Spring Cultural Park, where quiet streams and thousand-year-old cliff inscriptions told stories of time in silence.
This “history book on the cliff face” preserves more than 400 cliff inscriptions dating back to the Tang Dynasty, carrying forward across the centuries the literary spirit, poetic expression, and calligraphic beauty of generations of scholars.
With all five major styles of Chinese calligraphy represented, the cultural lineage of the site continues unbroken.
Gathered together in the quiet valley, the participants collectively read this civilization carved into stone, while Chinese and international youth alike experienced the inner spirit of the Chinese literati tradition — one that expresses feeling through landscape and conveys truth through writing.
In this way, a relatively niche heritage of inscription culture entered the view of young people, and a thousand-year-old literary tradition was renewed through shared reading across cultures.
Tianzhushan: Young people from many universities embracing the grandeur of the land
Upon entering the core scenic area of Tianzhushan, participants were met with the full majesty and grace of its mountain landscapes.
Its extraordinary peaks, seas of clouds, ancient pines, and secluded rocky realms combine the grandeur often associated with northern mountains and the elegance typical of southern waterscapes, making Tianzhushan a remarkable embodiment of Chinese aesthetics.
Hundreds of young participants climbed through clouds and forest paths, experiencing firsthand the extraordinary artistry of nature.
In the presence of such vast and powerful scenery, Chinese and international students came to understand the Chinese philosophy of balancing strength with gentleness, as well as the long tradition of using mountains and waters to cultivate the human spirit.
With the posture of contemporary youth, they paid tribute to the land, engaged in dialogue with the times, and completed a deeply immersive journey of spiritual and aesthetic education.
A New Benchmark: Civilizations meeting through study and exchange
With participation from dozens of universities, nearly 400 young people, and almost 100 international students, this event set a new benchmark for youth study travel and cultural exchange in China through its scale and diversity.
Chinese youth carried forward their own cultural heritage, while international students acted as cultural messengers.
Supported by the influence of many universities and the communication power of youth, the cultural landscapes of Tianzhushan are now reaching beyond Anhui, spreading across the nation, and connecting with the world.
Mountains and rivers continue the cultural lineage, and young people continue to pursue what they love.
This “Hundreds of Universities, Thousands of Participants” field research activity empowered youth development through large-scale study travel and built bridges of civilization through international exchange.
In the future, Tianzhushan will continue to strengthen its study-tour brand, deeply cultivate its landscape and cultural resources, and keep building platforms for dialogue between Chinese and international youth, so that the ancient charm of Anhui’s mountains may continue to shine brightly in the mutual learning of civilizations in the new era.
Let mountains and seas bear witness; let the cultural lineage never cease.
In the name of field research, let us keep our appointment with civilization.
The landscapes of Tianzhushan are quietly waiting for the world to arrive.