ChinasSchätze

From the Forbidden City in a forgotten village. From Beijing's imperial palace to the tea plantations in Yunnan Province. Through kitchens and pharmacies, temples and rice paddies. With Mao and Confucius, with Qigong and Feng Shui. With Peking Duck and Peking Opera show this extraordinary journey documentation an idiosyncratic and colorful image of China.In the first part of his Chinese treasure hunt for many years ZDF correspondent Gert Anhalt China refreshes his knowledge of Chinese cuisine, one of the great treasures of the country. Nobody moves so successful in the fire pot as Ms. He Yongzhi from Chongqing, which has developed from a small food stall, restaurant-empire of over 400 branches and another great treasure of China embodies the industry and the business acumen of the Chinese. Lack of diligence must be the artist and hotelier Chen Li Ping can not be blamed. Tens of thousands of times he has already brought the majestic scenery of Huangshan Mountain in Anhui Province on the screen - even in monumental murals. Back in Beijing Gert Anhalt explored the remains of the largely destroyed city of wrecking balls and a well-guarded architectural jewel: the Forbidden City, the ancient imperial palace. At its entrance is emblazoned still the irrepressible Portrait of the Great Chairman Mao Zedong. For many Chinese, this man also about 30 years after his death is still the greatest treasure in China. Gert Anhalt will also meet a wealthy collector, who in his private museum vases and sculptures kept invaluable, one restaurateur who collects cottages and saves precious antique furniture before the fire. He attended the Beijing Opera Troupe"wind and thunder," and questioned China's biggest rock star, Cui Jian - a treasure with baseball cap and stubble."China's wealth should not be sought in treasure chests and safes, and not in gold and diamond mines," says the author of the first part of his journey."China's treasures are on the road. And they live in the minds and hearts of its people."In the second part of the Chinese adventure is about dried geckos for coughs and gazelle horn for hypertension. Author and treasure hunters Gert Anhalt explores the fascinating world of Chinese herbal medicine and the"Qi", the mysterious breath of life and basic idea of traditional medicine in China.The 85-year-old professor Li Hongxiang is perhaps the last great master of his craft, Chinese medicine and has proved in many supposedly hopeless cases that China's millennia-old art of healing and therapy still holds the answer, where Western Medicine has long held out their arms. The 60-year-old Wang Guangquan, which occurred 30 years ago alongside Jet Li in the first big kung-fu movie, says the almost seemingly magical powers of Qi, which he mastered as a master of kung fu and the"shadow boxing" and Taijiquan barely a second and bring the proof of the television writer from Germany more than once expertly to the ground. Traditionally, and even a bit mystical to go from here if facts true in Shanghai, the Feng Shui specialist Les Zhao. Explains how to calculate the"money source" of a house and can turn so his restaurant or store in a gold mine. The currently perhaps the world's largest computational task to solve the Chinese preservationists, which has been applied, China's most famous treasure, the Great Wall, measured at last thoroughly. So far, we always thought that the wall is"just about 5000 kilometers' long - now they want it but just to know. By the end of the year are expected by the numbers. Many thousands of miles south of the Wall and on the very edge of this vast country in Yunnan Province, finally Gert Anhalt explores the origins of the largest liquid treasure of China - the tea. In the region of Xishuangbanna near the Laotian border to thousands of years ago, the first tea trees have been bred. In a village, literally at the end of the world is the starting point of the legendary Ancient tea route, on which were precious then leaves the road to the west and us. Here, the author of a special and unexpected treasure - old farmhouses is still untouched by change, a look at very old China.——Google translation from German(不准确的地方欢迎纠正)