Ancient inscription shows Chinese people's environmental protection efforts 2,000 years ago

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Ancient inscription shows Chinese people's environmental protection efforts 2,000 years ago

STORY: Ancient inscription shows Chinese people's environmental protection efforts 2,000 years ago DATELINE: June 6, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:02 LOCATION: LANZHOU, China CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of the inscription 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): XIAO CONGLI, Research director, Bamboo Slip Museum of Gansu Province STORYLINE: Sunday marked World Environment Day, an annual occasion to foster environmental awareness and prompt action since 1973. Thousands of years before the day was celebrated worldwide, ancient Chinese people had made great efforts to protect the environment and live harmoniously with nature. The Doctrine of Seasons, an inscription showing how ancient Chinese people lived and worked according to changes of climate and phenology, is being displayed at Gansu Jiandu Museum in northwest China. The inscription was discovered at an ancient courier station from the Han Dynasty (202 B.C.- A.D. 220), ruins of which are located in Dunhuang city of Gansu Province. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): XIAO CONGL

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