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to keep out the nomadic tribes from the north
They called these people barbarians
and their lands were considered barren
and uninhabitable
Northern China is indeed a harsh place
of terrible winters
ferocious summers
harsh deserts
But it is far from lifeless
With colorful places
surprising creatures
amazing people
and strange landscapes
The further we travel, the more extreme it becomes
So how do people and wildlife cope
with hardships and challenges of life beyond the Wall
For our troubled but drop-dead beautiful motherland
VCTT proundly presents
The northern limits of ancient China
were defined by the Great Wall
which meanders for nearly 5000km from east to west
The settled Han people of the Chinese heartland
were invaded many times by warlike tribes
from the north
The Great Wall was built to protect the Han Chinese
from invasion
To meet those fearsome northerners
and the wild creatures who share their world
we must leave the shelter of the Wall
and travel into the unknown
Northeast China was known historically as Manchuria
Its upper reaches are on the same latitude as Paris
but in winter, it is one of the coldest
most hostile places on the planet
Bitter winds from Siberia
regularly bring temperatures of 40° below 0
Dense forests of evergreen trees cover these lands
and a rugged terrain is made even more difficult
by impenetrable ravines
We start our journey on a frozen river
snaking between China's northeastern most corner
and Siberia
The Chinese call it
the "Black Dragon River"
The people who live here
aren't exactly fearsome warriors
They are too busy coping with the harsh winter conditions
and they respond to the challenge
in some creative ways
The Black Dragon river is home to
one of the smallest ethnic groups in China
the Hezhe people
It's not just bicycles
that seem out of place in this icy world
Fishing boats and nets lie abandoned
a long way from open water
Underneather a meter of solid ice
swim a huge variety of fish
including 500-pound sturgeon
enough to feed a family of Hezhe for weeks
But how can they catch their quarries
First they must chisel a hole through the ice
to reach the water below
Then they need to set their fishing net
under the ice
a real challenge
A second hole is made
20 meters away from the first
and a weighted string is dropped in
Then a long bamboo pole is used to hook the string
and pull the net into position beneath the ice
After a few days
the nets are checked
These days,
almost nobody catches a rare giant sturgeon
The Black Dragon river has been overfished
like so many others
But even these smaller fish
are a welcome catch
Frozen with in seconds
the fish are guaranteed to stay fresh
for the wobbly cycle right home
The forests that lie south of the Black Dragon river
are bound up in snow for more than half the year
It's deathly silent
Most of the animals here are either hibe
how attitudes have changed since the Great Wall was built
No longer are the extremes of life beyond the Wall merely to be feared
Now it is possible to celebrate them,too