The ICHR-CAS club conducted extensive field research on Dashuahua in 2017-2018. Born as a substitute of fireworks and co-product of Iron smelting, Dashuhua has been a fascinating local attraction at NuanQuan town of Yu County in Hebei province of China. The Dashuhua performance entails throwing molten iron to city walls, to create a spray of glowing droplets reminiscent of a "flaming tree of silver."
Learn More About This See Our Past eventsSimilar to above, the ICHR-CAS had also visited Gaoluo for its ancient Gongchi music in 2017-2018. At a remote village called Gaoluo, there hides a group of musicians who play forceful and exciting ancient music recorded in a format with 800 years of history - Gongchi notation. The skillful use of ordinary instruments such as cymbals, drums and flutes in rhythmic harmony had been the secret to the long-standing legacy of Gongchi, although just like other intangible cultural heritage, it is in danger of extinction as those musicians pass away gradually. Click on image on the left to know more about this acoustic wonder!
In addition to cultural heritage, science is also an intensive focus at ICHR, reflected in our slogan "ICH, science and more." In 2019, the founder of ICHR-CAS club, Tim Zhou, developed a robotic hand that was inspired by the climbing action of vines in nature and their extraordinary adaptiveness to different terrains. The device received the name "Self-Adaptive Spiral Enclosure Grasping", or in short "SASEG". Despite being a rough model, the prototype SASEG was fully functional and automated. The use of inquisitiveness and curiosity to derive innovation from everyday life is the valuable ability ICHR strives to instill and strengthen.
See Our GalleryFashion Designer with a Masters Degree from Parsons and a member of the ICHR-CAS club, YuNan Wang, discovered many surprising similarities in textile, art, and clothing between Mayans and Guizhou people through years of field research on both populations. She originally wished to hold a conference to share those findings, but the circumstances with COVID-19 in 2020 made it an online video conference. Despite a lack of personal interactions, those culturally important findings, as well as a message signifying the inter-connected nature of human civilization, had been successfully communicated across. Click on the left image for more info!
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