Destinations: Guilin + Yangshuo + Changsha
Curated by PandaStudyTour, this 7-day cross-city advanced humanities program is specially designed for global high school students majoring in liberal arts and social sciences. Centering on two core academic dimensions—Lingnan landscape civilization in Guilin and profound Huxiang Chu-Han culture plus modern revolutionary history in Changsha—the course creates a rare cross-regional comparative classroom for Chinese regional culture. Students will experience the natural and ethnic civilization of southern karst mountains, as well as the ancient academy education, Chu-Han archaeological heritage and modern red revolutionary culture of central Hunan. With all classic top-tier city landmarks and a mature and stable group travel system, this tour enables students to form a systematic cognition of regional cultural differences in China and complete professional humanistic comparison gains.
Core Program Highlights
Why Consider This Program?
This program is a high-quality outdoor classroom for overseas students to study Chinese regional culture and modern history. It breaks the single sightseeing mode, takes cultural comparison and historical on-site verification as the core, and helps students accumulate solid liberal arts practical materials and academic thinking abilities. PandaStudyTour provides full-process ticket reservation, site arrangement and international student-friendly supporting services to ensure a smooth and pure academic experience.
Day 1 Guilin Urban Culture & Karst Enlightenment
Students settle in Guilin and start the first phase of Lingnan civilization learning. Visit classic urban karst scenic spots and cultural relic sites to systematically understand the formation characteristics of Guilin's karst landscape and the living culture of Lingnan people living near mountains and rivers. Under the guidance of professional tutors, students will initially establish the cognitive framework of southern China's natural and humanistic characteristics, and lay a foundation for subsequent cross-regional cultural comparison.
Day 2 Lijiang River Karst Peak Forest & Ancient Town Humanistic Study
Conduct in-depth field research on the Lijiang River basin's peak forest landforms and ancient town culture. Students observe the symbiotic relationship between typical karst landscapes and local fishing and farming civilization, and learn how unique geographical environments shape local folk customs and living modes. They will record the characteristics of Lingnan water town civilization and enrich the first-hand data of regional cultural research.
Day 3 Yangshuo Rural Ecology & Lingnan Folk Custom Experience
Explore Yangshuo's pastoral ecology, ancient villages and intangible cultural heritage projects. Students experience the most authentic rural life and traditional folk culture of Lingnan, deeply understand the lifestyle, dietary culture and folk art characteristics of southern mountainous areas, and complete the systematic sorting of Guilin Lingnan civilization learning outcomes.
Day 4 Guilin to Changsha | Millennium Academy Culture Study
Arrive in Changsha and complete the cultural switching from Lingnan landscape civilization to Huxiang humanistic civilization. Visit Yuelu Mountain, Aiwan Pavilion and the world-famous Yuelu Academy. Students systematically learn the origin and inheritance of Huxiang academics and the operating system of ancient Chinese imperial academies, and understand the profound educational and cultural heritage of central Hunan. In the evening, experience local characteristic Xiang cuisine and urban folk customs at Pozi Street to perceive the modern vitality of traditional Changsha culture.
Day 5 Shaoshan Red Revolutionary History In-Depth Study
Take a full-day in-depth study of modern Chinese revolutionary history in Shaoshan, the core red cultural base. Visit former revolutionary residences and memorial halls, and combine real historical relics, pictures and historical materials to intuitively understand the development context of modern Chinese revolutionary history. Students will sort out the historical spirit and regional characteristics of Huxiang red culture, and further enrich the dimension of humanistic historical learning.
Day 6 Changsha Chu-Han Civilization & Urban Development Research
Visit Hunan Provincial Museum to focus on the world-famous Mawangdui Han Tomb cultural relics. Students learn the splendid handicraft technology, funeral culture and social outlook of the Western Han Dynasty in southern China, and deeply study the inheritance context of Huxiang Chu-Han civilization. In the afternoon, visit Changsha Urban Planning Exhibition Hall and Xiangjiang River waterfront belt to explore the integration of natural geography, historical heritage and modern urban development.
Day 7 Academic Summary & Closing Achievement Defense
Students systematically sort out all the learning contents of Lingnan natural civilization and Huxiang ancient and red culture in the past seven days. Each group completes the comparative analysis report of the two major regional civilizations, conducts academic sharing and result defense at the closing ceremony, and receives the official PandaStudyTour study tour certificate to complete the whole liberal arts field research course.
Important Notes
This cross-provincial humanistic study tour constructs a complete Chinese regional cultural cognition system, allowing students to gain unique interdisciplinary academic achievements and cross-cultural vision.
