Poster of The Tunpu. For most first-time visitors to Anshun in Southwest China's Guizhou province, it can be amazing to discover over 300 villages where ethnic Han people have preserved their traditional lifestyle for more than 600 years. The villagers in this area are descendants of troops who were assigned by the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty to suppress …
A scene in The Tunpu. More than 600 years ago, Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor in Ming Dynasty, sent around 30,000 soldiers to station in Southwest China’s Guizhou after crushing a rebel army. The Tunpu, a new movie inspired from the culture, held a news event at the 9th Silk Road International Film Festival, which has recently concluded in Xi’an, …