勐马档案是2005-06年间，CHP在云南省勐马寨进行的一个少数民族项目。赞助方包括澳大利亚使馆和泰国的詹姆士汤普森基金会。此项目动员并帮助村民记录自己的尊贵传统，恢复少数民族的自尊心。产出为中、傣双语的书籍“勐马档案”，内容完全是勐马寨人自主完成。此套书获得国内、国际各界高度评价，包括少数民族专家、生态博物馆专家以及联合国教科文组织官员。

CHP挑选了书中较具有代表性的图画和照片，做成台历和空白贺卡。希望您在日常生活中、与亲友交流时，能够使用“勐马档案”台历和贺卡，为中国脆弱的少数民族贡献一份心力。所有收入投入CHP的少数民族文化复兴工作。

The citizens of Xiaoli Village move lazily, with a languor born of chronic underemployment. They are farmers by tradition, but exorbitant taxes have leached any profitability out of their profession. So on most hot days, the local peasants sit on concrete stoops, pant legs hiked up to their thighs, fanning themselves with the latest propaganda broadsheet from Beijing and waiting for dusk to fall. For it is only at night that Xiaoli comes alive.

Underneath this sad little village in Henan province is the rich legacy of five millenniums of Chinese history. The nearby city of Luoyang was the capital of at least nine dynasties, and the fields of today’s peasants are littered with imperial tombs. Many still hold impossibly valuable works of art buried centuries ago. Breaking into these tombs and stealing the national treasures they hold are illegal, of course. But the lure is too great for many, especially because one major haul, sold to a smuggler, can equal a year’s farming income. “For kids here, tomb raiding is just like going to the bar,” says Little Su, a Xiaoli doctor who put himself through medical school with the spoils of treasure hunts beneath the fields around his home. “If you’re bored one night, someone will say, ‘Hey, let’s go find a tomb.’” The rewards of these amateur and often dangerous nocturnal expeditions are evident in Little Su’s wardrobe–he has long since traded in baggy peasant garb for snazzy Playboy shirts and gleaming loafers–and in the incongruous mishmash of mud-brick shacks and shiny white-tiled houses with satellite dishes lining the streets of Xiaoli. “You can tell who raided the best tombs just by looking at their houses,” says Little Su. The richest citizens even have big-screen TVs and video-game machines. Little Su’s favorite game? Tomb Raider.

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