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"Dieguo," a Traditional Tibetan Folk Sport

Dec 5, 2012

Losang Dawa, a 56-year-old Tibetan farmer, brought down the house in Nanmuxiangjiang Village, Quxu County, Tibet's capital of Lhasa, on Saturday when he hit the tip of oxhorn in the game of "Dieguo." A Tibetan villager (Front) competes ...

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The Dragon Boat Festival Is a Totem Festival

Dec 5, 2012

The dragon boat festival is a totem festival. Falling on the 5th of the fifth lunar month, it is close to the summer solstice. Pestilence, as a result of the heat and dampness, is at its worst, threatening lives of human community. Images ...

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Manchu Hairstyle and Headwear Are Unique, Especially Manchu Females' Headwear

Dec 5, 2012

Manchu hairstyle and headwear are unique, especially Manchu females' headwear. It is elegant and magnificent, natural and graceful. Before a Manchu woman grows up, she wears a single pigtail hanging behind; at the end of the ...

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The Latest Fashion Dancing "Guozhuang" in Tibet

Dec 5, 2012

On the snowy Tibet plateau, traditional elements have been mingled with modern life -- youths dressed in the latest fashion dancing "Guozhuang," office-ladies playing conventional Tibetan music while driving to work and Tibetan girls ...

Tags: Tibet plateau, traditional elements, live in a healthy way

The Introduce of Lahu Ethnic Minority

Dec 5, 2012

The Lahu ethnic minority lives mainly in Yunnan Province, South China. In the very early period, they lived a nomadic life. Later on, they followed the exuberant grassland southward, and settled in the drainage area of the Lancang River in ...

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Dixi Drama Is a Kind of Local Drama Spreading in Anshun City of Guizhou Province

Dec 5, 2012

Dixi Drama, usually called "sorcerer's dance in a trance ", is a kind of local drama spreading in Anshun City of Guizhou Province, whose birth is closely related to the station troops in Anshun who came from Anhui Province, Jiangsu ...

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Making Sacrificial Offerings to Qinghailake Is a Folk Customs Activity

Dec 5, 2012

' Making sacrificial offerings to QinghaiLake is a folk customs activity of rich religious features. It is also a cultural phenomenon, comprising multiple folk customs while expressing people's good wishes to exist harmoniously ...

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The Monogamous Bonan Culture Has Many Courtship and Marriage Ritual

Dec 5, 2012

The 12,000 Bonan people in China live mainly in Gansu Province, and are one of the country's smallest ethnic minorities. As Muslims, the Bonan have close cultural ties with the Hui ethnic minority. The dialect they speak belongs to the ...

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Colorful Cap Is Part of The Uygur Ethnic Minority's Habiliment

Dec 5, 2012

Colorful cap is part of the Uygur ethnic minority's habiliment, and also one of the symbols of the minority. As early as the Tang Dynasty (618-907), most males of the Western Regions wore a pointed-topped felt hat with a turnup edge, quite ...

Tags: colorful cap, Uygur, Sipianwa, Uygur ethnic minority, flower hat

The Wedding Ceremony of Yi People Is Very Interesting and Bustling with Excitement

Dec 5, 2012

The wedding ceremony of Yi people is very interesting and bustling with excitement. When the young man and woman get acquainted and fall in love with each other and find each other congenial after their own hearts, the parents of the young ...

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The Introduce of Qianshan Buddhist Music

Dec 5, 2012

20km away from the southeast of Anshan City, Liaoning Province, Qianshan Mountain is one of the famous scenic spots in China. It is located in Northeast China, enjoying the fame of "Bright Pearls in Northeast China" together with Changbai ...

Tags: Qianshan Mountain, temple, Taoist Music, Buddhism

The Introduce of Clothes of Chinese Ethnic Minorities

Dec 5, 2012

Clothes of Chinese ethnic minorities are flowery and colorful, extremely exquisite, and highly characteristic. They constitute an important part of the rich history and culture of the nationalities. Every aspect of their ...

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Can't Wait to Save Qiang Culture

Dec 5, 2012

The Qiang people are an ethnic group of China. They form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China, with a population of approximately 200,000, living mainly in northwestern part of Sichuan ...

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Besides "A Xiao" Marriage at The Lugu Lake

Dec 5, 2012

Besides "A Xiao" marriage, another kind of marriage, which exists around the Lugu Lake, is the formal marriage. For a formal marriage the matchmaker introduces the man and the woman. The elder hosts the marriage and holds a formal ...

Tags: Lugu Lake, marriage, "A Xiao"marriage

Mosuo People's Marriage Customs

Dec 5, 2012

The Lugu Lake is situated in a place where Southwest China's Yunnan Province and Sichuan Province meet. Living around the Lugu Lake, the people from the Naxi ethnic group have a special marital tradition- "A Xiao." "A Xiao" means friends ...

Tags: Lugu Lake, marital tradition, walking marriage, Mosuo[eople