Pottery miniature courtyard among the burials during the Three Kingdom Period (220-280) unearthed from Echeng Hubei, showing ancient Chinese residential building in five elements and eight diagram styles. Residential building featuring ...
Tags: residential building, artworks, folk arts
The paramos mountainous area in North Shiping County, Yunnan Province is a beautiful and magical place. Here lives the majority of a branch of Yi nationality named Huayao, of which the population is just over 30,000 in the whole world. In ...
Tags: Costumes, Yi Nationality, ornament, waistband
Dresses and accessories mark the lifestyles and production levels of the people of a geographic region during a historical period, and they vividly reflect the people's customs and aesthetic tastes. Headdresses play an important role in ...
Tags: Ethnic Headdresses, Headdresses, Dresses mark, accessories mark
Embroidery art in dress and adornment also embodies original Chinese Philosophy. Likening human body to the universe, the upper part (the head) is the sky, the lower part (the feet) is earth, and the middle (the pubic area) is the center. ...
There are many branches of the Yi minority group, so the costumes in different places vary. The costumes are unique and full of beautiful things. The women usually wear embroidered clothes, the necklines of which have silver flowers. They ...
With a population of 411,476, the Lahus live m close communities in Simao, Lincang in the Lanchang River Valley, Xishuanghanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, and Honghe Hani-Yi Autonomous Prefecture. Embroidering a jacket The Lahus ...
Tags: Lahus, population, subtropical mountain area, major branches, language
The population of the Naxi nationality is 278, 009. Most of the Naxi people live in Lijiang Naxi Autonomous County of Yunnan Province in close communities. The rest are scattered in Weixi, Zhongdian, Deqin. Ninglang, and Yongsheng counties. ...
Tags: Naxi nationality, population, Mosuos, Naxi women, language
Taiwan and Japan signed a memorandum of understanding for "industrial-cooperation bridging plan" on Nov. 29, which will promote industrial cooperation between the two nations for 11 industries, including photovoltaic, LED (light-emitting ...
Tags: LED, light-emitting diode, electric car, electrical machinery
In Peking Opera, there are four roles: the male and female roles, the painted-face role, and the comedic role. These roles have the natural features of age and sex, as well as social status, and are artificially exaggerated by makeup, ...
Tags: Peking Opera, roles, painted-face role, comedic role
In Mile Xishan of Southwest China's Yunnan Province is mainly inhabited by the Axi people, who are a subgroup of the Yi ethnic group. With a population of 170,000, Axi people, different from some other Yi branches, enjoy a simple marriage ...
Tags: marriage customs of Axi people, Gong Fang, simple marriage procedure
The Sani is a branch of the Yi ethnic minority. Huabaotou (colored turban) of the Sani women is still an important part of girls' habiliment now, just like the legendary Ahshima (a goddess of love in the national myth). Huabaotou ...
Tags: Sani, Yi ethnic minority, Huabaotou, colored turban, habiliment
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 ...
Tags: wedding ceremony, Yi ethnic group, Songs
In the Chinese lunar calendar, the Spring Festival falls on January 26th, 2009 this year. From this day on, the Yi-Chou Year begins, and it is also called the Year of Ox. The previous year is the Year of Rat, to which people have a ...
Tags: lunar calendar, Year of Ox, tradition
The Knife-ladder-Climbing Festival of Lisu Ethnic Group, which is called "a-tang-de" in Lisu language with the meaning of "a festival of climbing knife-ladders", is a traditional festival of the Lisu people and Yi people in the Lushui ...
Cap was invented long ago in China. For example, in Chinese idioms, there are "Yi Guan Chu Chu" (neatly dressed both in clothes and in cap), and "Guan Mian Tang Huang (elegant and stately in dressing)", and so on. The "Guan" and "Mian" here ...
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