Love and Marriage Affairs The lyrics from a Monba love song go like this: "Mountains though high in the northeast, cannot block the sun in the sky; parents though powerful at home, cannot stop their children from choosing their own ...
The Daur ethnic group stresses obeying etiquette and customs. During the wedding ceremony, the party accompanying the bride includes the groomsmen, bridesmaids and the bride's younger brothers and cousins. When they arrive at the ...
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Big Differences between Cities and Countryside After the 1911 Revolution, the garments changed greatly, and the dresses and the official cap buttons were eliminated. Particularly, hair plait was cut off, but chi-pao (one-piece mandarin ...
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A sedan chair is a human or animal-powered transport vehicle for carrying a person, once popular across China. It has different names like "shoulder carriage", "sleeping sedan" and "warm sedan" etc due to the time, location and structural ...
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Chinese weddings, and the rituals preceding the wedding, are steeped in ancient traditions. Here is an overview of the most common and traditional Chinese marriage ceremonies. Chinese Marriage Superstitions - The Color Red The color ...
The Shes, with a population of 630,378, mainly live in the mountainous areas of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces. A few are distributed in Jiangxi, Guangdong and Anhui provinces. A She village usually contains less than 100 families, and many ...
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There is an interesting custom called "sifting shoes" among today's Zhuang Ethnic Minority people today. When two young people get married, the bride's sisters escort her to the bridegroom's family. Then a wedding ceremony is held, in which ...
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The new couple should bow to the god, the parents and each other. A typical Jiading wedding always includes a complete set of ceremonies. To earn words of good blessing and satisfy the guests, the hosts often start the busy preparation ...
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Don't 1: At the proposal meeting, the groom's family will present the bride with an alive goose. The bride's family should not kill the goose and eat it because the goose represents the groom. If the goose is quiet when it is turned over ...
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Huayao is a unique clan of the Yao ethnic group.Huayao literally means"Flowery Yao".It got the name presumably because women in the clan villages are all gorgeously dressed. The marriage customs of the Huayao people are among the ...
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There are many particular customs in the wedding ceremony of the Manchu ethnic group,which has a long,splendid history.Most of the customs are similar in the different places that the ethnic group lives throughout China. A wedding ...
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The Achang people,one of the 56 officially recognized ethnic groups in the People's Republic of China,live mainly in Longchuan and Luxi Counties in the Dehong Dai-Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture of southwestern Yunnan Province.Their language ...
Traditionally, four rituals precede and are prerequisite to the nuptials of Bouyei ethnic groups. Taking place in succession, the rituals comprise the Bouyei pre-wedding period and its customary practices. The first of these rituals, ...
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Traditional wedding is meant for the union of a male and a female,yin and yang,which lead to human propagation and perpetual life.The folk art works on custom wedding ceremony bear distinctive features on the theme. A ...
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Jizhong Folk Pipe-wind Music is prevalent on Central Hebei Plain which is located to the south of Beijing, the west of Tianjin and the north of Cangzhou and Dingzhou, including nearly 30 cities and counties. It is a type of percussion and ...
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