Layi is a love-focused folksong form popular in Amdo Tibetan areas like Qinghai, Gansu and Sichuan. It is distributed around areas surrounding the Qinghai Lake and the Yellow River Valley (Hainan and Huangnan Prefectures). Layi is born out ...
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Tibetan play is an important cultural component of Tibetans' social life. Called "Ace Lhamo" in Tibetan, it is very popular in Tibet, Sichuan, Qinghai and Yunnan Provinces where many Tibetans live. This art form carries strong flavors of ...
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Tibetan love song is a kind of poem that mainly describes the affection between young men and young girls in Tibet and has obtained an important status in Tibetan poems. Because of the special history of development and religious ...
The Achangs, with a population of 27,708, mainly inhabit Tongchuan and Lianghe counties of Dehong Dai-Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. A few are found in Luxi, Yingjiang, Tengchong and Yunlong counties with their communities ...
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Commonly called "the ghost opera" or "the ghost dance", the exorcizing dance is a kind of dance originated from the ancient exorcizing culture. It is honored as "the living fossil of Chinese dance". The exorcizing dance derived from the ...
A new piece of malicious software targeted at Apple users has been found on a website dedicated to the Dalai Lama. The malware, nicknamed “Dockster,” is a backdoor that allows an attacker to control the victim’s ...
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The population of the Bouyei Nationality is 2,545, 059. Most of the Bouyei people live in Qiannan and Qianxinan Bouyei Miao autonomous prefectures and Duyun, Dushan, Pingtang and Zhenning counties of Guizhou Province. Others live scattered ...
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In China, there are 1.594,827 people of the Bai nationality Most of them reside around the Ehai Lake in the Dili Bai Autonomous Prefecture in the west of Yunnan Province. The rest live elsewhere in Sichuan, Guizhou and Hunan provinces. ...
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Dongba Art is the primitive religious art special of the Naxi ethnics who live in the frontier area of southwest China and believe in Dongba religion. Dongba religion got its name from the fact that the priest of the religion is called ...
Emperor GeSaer is a folk epic work that is popular in the residence area of the ethnic groups such as Zang, Meng, Naxi and so on in the Tibetan Plateau of China. It has been sung for a thousand years. By means of oral transmission, the epic ...
Population and Language: Southwest of the Gansu Province, the area of Mt. Jishishan Bonan, Dongxiang, and Salar Autonomous County is home to the Bonan ethnic minority. With a population of just sixteen thousand, they are one of the ...
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The main distribution of the Bai people is in the Dali Bai Autonomous County of Yunnan Province, together with Lijiang, Kunming, Yuanjiang, Guizhou and so on. According to the census taken in 2000, the Bai ethnic group numbered some ...
In the Tibetan language, "Guozhuang dance" means "singing and dancing in a circle". It is one of the three major Tibetan folk dances popular in Tibet and places like Yunnan, Qinghai and Gansu where Tibetans live. In the dance, men and ...
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Storytelling is an art for a select few in Nagqu who ensure the many adventures of the Tibetan hero King Gesar will never be forgotten. Tan Hongkai learns more. In the dimly lit hall of Nagqu Popular Arts Center dozens of Tibetan ...
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Two lion dancers from the Huang Feihong Lion Dance Troupe perform at Exhibition of Achievements on the Productive Protection of China's Intangible Cultural Heritage. An embroidery by national intangible heritage inheritor Zhao Hongyu ...
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