The fan, which is made of thin bamboo strips, thin silks, feathers, leaves of sunflowers, and papers, is a traditional Chinese handicraft used for cooling. Fans, for they can bring people cool, were called "Shelter from the Sun" in ancient ...
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Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, is the longest and most important holiday for Chinese people. It is usually celebrated from the eighth day of the twelfth month to the fifteenth of the first month (lantern festival), by Chinese lunar ...
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The Hengduan Mountains, with their cloud-capped peaks and deep ravines, force several torrential rivers, including Jinsha River, Nujiang River, Yalong River and Lanchang River all the way to the south. There is a Tibetan township named Hepo ...
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Cloisonne (Jingtai Lan) is a famous traditional craftwork made by a unique technology combining the porcelain with copper. While making Cloisonne, the red copper is made into a body on which the craftsman draws pictures and sticks out the ...
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Bamboo-Over-Porcelain Ware is a featured craftwork fabricated by weaving bamboo filaments over glittering and translucent porcelain. The most famous bamboo over porcelain is produced in Pingle Town, a renowned historic and cultural town in ...
The number of people of the Tibetan ancestry is placed at 4,593,330. They mainly live in Tibet Autonomous Region and the neighboring provinces such as Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan. Tibet, the roof of the world, is a land of ...
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Folk customs reflect the life of the people -- their habits and customs, ideologies and beliefs, social activities and the like. Traditionally, folk customs and folk arts have been congenial twins. since the New Stone Age, folk arts have ...
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“Thousand-mu fertile farmland, and ten-mile red dowry.” Influenced by the thriving local economy since the Ming Dynasty and the traditional Chinese wedding customs, people in east Zhejiang Province generally married off their ...
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Marc Ecko Cut&Sew,in partnership with Lucasfilm Ltd.launched a last edition collectors Choco Covered Chewie hoodie,based on the iconic Wookiee from the Star Wars saga. The Chewbacca hoodie features long,brown fleece fur and a bandoleer ...
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In this Frost & Sullivan survey of 401 automotive technicians, respondents reveal their brand and purchase channel preferences, the factors affecting their brand and channel choices, and their purchasing and spending habits. Respondents are ...
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Research and Markets has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's new report "2012 United States Automotive Technicians' Choice: Opportunities in the Automotive Tools Market" to their offering. In this survey of 401 automotive ...
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Danaher Corp (DHR.N) and Cooper Industries (CBE.N) will sell their hand and power tools joint venture, Apex Tool Group, to Bain Capital for about $1.6 billion, joining a growing group of U.S. conglomerates that is divesting its non-core ...
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British Wool Marketing Board says that the Campaign for Wool will head to New York for the launch of its American interiors programme and host WOOL UNCOVERED – a wool installation in Bryant Park – right in the centre of ...
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Kittinger Furniture Company, Inc., a custom furniture manufacturer based in Buffalo, NY for 146 years, was honored on Independence Day at the U.S. Capitol as this year's recipient of the 2012 BEST: Made in America award. This annual ...
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Luckily, there are many great designers out there who are able to inject their personality and love for life into new product and furniture designs. Lisbon based Marco Sousa Santos belongs to this creative designer’s circle, ...
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