Today is the Chinese Lantern Festival, which marks the end of the Chinese New Year season. In the following report, we'll bring you to Dongzhi County in central China's Anhui Province and learn something about the history and traditions ...
The keynote for funeral and memorial service is spiritual eternity and continuation of life after death. This is also the main theme of Chinese folk art works on the subject. Death at old age is a normal course of life referred to as ...
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Gloves made of wild dog skin. A bag made of roe deer skin. Sledges are the major transport in winter. Children wear such deer skin boots. The Oroqens, with a population of 6,965, mainly live ...
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Patterns are a special language and a branch of cultural categories. Profound ideological connotations are contained in the composition of patterns. Different patterns emerged as a result of differences in country, ethnic group and ...
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The Hui people are one of the ethnic groups that worship Islam in China. Due to the discrepancy in region, gender and sects, their clothes have different styles and features. The Hui people often call clothing "yizhuo" or "chuandai" (dress ...
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Dragon robe and crown is a sort of costume worn by emperors on the most important occasions in ancient China. Dragon robe refers to the noble dress decorated with rolling dragons while dragon crown is the noble hat. As a world-famous ...
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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 ...
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The culture of Chinese cuisine also embodies original Chinese philosophy concept. The art form that represents this culture comes in two folds, geometry form and form of nature, which mainly consists of animal figures. Chinese ...
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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 ...
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"Clay dog" is a kind of folk clay sculpture at the Taihao temple fair of Huaiyang County in Henan Province, which came into being with the religious sacrifice and the age-old folk custom. It has been passed down for generations to this day ...
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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. ...
The cloud cape is a kind of clothing fastened about the neck and covering the shoulders. It evolved from the Sui Dynasty. By the Qing Dynasty, the cloud cape had been extensively spread to all levels of the society, and become indispensable ...
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The Pure Brightness Festival is the time when Chinese worship nature and their ancestors. To worship ancestors is the centerpiece of the art works on the subject. A society of natural farming economy employed slash-and-burn cultivation, ...
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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 ...
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The twelve Chinese zodiac signs are the twelve animals Chinese people customarily use to mark the year in which a person was born. The twelve animals and the order in which they are arranged are called "the twelve zodiac signs". The twelve ...
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