The dragon boat festival is a totem festival. Falling on the 5th of the fifth lunar month, it is close to the summer solstice. Pestilence, as a result of the heat and dampness, is at its worst, threatening lives of human community. Images ...
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People participate in a dragon dance in Xiage township of Xianju county, east China's Zhejiang Province, Feb. 1, 2012. There is a tradition in Xianju county that people make giant dragons from bamboos for festivities of the Spring Festival ...
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For more than 5,000 years, people have been celebrating the Chinese New Year. The two-week festival marks the start of the lunar calendar and is the most important of Chinese holidays. Festivities start with the new moon on the first day of ...
The Bouyei people, the 11th largest of China's 56 ethnic groups, inhabit the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, which slopes from an altitude of 1,000 meters in the north to 400 meters in the south. The Miaoling Mountains stretch across the plateau, ...
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Dick's Sporting Goods, the largest U.S. based full-line sporting goods retailer, invites the community of Oklahoma City to celebrate the opening of the retailers' four new stores in the Oklahoma City metro area with a three-day grand ...
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Lisu people warmly welcomed guests on December 22nd during the 2011 Nujiang Kuoshi Cultural Tourism Festival. In Yunnan province, renowned for its perpetual spring-like climate, the Lisu people in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture are ...
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PZI Jeans unveils its 2012 Fall/Holiday Collection and it's filled with bold prints, coated denim and sassy fashion jeans. The Luxe Curves Collection features denim's most popular trends with the PZI Jeans perfect fit. One of the Luxe ...
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Walking along the streets of London during the festive period is always a magical experience as the city really embraces Christmas and all of the festivities that come with it. Every year on Store Street, Imagination - creative ...
The Mountain-Circling Festival is one of the grandest annual festivals celebrated by the Mosuo people on the banks of the Lugu River in Yunnan.It is a day to pay homage to the holiest goddess of protection-Gemu.On the 25th of lunar ...
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The seventh day of the first Chinese lunar mouth is"Humans'Day",also known as"Humans'Day on the Seventh"or"Human Celebration Day".In the Tang Dynasty,it was called"Thriving Humans'Day".It is a day for humans-the master of the universe,so ...
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The Beginning of Autumn is one of the twenty-four solar terms in traditional Chinese calendar.It comes sometime around the 11th day of the seventh mouth of the lunar calendar,or the eighth of August of the solar calendar.This solar term ...
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Scene of Chinese New Year festivity inside the cave in northern Shaanxi. Chinese New Year,also known as the Spring Festival,is the biggest holiday in China.Recorded in Li Ji-Yue Ling,Chinese New Year is the time when"air pressure of ...
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Zhoushan is located in the north-eastern part of Zhejiang Province, east to the Hangzhou Bay and south to the mouth of the Yangtze River. The rich oceanic resources are the foundation of the local people's production and living, and the ...
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Within the ancient Tajik ethnic group, who lead a semi-nomadic life, singing in antiphonal style between young people in the expansive grassland is a popular way to make friends and express love. Such tradition is passed down from ...
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One would normally agree that eggs and naming babies have nothing to do with each other. In China, however, there is a very significant reason for relating these two things with each other. This is the baby naming ceremony, also called a ...