Clothes of Chinese ethnic minorities are flowery and colorful, extremely exquisite, and highly characteristic. They constitute an important part of the rich history and culture of the nationalities. Every aspect of their ...
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The Maonan minority group is located in the mountainous areas of Guanxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is a traditional agricultural group. Every family used to have a weaving machine and plant blue grass for to dye and make coarse clothes ...
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Women's clothes of Tu people are more colorful than men's. Their usual costume is a short jacket with buttons down the side. The jackets have sleeves made up of cloth in the seven colors of the rainbow: black, green, yellow, white, ...
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The Nadun Festival is a unique folk custom in Sanchuan Region, Minhe County, Qinghai Province. It is a festival that Tu people celebrate the harvest, enjoy social activities and have fun. It is also called "Peasants' Fair" or "Harvest ...
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Cap was invented long ago in China. For example, in Chinese idioms, there are "Yi Guan Chu Chu" (neatly dressed both in clothes and in cap), and "Guan Mian Tang Huang (elegant and stately in dressing)", and so on. The "Guan" and "Mian" here ...
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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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Chunghwa Telecom Co has targeted to sell more than 5,000 60-inch LED TVs made by Hon Hai Precision Industry Co,bundled with its Internet TV services by the end of 2012. Tu Yuan-kuang,president of Chunghwa Telecom's northern Taiwan ...
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Japanese carmaker Mazda is planning to invest about $600m to build a new engine manuifacturing facility in Viet Nam. The Dau tu (Vietnam Investment Review) cited an unnamed source as saying that the firm had asked local authorities to ...
Over 1,000 machine-tool manufacturers from all over the world have signed up for a total of 8,700 booths with organizers of the Taipei International Machine Tool Show 2013(TIMOS 2013),but only 960 exhibitors with 5,300 booths are allowed. ...
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The Girls Meeting is a traditional festival in Tu minority group. It falls on the day between the seventh day to the 12th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. It is a festival formed spontaneously by the young women and men in ...
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FilmLOC Inc. and KNAPP Logistics Automation, Inc. have joined the Reusable Packaging Association, broadening the types of reusable solutions and services represented by ...
Numbering 241,198 according to the national census of 2000, the Tu ethnic minority is located mainly in Huzhu, Minhe, and Datong Counties in Qinghai Province as well as some counties in Gansu Province. Language and Character: The ...
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Orange today launched a new application called Libon, enabling users to make calls and send texts for free. Initially just for iOS, but with an Android version due in the first quarter of 2013, the application can be used by customers of ...
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Android users are choosing Wi-Fi for their data transfers,rather than using their mobile data allocations. Analyst firm Nielsen monitored 1,500 Android OS customers during September 2012 by installing a meter on their smartphones to ...
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Lighting LEDs are a route to energy efficiency that also allow creative effects that were not possible with incandescent bulbs and fluorescent tubes. But the output spectrum, like that of fluorescent tubes, is nothing like the sunlight ...
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