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 Jaguar XFR-S has been unleashed on a tantalising mountain road in Europe following its unveiling at last month's Los Angeles auto show. The video–posted on Jaguar USA's YouTube page–features the British luxury sports car ...
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Silver made,560g (Yi nationality in Yuanyang county in Yunnan Province).Used as an adornment for brides.Composed of 6 groups of decorative patches.Carries other falling down decorative pieces shaped as silver leaf,fringe or silver ...
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 Miao girls fancy silver ornaments, and wherever they live, their dresses, especially their silver jewelries, will become the local highlights and cultural sight. The silver ornament civilization of Miao has been handed down ever since ...
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The first China Coal Carving Artworks Exhibition was launched in Liupanshui city in Southwest China's Guizhou Province. It is the first large-scale coal carvings exhibition in China and the world to feature several innovative ...
Kame is an ordinary article used for haircut which is comprised of comb and Biji. Since comb was invented by He Lian long ago, rich and colorful comb culture has taken shape after kame processing technique has undergone continuous ...
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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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Origin of snuff bottles While snuff first came to China from the West, the snuff bottle is an absolute Chinese invention which combines the Chinese and western cultures. It's said that snuff was introduced to China between the end of Ming ...
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The Kirgizes, with a population of 141,549, live mostly in the Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture in the southwest of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Tekes, Zhaosu and Emin counties in the north. The unique clothing of ...
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The fruit pit carving is a miniature folk carving work out of peach stones, apricot stones, olive stones or walnuts, among which the peach-stone carving is most commonly seen. Fruit pits were useless, as we know, while ...
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Ivory carvings are the selections of Chinese carving art. Ivory is tough yet delicate in texture and perfectly fit for carving. These characteristics were recognized by our ancestors as early as in primitive society, which can be ...
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Also known as "Fancy Lantern", festoon lighting is a sort of traditional folk handicraft in China. They are usually hung up to enhance happy atmospheres during traditional festivals as well as wedding ceremonies and old people's birthday ...
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Kunzler&Company,a food producer based in Pennsylvania,US,has launched holiday-themed packaging for its product Original Boneless Holiday Carving Ham. The company noted that the Original Boneless Holiday Carving Ham is made with Kunzler's ...
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Dixi Drama, usually called "sorcerer's dance in a trance ", is a kind of local drama spreading in Anshun City of Guizhou Province, whose birth is closely related to the station troops in Anshun who came from Anhui Province, Jiangsu ...
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