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Italians Appreciate Spring Festival as Way to Enhance Knowledge of Chinese Culture
Nov 3, 2015Several events and celebrations have been planned in these days in Italy to mark the upcoming Chinese Year of the Goat. Through time, festivities for the Chinese New Year have become something Italians expect to take place in major cities ...
Tags: Spring Festival, Italians, Chinese Culture
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Western Dances Entering Chinese Fitness Routines
Aug 19, 2015Western dances are increasingly slipping into Chinese fitness routines. Chen Nan gets a feel for the moves, once taboo in China. Belly dancing. Pole dancing. Salsa. Foreign dance styles are twirling into China with nimble steps, ...
Tags: Western dance, Latin dance
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In The Yunnan Province to See The Famous Stone Forest in The Shilin County
Sep 10, 2013Continuing our article series on natural beauties, which started with the Clay Forest of Zhada, this time we’re going to Southwestern China, in the Yunnan province to see the famous Stone Forest in the Shilin County. Covering more ...
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Water-Nourished Folk Dance Described Below Are The Most Popular in Dai Areas
Dec 17, 2012The folk dances of the 840,000 Dai Ethnic Group enjoy not only wide popularity but great diversity. Most of them imitate the movements of subtropical creatures. The percussion instruments used for accompaniment include elephant-foot drums, ...
Tags: folk dances, subtropical creatures, percussion instruments
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"Lurigele" Is a Kind of Representative Folk Dance in Daur
Dec 17, 2012"Lurigele" is a kind of representative folk dance in Daur. It differs in different places, and has several different names such as "Ahanbo", "Langtudabei", "Hakumai" , "Hagenmaigele" and so on. In the inhabited district of Daur Minority ...
Tags: Lurigele, representative folk dance, Daur
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The Flower Drum Lantern Is a Traditional Folk Dance Enjoying a Long History
Dec 17, 2012The flower drum lantern is a traditional folk dance enjoying a long history. Originating in the Song Dynasty, the art form got extremely popular in the Qianlong Period of the Qing Dynasty. It's much favored by local people and the mass ...
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The Shaman Dance Is a Kind of Dance Performed by Shamanistic Sorcerers
Dec 17, 2012The Shaman Dance is a kind of dance performed by Shamanistic sorcerers during sacrificial rituals and activities for driving out evil and disease etc. Shamanism is a primitive religion practiced among ethnic minorities of the Altaic ...
Tags: Shaman Dance, Shamanistic sorcerers, sacrificial rituals and activities
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"Guozhuang Dance" Means "Singing and Dancing in a Circle"
Dec 17, 2012In the Tibetan language, "Guozhuang dance" means "singing and dancing in a circle". It is one of the three major Tibetan folk dances popular in Tibet and places like Yunnan, Qinghai and Gansu where Tibetans live. In the dance, men and ...
Tags: Guozhuang dance, singing and dancing in a circle, ibetan folk dances
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The Introduction of Maxrap in Xinjiang Uygur
Dec 17, 2012There is a great variety of different folk dances existing among the Uygur people in Kumul, all of which have a long history and unique characters. The obvious characters can help us easily tell the Kumul dances from other kinds of dances ...
Tags: folk dances, Kumul, entertaining activity
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Folk Dances of Qiang People Are Thus in Essence "Physical Symbols"
Dec 5, 2012History, culture and traditions of an ethnic group are preserved basically in three ways, including records in writing and cultural relics, oral presentations (poetry or music etc.), and also physical embodiment. As ...
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Within The Settlement of Qiang Ethnic Group,Sorcerers Are Called Shibi
Nov 29, 2012Within the settlement of Qiang Ethnic Group in the upper reaches of Min River of Sichuan Province,sorcerers are called Shibi in the southern dialect.However,given numerous branches of Qiang Ethnic Group,sorcerers are called differently in ...
Tags: Shibi, Qiang Ethnic Group, folk customs