The Hungry Ghost Festival of Chinese Taoism is also the Ullambana Festival of Buddhism. Commonly called "Ghost Festival" or "Mid-July Festival", it falls on the fifteenth of every lunar July. In ancient Chinese folk culture, people ...
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Nanjing residents enjoy the festive lantern decorations at the Gate of China area along the banks of the Qinhuai River in Nanjing, capital city of East China's Jiangsu province. More than a hundred large sets of lantern scenes and over ...
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People release sky lanterns in Pingsi Primary School in Xinbei City, southeast China's Taiwan. People released 1600 sky lanterns in 8 batches at Pingsi International Sky Lantern Festival to celebrate Chinese lunar New Year on Saturday. ...
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Diqing lies in the northwest corner of Yunnan province, in a geographic region where the Himalayan Mountains are slowly merged with the not so high peaks of the Hengduan Range. In the border with the Tibet Autonomous Region and Ganzi ...
The ritual cycle of the Achang seems to reflect their past. The migrations that have brought them into contact with different peoples throughout their history have influenced the most important celebrations of the Achang year. The most ...
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Temple fairs have been a part of daily life in Beijing for hundreds of years becoming especially popular during the Qing dynasty. Scattered all over the city so residents could easily make their way to the nearest, some fairs were held as ...
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The Qiang ethnic minority lives mainly in the counties of the Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan; Maowen Qiang Autonomous County is the largest area that is home to the Qiang. The Qiang have a profound history of over 3,000 years as ...
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Population and Distribution: The Salar ethnic minority mainly inhabits the Xunhua Salar Autonomous County of Qinghai Province. However, the Salar can also be found in the Gansu Province and the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. According ...
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A large number of lanterns decorate a car park in Karamay, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. With the coming of Spring Festival, the festal atmosphere has been spread all over China.
The " Cycle of Life" is a huge ring city landscape architecture, which is located in Fushan, Liaoning. The ring architecture has 170 external diameters and 150 internal diameters with the topmark of 153.98 meters, equivalent to a 50 floors. ...
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Chinese calendar. It's called "Spring Begins", which literally means the beginning of spring. Thereafter the day usually gets longer and warmer. The solar term is divided from the viewpoint of astronomy; however, for the folks, "Spring ...
Chinese ethnic minorities, except the Muslem that practice Islam, all believe "there is no etiquette without drinking" when entertaining their guests.
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With a population of 709,592, the She people live primarily in the mountainous areas of Fujian and Zhejiang Provinces, and to a lesser extent in Jiangxi, Guangdong, and Anhui. They refer to themselves 'Shanha' where Shan means mountain and ...
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I was too young to recognize Lunar New Year as anything more than feasts of dumplings and sweet pastries and extra pocket money in red packets the last time I spent it in China. Lighting up fireworks and firecrackers was also just the ...
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The Va ethnic minority lives primarily in the counties of Ximeng, Cangyuan and Menglian in Yunnan Provinces. According to the census of 2000, the Va people has a population of 396,610. Language and Character: The Va language belongs to ...
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