The Nama have been separated from the Bai for about seven centuries. Today they still preserve traditions now lost among many of the Bai. They think that all things have a soul, and they practice a cult of nature similar to what the Bai ...
Tags: Celestial Ox, The Nama, beliefs
Population and Distribution: The people of the Naxi ethnic minority mostly live in the Naxi Autonomous County in Lijiang, Yunnan Province, while the rest live in Sichuan and Tibet. Their population is 308,893 according to the 2000 census. ...
Tags: The Naxi Nationality, Life Styles, Festivals, Population
Laba Rice Porridge Festival falls on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. People will have Laba Rice Porridge on this day. Having Laba Rice Porridge has a history of over one thousand years in China. This tradition originated from ...
Tags: Chinese tradition, Chinese culture, cultural activity, Chinese customs
The ancestors of the Xibe ethnic group lived in the Hulunbuir grassland and the Nenjiang river area (within today's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region). In mid-18th century, they moved westward to Qapqal (within today's Xinjiang Uygur ...
Tags: Arrow shooting, Wrestling, Weight lifting, Horse racing, sheep snatching
Not only do Taiwan people give presents to their friends and relatives at festivals, but they also carry about some gifts when engaged in social activities, which is called "Daihuoshou". What people carry about depends on who they are going ...
Traditional Chinese wedding customs are considered as the foundation of rites in traditional Chinese culture. A wedding is usually a grand occasion with overly-elaborate formalities. There are eight major procedures of a wedding, including ...
Tags: Chinese tradition, Chinese customs, wedding ceremony, Chinese culture
In Achang villages, after dusk, young men and women meet to sing. This is the time to get to know possible partners and perhaps to fall in love. These song gatherings sometimes last until dawn. Once a courtship is formalized, it is normal ...
Tags: Love, Marriage, The Achang
Living in the vast Inner Mongolia, the Mongolians have various wedding ceremonies of which Ordos wedding ceremony is the most wonderful. Ordos wedding ceremony has been passed down for more than 700 years and still keeps an ancient style ...
The Wa are one of the peoples with a deeper religious feeling in Southwest China. Some researches done in the first years of communist reforms, just when all the life and culture of indigenous peoples must be evaluated in terms of ...
The over 400-year-old Changdian temple fair in Xuanwu District of Beijing originated in the Jiajing period of the Ming dynasty, rose in the Kangxi period of the Qing dynasty and thrived in the Qianlong period of the Qing dynasty. In the ...
Tags: Chinese tradition, traditional activity, Chinese culture
With a population of 4,640, the Hezhen ethnic minority is one of the smallest minorities of China. From generation to generation, they lived in the reaches of Amur River (Heilongjiang River), Songhua River, and Ussuri River (Wusuli River) ...
Tags: The Hezhen Nationality, Language, Religion, Economy, Food, Festivals
Scattered primarily throughout the Luoyu Region of southeast Tibet, the Luoba, with a population of 2,965 are the smallest of China's 56 ethnic groups. Their name is derived from the Tibetan word for southerners. Economy: Living at the ...
Tags: The Louba Nationality, Language, Character, Belief, Economy, Food, Festivals
Population and Distribution: based on the fifth national census of 2000. The Man people live mainly in Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning Provinces of north China although the Man minority can be found in most of China's largest cities as ...
Tags: The Man Nationality, Language, Belief, Food, Festivals
Huji Shuhui (a social gathering of organization of storytellers at Huji Town), which arose from and took its roots in Huji Town in Huimin County of Shandong Province, is a kind of grand meeting of quyi (the folk talking and singing art). ...
Tags: Chinese tradition, traditional activity, Chinese culture
Population and Distribution The Maonan ethnic minority lives mostly in Huanjiang County of Guangxi Province, especially in the three regions of Shangnan, Zhongnan, and Xianan. They have a relatively smaller population of 107,166 than many ...
Tags: The Maonan Nationality, Language, Belief, Economy, Food, Festivals