Nanxin Village Puppet Play in Hejian City of Cangzhou, also called "Pushing Play" and "Elbow Play", is a rare opera in Hebei. It was carried to Nanxin Village from Guo Village in Xijiiuji County in the 29th year (1601) of Wanli in the Ming ...
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Jiangyong Nv Shu is the only existing female characters in the world. It is a writing system exclusively used by women in the Jiangxu area of Jiangyong County of just 20,000 people in the south tip of Hunan Province. Nv Shu characters are ...
The Achangs, with a population of 27,708, mainly inhabit Tongchuan and Lianghe counties of Dehong Dai-Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. A few are found in Luxi, Yingjiang, Tengchong and Yunlong counties with their communities ...
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Commonly called "the ghost opera" or "the ghost dance", the exorcizing dance is a kind of dance originated from the ancient exorcizing culture. It is honored as "the living fossil of Chinese dance". The exorcizing dance derived from the ...
Hejian poetry has been an outstanding representative of oral literature since the Han Dynasty. It is also an important component of the contemporary culture of the Book of Songs. Hejian poetry is popular in Hejian, a hinterland city in the ...
Zuoquan County lies in the west side of the main range of Taihang Mountain, bordering eastern Shanxi Province. Known as "Liaozhou" or "Liaoxian County" in ancient times, the county was renamed "Zuoquan County" in commemoration of the famous ...
Tianjin Tune is one of the most representative folk art genres in Tianjin. Sung in local Tianjin dialect, the tune is pellucid and sonorous with strong rustic charm. It is often in the form of a solo or duet show, in which the performers ...
The shadow puppet play, also called "shadow play", is a drama form in which the player holds the human figures that are engraved by the animal hides with colored paintings, and reflected on the curtain through the light, singing and dancing ...
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"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 ...
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Guyi Exorcising Opera in Wu'an County, Handan City, is developed from the ancient exorcising ceremony, exorcising music, exorcising dance and the custom of exorcising. It is various in kinds and characters and is the quintessence of the ...
The Qiang flute is a kind of vertical flute that is made up of two 15-20cm-long bamboo pipes with holes of the same size wound together with silk threads. Mainly for solo performance, the flute is a folk music instrument with a bamboo reed ...
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The population of the Bouyei Nationality is 2,545, 059. Most of the Bouyei people live in Qiannan and Qianxinan Bouyei Miao autonomous prefectures and Duyun, Dushan, Pingtang and Zhenning counties of Guizhou Province. Others live scattered ...
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Originated from the primitive sacrificial dance, the Tujia hand-swinging dance of western Hu'nan is a folk dance most characteristic of the Tujia nationality and best representative of the age-old Tujia traditions. The dance is mainly ...
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The Korean ethnic people are good at singing and dancing. It's a common practice for the Korean people, men and women, old and young, to dance trippingly to the accompaniment of drumbeats and the gayageum (a traditional Korean zither-like ...
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The Blangs, with a population of 82.280, mainly live in close communities in the Blang, Xiding, Bada, and Daluo mountains of Menghai County in Xishangbanna, Yunnan Province. The remainder are scattered in Kincang and Simao. ...
Tags: Blangs, carrying basket, farming, growing rice, tea and cotton