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Qiang Ethnic Minority Is One Ancient Nation in Our Chinese Ethnic Family

Dec 6, 2012

Qiang ethnic minority is one ancient nation in our Chinese ethnic family. For thousands of years, together with the other members of our big folk family, the ethnic minority of Qiang have created the Chinese nation's great splendid ...

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The Introduction of Festive Clothes of The Miao Ethnic Group

Dec 6, 2012

Festive clothes of the Miao ethnic group are the clothes worn at Miao festivals and sacrificial rituals or a bride's luxurious and gorgeous dresses worn at the wedding. The wedding dresses are also called "floral dresses". There are two ...

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Xiuqiu to Decide on Ones Lover Existed Everywhere in China

Dec 6, 2012

In Chinese ancient dramas and novels, there were already descriptions of choosing the bridegroom by means of throwing the Xiuqiu, thus, it can be seen that the custom of throwing the Xiuqiu to decide on ones lover existed everywhere in ...

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The Color White Is Favored by The Bai Ethnic Group When It Comes to Clothing

Dec 6, 2012

The color white is favored by both men and women of the Bai ethnic group when it comes to clothing. The Bai ethnic dresses are mostly light in color, forming stark contrast with dark colors that are used as a complement. The dresses, with ...

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"Clay Dog" Is a Kind of Folk Clay Sculpture

Dec 6, 2012

"Clay dog" is a kind of folk clay sculpture at the Taihao temple fair of Huaiyang County in Henan Province, which came into being with the religious sacrifice and the age-old folk custom. It has been passed down for generations to this day ...

Tags: clay dog, folk clay sculpture, temple fair, different shapes, patterns

Kame Is an Ordinary Article Used for Haircut Which Is Comprised of Comb and Biji

Dec 6, 2012

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 6th Lunar Month Every Year-Aunt's Day

Dec 6, 2012

In the past, on the 6th day of the 6th lunar month every year, in the villages people would invite those married daughters, young and old to dinner and then send them back. It is said that during the Spring and Autumn period, in the Jin ...

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Yangzhou Puppet Show "Originating in The Tang Dynasty

Dec 6, 2012

c, Growing up in the Song and Prospering in the Ming and Qing Dynasties", is one of the most characteristic and charming arts among various Chinese plays, and a precious Chinese cultural heritage. Full of romance, charm and ...

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The Introduce of The Dai Ethnic Clothing

Dec 6, 2012

The river valleys and plains in the south and west of Yunnan Province are home to most ethnic minorities in the province. The areas where the Dai ethnic people live are mainly in tropical or subtropical zones that are best known for the ...

Tags: Dai women, unconstrained manner

Pyrography Is an Age-Old Painting Type in China

Dec 6, 2012

Pyrography, also called Fire Needle Embroidery or purography, is an age-old painting type in China. By utilizing the carbonization principle and temperature-control techniques, pyrographing is used as a major method assisted by coloration ...

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The Introduce of Blue Printed Cloth

Dec 6, 2012

Blue printed cloth is a kind of civil society has been widely popular in the ancient southern hand printed fabric. Elegant simplicity of her cultural charm, of folk art in China can be called unique, while you're under the dissemination of ...

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Different Clothing of Jino People

Dec 6, 2012

Jino women usually wear collarless jackets buttoned down the front, with the upper sleeves made of black or white cloth while the lower part of cloth in seven colors such as red, blue, yellow and white. Besides, they wear short skirts ...

Tags: Jino women, short skirts hemmed with red lace, apparel

Baiju Remains The Only Ancient Local Opera in Nanjing

Dec 6, 2012

As a popular dialectal performance of talking and singing, Baiju remains the only ancient local opera in Nanjing. Hitherto it has a history of over 600 years. Similar to monolog comic talks or cross talks, Baiju usually entails one or two ...

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Different Clothing of Achang People

Dec 6, 2012

Influenced by the neighboring Dai and Han people, men in Achang ethnic minority tend to wear blue, white or black jackets which button down the front, and black trousers. The unmarried like to wear white coif, yet the married people like to ...

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Shen Shou,a Recognized "Sage of Embroidery" a Hundred Years Ago

Dec 6, 2012

At the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, a portrait of Jesus stuck the eye of the Westerners. It was not an oil painted portrait familiar to them, but had the space perception presented by oil paintings, and yet the delicacy and ...

Tags: oil paintings, unique mystery, embroidered portrait, Sage of Embroidery