Gelao, one of the ethnic minority groups in China, has a population of 437,000. Most of them live in Wuchuan Gelao and Miao Autonomous County and Daozhen Gelao and Miao Autonomous County, Guizhou Province, and the others live in the city of ...
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In Chinese, 'Yugur' means 'wealth and solidity'. With a population of 13,719 as at the 2000 census, approximately 90 percent of the Yugur people live in the four areas of Sunan Yugur Autonomous County, and the rest in the Yugur village of ...
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Traditional Chinese weddings are always filled with red things to bring auspicious blessings and respects. And even wedding customs reflect traditions from Chinese philosophy. Favoring red comes from worship of the sun The Chinese ...
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Nu Ethnic Minority Group, which has a long history and mainly inhabits Yunnan Province, Southwest China, has some distinctive marriage customs. Just like the ballad goes, "the auntie's daughter doesn't yield to others", the mother's brother ...
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One would normally agree that eggs and naming babies have nothing to do with each other. In China, however, there is a very significant reason for relating these two things with each other. This is the baby naming ceremony, also called a ...
Established Taiwanese enterprises with AEO(authorized economic operator)status,such as HTC,will enjoy the preferential treatment of minimum inspection and fast customs clearance for goods shipped to the U.S.in three months,at the longest,as ...
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Changbai Mountain in the southeast of Jilin Province is the Manchu.cradle of the It was on this boundless, beautiful and mysterious fertile land that the Manchu forefathers lived and multiplied since time immemorial. The Manchu Shuobu is a ...
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Population and Distribution: The Chaoxian ethnic group (also written as 'Korean'), with a total population of 1,923,842 according to the census taken in 2000, is scattered mainly in Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning Provinces. Smaller ...
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This two-part entry is actually the second half of my previous post about why there weren’t nearly enough bikes in model year 2012 and why we don’t seem to be able to do anything about the chronic under- or over-supply of ...
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The Dongxiang ethnic minority derived their name from their native region - Dongxiang. Today, numbering 513,805, they mainly inhabit the Dongxiang Autonomous County in Gansu, with a small number in Xinjiang and Ningxia. Language: The ...
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Flat Glass Exporting is experiencing rough situation, which reflects excess production capacity caused by blind expansion and the severe situation of the international market trade barriers. Latest statistics issued by Qingdao Customs ...
Jiarong Tibetans and Anduo Tibetans, living in the Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Northwest Sichuan Province, still maintain their traditional and primitive wedding customs.
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Folk customs reflect the life of the people -- their habits and customs, ideologies and beliefs, social activities and the like. Traditionally, folk customs and folk arts have been congenial twins. since the New Stone Age, folk arts have ...
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In Taiwan, there is a diversity of wedding ceremonies varying with nationalities and cultural backgrounds, but in general, all wedding ceremonies are either traditional or modern. Traditional wedding ceremonies are still ...
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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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