Kaquewa Festival of Dulong Ethnic Group, spreading in all the villages and stockaded villages in the Dulongjiang River Watershed of Gongshan Derung-Nu Autonomous County of the Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province, is the ...
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Socializing around food and mealtimes is very important to the Chinese. Much of Chinese family life revolves around the dinner table. Traditionally, Chinese believed it was impolite to talk too much while eating. A good meal was regarded as ...
The Chinese Way of Life is quite unique and very different from that of Western cultures in both Traditional and Modern China. Come and take a look! Traditional Way of Life Like all societies of the past, Traditional China had a ...
Daur is the title that the people of the Daur ethnic minority named themselves, meaning cultivator. With historical records dating back to the early 17th century, there are several stories about the origin of this minority. The most ...
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Located in a canyon with a depth of 3,800 meters (12,467 feet) and surrounded by the Tibetan Plateau in the north, the Gaoligong Mountain in the east, and the Dandanglika Mountain in the west, the inhabitated area of the Dulong ethnic ...
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The Lantern Festival (or Yuan Xiao Festival in Chinese) is an important traditional Chinese festival, which is on the 15th of the first lunar month, marking the end of celebrations of the New Year. The biggest attraction on Lantern ...
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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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Since the Stone Age the Bouyei ethnic minority have inhabited what is now Guizhou Province. Their main living areas are now Bouyei and the Miao's Autonomous Prefecture, Anshun and Guiyang City. This is a relatively large group with the ...
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The Zang ethnic minority (also known as Tibetan) mainly live in the Tibetan Autonomous Region on the Tibetan Plateau£¬with some groupings in Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces. The national census of 2000 showed that the ...
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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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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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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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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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The Tatar ethnic minority live mainly in Yining, Tacheng and Urumqi in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Historically this minority was known as Dada and first was mentioned in the Tang Dynasty (618 - 907). The national census in 2000 ...
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