The Miao nationality pays great attention to etiquette, especially with respect to the treatment of guests. For instance, when a guest visits, the host kills a chicken or a duck to entertain and feed the guest. If the guest comes from afar ...
Tags: Folk Customs, The Miao People, etiquette, Glutinous rice cake
The Shoton (Xuedun) Festival is a traditional Tibetan festival held from the end of June of Tibetan calendar to the beginning of July. It is also called "Yoghurt Festival", for it means a festival to drink yoghurt in the Tibetan language. ...
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Distribution and Population: The Oroqen ethnic minority lives primarily in mountainous areas of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Regions and Heilongjiang Province, an area known for its abundant wild animal resources. The name Oroqen ...
Tags: The Oroqen Nationality, Language, Religion, Handicrafts, Food, Arts
The Ewenki ethnic minority treasures their name of nationality which means 'people living in the mountain forests'. With a relatively small population of 30,505 (in the year 2000), the Ewenki ethnic minority mostly live in the Inner ...
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As the beginning rite of one's life, rite of birth consists of a series of ceremonies including praying for a son, fetus protection, labor, as well as three mornings, first month, first one hundred days, and one full year of a baby’s ...
Tags: red painted eggs, meat soup, glutinous oil rice, vegetables and fruit
All Lhoba men take flints along with them on the waist to make fire for tobacco and picnic. However, in some of their eating habits, we can still see some traces of their ancestors' history of eating raw. For instance, in making a pledge ...
Tags: Lhoba, roasting, corn, Collection and hunting
With a population of 1,250,458, the Kazak ethnic minority is mainly in Ili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture, Mori and Barkol Autonomous Counties in Xinjiang, as well as in Qinghai and Gansu Provinces. Language: Kazak language belongs to ...
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UK meat processor Linden Foods has secured a deal to supply bacon to Ahold's Albert Heijn stores in the Netherlands. Linden's Kettyle Irish Foods subsidiary is to sell "sustainably-produced" bacon to Albert Heijn, founder Maurice Kettyle ...
New Hope, a leading agribusiness operator in China, and US-based private equity firm Blackstone are in the final round of bidding for Australia's leading poultry processor Inghams Enterprises. Second round bids are expected to be launched ...
Tags: Blackstone, poultry processor, Inghams Enterprises, bidding
Soloway Hot Dog Factory of Canada is voluntarily recalling certain halal beef hot dogs as the product contains mustard that is not mentioned on the label,according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency(CFIA). The product being recalled ...
Food Technology Noord-Oost Nederland (FTNON), a Holland-based food technology equipment provider, has developed Stir, an air dryer for drying fresh salads, vegetables and herbs. The new Stir (Selective Transformed InfraRed) drying ...
Researchers from the University of Almeria, Spain, have developed a new method which helps in finding the presence of most minute residues of drugs, which are actually given to livestock, in some infant foods. The researchers detected ...
Tags: Scientists, New Method, Veterinary Drugs, Infant Foods
The Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) has enhanced its food screening system by employing the High Resolution Mass Spectrometry (HRMS) Technology. This technology will enable the detection of contaminants that are not ...
Tags: AVA, food screening system, HRMS, detection of contaminants
San Miguel Pure Foods, the food division of Philippine conglomerate San Miguel, has raised about PHP6bn ($146m) with the sale of 2.5 million common shares for PHP240 ($5.82) each. With this move, the company's public ownership has ...
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The Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance in Russia has identified bacteria in poultry meat imported from Ukraine. The agency has reported that Listeria was found in the batch of poultry, which was produced by ...
Tags: Russia, bacteria, poultry meat, Listeria, facultative anaerobic bacteria