Tattoo, also called "Wenshen" or "Chiqing", refers to piercing sharp tools like pin into the skin and color it so as to form a variety of patterns and veins. In China, many ethnic groups have the tradition of tattooing. The tattoos of ...
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Dresses and accessories mark the lifestyles and production levels of the people of a geographic region during a historical period, and they vividly reflect the people's customs and aesthetic tastes. Headdresses play an important role in ...
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March 24, 2009 -- Shadow play, a traditional Chinese folk art with a history of more than 2,000 years, has embarked on a revival path after a period of marked decline, thanks to conservation efforts and lasting interest in rural areas. ...
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The coiled embroidery is unique to the Tu minority. It embodies profound cultural connotations of the Tu people. In eastern mountain areas on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the industrious and sincere Tu women have inherited the traditional ...
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The Manas Epic is Kyrgyzstan's most important cultural treasure and one of the world's greatest oral poems. With half a million lines of verse, it is 20 times longer than Homer's Odyssey and The Iliad combined. To the Kyrgyz, who regard it ...
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One of the largest minority groups in China lives deep in the remote, mountainous region on the borders of Hunan, Hubei and Sichuan provinces. It is the "Tujia" (literally "Soil Family") ethnic minority. Among well known Tujia ...
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Clay figurines are Wuxi's most famous folk craft. The techniques for making and decorating the figurines developed among the ordinary people of the area of many centuries, and these traditional styles and techniques are still used ...
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In the border region of western Yunnan, where China is linked with Myanmar by common mountains and rivers, there is a large expanse of beautiful land, Tengchong, which is known as "an emerald in the depth of great mountains." ...
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China is an ancient country with a very rich heritage. The thousands of years of history have laid a rich basis for the lives of its inhabitants today. While some of the ancient Chinese myths and cultural traditions have been forgotten or ...
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"Family tree" (or "pedigree chart") is a special chart representing family relationships and important events of family members in a conventional tree structure. Family tree is a special cultural legacy of China, being one of the 3 ...
Sofitel So Bangkok, the city’s first truly urban design hotel, unveiled its unique executive lounge, Club Signature, a masterpiece of high fashion dedicated to the high life inspired by legendary couturier Mr. Christian Lacroix. ...
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This Ganesh Chaturthi, Global Desi brings new designs, structures and effects in knits with eye-catching intrinsic details and vivid surfaces like never before. Gear up for a great beginning of the festive season with the striking and ...
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Festival represents a nation's culture.In China,each of 56 ethnic groups boasts their own festivals which record and carry forward traditions,cultures and ethnic folklore. The Sister Festival is one of the Miao people's most active ...
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Popular in Sichuan,Guizhou and Yunnan,Chuanju(Sichuan opera)is the major form of local opera in southwestern China.A combination of several local opera forms,such as kunqu,gaoqiang,huqin,tanxi and dengxi,it developed around the middle of ...
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The third Meeting of Original Indigenous Textile Art of Bolivia,which aims to support and revive the dying Indian(Native American)textile traditions,will begin from December 1,2012,in the Bolivian town of Tarabuco and the nation's ...