The Manchu ethnic minority is mostly distributed in Northeast China's Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning Provinces, especially in Liaoning Province. The Manchu have their own language and letters. They are fond of singing and dancing from of ...
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Paper-cut, also called as Flower-cut, Paper-cut for window decoration and Paper is a folk with a long history for the Chinese people, and it has been recorded in Historical Records by Sima Qian in the Han Dynasty. Paper-cut is also one of ...
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Manchu women have long had a reputation for being tall and slender. This may be because in former times they wore platform-soled shoes (Manchu chopine), tall hair styles and close-fitting cheongsams. There is a legend behind the ...
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Nashishi, also called Gold-Wefted Brocade, is a kind of silk embroidery woven with flat or round gold threads and it is regarded a typical representative of the silk weaving craft of the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368). Brocade ...
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Manchu women have long had a reputation for being tall and slender. This may be because in former times they wore platform-soled shoes, tall hair styles and close-fitting cheongsams. There is a legend behind the height-enhancing shoes ...
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Few who have seen the film Lust, Cautionwould deny the beauty of lead actress Tang Wei. The cheongsams worn by her character were in perfect harmony with her figure and temperament. These elegant, refined and sexy garments originally ...
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As a local folk art form in China, paper-cuts display not only that the folks are intelligent and deft but also that their inner world is as colorful and innocent as the peach blossom. Paper-cut is a seasonal art form. On holidays, ...
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The Hezhen Nationality, with a population of 4.245, is one of the smallest ethnic groups of China. Most Hezhen people live in close communities in Jiejinkou, Sipai and Bacha townships of Raohe and Fuyuan counties, Heilongjiang Province. ...
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Inner Mongolia is the central living area of minorities in north China since ancient times with long-standing and well-established minority union. With time-honored history, each ethnic group in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region developed ...
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There are many particular customs in the wedding ceremony of the Manchu ethnic group,which has a long,splendid history.Most of the customs are similar in the different places that the ethnic group lives throughout China. A wedding ...
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The history of the Man ethnic minority (also called the Manchu) dates back almost1, 400 years to the Sui (581 - 618) and Tang (618 - 907) Dynasties. The Man originated in the Jurchen tribes of north east China. Having established both the ...
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: based on the fifth national census of 2000. The Man people live mainly in Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning Provinces of north China although the Man minority can be found in most of China's largest cities as ...
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With a population of 188,824 according to the year 2000 census, the Xibe ethnic minority mainly inhabits Liaoning, Jilin, and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Most believe they are descendants of the Xianbei people, a nomadic tribe that ...
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In the Gregorian calendar, the Start of Winter usually falls around November 7, and more often refers in particular to the day when the sun is exactly at the celestial longitude of 225°. As its name suggests, the Start of Winter ...