Nowadays in Shanghai, you can hear a great variety of music and operas from all over the world, such as the traditional Beijing Opera and Kunqu Opera, the rhythmic and dynamic hip-hop, the elegant and melancholy Jazz or Blues, etc. While ...
Tags: Shanghai Rap, Huju Opera, Work Song at the Shanghai Dock, drum Song
' The Han Tune Guangguang Opera, also called Guangguangzi opera, is popular in Hanzhong and Ankang in southern Shaanxi Province. It is thus named because the singing and narration of the opera are based on the Hanzhong dialect (dialect ...
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The flower drum lantern is a traditional folk dance enjoying a long history. Originating in the Song Dynasty, the art form got extremely popular in the Qianlong Period of the Qing Dynasty. It's much favored by local people and the mass ...
Dongba Art is the primitive religious art special of the Naxi ethnics who live in the frontier area of southwest China and believe in Dongba religion. Dongba religion got its name from the fact that the priest of the religion is called ...
Naxi ancient music is a type of folk music unique to the Naxi people in Lijiang area of Yunnan Province. The music is composed of three styles: Baisha Fine Music, Dongjing Music and Huangjing music, but Huangjing music has been lost. Naxi ...
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The Zhihua Temple was first built in the ninth year of Zhengtong Period of the Ming Dynasty (1444 AD), under the supervision of Wang Zhen, a powerful eunuch of Emperor Yingzong. Later, Wang Zhen made a decision without consulting the ...
Tags: Zhihua Temple, music of the Zhihua Temple, traditional Chinese music
Liu Zhongchang is a Miao woman. Together with her husband, she is running a store on the banks of Cuihu Lake, in Kunming, where they deal with fabrics of the Miao and of other minorities of China. For them the culture of the minorities is ...
Tags: miao embroidery cloth, myth, crafts
Yichang stringed and woodwind instrumental music is unique among all the folk instrumental music in Hubei Province. It takes strings and bamboos as main instruments to perform. It is a variety of artistic instrument which is combined with ...
Tags: folk song, stringed and woodwind instrumental, folk instrumental, bamboos
Swarovski appears at the Cannes Film Festival for the thirteenth year running. This year, Swarovski further enhances the magic of crystal and lights up those gracing the red carpets at the 65th Cannes Film Festival. After adorning the ...
GCL-Poly determined to hold current polysilicon price, says chairman Nuying Huang, Taipei; Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES [Monday 1 October 2012] Market observers believe China's anti-dumping investigation against US- and South Korea-based ...
Speech by the Governor In the history of the past, Shanxi had played a powerful role, in particular was well known for the" Jin Merchants" who are forerunners ruling the foreign trade and national financial industries. At present, Shanxi ...
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Official Umbrella originated in the area around Jinzhou. Long ago, Jingzhou natives have a habit of presenting the umbrella that is a valuable gift to present for weddings, funeral arrangements and congratulating the birthday. And the ...
South Music, an ancient folk Chuige, is popular in the area around the north of Baoding in Hebei Province. Xushui South Music Chuige was widely spread in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The music plays of South Music Fair were carried from the ...
Tags: ancient folk Chuige, South Music Fair, buddhist temple
The Yangko dance, also called "twisting Yangko dance", is a folk dance most representative in China and a unique collective singing and dancing art. The Yangko dance is smooth, happy and compact in rhythm. Thanks to its jolly scene, ...
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Shuahaier (literally, play with child) Opera, or Keke Tone, is a genre of opera tune named after the Qu tune. It is prevailing in Datong City and the neighboring area in the north of Shanxi Province. Shuahaier Opera is evolved from the tune ...