China's Jiangnan area has many water towns, of which Zhouzhuang and Luzhi are the representative ones. The traditional costumes and ornaments of local women are featuring strong water town flavor. They like to wrap the head with a floral ...
Tags: Jiangnan area, water towns, traditional costumes, floral towel
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 ...
Tags: Manchu, chopine, platform-soled shoes, close-fitting cheongsams
Foreigners are interesting in Suzhou silk. When one thinks of China, silk is one of the first things that come to mind. China is the birthplace of silk, and still produces some of the finest silk in the world. In all of China the best ...
Eulogized as the "saint animal", "master of the mountain", "king of the animal", and "protective god of the mountain", the tiger has been adored and worshipped by Chinese since ancient times. With a history of over a million years, the ...
Tags: tiger, saint animal, master of the mountain, king of the animal
In the Chinese lunar calendar, the Spring Festival falls on January 26th, 2009 this year. From this day on, the Yi-Chou Year begins, and it is also called the Year of Ox. The previous year is the Year of Rat, to which people have a ...
Tags: lunar calendar, Year of Ox, tradition
Spring Festival in Shanghai is not so traditional as that in Beijing. Spring Festival here has its own features. After "sacrificing to the Kitchen God", every family would be busy making preparations for Spring Festival. They would buy ...
Men of the Shui ethnic minority mostly wear casual clothes with cloth buttons down the front. They usually wear blue or green clothes, a black or blue turbans and pailform pants. However, nowadays, quite a few men wear Sun Yat-sen ...
Tags: Shui ethnic group, leisure clothes, casual clothes, gown
Women's clothes of Tu people are more colorful than men's. Their usual costume is a short jacket with buttons down the side. The jackets have sleeves made up of cloth in the seven colors of the rainbow: black, green, yellow, white, ...
Tags: Tu people, 7-color sleeves, eagle-beak hat
Winter court hats of empress dowagers and empresses were made of fumed marten and sewn with red wefts. Their hats adorned with pearl, gold pheasant patterns, gems and jade ornaments had protective collar behind the neck with drooping bright ...
Tags: court dress, court hats, empress dowagers, empresses, ornaments
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 ...
Tags: clay figurines, folk craft, Wuxi
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 ...
Tags: Manchu women, platform-soled shoes, height-enhancing shoes, chopine
Big Differences between Cities and Countryside After the 1911 Revolution, the garments changed greatly, and the dresses and the official cap buttons were eliminated. Particularly, hair plait was cut off, but chi-pao (one-piece mandarin ...
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2010 is the Year of the Tiger on the lunar calendar. It begins on February 14, 2010 and ends on February 2, 2011. The tiger is the third of twelve animal signs in the Chinese Zodiac. Regarded as the king of beasts, the tiger's power and ...
Tags: Year of the Tiger, lunar calendar, Chinese Zodiac, twelve animal signs
In Wenchang County of Hainan Province in southern China, a famous hometown of overseas Chinese, there has always been a custom to wear wooden sandals. Although the wooden sandals are in the danger of being gradually eliminated, to be ...
Tags: wooden sandals, custom, Muji, wooden treads
Denver's Turin Bicycles returns to its roots in more ways than one as it readies a new retail location in Chicago that will sell its own brand of bicycles as well as products and accessories from Asia and Europe that currently do not have ...