The costume of Tujia ethnic minority is greatly affected by that of the Han people. Only in some remote areas, they keep some traditional costumes. For instance, women wear a big jacket with buttons on the left and short ...
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The Spring Festival, also known as Chinese New Year, is the most important festival for people in China and other neighboring countries, comparable to Christmas in the West. Family members try every means to get together before the Spring ...
Commonly known as "xiuhua" (embroidering flowers), embroidery is an art craft performed by using needle and colored thread (silk, cloth with soft nap, and thread) to prick and stitch fabrics including silk, satin, ninon, yarn, thin silk, ...
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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 ...
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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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The Knife-ladder-Climbing Festival of Lisu Ethnic Group, which is called "a-tang-de" in Lisu language with the meaning of "a festival of climbing knife-ladders", is a traditional festival of the Lisu people and Yi people in the Lushui ...
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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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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Cap was invented long ago in China. For example, in Chinese idioms, there are "Yi Guan Chu Chu" (neatly dressed both in clothes and in cap), and "Guan Mian Tang Huang (elegant and stately in dressing)", and so on. The "Guan" and "Mian" here ...
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The Dai nationality used dark-red color cloth as wedding quilt (as well as the waist part of their wedding clothes), for this color symbolized vigorous child-bearing ability of their nation. (For the same reason, their wedding quilts were ...
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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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In ancient China, engagement was an important social rite where man and woman confirm marital ties, next only to official marriage in significance. Marital ties were made by following "parents' order and on the matchmaker's word". However, ...
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The ancient Changhua River, running in peace, nourishes the people living along the river with its rich water system. In fact, living along the river was the best way to ensure the survival of the ancestors of the Li ethnic group under ...
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The art of fingernail painting is a tradition spanning from ancient time to the present: women in ancient China favored red colored fingernails and today painted fingernails are a fashionable trend for women. The beauty of women's fingers ...
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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