The Pure Brightness Festival is the time when Chinese worship nature and their ancestors. To worship ancestors is the centerpiece of the art works on the subject. A society of natural farming economy employed slash-and-burn cultivation, ...
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The Li population comes to 1,110,900. Most of the Lis now live in Dongfang, Baisha, Lingshui, Changjiang Li Autonomous Counties, and Ledong, Qiongzhong, and Baoting Li-Miao Autonomous Counties in the middle south of Hainan Province. The ...
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Over the past more than 5,000 years' evolution of the Chinese civilization, the wedding ceremony in China is still commonly referred to as "ru dongfang" (literally, entering cave chamber; i.e. the bridal chamber). Though mankind has moved ...
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The dragon boat festival is a totem festival. Falling on the 5th of the fifth lunar month, it is close to the summer solstice. Pestilence, as a result of the heat and dampness, is at its worst, threatening lives of human community. Images ...
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Flowers Represent Love The young men and women of the Miao ethnic group usually express their love through giving flowers at a special time, which is called "flowers decide relationship." A celebration is usually held during song ...
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Besides popular forms of marriage, there is a marriage custom called "grabbing" marriage among some people of the Miao ethnic group. There are two kinds of grabbing marriage: One is based on an agreement with each other. The other is ...
The Miao ethnic group practices monogamy in the family. When men are grown up, they can get married and set up small families. Parents can decide their children's marriages, or men and women can be free to find their own partners. ...
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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The Miao nationality mostly live in the border areas of the provinces of southwest China. They have their own language. In the areas of the Miao nationality, they take farming as the main and hunting as supplementary. Their cross-stitch ...
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The Li ethnic group lives mainly in and around the Li-Miao Autonomous Prefecture, South China's Hainan Province. The Lis are always born with generous characters and are gifted in dancing and singing, and their "bamboo dance" is ...
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Batik printing is a sort of age-old traditional folk handicraft for fabric printing and dyeing in China. It was named together with tie dyeing and stencil printing as "Three Major Printing Crafts in Ancient China". Stripes on wax printed ...
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The fine embroidery and intricate silver ornamentation of Miao ethnic minority wedding costumes impress many of the domestic and overseas visitors to Miao villages. The Miao people invest their assets in silver jewelry, in the form of ...
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A wedding gown of Miao bride is made in five stages. The first is that of selecting fabrics and a dress maker, buying embroidery needles and threads and tailoring the cloth. The second is deciding a pattern, which gives Miao ...
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Silver ornaments are the favorite traditional ornaments of the Miao minority, and they are mainly adopted by women for make-up. There are many types of ornaments that could be used to adorn a girl from head to feet, including ...
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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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