"Clay dog" is a kind of folk clay sculpture at the Taihao temple fair of Huaiyang County in Henan Province, which came into being with the religious sacrifice and the age-old folk custom. It has been passed down for generations to this day ...
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Kirgiz women mostly like red and usually wear short clothes, sometimes one-piece dresses. The shirts are loose with stand-up collars. The clothes are simple, but made of dainty and high quality cloth. There are silver buttons on the neck. ...
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With a population of 411,476, the Lahus live m close communities in Simao, Lincang in the Lanchang River Valley, Xishuanghanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, and Honghe Hani-Yi Autonomous Prefecture. Embroidering a jacket The Lahus ...
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The Lhoba Nationality is one of the smallest ethnic groups of China. It has only 2.312 members. Now they mainly live in Mainling, Medog, Zayu, Khunze and Nang counties. The Lhobas celebrate their Xudulong Festival with singing ...
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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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Women of the Hezhe ethnic minority marry in dresses of fish skin sewn with hand-twined animal tendons. Although made from primal material the finished article has many delicate flourishes, notably fret worked mosaics around the sleeves and ...
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
Chinese tattoos have become a raging phenomenon among tattoo enthusiasts of the western world. Chinese tattoos offer beautiful characters with a sense of the exotic and often much deeper meaning than that which lies on the surface. Ci ...
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The Salars, with' a population of 87.697, mainly live in close community in Xunhua Salar Autonomous County of Qinghai Province. A few are scattered in Qinghai, Gansu and Xinjiang. Killing sheep on the Festival of Fast-breaking ...
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The Yaos, with a population of 2,134,013, are mainly distributed in Guangxi, Hunan, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guizhou and Jia ngxi provinces. A wedding of the Yaos living in Jinxiu, Yunnan Province. The bride and groom undergo the kneeling ...
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The Supreme Court was informed that one of the reasons for not extending the leasing licence to the Tethyan Copper Company was the absence of an environmental protection certificate in the Reko Diq project. Mr Amanullah Kinrani ...
Tags: TCC, Tethyan Copper Company, Barrick Gold and Antofagasta Minerals
US-based maker of natural hummus, Tribe Mediterranean Foods has announced the launch of its four new flavors of hummus in new green packaging. Tribe Mediterranean said the company has unified its product lines under a single design and ...
The Nu ethnic minority lives mainly in the Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province.The languages spoken by all four branches of the Nu ethnic minority belong to the Tibetan-Burmese branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. ...
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USA - It's only a matter of weeks until PLASA Focus: Stamford 2012 shines a spotlight on the very latest entertainment technology products making their way to the tri-state Area. Now the third regional PLASA event to be held in North ...
Tags: DMX moving heads, Energy Saving, Platinum Beam, LED performance lighting
The Light Festival of Buddhism is a religious festival. October 25 in lunar calendar is the day when Tsongkhapa, the 108-year old initiator of Shamanism, passed away. The monks and the people light the Buddhist lights for his funeral. Since ...
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