The Three Gorges of the Yellow River lie in Yongjing County in the southwest of central Gansu Province. They border on Qinghai Province to the west, and on the city of Lanzhou to the northeast. The Three Gorges of the Yellow River has ...
Tags: Nuo culture, dancing party in July, long list of plays
Jiangyong County is located in southern Hunan Province. It is adjacent to Guilin of Guangxi Province in the west and south, and it is subordinate to Yongzhou City. Jiangyong Nvshu is popular in Shangjiangwei area (including Shangjiangwei ...
Tags: Jiangyong Nvshu, long verses, Nvshu Culture
Hani ethnic polyphonic folk song is widespread in several Hani villages centering on Puchun Village in the east part of Azhahe Town in Honghe County, and its popular area is in a naturally enclosed environment with inconvenient ...
Big Drum Dance is a kind of folk dance which has a long history and profound influence on the common people, and it is spreading in Jinuo villages in Jinuoshan Jinuo Town of Jinghong City of Xishuangbanna Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan ...
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Naturally, Xiangsheng(comic dialogue) performers traditionally have trained skills including telling, imitation, amusing and singing. Since Xiangsheng is an art of language, and the techniques of handling language and voice are quite ...
Tags: handling of jokes, twisters, two-part allegorical sayings
Yulin ditty is a folk art form in which the actors sit to perform with instrumental accompaniments. It is popular in the downtown area of Yulin City in northwestern Shaanxi Province of China. Story has it that it was brought in by geishas ...
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Gong-drum Drama is an age-old local recitative drama prevalent in Linyi, Wanrong and Hejin Counties in Shanxi Province. It is famous for singing without the accompaniment of stringed instruments, but merely gongs and drums. Gong-drum Drama ...
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The folk song is very popular in the Lisu ethnic group, which is reflected in the saying that "Salt is indispensable in meals, and singing is indispensable in life". The folk songs are simple and impressive and they have plenty of tunes; ...
Tags: folk song, Lisu Ethnic Group, singing
The Daoqing Play is a folk operetta popular in the Yellow River Valley. It originated from the chanting of Taoist scriptures in the Tang Dynasty, and developed into the folk art form of Daoqing dagu in the Song Dynasty in which singing ...
Tags: Daoqing Play, folk operetta, stage dramas
Tibetan play is an important cultural component of Tibetans' social life. Called "Ace Lhamo" in Tibetan, it is very popular in Tibet, Sichuan, Qinghai and Yunnan Provinces where many Tibetans live. This art form carries strong flavors of ...
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The Shui, deriving from the ancient Baiyue ethnic group, is scattered in Sandu Shui Autonomous County of Guizhou Province and Huangni River, Gugan of Fuyuan County, Dahe and Long'an etc of Yiliang of Yunnan Province. Now, they speak and ...
Tags: ancient Baiyue ethnic group, stable melody, simple rhythm
Tree leaves are musical instruments which are available everywhere for the Dong; and the melody from blowing leaves is a kind of folk music created in the laboring life of the Dong, which makes use of folk songs of the Dong nationality as ...
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Kazak Aites is a typical folk art of the Kazak ethnic group and a contest-type performance of antiphonal singing. It is the literature genre with richest content among folk oral literature of Kazak and has exerted the greatest influence on ...
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Singing is a custom of the Yao young people in Jinping, Yunnan Province. Young men visit friends or relatives during festivals where they must sing a song expressing their gratitude to the host so they can enter his or her home. After ...
The most celebrated music in Xinjiang today is Uygur folk music, which has inherited the fine traditions of the ancient music of Qiuci, Gaochang (Karahoja),Yizhou, Shule and Yutian. Due to the particular geography of ...
Tags: ancient music of Qiuci, particular geography, musical styles