The birthday congratulation banquet is one of the traditional festivity banquets for the Mongolian ethnic group.There is a banquet held right on a baby's one-year-old birthday congratulation.After that,however,all banquets and other ...
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U.S.Customs and Border Protection(CBP)Deputy Commissioner David V.Aguilar announced the expansion of the Centers of Excellence and Expertise(CEE),which will create six new centers in 2013 for the Agriculture&Prepared ...
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Huayao is a unique clan of the Yao ethnic group.Huayao literally means"Flowery Yao".It got the name presumably because women in the clan villages are all gorgeously dressed. The marriage customs of the Huayao people are among the ...
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An imam officiates at the wedding of Zhe Yagang (groom) and Yang Liu (bride), who were in traditional Islamic costume, at Hongbinlou, a famous halal restaurant in downtown Beijing. Opting for an Islamic wedding has become a favored choice ...
Shuttling through the lanes of different sizes in the old town of Shanghai, seeking for the fading traces of history and experiencing the humanistic flavors in old Shanghai is an emerging fashion in the city today, while you might not ...
At a time when life hinges on weather-dependant harvest,a long drought could be a life-and-death issue for Chinese farmers.As such,praying for rain became a grand sacrificial ritual in former times. In old China,the Dragon King was ...
On the yellow land of Shaanxi, some unique customs have been formed due to its unique climatic, economic and cultural conditions. Local Shaanxi people (or "Guanzhong people") have their own styles in terms of clothing, food, housing, ...
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The seventh day of the first Chinese lunar mouth is"Humans'Day",also known as"Humans'Day on the Seventh"or"Human Celebration Day".In the Tang Dynasty,it was called"Thriving Humans'Day".It is a day for humans-the master of the universe,so ...
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Saluting with folded hands is a traditional Chinese etiquette showing respect to others.The basic posture is clasping both hands,with one hand over the other,and raising them in front of the chest.According to research,the etiquette ...
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The Beginning of Autumn is one of the twenty-four solar terms in traditional Chinese calendar.It comes sometime around the 11th day of the seventh mouth of the lunar calendar,or the eighth of August of the solar calendar.This solar term ...
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As a migration city, Shanghai is constantly in a "restless" state because of cultural pluralism. Endless permutation and mild clashes have endowed the city residents with both affliction and glory, afflicted because of a sense of feeling ...
There are many particular customs in the wedding ceremony of the Manchu ethnic group,which has a long,splendid history.Most of the customs are similar in the different places that the ethnic group lives throughout China. A wedding ...
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The history of the Man ethnic minority (also called the Manchu) dates back almost1, 400 years to the Sui (581 - 618) and Tang (618 - 907) Dynasties. The Man originated in the Jurchen tribes of north east China. Having established both the ...
The Achang people,one of the 56 officially recognized ethnic groups in the People's Republic of China,live mainly in Longchuan and Luxi Counties in the Dehong Dai-Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture of southwestern Yunnan Province.Their language ...
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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