For 600 years, Tunpu people have been living in fortress-like stone houses and keeping the old Han culture. Local Tunpu women in Ming Dynasty clothing make traditional cloth shoes for sale in Guizhou Province. ...
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"Maogusi"is an old form of dance popular among the Tujia people living the west of Hunan province of China.It is performed to remember their ancestors'achievements in cultivation,halieutics and hunting. "Maogusi"means"Hunters covered with ...
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Napo Zhuang minority is also called"Black-clothed Zhuang".It is the most peculiar branch of the Zhuang minority,who call themselves"Min"(agile),"Zhong"(second in seniority)and"ao"(the sound of wailing).Currently,it has about a population of ...
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"Lurigele"Dance is a traditional hunting dance form of the Daur ethnic group,taking a circle formation and imitating animal and bird calls.There are three parts of the dance.Part one is for singing competition,singing primarily and dancing ...
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The index is compiled by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), an independent, not-for-profit organisation which holds the largest collection globally of self-reported climate change data, and which is working to drive greenhouse gas ...
Long melody is a sort of ballad which was created by nomadic tribes in North China in the course of stockbreeding activities and is sung at the time of grazing and during traditional festivals. It is featured by long-drawn-out and leisurely ...
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Sulzer Pumps has been selected in 2012 for the supply of pumping solutions for several Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) projects in Spain and India. The scope of supply for the orders includes the design, manufacture and installation of ...
Chuige is a very ancient Chinese performance form with wind instruments among which pipe is the principal one supplemented by sheng, flute, xiao (a vertical bamboo flute), drum, big cymbals, and finger cymbals, etc. It can be rated as ...
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Mulian Opera got its name from a play named Mulian Rescues His Mother. As the oldest theatric genre, it can be called the ancestor of dramas. Mulian Opera is a theatric performance which is preserved in folk conventional activities. Its ...
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Emerging markets are forecast to help bring stability to ailing solar industry,with up to 12GW of new solar capacity added in 2017 up from just 1.6GW in 2012,according to IMS Research.The research institute's latest study evaluated the ...
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High performance aluminium glazing systems from Wicona are set to withstand some of the most extreme climatic conditions on earth, following the completion of a new research station in the Antarctic. Designed by Hamburg-based architects, ...
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With a population of 4,640, the Hezhen ethnic minority is one of the smallest minorities of China. From generation to generation, they lived in the reaches of Amur River (Heilongjiang River), Songhua River, and Ussuri River (Wusuli River) ...
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Emerging markets are forecast to help bring stability to the solar industry,with up to 12GW of new photovoltaic capacity added in 2017,up from just 1.6GW in 2012,according to an IHS solar report. The study,which evaluated the potential ...
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UK - A new hydrogen fuel-cell powered lighting package from industrial gases and engineering firm BOC provides a solution that is long on staying power and short on emissions, the company says. Aimed at a range of applications, from ...
Population and Distribution: With a population of approximately 8 million people, the Tujia are an ethnic minority found in the provinces of Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, and Guizhou. The Tujia have a long history, dating back 2,000 years, when ...
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