Development of Chinese Embroidery Embroidery is a brilliant pearl in Chinese art. From the magnificent Dragon Robe worn by Emperors to the popular embroidery seen in today's fashions, embroidery adds so much pleasure to our life and our ...
Generally speaking, Chinese people preserve many deep-rooted folk customs during the first month after childbirth. "No hair-washing." "Consume as much tonic food as you can." These beliefs have been embedded in our heart. It seems a very ...
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China has become the world's largest manufacturer and consumer of clothing. Large cities not only feature various domestic and overseas famous brand franchise stores, but also countless stands selling low-cost clothes. When the People's ...
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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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Peony Peony is a very common design for Chinese ladies' clothing. Chinese people love peony since more than 5000 years and it is the most favored flower in China. So peony was choosed as Chinese National Flower. Peony symbolizes richness ...
"Wish-Redeeming Dance", called "Feitao" in the Maonan language, is a general term of Maonan's activities related to redeeming a wish or other activities. It was prevalent during the transition from the Ming to Qing Dynasty. The dance was ...
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The Lisu people are mostly living in west Yunnan as well as valleys and hillsides along the Nujiang River, Lancang River and Jinsha River in the northwest of the province. The ethnic group is classified into White Lisu, Black Lisu and ...
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The Chinese Way of Life is quite unique and very different from that of Western cultures in both Traditional and Modern China. Come and take a look! Traditional Way of Life Like all societies of the past, Traditional China had a ...
Michela and Paolo Baldessari of Baldessari e Baldessari designed a giant clothes pin out of cedar for Italian company RIVA 1920. Called the Molletta bench, this pop-art style seat is perfect for indoors or out ? I can definitely ...
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Located in a canyon with a depth of 3,800 meters (12,467 feet) and surrounded by the Tibetan Plateau in the north, the Gaoligong Mountain in the east, and the Dandanglika Mountain in the west, the inhabitated area of the Dulong ethnic ...
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Blang, which is a minority group with a long history, mainly lives in some areas of Xishuangbanna, Lincang and Simao, Southwest China's Yunnan Province. There are several taboos in Blang people's life. A pedestrian must avoid brushing ...
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In Chinese, 'Yugur' means 'wealth and solidity'. With a population of 13,719 as at the 2000 census, approximately 90 percent of the Yugur people live in the four areas of Sunan Yugur Autonomous County, and the rest in the Yugur village of ...
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Within the ancient Tajik ethnic group, who lead a semi-nomadic life, singing in antiphonal style between young people in the expansive grassland is a popular way to make friends and express love. Such tradition is passed down from ...
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Nu Ethnic Minority Group, which has a long history and mainly inhabits Yunnan Province, Southwest China, has some distinctive marriage customs. Just like the ballad goes, "the auntie's daughter doesn't yield to others", the mother's brother ...
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The Girls Meeting is a traditional festival in Tu minority group. It falls on the day between the seventh day to the 12th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. It is a festival formed spontaneously by the young women and men in ...
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