The Korean ethnic people are good at singing and dancing. It's a common practice for the Korean people, men and women, old and young, to dance trippingly to the accompaniment of drumbeats and the gayageum (a traditional Korean zither-like ...
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The Blangs, with a population of 82.280, mainly live in close communities in the Blang, Xiding, Bada, and Daluo mountains of Menghai County in Xishangbanna, Yunnan Province. The remainder are scattered in Kincang and Simao. ...
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The flower drum lantern is a traditional folk dance enjoying a long history. Originating in the Song Dynasty, the art form got extremely popular in the Qianlong Period of the Qing Dynasty. It's much favored by local people and the mass ...
Dongba Art is the primitive religious art special of the Naxi ethnics who live in the frontier area of southwest China and believe in Dongba religion. Dongba religion got its name from the fact that the priest of the religion is called ...
The main distribution of the Bai people is in the Dali Bai Autonomous County of Yunnan Province, together with Lijiang, Kunming, Yuanjiang, Guizhou and so on. According to the census taken in 2000, the Bai ethnic group numbered some ...
"Muqam" is a kind of Islamic music that is distributed in 19 nations and regions of Middle Asia, South Asia, West Asia and North Africa. "Muqam Art of Uygur Minority of Xinjiang in China" is the umbrella name of all the Muqam that is ...
The wooden drum dance is an indispensable dance in traditional sacrificial activities of the Wa Minority in China. The dance, led by a sorcerer, is performed throughout the sacrificial rituals held in the twelfth month of the lunar calendar ...
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The fire cat dance is a sacrificial dance unique to the Zhuang ethnic people in Wuzhou area of Guangxi. It is performed as a ritual to keep mice away from harvested grain. In the dance, dozens of young men and women play "cats" and "cat ...
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The Lusheng Dance is a traditional folk dance popular among ethnic minorities like the Dong, Miao, Yi, Wa, Nu, Dai etc. It is also known as "Lusheng Steps in the Hall" or "Lusheng Tramping". The dance originated from ancient ritual dances ...
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The Shaman Dance is a kind of dance performed by Shamanistic sorcerers during sacrificial rituals and activities for driving out evil and disease etc. Shamanism is a primitive religion practiced among ethnic minorities of the Altaic ...
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In the Tibetan language, "Guozhuang dance" means "singing and dancing in a circle". It is one of the three major Tibetan folk dances popular in Tibet and places like Yunnan, Qinghai and Gansu where Tibetans live. In the dance, men and ...
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The Taiping Drum Dance is a folk dance that originated among the common people who used it as a form of self-entertainment. It first appeared in Bejing during theMing Dynasty(1368-1644) and became common during theQing Dynasty(1644-1911). ...
Also known as "Hop-Hop", Errenzhuan (a kind of folk song-dance duet) is a folk art with strong local flavor featuring ballad singing and dancing popular in Jilin, Liaoning and Heilongjiang Provinces and Xing'an League, Hulun Buir, ...
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The Golden Pheasant Dance is the major dance form of the Miao ethnic group during their ancestor worship activity held every twelve years, and it is often performed during the wedding ceremony, guest reception etiquette, and the "moon ...
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Storytelling is an art for a select few in Nagqu who ensure the many adventures of the Tibetan hero King Gesar will never be forgotten. Tan Hongkai learns more. In the dimly lit hall of Nagqu Popular Arts Center dozens of Tibetan ...
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