Nanjing forging industry of gold foil originated in the area around Longtan Garden in Qixia District, which once belonged to Jurong County and Jiangning County. In all rural families of this area, the handcraft of "forging foils and ...
Bark cloth, also called "Na cloth", "paper mulberry bark cloth" and "grain husk cloth", is mainly distributed in south-central part of Li Minority's inhabiting area. Bark cloth is a kind of non-woven fabric, processed and made from barks by ...
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Embroidery and dyeing skill, known as "skein tie" in the ancient time, is a kind of old textile dyeing workmanship in China which is named knot cloth in Dali. As it is mainly produced in Dali and most of the dyers are the people of Bai ...
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Luxembourg-based CVC Capital Partners–led group has agreed to purchase insurance-claims adjuster Cunningham Lindsey from Stone Point Capital and Fairfax Financial Holdings in a deal valued between $900m and $1bn including debt. An ...
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Speech by the Chairman of the Autonomous Region Located in the east part of China’s North West Ningxia is the place linking with the West Regions and the desert in the north and holding gatherings for all kinds of nationality people ...
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The Drungs, with a population of 5.817, mainly live in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, and along the banks of the Dulong River in Gongshan Drung-Nu Autonomous County in the northwest Yunnan Province. Cooking on a stone stove. ...
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On election eve, hundreds of thousands of people in the Northeast were still without power following Hurricane Sandy, with the hardest hit areas in New Jersey and New York marking an eighth consecutive day without electricity. In addition ...
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Pottery miniature courtyard among the burials during the Three Kingdom Period (220-280) unearthed from Echeng Hubei, showing ancient Chinese residential building in five elements and eight diagram styles. Residential building featuring ...
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Dresses and accessories mark the lifestyles and production levels of the people of a geographic region during a historical period, and they vividly reflect the people's customs and aesthetic tastes. Headdresses play an important role in ...
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Origin of snuff bottles While snuff first came to China from the West, the snuff bottle is an absolute Chinese invention which combines the Chinese and western cultures. It's said that snuff was introduced to China between the end of Ming ...
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Mounting is a special skill for securing a painting, calligraphy work, or a rubbing from stone inscription to a mount or display board. The skill was called "backing and mounting" in ancient times. Chinese paintings are mostly created on ...
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The fruit pit carving is a miniature folk carving work out of peach stones, apricot stones, olive stones or walnuts, among which the peach-stone carving is most commonly seen. Fruit pits were useless, as we know, while ...
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The Li population comes to 1,110,900. Most of the Lis now live in Dongfang, Baisha, Lingshui, Changjiang Li Autonomous Counties, and Ledong, Qiongzhong, and Baoting Li-Miao Autonomous Counties in the middle south of Hainan Province. The ...
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Specialty ice cream chain Cold Stone Creamery has unveiled ten ice cream flavors in Canada,to celebrate the National Ice Cream Day,which falls on 15 July. According to the company,the ten Provincial Signature Creations represent each ...
Feng Shui is the art of creating harmony by balancing the yin and yang energies, as noted in Chinese medicine. Though feng shui relates to many aspects of life, most people only know of feng shui in relation to creating a harmonious ...
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