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Youku to Hold Big Offline Music Festival
Oct 29, 2015Video streaming site Youku Tudou will launch its first large-scale music festival next month. The Dream Music Festival is a series of offline gigs that the Chinese company will hold in Beijing, Shanghai and Wuhan, where 36 solo singers ...
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Introductions of Buyi's Customs
May 20, 2013Buyi people are very kind with the travelers and foreigners. Among them it is customary to offer food and drink to any person that arrives to their homes. Their basic food is rice, and their main economic activity, rice agriculture. They ...
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Marriage Doesn't Always Come Easy
May 6, 2013Marriage doesn't always come easy. The following wedding customs from five ethnic minorities demonstrate its difficulty. It will be easy to understand why there are so many singles as well as dating shows in China after reading this ...
Tags: Wedding Customs, Customs
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Nuo Is a Phenomenon of Witchcraft Culture
Dec 17, 2012Nuo is a phenomenon of witchcraft culture which has its root in Chinese primitive religion and means to drive away devils. Primitive people thought that all diseases were caused by devils. The ritual activities of Nuo were already in ...
Tags: witchcraft culture, Chinese primitive religion, drive away devils
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Speech by The Governor in Guizhou Province of China
Dec 12, 2012Speech by the Governor "The abundance of products is stored in Miao Mountains; the elegance of landscape is gathered in Qian (abbreviation of Guizhou)". Guizhou is a hot land waiting for development located on Yungui Plateau, with ...
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With Abundant Resources, The Characteristics of Tibet Are Obvious
Dec 11, 2012Speech by the Chairman of the Autonomous Region Located in the southwest frontier of the People's Republic of China, Tibet serves as an important gateway to South Asia. Tibet is an ethnic minority autonomous region where the Tibetan ...
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Zhejiang Province Is Situated Along The Shore of The East Sea of China
Dec 11, 2012Speech by the Governor Zhejiang Province is situated along the shore of the East Sea of China, neighboring Shanghai on the north. Zhejiang is an important cradle of Chinese ancient civilization and is known as “land of fish and ...
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National Minorities Excel in These Crafts:on Clothings
Dec 6, 2012The women of the national minorities excel in these crafts.Pringting and dyeing in either monochrome paper matrix printing or color-process block printing are two different methods.In Za Ran(tie-dyeing),sewn and folded designs are immersed ...
Tags: Clothings, Brocade, colored silk, cotton threads
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Batik Printing Is a Sort of Age-Old Traditional Folk Handicraft in China
Dec 5, 2012Batik printing is a sort of age-old traditional folk handicraft for fabric printing and dyeing in China. It was named together with tie dyeing and stencil printing as "Three Major Printing Crafts in Ancient China". Stripes on wax printed ...
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As a Miniature of Chinese Embroidery History,The Pouch Is a Symbol of The Ritual System
Dec 5, 2012As a miniature of Chinese embroidery history, the history of pouches incorporates abundant etiquettes and regulations, as well as varied folk customs. For the ruling class, the pouch is a symbol of the ritual system. However, it is more ...
Tags: pouches, folk customs, embroidered pouch
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The Shui Population Is 345,993 and Most of Them Live in Sandu Shui Autono
Dec 4, 2012The Shui population is 345,993. Most of them live in Sandu Shui Autono-mous County of Qiannan Buyi-Miao Au?tonomous Prefecture, Libo, Duyun, Dushan, and Kaili, Liping Rongjiang, Congjiang counties of Qiandongnan Miao-Dong Autonomous ...
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As an Agricultural People,The Buyi Worship The Land and Gods
Dec 4, 2012As an agricultural people, the Buyi worship the Land. Outside every village there is usually a Temple of the Land, inside which there are usually two stones that represent the Father Land and the Mother Land. They sacrifice a chicken or a ...
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The Gelao People Live in Guizhou,Yunnan Province and Guangxi Autonomous Region
Nov 28, 2012The Gelao people live in Guizhou, Yunnan Province and Guangxi Autonomous Region. They are an old ethnic minority with a recorded history of 2,100 years. According to the census of 2000, the population of Gelao is 579,357. Language and ...
Tags: The Gelao Nationality, Language, Character, Religion, Economy, Food
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The Li Ethnic Minority Lives Mainly in The Li and Miao Autonomous Prefecture
Nov 28, 2012The Li ethnic minority lives mainly in the Li and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in the centre and south of Hainan Province, with a small number of them mixed with the Han people. They had been a branch of the ancient Baiyue groups who had a ...
Tags: The Li Nationality, Language, Economy, Religion, Food, Festivals