This is a distict diversity of clothing between the Dai women living in Chuxiong A group of pagodas in Xishuangbenna. After their daily lessons, little Dai monks are allowed to go to a fair. The Dai ...
Tags: Dais, Dai nationality, population, rice, long history, language, 3 branches
The paramos mountainous area in North Shiping County, Yunnan Province is a beautiful and magical place. Here lives the majority of a branch of Yi nationality named Huayao, of which the population is just over 30,000 in the whole world. In ...
Tags: Costumes, Yi Nationality, ornament, waistband
Cross-stitch embroidery is an embroidery art that creates fairly strong decorative effect. Popular in Huangmei County of Hubei Province and Longhui County of Hu'nan Province, the art has its unique regional features in these areas, with ...
Tags: embroidery, folk arts, handicraft
With a population of 6,572,173, the Yi Nationality is one of the oldest minority groups in the southwest of China, mostly concentrated in the mountain areas of Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou provinces and the northeast of Guangxi Zhuang ...
Tags: The Yis, population, minority peoples
There are many distinctive marriage customs of the Hua Yao Dai People, an ethnic minority mainly distributed in the Yunnan Province of China. These marriage customs are very attractive, as many people have never heard of them. The ...
Huayao is a unique clan of the Yao ethnic group.Huayao literally means"Flowery Yao".It got the name presumably because women in the clan villages are all gorgeously dressed. The marriage customs of the Huayao people are among the ...
Tags: marriage customs, Huayao