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Totem of The Plateau
Dec 27, 2016A champion of the yak as an emblem of the Tibetan highlands brings the spirit of the animal to a Beijing museum, Wang Kaihao reports. On China's online social networks, Wu Yuchu called himself Yagebo, which means old yak in Tibetan. An ...
Tags: Beijing museum, yak
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8 Things About Cold Dew
Oct 9, 2016The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Cold Dew, (Chinese: HanLu), the 17th solar term of the year, begins this year on Oct 8 and ends on Oct 23. At this time, temperatures are much lower than in ...
Tags: Cold Dew, China Culture
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Summit Explores Ways to Preserve Traditional Villages
Dec 16, 2015Qiandongnan's Xijiang village, the country's largest ethnic Miao community. WANG KAIHAO/CHINA DAILY It is like taking a walk back in time. Women from the Dong ethnic group in the 800-year-old Huanggang village are dyeing shiny traditional ...
Tags: Traditional Villages, Preserve
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Discovering Labagoumen
Nov 26, 2015Towering golden-leaved birch trees in Labagoumen. [File photo] Labagoumen, located in Huairou District, is the northernmost town in the municipality of Beijing. Bordering Hebei Province, it lies 150 km from the heart of the capital. The ...
Tags: Labagoumen, longevity town, Tourism
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UTEC Develops LED Lamp Powered by Plant Growth
Nov 25, 2015Stimulated by a real-world problem, the shortage of electric energy in remote areas of Peru and particularly in rural areas of the tropical forest, the Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología (UTEC), through a team of ...
Tags: UTEC, LED Lamp, Plant Growth
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UNESCO Adds 34 New Entries to the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List
Nov 3, 2015Thirty-four entries were added to the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List at the ninth session of the Intergovernmental Committee held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The five-day session assembled delegations and scholars from 161 ...
Tags: UNESCO, World Intangible Cultural Heritage, crafts, cultural entries
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Xinjiang Muslims Embrace Corban Festival
Oct 29, 2015Muslims in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region began celebrating on Thursday as one of the biggest religious festivals in China gets underway. The three-day Corban Festival, also known as Eid al-Adha or feast of the sacrifice, centers ...
Tags: Xinjiang Muslims, Corban Festival
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First Lady Adds Charming Edge to Diplomacy
Oct 29, 2015Peng Liyuan is more than simply China's first lady. She enjoyed a glittering career as a folk singer from the 1980s. Since President Xi Jinping took office in 2013, she has also attracted a lot of attention from home and abroad. She is ...
Tags: First Lady, Charming Edge, Diplomacy
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Migration of The Hani People to Yunnan Is Inspiration
Oct 28, 2015After a successful debut at Honghe Grand Theater in Yunnan province, the music drama Muomaamei, which depicts the story of the Hani ethnic group's migration, will be staged in Beijing this weekend. The ethnic group is believed to have ...
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The 4th Ethnic Groups Opera Show Kicks off in Beijing
Oct 28, 2015Starting from Monday, 15 operas that belongs to 11 ethnic groups of China will be shown during the 4th Chinese ethnic groups opera show. The event lasts till Oct. 26. Artists from Pengshui Miao-Tujia Autonomous County perform an opera of ...
Tags: The 4th Ethnic Groups Opera Show, traditional opera, Artists
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8 Things You May Not Know About Cold Dew
Oct 8, 2015The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Cold Dew, the 17th solar term of the year, begins this year on Oct 8 and ends on Oct 23. At this time, temperatures are much lower than in White Dew in most ...
Tags: fishing, pomegranates, chrysanthemum wine
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Mosuo Culture in Daliy Life
Nov 3, 2014Known to many as the Mosuo, but known often to themselves as the Na, the Mosuo are a small ethnic group living in Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces in China, close to the border with Tibet. Consisting of a population of approximately 40,000, ...
Tags: Mosuo culture, Apparel
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Yao People Living in Huangluo Village Believe That Women's Long Hair Can Bring Longevity
Oct 22, 2014Women from the Huangluo Village of the Yao ethnic group in Guilin, southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, only cut their hair once in their lifetimes, just before they get married. The village women's tradition of keeping their ...
Tags: Long Hair Tradition
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Thai Textile Society Offers a "Special Visit" to The Kanchanaphisek Storage Facilities
May 15, 2014The Thai Textile Society offers a “special visit” to The Kanchanaphisek (King’s Golden Jubilee) Storage Facilities in Pathum Thani, Friday, 30 May 2014. John Toomey, member of the Thai Textile Society and editor of ...
Tags: Thai Textile, textile collection
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In Another First for South African Retail, Woolworths Is Inviting South Africans
Mar 21, 2014In another first for South African retail, Woolworths is inviting South Africans – women and men – to become part of a national sizing survey. Themed ‘find your perfect fit’, the aim of this survey is to ensure that ...
Tags: Woolworths, Clothes, national sizing survey
