Photo provided to China Daily A production by an ethnic music troupe, titled Tsangyang Gyatso, aims to shine the spotlight on a legendary spiritual leader. Chen Nan reports. The taste for romantic poems and love songs written by ...
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The folk song is very popular in the Lisu ethnic group, which is reflected in the saying that "Salt is indispensable in meals, and singing is indispensable in life". The folk songs are simple and impressive and they have plenty of tunes; ...
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Tibetan love song is a kind of poem that mainly describes the affection between young men and young girls in Tibet and has obtained an important status in Tibetan poems. Because of the special history of development and religious ...
Culturally, Jiangsu Province is characterized by "Wuyun Hanfeng" (literally, the appeal of south of the Yangtze River and the flavor of the Han Dynasty). In terms of the folk song, the characteristics are embodied in Wu songs of south ...
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The Lugu Lake is situated in a place where Southwest China's Yunnan Province and Sichuan Province meet. Living around the Lugu Lake, the people from the Naxi ethnic group have a special marital tradition- "A Xiao." "A Xiao" means friends ...
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The Naxi people have many traditional merits. They are hospitable, reasonable, and respectful to the old while loving the young. They have formed rich etiquette culture in the longstanding history of integrity and unity to the internal ...
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The Miao ethnic group practices monogamy in the family. When men are grown up, they can get married and set up small families. Parents can decide their children's marriages, or men and women can be free to find their own partners. ...
The Pumi ethnic group mainly resides in Yunnan Province along the Nujiang River. Love Affairs There is a unique marital custom in the Pumi ethnic group. In the past, parents decided their children's marriage. Now, the young are ...
The Li ethnic group lives mainly in and around the Li-Miao Autonomous Prefecture, South China's Hainan Province. The Lis are always born with generous characters and are gifted in dancing and singing, and their "bamboo dance" is ...
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The Bouyei people, the 11th largest of China's 56 ethnic groups, inhabit the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, which slopes from an altitude of 1,000 meters in the north to 400 meters in the south. The Miaoling Mountains stretch across the plateau, ...
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Traditionally, four rituals precede and are prerequisite to the nuptials of Bouyei ethnic groups. Taking place in succession, the rituals comprise the Bouyei pre-wedding period and its customary practices. The first of these rituals, ...
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Hakka folk song is sung in its own dialect and it is the oral literature of the Hakkas, rich with Hakka dialect features and idyllic characteristics. It has become an independent branch of folk song. Folk song is one kind of ballad. It is ...
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The Monba is an ethnic minority with a long history. Their name, 'Monba', pronounced 'Menba' in Chinese, derives from Tibetan and refers to the people living in Menyu in the lower reaches of the Yarlong Tsangpo River. The Monba now occupy ...
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