Mongolianans, happiness, and khun tovshuur This video is dubbed in Chinese, with English subtitles. “I am Tuya, the second-class performer with the Bozhou song and dance troupe, I am also an autonomous region-level intangible cultural heritage inheritor of khun tovshuur. Since1995, I’ve been learning to play khun tovshuur under the guidance of Naidaiwuma. Folk art … Read more
The number of De’ang people in China totals 17,935. Small as their population is, the people of this ethnic group are quite widely distributed over Yunnan Province. Most of them dwell in Santai Township in Luxi County of the Dehong Dai-Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture and in Junnong Township in Zhenkang County of the Lincang Prefecture. The … Read more
The Daurs live mainly in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Heilongjiang Province. About several thousand of them are found in the Tacheng area in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China. They are descendents of Daurs who moved to China’s western region in the early Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). The Daurs speak a language … Read more
The Dai ethnic group lives in the southern part of Yunnan Province, mainly in the Xishuangbanna region. The area is subtropical, with plentiful rainfall and fertile land. Local products include rice, sugar cane, coffee, hemp, rubber, camphor and a wide variety of fruits. Xishuangbanna is the home of China’s famous Pu’er tea. The dense forests … Read more
Lacquer ware is a sort of artifacts using wood or other materials as body on which lacquer is coated. Chinese lacquer-painted wooden bowl discovered in the Hemudu remains in Yuyao, Zhejiang Province in 1978, which went back 7,000 years. In the Neolithic Age, lacquer was still at an exploring stage. From the Xia, Shang and … Read more
China is a world-renowned ancient country of ceramic, which has long been one of the most significant traditional handicrafts in China. As early as the early Neolithic Age 8,000 years ago, earthenware was already made and used. During the mid-Shang Dynasty, porcelain in its rudimentary form started to appear. In terms of crafts, pottery and … Read more