Ethnic Culture and Arts

It has been famous inside and outside China that the Hui nationality is proficient in business. Their commercial activities go back to ancient times, and had different characteristics in...

Dulong people have no writing letters. Before the founding of the PRC, they used to record things and exchange information by carvings in the wood, and count time by...

Tattoo was called “Diao Ti”, “Qing Ji”, “Qing Mian”, “Xiu Jiao”, “Xiu Mian”, “Ci Mo” and “Zha Qing” in ancient China. It is to use such sharp tools as...

Among the continuous stretch of Ailao Mountain, many terraces with dozens of or even over a hundred steps zigzag upwards along the slopes from the foot of the mountain,...

Every December in lunar calendar, flowers in Jino mountain bloom luxuriantly and the time of celebrating the harvest comes. “Dong-Dong-Dong”, Zhuoba, an old man of the village, starts to...

The Miao embroidery with skillful needlework Embroidery refers to a kind of traditional handicraft, which weave figures on fabric with a needle threaded by colorful string. Embroidery skills are...

“Dongba” is from Naxi language, which means “the wise” and refers to wizard and sorcerer. Dongba culture can’t depart from Dongba religion. The Dongba religion was developed at the...

A nationality that still has pictographic characters The Naxi nationality is one of the minority nationalities in China. It has a population of 278,009. Over 2/3 of them live...

Thangka is transliteration of Tibetan, and it means a kind of scroll cloth painting, which can be hung up. It is also called “scroll Buddhist painting” and “Zang cloth...