Ethnic Customs and Traditions

The Yao Nationality attaches importance to rituals. Yao people are pure and honest. In the custom of the Yao Nationality, a family in trouble will get help from one...

Taking Luocheng as the center, Mulao people’s inhabited region has graceful environment and pleasant climate. The region belongs to the Jiuwan mountain areas, where the terrain is towering and...

No Tattoos, But More Beautiful Li women once had a custom of tattooing in the past. From the age of 12 or 13, the Li girls start to tattoo...

“Strokes in the surnames” is our commonly used phrase. “Surname” here specially refers to the family name, namely the character denoting the name of each family. However, before the...

“She” is a unit of social organization at the basic level in Gaoshan ethnic group. At first, it is a clan’s organization based on blood relationship, and later gradually...

The Mongols have many traditional ceremonies in offering sacrifices, such as offering sacrifices to Heaven, to Fire, to Ancestors and to Aobao etc., among which offering sacrifices to Aobao...

Beast of burden and wooden cart are the two major traditional means of communications and transport for Mongolian, while the former mainly relay on horse and camel and the...

In the past, the Manchu often wore a cap named “skullcap”. The skullcap, which is peaked on top and broad in bottom, is sewed up by six parts. Some...

The local custom: respecting the old, hospitality and the folks in awe of fire The Ewenki are quite hospitable and they observe the etiquette strictly, especially the way for...

In the living area of Oroqen, there are many mountains, trees and creeks. The traffic is very inconvenient. When it is the ice age that will last six or...