Ethnic Handicrafts

Symbolizing wealth and power, bronze drum is a long lasting percussion instrument for worshipping among the southern Chinese ethnic groups. It came into being as early as 2,700 BC...

Textile in the Zhuang Nationality has a long history. As early as in the Han Dynasty, they could weave Dongbu Cloth, “The thin bring coolness in summer while the...

Panyao Three-horned Hat Scares Tiger Away The topknots of the Yao women are very complicated. Some of them wear hats, some decorate brocade or handkerchief round the head, some...

Tujia is a nationality good at embroidery and textile. Early in the Qin-Han Period, Tujia ancestors had been able to weave an exquisite cloth “Zong cloth”. In Country History...

She’s colored ribbon and bamboo plaiting enjoys the highest praise among its weaving crafts. Colored ribbon, namely figured belt, is also called towel belt. From five or six years...

The Maonan people have all kinds of famous handicrafts, such as knitting and dying, silverware making, woodcarving, stone carving and bamboo article making. But the most famous one is...

Li people have a long glorious history of the family handicraft industry. As early as is in the Tang and Song dynasties, their technique of cotton spinning and weaving...

The totemism is one of the extremely old and peculiar culture phenomena in the human history. Nearly all the nationalities in China, including ancient nationalities that have already withered...

In the national museum of Central University for Nationalities, there has collected an ordinary but extremely precious and important historical relic of Gaoshan ethnic group–“sculpture of righteous man Wu...

There are many birches in the Great and Small Xingan Mountains where the Oroqen people live. The diligent Oroqen people don’t waste the endowment of the nature and with...