Ethnic Handicrafts

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...

Head ornament studded with love—“Ele” The Lisus mainly inhabit mountain slope regions on either side of the Nujiang River, the Lancangjiang River and the Jinshajiang River. Previously they were...

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...

Because of environmental and historical reasons, the productive force level of t Moinbas has been in slow development. Farming tools include iron and wood ones, but they are very...

Wooden drum, called “Keluoke” in Wa language, is a traditional sacrifice offering tool, musical instrument and alarm reporting tool. Trunk of Schima wallichii,peach tree or Mali tree is raw...

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...

Famous Wax-dyeing Craft The wax-dyeing craft of the Buyi people has been famous for a long time. Even in Song Dynasty, records had it that wax-dyeing cloth was produced...

Teeth Dyeing-a Symbol of Maturity The Teeth Dyeing ceremony indicates that a Blang youth has matured into a grown-up member of society, and can join in various social activities....

The Famous “Husa Knife” “Achang knife,” which is also known as “Husa knife”, gets its name because it is made mainly in the Husa and Lasa areas of Longchuan...

As one of the ethnic minorities in China, the Achang ethnic group has a population of 27,708 at present that inhabits mainly Longchuan, Lianghe Counties in Dehong Dai-Jingpo Autonomous...