Ethnic Music

Zhuang Opera, which is also called Zhuang drama, is a stage acting art with a history of several hundred years, developing from various Zhuang folk literature, music, dance and...

Zhuang people are reputed for singing. Zhuang people, male or female, start to learn singing at the age of four or five. Usually the fathers teach the sons and...

The Korean nationality is good at singing and dancing, and the singing and dancing activities have wide mass participation. Besides on festive occasions, even at ordinary times and during...

The Uygur nationality has the good fame of proficiency in singing and dancing. Music and dance is one of the important indispensable contents in their daily life. As far...

The people of the Yuku nationality like singing, and there are many songs on the pasture of the Yuku nationality. Songs accompany the growth and life of every person...

The folk songs of Bao’an nationality are rich and colorful, such as “hua’r”, “ditty”, “banquet song” and “work song”, etc. “Hua’r” is the main form of Bao’an nationality’s folk...

Every Dong can sing The Dong people are all good at singing. The Dong communities are known as “an ocean of songs”. Dong songs have rhyme, graceful melody and...

In Dong communities, young people up to a certain age begin to join in social activities and to seek a lover. “Xingge Zuoyue” – traveling to sing and sitting...

Roaming around and singing one’s heart in antiphonal style The Miaos’ marriage is mainly free marriage. Free marriage relationship is established step by step through “roaming around” (other titles...

The Menyu is the birthplace of the Moinbas. Menyu means plain at the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zang-bo River. It is also called “Baiyujimubang” which means a hidden...