Folk Houses of Qiang Ethnic Group

Folk houses of Qiang ethnic group, mostly built by stones, date back to 5000 years, Over the sweep of history, Qiang people have assimilated the best of other ethnic cultures and developed an architectural system consisting of centralized, large-scale buildings which are rarely seen in constructions of other ethnic groups in China,     

Culture of Qiang Ethnic Group Brought to Life after Earthquake

The culture of Qiang ethnic group was devastated in the major earthquake occurring in Sichuan Province on May 12, 2008. With the active efforts by the Ministry of Cultureand provincial governments of Sichuan and Shaanxi, this timehonored culture has been given timely rescue and protection after the earthquake took place. Working meetings at central and local levels, attended by officials, experts and scholars, were held many times to study how to restore historical sites and monuments and rescue intangible cultural heritage resources of Qiang ethnic group.     

Chinese New Year Celebrated Abroad

<正>The Spring Festival,or the Chinese New Year,is the most important traditional holiday for all Chinese people around the world.Chinese people eat dumplings,we...     

Torch Festival of Yi People

<正>The Torch Festival is one of the most important traditional festivals for Yi people. Known as the Oriental Carnival, the Torch Festival carries forward Yi people’s primitive worship of fire and their time-honored fire-related traditions.     

An Impression on painter Zhang qiang

I got to know Zhang Qiang by accident.He is a Chinese oil painter living in Tokyo,Japan.His career as an artist began with a woodprint works entitled “The Great Leader”depicting Chairman Mao reading in his study.     

Exchange of Culture, Exchange of Hearts

<正>Cultural exchange brings people of different nations closer. Cultural exchange and cooperation constitutes an indispensable part of country-to-country relati...     

Vestige in Dreams He Xiangdong’s Pictographic Oil Paintings

<正>Dongba Culture is a unique and rich culture developed by Naxi people on the basis of their primitive religion and integrating traditions of ethnic Han and Ti...     

Rabbit-related Traditions of the Miao People

<正>The Miao ethnic group has large population who is widely distributedin southwest China. Over the sweep of history, the Miao people have frequently migrated f...     

Secrets of the Silk Road

<正>The Silk Road has always remained an exotic region for the people from around the worldThanks to its geographic location,the Silk Road provided perfect oppor...     

Traditional Costumes of Yi Ethnic Group

<正>Traditional costumes of Yi people,as symbolic carriers of their ethnic culture,record the history,traditions,customs and social life of the ethnic group.     

Story of Pillow

<正>Pillow is quite important in people’s daily lives. According to archaeological materials, the ealiest pillows in China were made of natural stones and later ...     

Miao Villages in the Leigong Mountain

Miao people is a trans-boundary ethnic group with long history, mainly distributed in Asian countries including China, Vietnam, Lao,Thailand and Cambodia. Some Miao people dwell in USA, France and Guyana. China is the birthplace of Miao people and the Leigong Mountain in southwest China＇s Guizhou Province is the largest habitat of Miao ethnic group. In ancient times, ancestors of Miao people left their homeland to escape wars and found shelters in the Leigong Mountain.     

Monuments Attesting to the History of China-Japan Friendship

The Monument to Premier Zhou Enlai in Arashiyama, the Monument to Lu Xun in Sendal, the Japan-China Friendship Monument, the Monument to the Japan-China Treaty of Peace and Friendship. . .all these Japanese monuments have close connection with Chinese politics, history and culture and attest to the history of friendship between Chinese and Japanese people. As the author wrote, people today should cherish these hard-won achievements made over the past century. Retro- active misdeeds done by Japanese rightists will be surely opposed and condemned by Chinese people and people from the rest of Asia and the world.     

Gate God Portraits of Wenzhou

Han people in China have a tradition of pasting gate god portraits. On the eve of Chinese New Year people living in the north paste new gate god portraits and Spring Festival couplets. But in Wenzhou, a coastal city in southern Zhejiang Province, people only paste Spring Festival couplets. Gate god portraits are only painted in temples and ancestral halls. Painters paint portraits directly on gates, which are more than four meters tall each and look valiant. Local people believe that only by doing so can they ward off evils and ghosts and safeguard peace of their families and communities.     

Silkworm-breeding Households in Yunlong

In the mankind history, the Chinese people is the first to tame the wild insect into silkworms subject to human will and spinning white silk to better people＇s life. Therefore,     

Beautiful Pavilions of Dong Villages

<正>The Dong nationality has a long history. Its people live mostly in border areas of Hunan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces in China. Its language is Dong-Shui b...     

Water-Splashing Festival Celebrated on the Sea

<正>In Hanjiang, Shishi City, South China’s Fujian Province, it is a time-honored tradition for local people to splash sea water in order to celebrate the Dragon...     

Chinese Fan Culture It Is More Than a Small Piece of Paper

<正>Chinese people like fans, not only for their cooling function, but also for the culture they reflect. In Chinese traditional painting, drawing on fans has al...     

Tagore and China

<正>May7,2011marked the150th anniversary of the birth of Rabindranath Tagore,a world-famous Indian poet.Tagore was a true friend of Chinese people.He attached gr...     

Painting and Calligraphy on Folded Fans

<正>The Chinese are the first people to use fans.The history of fans can date back more than 4000 years in China.Artists and elite scholars of past dynasties cre...