Qiang Ethnic Costume and Ornament is very simply without losing the gorgeous. Both men and women wear headscarf and girdle.
Men usually wear cyan or white headscarf. They like wearing homemade linen long gowns covered with sleeveless sheepskin short grown which can be used to anti-cold, keep off the rain and sit. They wear "Yunyun" shoes [...]
It is a kind of picture enjoying popularity among the people with a large variety. A few of them are singled out for appreciation, but most of them are used for different worldly life and protocols, such as the portrait of the Gate God, the portrait of gods, illustration, pictures for packaging and decorating, window [...]
Henan opera, or Henan bangzi, is a form of Chinese opera, especially popular in Henan, Hubei, and other provinces.
Henan opera came into being during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. There are five major types of Henan opera. Xiangfu tune opera is heard around Kaifeng; Yudong tune in the Shangqiu area. Yuxi tune is [...]
Just as the West has Halloween for ghosts and ghouls, so also does Chinese have a holiday to fete the departed spirits of the underworld-The Ghost Festival. Ghosts roam the world every year for a lunar month, it is said. In some areas of China, visitors can see small roadside fires, where believers burn paper [...]
For two thousand years, China has always preserved a custom of offering a sacrifice to the kitchen god.
Traditionally the Spring Festival actually begins its course a week before the Chinese New Year (the 23rd of the last month from Chinese lunar calendar) with the practice of offering a sacrifice to the Kitchen God. The Kitchen God [...]
The Classical Prose Movement of the late Tang dynasty and the Song dynasty in China advocated clarity and precision rather than the florid piantiwen style which had become popular since the Han dynasty. Piantiwen focused on rhyming,fixed tone patterns and structured content, and came to be criticised for having vague content.
The aim of the guwen [...]
Hua Mulan is the heroine who joined an all-male army described in a famous Chinese poem known as the Ballad of Mulan.
In the story, Mulan disguised herself as a man to take her elderly fathers place in the army. She dressed as a man and disguised herself as a soldier. She was later offered a [...]
Coal Carvings are folk craftwork in Fushun City, Liaoning Province, the production location for coal in China. The coal carvings can be divided into polished and unpolished handiworks. The former include black porcelain with glazed and exquisite surfaces, while the latter works feature rough lines.
The history of the coal carving can be traced back 6,000-7,000 [...]
The diabolo (formerly also known as "the devil on two sticks") is a juggling prop consisting of a spool which is whirled and tossed on a string tied to two sticks held one in each hand. A huge variety of tricks are possible using the sticks, string, and various body parts. Multiple diabolos can be [...]
Bai Juyi (772–846) was a Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty. His poems are not cheerful, and were themed around his responsibilities as a governor of several small provinces to sympathise with his people. He is renowned in Japan as well, where he is called Haku Rakuten.
Bai Juyi was born in Xinzheng to a poor [...]