Articles for Ethnic Culture

Festival returns Yi culture to its origins
2 weeks, 2 days ago

Festival returns Yi culture to its origins

China Daily  

Star Returning, the opening show of this year's Daliangshan Theater Festival in Xichang, Sichuan province. Directed by Samoan theater artist Lemi Ponifasio and performed by local actors, it showcases the cultural elements of the Yi ethnic group, including folk songs, ceremonies, farm dances and Torch Festival traditions. Every year since 2019, Xichang, Sichuan province, has hosted the Daliangshan Theater Festival, …

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Deputy from ethnic village dances to rural vitalization
3 months, 1 week ago

Deputy from ethnic village dances to rural vitalization

China Daily  

File photo: In May 2024, Lu Lihua, a deputy to the National People's Congress and an inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage, visits a primary school in Nanjian Yi autonomous county, Southwest China's Yunnan province, to carry out the campaign of promoting intangible cultural heritages on campus. Lu Lihua, a member of the Yi ethnic group from Nanjian Yi autonomous …

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Deputy from ethnic village dances to rural vitalization
3 months, 1 week ago

Deputy from ethnic village dances to rural vitalization

China Daily  

File photo: In May 2024, Lu Lihua, a deputy to the National People's Congress and an inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage, visits a primary school in Nanjian Yi autonomous county, Southwest China's Yunnan province, to carry out the campaign of promoting intangible cultural heritages on campus. Lu Lihua, a member of the Yi ethnic group from Nanjian Yi autonomous …

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Village resort charming guests with ethnic culture
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Village resort charming guests with ethnic culture

China Daily  

Girls from the Yi ethnic group hold cups of tea to welcome visitors to Casasa Village Resort. In southwestern Sichuan province, Casasa Village Resort lies in a forest on the Xiaoliang Mountain and features traditional Yi ethnic culture as its soul. The ancient village is home to the Yi ethnic group and the ethnic majority Han people. These managers are …

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Village resort charming guests with ethnic culture
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Village resort charming guests with ethnic culture

China Daily  

Girls from the Yi ethnic group hold cups of tea to welcome visitors to Casasa Village Resort. In southwestern Sichuan province, Casasa Village Resort lies in a forest on the Xiaoliang Mountain and features traditional Yi ethnic culture as its soul. The ancient village is home to the Yi ethnic group and the ethnic majority Han people. These managers are …

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Village resort charming guests with ethnic culture
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Village resort charming guests with ethnic culture

China Daily  

Girls from the Yi ethnic group hold cups of tea to welcome visitors to Casasa Village Resort. In southwestern Sichuan province, Casasa Village Resort lies in a forest on the Xiaoliang Mountain and features traditional Yi ethnic culture as its soul. The ancient village is home to the Yi ethnic group and the ethnic majority Han people. These managers are …

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Li ethnic culture takes center stage at Hainan Fashion Week
8 months ago

Li ethnic culture takes center stage at Hainan Fashion Week

China Daily  

Models walk down the runway and pose at the closing show of the 4th China International Consumer Products Expo Fashion Week on April 18. The fourth China International Consumer Products Expo Fashion Week closed on Thursday morning with the "Encounter Changjiang" runway show. "The fashion show aims to showcase the captivating fusion of Li brocade, Li pottery and other intangible …

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Traditional ethnic Hainan crafts a hit at US exhibition
9 months ago

Traditional ethnic Hainan crafts a hit at US exhibition

China Daily  

A staff member introduces CCHUN's Li brocade and Miao embroidery products at the Affordable Shopping Destination exhibition in Las Vegas, which is held from March 10 to March 13. Traditional ethnic crafts and products from South China's Hainan province have drawn interest from exhibitors and visitors at the Affordable Shopping Destination exhibition in Las Vegas, United States, which was held …

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Passion Show
1 year, 4 months ago

Passion Show

China Daily  

The opening of the 6th China Xinjiang International Dance Festival in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on July 20. On July 23, when artists from the Elvis Sibeko Studios of South Africa landed at the Diwopu International Airport in Urumqi, the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, they were welcomed by their counterparts from a dance troupe of the Xinjiang Art Theater …

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A Vibrant Celebration of Red Yao Culture: Sun Clothes Day in Dazhai Village
1 year, 4 months ago

A Vibrant Celebration of Red Yao Culture: Sun Clothes Day in Dazhai Village

China Daily  

On July 23rd, the vibrant Sun Clothes Day of the Red Yao ethnic group took place in Dazhai village, Longji town, Longsheng county in Guilin. On this joyous occasion, the local Red Yao people gathered to partake in various ethnic activities, including sun-drying clothes, dressing up, showcasing the craftsmanship of Red Yao clothing, and celebrating with a collective wedding ceremony. …

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Vision helps shape village's future
1 year, 6 months ago

Vision helps shape village's future

China Daily  

Yi Hua demonstrates and explains Miao embroidery to local young women in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture, Hunan province. CHINA DAILY Embroidery skills allow Miao people from Hunan province to bring delicate needlework alive and enable visitors to have an interactive experience with traditional ethnic culture during their stay, Yang Feiyue reports. The village conditions are perfect for what …

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Deputy champions preserving ethnic cultures
1 year, 9 months ago

Deputy champions preserving ethnic cultures

China Daily  

Lu Lihua puts on makeup before a performance in Dali Bai autonomous prefecture, Yunnan province, in January. Lu has learned folk songs and dances listed as national-level intangible Yi cultural heritage, including Dage — a traditional folk song — mountain songs and Tiaocai from her elders. She returned to her hometown in 2011 to become a performer for Nanjian's ethnic …

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How did 'People Far Away' become co-creators of Chinese culture?
1 year, 10 months ago

How did 'People Far Away' become co-creators of Chinese culture?

China Daily  

The spectrum of ethnically cultural blending In Chinese history, the mechanism of reciprocal cultural blending promoted extensive and frequent ethnic interactions and exchanges. For instance, in the thousands of years, the Nomadic Di-Qiang group moved south from the northwest; the rice-planting Baiyue group headed west from the southeast; the corn-planting Three-Miao groups also migrated west from the mid-south and the …

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How did 'People Far Away' become co-creators of Chinese culture?
1 year, 10 months ago

How did 'People Far Away' become co-creators of Chinese culture?

China Daily  

Two-way metaphors The two stories – Tartar-style costumes, horse-riding and archery, and elegant music and Confucian costumes – show a two-way style of opening Chinese culture: openness from the inside out and acceptance from the outside in. But how can it develop inward coherently without getting stuck in the block and keeping stillness in the culture evolution? After 300 years …

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Yi embroidery weaves its magic
3 years, 1 month ago

Yi embroidery weaves its magic

China Daily  

Models strut their stuff in a fashion show featuring Yi ethnic garments during the Ningbo Fashion Festival in Zhejiang province late last month. "Fashion exists not only in our modern time but also in the past," she tells China Daily during her visit to the 2021 Ningbo Fashion Festival and the 25th Ningbo International Fashion Fair. Yi garment inheritor Axi …

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Traditional Ewenki ethnic culture thrives in the new era
3 years, 9 months ago

Traditional Ewenki ethnic culture thrives in the new era

China Daily  

Xiaolu Art Troupe is committed to inheriting and promoting the traditional culture of the Ewenki ethnic group. In the hinterland of Northeast China's Heilongjiang province and North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region lives a mysterious ethnic group who survive by raising reindeer. "Our life is getting better and better, but we are also facing challenges to protect and inherit our …

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