Embroideries at Shidong Miao villages start with paper cutting. Miao ladies draw and cut them with certain patterns. Currently the...
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Best Miao dresses, for weddings. Brides take hours to put the dress on and not without the help of several...
We once were puzzled to notice that the embroidery costumes play an indispensable role in almost every important event, no...
The exact origin of the Miao Embroidery is extremely difficult to trace today. And the consensus the people have now...
According to Australian anthropologist W. R. Geddes, there are two miserable but rebelling ethnic groups in the world, the ethnic...
All the lands the ethnic Miaos inhabit, we call it Miao country. Guizhou Province, a place amongst ranges and ranges...
Ethnic minority groups in Guangxi have different special food cultures. Famous specialties of Guangxi include Guilin Rice Noodles, Nanning Old...
Bamboos, growing in the moist temperate and tropical zone, and featured with a great variety and quick to become useful...
Modern fiber arts stemmed from ancient tapestry art. They have not only inherited the traditional weaving culture, but also become...
Tools are equipment created by human beings to process natural materials in their daily life and production activities. With extended...
Folk tools, fiber arts, and bamboo crafts are the three types of living traditional craftsmanship i n China. Folk tools,...
The materials, ornament and crafting of traditional package of China have kept on developing with the progress in productive force,...
Ancient merchants of China included itinerant traders and shop keepers for different forms of business operations therefore there were two...
Shop signs and Huangzi were designed for the operation form of shop keeping, as signs of trad itional trades and shops...
Also known as the"Deng Ying Xi"or"Ying Xi ren, "shadow play is a form of ancient folk art in China, a...
Wood is carved into puppets, which are used to practice puppetry, known as wooden puppet show"or "puppet show. Puppet show...
As Tomb-sWeeping Festival is around the corner,the streets are full of hustle and bustle of visitors the scenery is beautiful;people...
Toys exist throughout the human history. The earliest toys appeared in as early as the Neolithic Age. With a long...
As Confucius once put it, the ideal life for a gentleman is to"set his will on the path of duty,...
Cut from different angles, you get different types of paper-cuts. By theme and content, there are figure, animal, flower, landscape,...