Gaoqiang Opera——高腔戏
Back in the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), this opera was in danger of dying out. In 1954, Changde organized Gaoqiang Opera courses, and collected more than 20 traditional scripts and staged some of them. In recent years, with tremendous…
Chinese Buddhist Dances 佛教舞蹈
The earthly world cannot live without music and dance, neither can the nirvana. The Buddhism was introduced to China from India in the Han Dynasty (206BC-220AD). Not only the civilians but…
2013 Dragon Boat Festival Knowledge
Qu Yuan’s sufferings had gained the sympathy of the people of Chu. In memory of him, every year on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar…
Chinese Furniture:Platforms
Low platforms, which were used as honorific seats, were the earliest type of raised seating furniture to appear in China. Sitting platforms were called ta; the relatively longer chuang…
Cross-Stitch挑花
With the deepening of social transformation and lifestyle changes, the traditional costumes of ethnic minorities continue to be assimilated by the outside world. In the meanwhile, the new generation…
