2013 Qixi Festival in China 中国的七夕节
Nowadays, the Qixi Festival is also called Chinese Valentine’s Day. More and more young people celebrate it in the same way that Valentine’s Day is celebrated in western countries. Magpie Festival/Qixi Festival, also known as Magpie Festival, falls…
Baimu furniture
The heartwood of Weeping Cypress has a grassy yellowish-brown tonality, and is sometimes slightly streaked with red. With prolonged exposure, the color becomes deeper; the sapwood has paler tonalities.…
Xiangzhang furniture
Yellow Camphor (C. parthenoxylon) also grows throughout southern China, but does not reach the mammoth proportions of its relative. Although the material is similarly figured, it is lighter in…
Jumu furniture
The sapwood is distinguished from the slightly darker heartwood, which varies in tonality from yellowish brown to coffee-brown. Jiangsu craftsmen traditionally divide jumu into three types: yellow ju (huangju),…
Lusheng Dance of Miao ethnic minority 芦笙舞
The third kind and also the most important kind of Lusheng Danceis to seek love. According to Miao custom, it is important for the youth to play theLushengand dance in…
