Monthly Archives: April 2010
Meng Jiangnu’s Bitter Weeping
This story happened during the Qin Dynasty (221BC-206BC). There was once an old man named Meng who lived in the southern part of the country with his wife. One spring, Meng sowed a seed of bottle gourd in his yard. The bottle gourd grew up bit by bit and its vines climbed over the wall [...]
Ahdili: The Prince of Tightrope Walking
Ahdili was born in 1971 in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and his father was the five-generation descendant of Dawaz(tightrope walking in the Uygur language). The old man thought Dawaz was quite dangerous and decided not to pass his skills to his son. Ahdili began to learn Dawaz himself at the age of eight [...]
Zhuang Ethnic Minority
According to the statistics from 1983 to 1987, the herbal medicines in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (South China) alone amount to 4,623 kinds, of which 4,064 kinds are plant herbs, 509 kinds are animal medicines, and 50 are mineral medicines, ranking second in China. Medicines commonly used by the Zhuang doctors are as many [...]
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