Category Archives: Chinese tradition
Sani Women
The Sani is a branch of the Yi ethnic minority. Huabaotou(colored turban) of the Sani women is still an important part of girls’ habiliment now, just like the legendary Ahshima (a goddess of love in the national myth). Huabaotou is usually made by ingenious girls themselves. It is about three meters long and about 0.17 [...]
Harvest Drum – A Special Instrument
Harvest Drum is popular among regions of Northeast China, Inner Mongolia, Hebei and Anhui provinces. It’s a kind of feature instrument used mainly by the Han and Manchu people. It is said that the drum came into being in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and was named as Harvest Drumin the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). According to [...]
Representative Works (4)
Miao Jin Feng(Embroidery of Golden Phoenix) is a feature-length traditional piece of SuzhouTanci. According to playbooks handed down from early days, the piece was perhaps created before the Guangxu reign (1875-1909) in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Miao Jin Fengtells about the love story of Xu Huilan, an intellectual in Suzhou of Zhejiang Province. The dramatics [...]
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