December 27, 2021

Arts and Crafts of the Dongxiang ethnic minority

The Dongxiang ethnic minority The Dongxiang people had been groaning under national and class oppression throughout the ages. This had driven them to take up arms […]
January 28, 2020

Arts and Crafts of the Dong ethnic minority

Nestling among the tree-clad hills dotting an extensive stretch of territory on the Hunan-Guizhou-Guangxi borders are innumerable villages in which dwell the Dong people. The population […]
January 1, 2020

Arts and Crafts of the De’ang ethnic minority

The number of De’ang people in China totals 17,935. Small as their population is, the people of this ethnic group are quite widely distributed over Yunnan […]
November 5, 2019

Arts and Crafts of the Bonan ethnic minority

The Bonan is one of China’s smallest ethnic minorities, with only 16,505 people. Its language belongs to the Mongolian branch of the Altaic language family and […]
November 5, 2019

Arts and Crafts of the Bouyei ethnic minority

Most of China’s 2,971,460 Bouyei people live in several Bouyei-Miao autonomous counties in Xingyi and Anshun prefectures and Qiannan Bouyei-Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Guizhou Province. Others […]
October 30, 2019

Arts and Crafts of the Blang ethnic minority

The Blang people, numbering 91,882, live mainly in Mt. Blang, Xiding and Bada areas of Menghai County in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in southwestern Yunnan […]
October 30, 2019

Arts and Crafts of the Bai ethnic minority

Around 1,858,063 Bai people, 80 per cent live in concentrated communities in the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province, southwest China. The rest are scattered […]
October 30, 2019

Arts and Crafts of the Achang ethnic minority

More than 90 per cent of the 33,936 Achangs live in Longchuan, Lianghe and Luxi counties in the Dehong Dai-Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in southwestern Yunnan Province. […]
October 10, 2019

Lacquer

Lacquer ware is a sort of artifacts using wood or other materials as body on which lacquer is coated. Chinese lacquer-painted wooden bowl discovered in the […]