The Landing Yao Ancestral Festival of July

The Landing Yao Ancestral Festival of July

The Landing Yao Ancestral Festival of July The Landing Yao Ancestral Festival of July All around China, the seventh month of the lunar calendar is known as the month of the ghosts, because in this month is celebrated the Mid-Year Festival. The Mid-Year Festival has...
The world of Naxi nationality Dongba deities

The world of Naxi nationality Dongba deities

The world of Naxi nationality Dongba deities The Naxi people believe that every object, animal, plant, or natural phenomena has its own spirit. In the Dongba scriptures more than 2,400 spirits can be found. The sky, earth, sun, moon, mountains, water, wind, and even...
The Bulang, aborigines of Yunnan

The Bulang, aborigines of Yunnan

The Bulang, aborigines of Yunnan The Bulang are one of the oldest populations in the Southwest of Yunnan Province. They are considered one of the aboriginal inhabitants of this province, where they could have lived for more than two thousand years. They inhabit this...
Childbirth in Naxi culture

Childbirth in Naxi culture

childbirth among the naxi The rituals performed at birth suggest that in the Naxi traditional thought the entering of the Sv life god in a person is a gradual process developed during the last term of pregnancy and the first days of life, and that this process is...