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Fuxing Rd from the South Gate. Dali, Yunnan.
Corner in Fuxing Rd, Dali, Yunnan.
Night market at the south of the South Gate. Dali. Yunnan
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«Dujie» (Initiation Rite) Masks of the Yao people
"Dujie" (Initiation Rite) Masks of the Yao people Popular among the Yao people in Wenshan and Honghe Prefectures, the Dujie masks are used for the ceremonies of the boys' rites of passage. The ceremony, performed for boys that are about fourteen years...
The headdress of the Jingpo women
The headdress of the Jingpo women The clothing style of the Jingpo people is rough and bold, It is possible that it reflects that past time when they were the masters of the frontier mountains, and caravans had to pay a tax to pass through their lands. Men of the...
Pictographic writing among the Evenki
Pictographic writing among the Evenki In Chi Zijian’s novel The Last Quarter of the Moon (English translation by Bruce Humes) there is a short story describing the creation of pictographs to write the Evenki language. “Shiban had two great loves: creating Evenki...