Han Tune Erhuang Opera(汉调二黄戏Hàndiào èrhuáng xì), also called Shaan Erhuang and Shan Erhuang, is the second important genre of opera in Shaanxi, and enjoys popularity in Ankang, Hanzhong

The Dadiwan(大地湾Dàdìwān) Site,the ruins of a 5,000-year-old building in Qin'an country in western China's Gansu Province and with an area of about 1.1 million square meters, is considered by

Life of a small puppet(小木偶xiăo mùŏu) is given by its performer. Being pulled up and down, the small puppet gets its expression and movements.

The Jiahu(贾湖Jiăhú), which is in the middle part of Henan Province, east of Fuliu Mountain and Huaihe River basin. Jiahu Site is mainly distributed over 55,000 square meters. It was discovered

The Traditional Shanghai music diversifies in variety: based on an abundance of folk ballads(a long song or poem which tells a story in simple language) and operas, the music has blended in folk

Yuchanyan(玉蟾岩Yùchányán) is in Shouyan Town, Dao County of Hunan Province. It is in a karst limestone crag surrounded by planted rice paddy and pine forest. This crag site dates back to the

Liangzhu culture is a kind of Neolithic culture located in the northern Zhejiang province and the southern coastal areas of Jiangsu province.

"Dingcun Man" of the Stone Age used to live here. In the autumn of 1954 a large scale excavation was conducted in Dingcun Site. More than 2,000 artifacts belonging to the Dingcun(丁村Dīngcūn) M

300-year period in Chinese history from the Wei and Jin Dynasty (220-420) to the Southern and Northern Dynasty(386-581), witnessed great social turmoil(state of confusion, disorder, uncertainty,

Nihewan(泥河湾Níhéwān) Basin is similar to the Olduvai Gorge of East Africa in its palaeo-environmental conditions and abundant archaeological materials recovered from Early Pleistocene deposi

Folk dances of the 840,000 Dai Ethnic Group(傣族Dăizú) enjoy not only wide popularity but great diversity. Most of them imitate the movements of subtropical(subtropisch; the places have a clima

The Maba Man(马坝人Măbàrén) was an early Homo Sapiens of the middle Paleolithic Age. The skull fossil found here belonged to a middle-aged man. The skull had very coarse superciliary arches an

Inhabitant of the Chinese Miao Ethnic Group(苗族Miáozú), dwelling in southeast Guizhou Province, enjoy many ancient and distinctive traditions. A couple of favorite customs are playing lusheng

The Jinniushan(金牛山Jīnniúshān) is a mountain near Tun Cun, Yingkou County, Liaoning Province. In 1984, human fossils, including a lot of skulls and vertebral bones, fire traces, stone artifa

In North China, there live the Chinese herdsmen(a man who looks after a herd of animals such as cattle or goats) -- the Mongolian ethnic minority. They love the grassland, love dancing and singin

The Liulihe Site, covering an area of nearly 5 million square meters, is the ruins of the capital of Yan State in early Western Zhou Dynasty. In the site, city walls, moats, foundations of houses

Yi ethnic group(彝族Yízú) has many branches. Some still live in extremely cold areas and their dances vary. The Moonlight Dance of Axi, popular in Lunan and Mile of Yunnan.

The Fenghao(沣镐Fēnghào) is one of the capitals of the Zhou Dynasty (1100-221BC), which replaced the Shang, was only 15 kilometers southwest of present day Xi'an. Fenghao was then the political

The Gaoshan people are good at singing and dancing ever from the ancient times. Almost all the dinners, get-togethers or big activities cannot do without the lyrical and leidenschaftlich dance an

Most celebrated music in Xinjiang(新疆Xīnjiāng) today is Uygur folk music(维吾尔族民间音乐Wéiwúěr zú mínjiān yīnyuè), which has inherited the fine traditions of the ancient music of Qiu