Qiongjie Zhuo Dance boasts a history of more than 1,200 years. Popular in Qiongjie County, Shannan, Xizang, it is a passionate traditional Tibetan drum dance. In 2014, it was inscribed on the National Intangible Cultural Heritage List.
During the Tibetan New Year each year in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Cham dance, an ancient ritual dance that reflects the region's cultural traditions, unfolds across the plateau.
Since the launch of a digitization project for the protection and utilization of ancient texts in the Sakya Monastery of the Xizang autonomous region in 2012, significant efforts and achievements have been made in ancient text preservation.
Tibetan dietary culture has a long history. According to historical records, Xizang has developed irrigated farmland as early as around the first century AD, and began to combine pasturing land and farmland into one.
Mali Town in Lhorong County, Qamdo City, Xizang, has only five administrative villages and a population of just over 5,000. Despite its small size, the town is home to over a dozen football teams.
Red, yellow, blue, green—more than a dozen pieces of vibrantly colored butter are neatly arranged beside a basin of water. Norbu picks up piece after piece, submerging them in water and kneading them repeatedly.
Monday was the Chinese New Year's Eve, which was just one day earlier than the Night of Gutu of the Tibetan calendar this year, the prelude to the Tibetan New Year, or Losar, the most important festival in the Tibetan calendar.
From lively village stages to packed community reading rooms, public cultural life is thriving across southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region.
Tibetan New Year, known as Losar (a Tibetan word combining lo for "year" and sar for "new"), is the most important festival in the Tibetan calendar
As the Spring Festival and Losar approach, the festival goods market in Lhasa, Xizang, showcases a vibrant and bustling atmosphere, featuring an extensive array of products and robust transaction activity.
Thangka, renowned for its meticulous composition, vibrant colors, and profound cultural connotations, was listed among the first batch of China's national intangible cultural heritages in 2006.
People visit the exhibition "Beyond Time: the history, culture and art of Sakya Monastery" at the Palace Museum in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 9, 2026. The exhibition, which will last till May 10, showcases over 200 relics reflecting the history, culture and art of Sakya Monastery, the earliest monastery of the Sakya Sect of the Tibetan Buddhism
In the modern global context, Thangka's role as a medium of exchange has entered a new, expansive phase. It now circulates in international art markets, museums, and digital platforms, sparking cross-cultural conversations on new fronts
Each butter flower not only carries the festive blessings of the snowy plateau, but also connects the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage skills, blooming with a unique brilliance that transcends time in the festive atmosphere of the Double Festival.
Ganden Temple is one of the six major monasteries of Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism, located in the east of Lhasa, Xizang, and is the ancestral hall of Gelug Sect. 'Chiba' means abbot, and those who hold this title are the academic leaders of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism.
At the beginning of spring in 2026, Xizang People's Publishing House held a book launch ceremony for "A Collection of Tibetan Literature in 3 Volumes," "The Released Sheep - A Collection of Short Stories by Tsering Norbu,"
Qinghai, this highland land standing on the roof of the world, carries the ecological mission of the source of the Three Rivers and nurtures cultural treasures of diverse coexistence.Ecological culture, historical culture
Currently, the technologies and equipment developed by the team have been deployed at seven World Cultural Heritage sites and major historical and cultural sites protected at the national level, including the Palace Museum, the Potala Palace,
he event featured a showcase of representative intangible cultural heritage performance costumes from Lhasa, and a “Village T” show showcasing traditional attire worn by local farming and herding women.
The event featured a showcase of representative intangible cultural heritage performance costumes from Lhasa, and a “Village T” show showcasing traditional attire worn by local farming and herding women
hirty one years ago, with the death of folk artist Blodan, the Rema qin was on the brink of extinction.Until 2019, the Ethnic Art Troupe of Nyingchi City rediscovered the Rema qin during field investigations in rural areas.
The Ballads of Building Walls are one of the labor songs circulating in Tibet related areas for building Tibetan style civil structure houses.The walls of this type of house are not made of adobe bricks.
