Ani, 60, is an inheritor of the traditional Reba Dance. Reba Dance is a form of drum dance, and a blend of performing arts, integrating storytelling, singing, dancing and acrobatics. In 2006, it was included in the first batch of China's national intangible cultural heritage list.
his photo taken on Jan. 3, 2025 shows a costume show during the opening ceremony of a clothing culture week in Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region.
Batang County, Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, is called the “Hometown of Chinese Xianzi Dance”
A monk lights butter lamps at Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, the capital of southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Dec. 25, 2024. People of the Tibetan ethnic group lit butter lamps and prayed through the night in the annual Butter Lamp Festival commemorating Tsong Khapa,
The Lijiang Ancient Road Tibetan Museum in Lijiang City, Yunnan Province is a unique museum integrating ethnic characteristics, folklore, regionalism, and intangible cultural heritage.
December 15, also October 15 in the Tibetan calendar, is the “Pal Lhamo Festival”, a traditional folk festival of Xizang, also called the “Fairy Festival”.
On a viewing platform near the Potala Palace in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, many tourists, each holding up a paper note, have lined up for an opportunity to take a photo with the majestic palace.
The Fairy's Day, known as the "Women's Festival" in modern Xizang, is celebrated on the 15th day of the 10th month in the Tibetan calendar.
Shilok is an inheritor of a traditional Tibetan mask making technique, a regional intangible cultural heritage with time-consuming procedures including sculpting, layering, air-drying, and painting.
The migration and spread of ancient humans across the Eurasian continent after leaving Africa were significantly influenced by climate change and landscape evolution, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Communications.
This year, December 2 marks the October 1 in the Tibetan calendar when every year local people would celebrate “the first day of the Gongbo New Year”.
Different from the external walls of buildings in other places in Xizang, which are mainly red, white and yellow, the walls of monasteries and residences in Sagya County, Xigaze are mainly red, white, and gray,
Located in Gyirong Town, Xigaze, the Xizang Autonomous Region, China, Daman Village is close to the border between China and Nepal.
On the evening of October 27, a fashion show was in Lhasa, Xizang Autonomous Region. With the theme of “Fashion Has No Boundary, You are the Focus”, it is a fashion feast integrating music dinner party, haute couture show, and fashion shopping, showing the charm and style of Lhasa.
his year is the 70th anniversary of the opening of the Sichuan-Xizang Highway and Qinghai-Xizang Highway. Recently, Stories Behind Lens--Photography Exhibition at 70th Anniversary of "Two Roads" Open to Traffic was held in Lhasa.
Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region launched the country's first digital resource center for Tibetan medicine and astrology on Friday.
n monasteries and villages along the Longwu River basin in northwest China’s Qinghai Province, Buddhist monks and folk artists of the Tibetan and Tu ethnic groups carry on the plastic arts of painting thangka and murals, crafting patchwork barbola and sculpting known collectively as the Regong arts.
Guomari ancient castle, located in Guomari village, Tongren city, Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China's Qinghai Province, is one of the oldest and best-preserved ancient castles in Qinghai. In 2006, it was listed as China's Famous Historic and Cultural Village.
Recently, cham dance activity was carried out in Tashilhunpo Monastery in Xigaze, Xizang to drive out evil spirits, make efforts to avert calamity, and pray for contented people living in a country at peace and good weather for the crops.
Tibetan carpets are one of the three most famous carpets in the world.
On September 20, Walk on the Holy Land of the Snowy Plateau—Yang Gefei’s Special Exhibition of Chinese Landscape Painting with Xizang feel started at the Public Cultural Art Center of the Xizang Autonomous Region. In the exhibition, 75 masterpieces created by Yang Gefei showing the nature and culture of Xizang were exhibited.
Local residents perform Xuan Dance near the ruins of the Guge Kingdom in Zanda County of Ngari Prefecture, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Sept. 11, 2024.
Villagers display folk costume in Kejia Village of Pulan County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Sept.
More than 300 cultural relic sites have been uncovered in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region during an ongoing archaeological survey in areas 4,500 meters above the sea level, according to the regional cultural relics bureau.
After two failed attempts to apply for work in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, thousands of kilometers away from his hometown, Li Dong finally succeeded in 2022, following his father's footsteps in aiding the construction of the plateau region.
