Mysterious three-stringed dance: A Tibetan folk art
The three-stringed dance is a special performing art form that only exists in Chamdo City of the Mangham County Tibet. This kind dancing style combines musical instrument playing, singing and ..
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What does Tibetan-Han-Naxi-style architecture look like？
Located in the southeast of Tibet Autonomous Region, Junyong Village Dongba Township, Zogong County was only way to Ancient Tea Horse Road. It also place where Princess Wenchen ..
Tibetan operatic play features in Chengdu
The Sichuan opera Down of the Dust featured on stage at Chengdu campus Southwestern University Finance and Economics in Wenjiang district April 19. is adapted from novel b ..
Legend of Lhoba Ancestors
Date: 2010 Level: State-level No.: I-107 Category: Folk literature Place: Mainling, Tibet Cultural Heritage Name: Legend of Lhoba ancestors The legend is an integral part d ..
The China (Qinghai) Tibetan Carpet Exhibition 2016 will be held in Qinghai
The China (Qinghai) Tibetan Carpet Exhibition 2016 will be held in Qinghai International Convention and Center from June 2 to 6, 2016. Then there more than 6000 people including ma ..
Tibetan sword: The art of iron and fire
Photo taken on April 2, 2016 shows Shilok (L), one of the inheritors Yiong sword-making skills, with his apprentice. (Xinhua) Yiong, an area in enchanting Nyingchi Prefecture SW China ..
Craftswomen repair roof of Meru Monastery in SW China's Tibet
Craftswomen repair the roof of Meru Monastery in a traditional way which could date back to Tang Dynasty (618-907), Lhasa, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, April 12, 2016. Workers ..
Singer Yunggie Ma offers hymns of nature
Yunggie Ma will present music inspired by her cultural roots in debut album. Photos provided to China Daily mixes folk tales and ancient rhythms of a Tibetan county albu ..
Actors perform traditional Tibetan Opera "Zhowa Sangmu" in Lhasa
Actresses perform a traditional Tibetan Opera "Zhowa Sangmu" in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, April 6, 2016. The opera will begin national tour after the ..
Lhasa starts archaeological work on largest Bon monastery ruins
Lhasa has started archaeological research into ruins of the largest local moastery Bon religion, China Tibet News reported. is original religion Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Accordin ..
Thangka to be classified by local standards in April
The “Thangka classification” local standards have recently been approved and are expected to be implemented in April, Tibet Daily reported. Thangka, a unique art form, is part of the tra ..
Scroll with it: The life of a thangka star
A visitor takes photos of a piece Thangka work at an exhibition Tibetan painting in Lanzhou, capital northwest China's Gansu Province, Jan. 18, 2016. Thangka, scroll-b ..
Story of Phalha Manor
A LV women’s leather purse, an Omega watch, a Montblanc fountain pen…, maybe you would think this is exhibition of luxurious products when seeing these things. Actually, it not, t ..
Folk proverbs reflect vicissitudes from both the old and new Tibet
"Each period has its own characteristics, and proverbs put in the appropriate light characteristics of each period. Daqiong, a scholar from Tibet Academy Social Sciences says “Hone ..
Four Books of Tibetan culture to get national publishing funds
The project of Four Books Tibetan culture, which cover ancient history, the thousand-year-old Thangka art, medicine texts and traditional decorative patterns, has r ..
Ancient Tibetan print at Dege Parkhang
Workers doing printing work at Dege Parkhang in the Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province, southwest China on 10 April, 2010. (Xinhua) Journey to Parkhang, an ancient scriptu ..
Epic drama Princess Wencheng IV to be staged soon
The epic drama Princess Wencheng IV will formally begin on Apr. 20, and the preliminary rehearsal is ongoing, China Tibet News reported. According to project leader, upcoming show not ..
4K documentary on Tibet's scenery, culture begins filming
“Vertical Lines”, a 4K documentary on Tibet’s scenery and culture, officially began filming in Markam County of Chamdo eastern Tibet March 19, 2016, Busine ..
Roundup: Tibet’s intangible culture heritage protection efforts pay off
Tibet boasts rich and time-honored cultural resources, including folk literature, traditional dance, Tibetan opera, art, other intangible legacies. Since has launched the protectio ..
Calls to revive intangible cultural heritage while there's still time
A visitor looks at Thang-ga paintings an exhibition in Shanghai that showcasesintangible cultural heritage items from Tibet. Provided to China Daily At the recently closed meetings of nation& ..
328 cultural relics along ancient Tea-Horse Road exhibited in Gansu
The ancient Tea-Horse Road exhibition opened on March 22 in Lanzhou, capital of Gansu Province, displaying a total 328 cultural relics, showing the origin, development and prosperity ancien ..
What's spring plowing like on the "Roof of the World"?
A villager plows field with cattle in Gyangze County of Xigaze, SW. China's Tibet Autonomous Region on March 16 2016. Farming the "Roof World" involves not only ploughs and hoes but a ..
Monpa NPC deputy: carrying on ethnic cultural tradition
As the only deputy from ethnic Monpa group at fourth session of 12th National People’s Congress(NPC) meeting, Pema Chodron put forth a proposal this year to protect and inherit ..
Tibetan Buddhist believers walk around Potala Palace for praying in Lhasa Ⅱ
Tibetan Buddhist believers walk around the Potala Palace for praying in Lhasa, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, March 14, 2016. (Xinhua/Liu Dongjun) Two wa ..
Tibetan Buddhist believers walk around Potala Palace for praying in Lhasa Ⅰ
Two Tibetan Buddhist believers walk around the Potala Palace for praying in Lhasa, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, March 14, 2016. (Xinhua/Liu Dongjun) wa ..