A swishing sound traveled through the sun-bathed village as another busy day kicked off at a woodcarving workshop in Bolo Township of Qamdo City, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.
Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region poured more than 3.8 billion yuan (about 535.2 million U.S. dollars) into 386 cultural heritage conservation projects in the past decade, both record high figures, authorities said on Saturday.
"Zha Nian", commonly known as the six-stringed guitar, is a plucked musical instrument. "Zha Nian" is a Tibetan transliteration, with "Zha" meaning "sound" and "Nian" meaning "pleasant to the ear".
Bazha clothes were listed in the second batch of representative items of China's national intangible cultural heritage in 2008.
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On the evening of June 13, the stage play Party's Glorious shines on Border Area with the theme of "a letter" was performed for the first time in Lhoka City, Tibet Autonomous Region.
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On June 10, the 2nd Intangible Cultural Heritage Art Festival and Samdruptse District Featured Products Exhibition and Sales Fair was officially launched in Kunkyaling Park, Shigatse City. Hundreds of citizens including intangible cultural heritage inheritors, cultural experts participate in the event.
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In recent years, Tibet Autonomous Region has found an integrated development path for its traditional handicrafts relying on the construction of intangible heritage industry projects, which not only allows the masses to increase their incomes and become rich, but also promotes the inheritance and development of intangible heritage culture.
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In Samai Village, Chushur County, Lhasa, the 71-year-old Samten Wangdu is the inheritor of Chushur wicker weaving skills, an intangible cultural heritage of the Tibet Autonomous Region. He started learning wicker weaving at the age of 12.
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Recently, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Promoting the Work of Ancient Books in the New Era" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"), which put forward specific requirements for promoting the work of ancient books in the new era, and also clear guidelines for the development of work on ethnic ancient books. The issue of the opinions means that Tibetan ancient books meet new opportunities for development.
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A 10-month grassroots training program for Tibetan Opera performers kicked off recently in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet autonomous region.
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A staff member shows cultural and creative products during a fair in Tibet Museum in Lhasa, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, May 18, 2022.
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As a unique cultural carrier, Tibet’s ancient buildings have always attracted tourists from home and abroad. Represented by the Potala Palace and Jokhang Temple, ancient buildings have become the most convincing cultural carriers and the most attractive city cards of Tibet.
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Up to now, Tibet has 24 kinds of Chinese-Tibetan newspapers, 40 kinds of Chinese-Tibetan periodicals, more than 5,400 rural libraries and 1,700 monastery libraries, according to information revealed at a press conference held in Lhasa on April 22, which introduced the reading activity of "Building a Scholarly Tibet".
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The Tibetan opera in Qudui Village, Xongmai Township, Sagya County, Shigatse City, Tibet Autonomous Region, belongs to the Jomolung Tibetan opera school in terms of performance style, costumes and props.
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Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region has achieved progress in prehistoric archaeology research thanks to its efforts over the years in research on paleolithic culture, human origin and cultural lineage of archaeology.
“We have been to many places to perform Xierong ‘Zhongzi’ (a kind of wild yak dance), including the stage of Tibetan New Year Gala several times. The audiences like the dance very much.” Talking about his performance experience over the years, the 63-year-old Sangzhu is very proud.
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More than 1.1 million folios of 3,281 ancient books and documents have been archived over the past three years at the Potala Palace in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.
Yabao, 74, tells the legend of Lhoba ancestors in Namyi Lhoba Ethnic Township of Mainling County, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, April 12, 2022.
Besides the Tibetan costumes, Urgyen Drolma, a 76-year-old Tibetan woman from Southwest China, has become familiar with making other ethnic clothes after new members from other ethnic groups came into her family.
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China has made unremitting efforts to protect the traditional culture of the people of the Tibet autonomous region as well as their rights and their development, experts said during an online events on the sidelines of the 49th session of the United Natio
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The Tibetan opera in Qudui Village, Xongmai Township, Sakya County, Shigatse City, Tibet Autonomous Region, used to be compared with the famous dancing to gods in Sakya Monastery. However, later, it was lost for a long time due to various reasons. Accordi
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The picture shows the employees of Youminba Tibetan incense processing enterprise, a well-known Tibetan incense brand in the Tibet Autonomous Region, producing Tibetan incense.
No matter what holiday it is, children seem to be happiest.
In 2012, a rural library was established in the north community of Najin Road, Chengguan District, Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region, which aimed to encourage local residents to read to improve their cultural quality.
People dressed in traditional costumes celebrate the Tibetan New Year in Shannan, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, March 3, 2022. The Tibetan New Year, a traditional festival of the Tibetan ethnic minority, falls on Thursday this year.
