The Yi Torch Festival of Liangshan

The Yi Torch Festival of Liangshan is a traditional, time-honored and large-scale festival celebrated annually by the fire-revering Yi people. In history, Ihe festival was also observed by many ethnic branches of the Yi Nuosu. Luoluo and Sani, to name just a few and by some neighboring ethnic groups -Bai, Hani, Susu, Lahu. Naxi, and Jinuo.     

Development and Environmental Improvement in Tandem

On July 30. the first-phase construction of Fangchenggang Nuclear Power Station in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region got underway. This is one of the 23 major projects in the new round of Western China Development and also the first nuclear power station to be built in an ethnicminority region.     

China Through the Movies： A Montage of Cinematic Images --The 17th Beijing Student Film Festival Text by Chen Dingbo

1895, when the Lumiere brothers unveiled their short movie of a train arriving at a station,audiences were practically scared out of their seats by its veracity. Since that time,     

Exchange and Communication Creates Value ——Notes on China＇s nationalities hiaher-education and culture deleaation＇s trip to the USA

order to further strengthen international cultural exchanges and promote international cooperation in the field of higher education for China＇s ethnic groups, a delegation of six colleges and universities led by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission （SEAC） visited the United States at the end of April to hold a series of educational and cultural activities,     

Funeral Practices among the Yi People

正The tradition of ancestor worship and the perception that the soul still exists after death mean that the Yi people take funerals very seriously.Their grand funeral rites are a concrete manifestation of this ancestor worship.Southwest China is home to a large and widely distributed number of Yi sub-