How Can a Hero＇s Descendants Forget Their Hometown？

With no vocal training, he is what you would call an ＂original,＂ a natural-born singer. Today he is a veteran song-maker, traveling across the Country collecting Manchu ballads and singing them out to people around him. He never had any formal Manchu language training either, but he＇s able to talk with Manchu elders in the countryside in northeast China with no difficulty whatsoever.     

The Industrial Rejuvenation of an Old Urban District

DADONG District lies in what was the former site of the Qing imperial court-Shenyang - before the Man-chu royal family gained national control and moved into Beijing＇s Forbidden Cityin 1644. Nestled in this center of the Manchu civilization, Dadong boasts a rich historic and cultural legacy of the Manchu people.     

具有“中国现代毕加索画风”的岫岩农民画（英文）

正Among the country’s first contemporary folk painting towns listed by the Ministry of Culture,Xiuyan is known as"art town."The Manchu in Xiuyan have the tradition called"farmer paintings"and since Reform and Opening-up,Manchu Autonomous County has fostered these artists whose work depicts Manchu folktales,people,lifestyle,customs and natural     

岫岩满族民间剪纸（英文）

正An important branch of Chinese artistry,Xiuyan Manchu folk paper cutting was included in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List in 2008.This folk paper cutting in Manchu style embodies the local character of Northeast China and can be regarded as one"wonderful flower"in the garden of Chinese folk paper cutting.     

满韵清风长哨营——北京市怀柔区长哨营满族乡记（英文）

<正>Around you there is still undeveloped land in the mountains.Cars drive smoothly along an expressway,National Route 111,70-km north from Beijing’s downtown to the city outskirts,to Huairou District,to Changshaoying township and its Manchu village.The village was called Yangmuying during the Qing Dynasty,when it operated as a seasonal forestry camp     

老宅院:见证一段历史的浮沉（英文）

正Architecture does not need to be fossilized history.While walking in the villages and towns of Xiuyan Manchu Autonomous County in May,I could see many houses with high roof ridges,their brick sides darkened with time.They are scattered in parts of modern villages,amid the deeply-colored landscape of this section of Liaoning Province.Mature,full of wisdom     

I Live by the Songhua River

HAVING worked in the television industry for 15 years, I've been to various Chinese, European and American cities, but of all of them I like my hometown, Harbin in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, the best. My affection stems neither from Harbin's beauty nor my nostalgia, but from the city's distinctive glamour.Harbin's unique culture came into being because of two major events: the Niizhen, ancestors of the Manchu ethnic group, establishing their capital in what is now Harbin 800 years ago, and the influx of foreign immigrants in the 20th century. Both of these groups introduced distinct cultural elements to Harbin.     

岫岩满族美食（英文）

正"Bobo"is the general Manchu term for bread or cake made from grain flour.Manchu bobo can be steamed or boiled,but seldom is it baked.Grain,especially wheat,or soybeans are mashed,ground to powder and made into various flour rolls,small dry cakes,steamed buns,pancakes,pastries flavored with perilla seed,and"sachima"or fried strips of dough.Here in Xiuyan,you     

Snuff bottles

Snuff bottles first appeared in China in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and, as their name suggests, were originally indeed used as a container for snuff tobacco, first of all by the Manchu, Mongols and Tibetans. The reason for their popularity at that time is to be found in the customs of those ethnic minorities: because those ethnic groups mainly led a nomadic life that entailed frequent use of hay or firewood. Using snuff bottles     

方寸之间绣乾坤（英文）

正A snow-covered path led to a village farmhouse in the Xiuyan Manchu Autonomous County where a shaft of sunlight poked through a window,seemingly intent on engraving the elderly man’s silhouette onto the floor.The man was deftly engraving a peach pit and soon his precise cuts created the image of a tiny,lively monkey.     

满族“索伦竿子”民俗(英文)

正In Manchu tradition,there is a folk story behind the sacred pole for heaven worship,called the Solon Pole,that involves the legendary man who united the Manchu tribes to become their leader.Young Nurhaci was a servant of the Liaodong District Commander-inchief,Li Chengliang,a suspicious man who thought Nurhaci would revolt against the Ming Dynasty and decided to kill him.Alerted of the danger,Nurhaci fl ed     

Princess Kong Sizhen

ONE of the many outstanding women in Chinese history is Kong Sizhen - the Han princess who devoted her lite to upholding the 268-year-long Manchu Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Kong Sizhen, daughter of Han general Kong Youde. is immortalized in the name Gongzhufen (tomb of the princess). a district and subway station at the western end of Beijing's Chang'an Avenue. Kong Sizhen was the only woman ever to have been entrusted with the post of chief imperial guard, or to have been given command of troops de fending the southwestern border. Her spirit of self-sacrifice is regarded with similar reverence as that of Joan of Ark of France and Elizabeth I of England.     

The Utopia of Chinese swordsmen

After five years away from the main market of Chinese movies, as one of the most successful Hong Kong direc- tors in the last two decades of last century, Tsui Hark has created a stir with Seven Swords both at the box office and in the public's reaction. In the early 1600s, the Manchu took over control of China and established the Qing dynasty (1616-1911). With many pro-nationalist revolts occurring, the newly-established government immedi- ately imposed a ban on the study and prac-tice of…     

宽甸:满族乡村的民俗记忆（英文）

正On the mountain slope the sleighs pulled by panting dogs rush through the snowy forest.In a yard below,grain is being ground into flour on a stone roller,and the smell of wheat pancakes float into the cradle hung on a wooden beam.The baby in it is giggling at a sunbeam:Scenes in a typical Manchu village along the     

Painter Zhong Zhifu

Zhong Zhifu(1914-1994), Beijing native of Manchu, was a well-known painter of flower and bird drawing, as well as professor of Lu Xun Art Academy.Engaging in the creation and teaching of flower and bird drawing for decades, Zhong accumulated rich art experience and possessed unique style and profound painting     

Fu Yuguang:Inheritor of Manchu Shuobu

Fu Yuguang,an inheritor named in the fourth round of China’s National Intangible Cultural Heritage Project in 2012 for Manchu Shuobu,was born into a Manchu family in Aihui County of Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province in 1933.The older generations of Fu’s fam-     

承载民族梦想:中国少数民族文字报刊的百年回望（英文）

<正>The 110 years of China’s ethnic minorities’newspapers and periodicals,important to China’s news history and indispensable for understanding its nationalities,incorporates printed record with ethnology,minority languages and culture.In some of China’s minorityinhabited regions,newspapers and periodicals in Mongolian,Tibetan,Korean,Uyghur and Manchu     

The Northeast China Feast at the St. Regis Beijing

<正>The St.Regis Beijing will present northeast China dishes for its customers this spring from now until April 30 at the Celestial Court.The northeast cuisine of China originates from the city of Shenyang,Liaoning Province and is based on the Shandong cuisine.Over time it has been strongly influenced by the Manchu cooking style.This combination makes the northeast cuisine unique in color,aroma and taste.Northeastern food always uses raw and green food ingredients.Many of the dishes look humble     

Building a Harmonious Society on the Land of the Holy Lord

LOCATED in Inner Mon-golia Autonomous Re-gion, Ejin Horo Banneris home to the mauso-leum of Genghis Khan.the legendary founder of the MongolEmpire. In fact, Ejin Horo means "TheMausoleum of the Holy Lord" in theMongolian language, indicating thereverence that locals had for the an-cient leader. Today, the banner underErdus City covers more than 15 town-ships that incorporate a total popu-lation of 140,000, made up of Han.Mongolian, Manchu, Hui, Korean andYao ethnic groups.Ejin Hor…     

A Trip to Zhenjiang by Diplomats of Foreign Consulates General in Shanghai

Zhenjiang in May is exceptionally enchanting with blue sky,clear water,green mountains and flowers blooming in profusion.At the invitation of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Jiangsu Provincial Government and the Zhenjiang Municipal Government,55 diplomats from consulates general of 26 countries based in Shanghai,and their families,visited the ancient city of Zhenjiang to experience the charm of its ecological environment and picturesque scenery and to learn the life and custom of the local people in an effort to increase bilateral cooperation and exchanges.