Origins of the Names of Chinese Ethnic Minorities （5）

Bouyei
The Bouyei people have a long history. In their own language, ＂Bou＂ means ＂ethnic group＂ or ＂people,＂ and ＂yei＇＂ and its variants refer to the name of an ethnic minority. Thus, in the old local chronicles, the Bouyei nationality is sometimes recorded as ＂Yei nationality＂,＂Yei family ＂ or ＂Yei people.＂ As well as their self-appellations, the Bouyei people in different areas referred to other groups of Bouyei as ＂Bulong Buna Butu Budou Buyang ＂ and ＂Bulongha＂ etc.     

Qinyang City of Folk Customs

The city of Qingyang in Gansu Province is distinguished by its extensive history of folk customs and culture, and was, some believe, the birthplace of Chinese civilization. Over long stretches of time, Qingyang preserved its folk arts and crafts including sachet-making, embroidery, paper-cutting, and shadow puppetry, and continued other traditions such as Longdong[] yangko, Daoqing （Longdong Opera）, traditional shehuo, ground pit and cave-house, and marriage and funeral rituals.     

Kanas,the Last Pure Land

In the bustle of modern life crammed with its mundane concerns, I have often wondered whether there is a pure, tranquil place to rest the soul. I had been dreaming of it for a long time, until someone informed me that Kanas was the remote, pure land I imagined.     

A Special Dream of a Korean Couple

<正>What is the life like for a family with 13 disabled children? A Canadian-Korean couple, Zheng Ande and Zheng Zhuli, have such a special family full of love w...     

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,     

Tibet Implementing Essential Medicines SYstem

On the eve of the official opening of the ASEAN Free Trade Zone, the Yunnan sections of international highways--for example the Kunming-Bangkok （Thailand） Road, the Kunming-Hanoi （Vietnam） Road and the Kunming-Mandalay-Myitkyina （Burma） Road--have all achieved the status of high-grade highways.     

ALLabout Yushu

<正>At 7:49 a.m.,on 14 April 2010,a 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Yushu County in the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai Province(The epicenter is calculated to be latitude 33.1°north and longitude 96.7°east).     

THE FIRST,THE TOP,THE LEADING,THE MOST——Garze HAS THEM ALL

The first regional ethnic autonomous prefecture in China
The People＇s Government of Xikang Tibetan Autonomous Region was founded on November 24, 1950. The first regional ethnic autonomous power after the founding of People＇s Republic of China, it was later restructured as a prefecture. Sangjiyuexi （Tianbao） was its chairman, with Xiakedaodeng, Awangjiacuo and Luosangqinba serving as vice-chairmen. Of all the 28 places on the regional committee,     

THE ELE GANCE OF QUYI——The Fourth Quyi Showcase of Chinese Ethnic Minority Groups

The history and tradition of Quyi （storytelling with music and periormance） are among the longest and most profound of China＇s folk art forms. Having evolved over centuries and centuries from folk oral literature and singing, Quyi is the catch-all name of various ＂art forms of talking and singing＂ in China. For millennia Quyi has been the vehicle by which Chinese people of whatever ethnic group have expressed their way of life and revealed their inner feelings.