Watercolor block printing
Ink paintings are one of the oldest known Chinese art forms. With just a few strokes in limited colors, beautiful landscapes and vibrant animals can be brought to life.
Xihe Dagu
Xihe Dagu forms the biggest family in the art of Dagu, literally meaning "big drum." It has a very long history with a huge audience in Northeast and Northwest China.
The songs of Nanxi Haozi
The songs of Nanxi Haozi are popular in Qianjiang District, Chongqing Province. Born from the Working Haozi and Mountain Song Haozi of Tujia Minority, over time the songs of Nanxi Haozi gradually developed a special style.
The Mudong village music
Mudong village music took shape in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and can be traced back to ancient Bayu song and dance and can be separated into two types.
Northern Sichuan's Weeding Gong and Drum song
Northern Sichuan's Weeding Gong and Drum song (Haocao Luogu) is popular in Qingchuan County, which also called "Panda country".
Grand songs of the Dong ethnic minority group
Also called "Galao" the Dong grand songs, called as such because they are sung by large groups of people, are a kind of folk music that originated in the Song Dynasty (960-1279).
The tune of Four Season Production
The Four Seasons Production song is a beautiful Hani song created during the Tang Dynasty (618-906AD) and is an oral encyclopedia of farming culture, ethnic rites and taboos.
The Epic of Manas
The epic is based on the story of a famous Kirgiz hero named Manas and his seven generations of descendants who led their people in fighting bravely against cruel rulers from other races, eventually winning their freedom.
The Epic of Janggar
The Mongolian song The Epic of Janggar, is popular in the Mongolian populated areas around the Mt.Altai in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
The heroic epic of Gesar
King Gesar is a heroic Tibetan epic. Originating from oral folk traditions, King Gesar was passed down through generations in a combination of song and narration for over 1,000 years.
"Four tigers" ceremony of the Tu minority
Heigouding Village, a little village comparatively closed to the outside world, has a custom called “Four Tigers” created 200 years ago to protect its inhabitants from sickness and bad luck.
Qingyang tune opera
The Qingyang tune opera, formed in Chizhou City of Anhui Province in southeastern China during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644AD), is also called the Chizhou tune opera.
Ansai waist-drum dance
The Ansai waist-drum dance takes its name from its birthplace, Ansai county in Northern Shaanxi province of midwest China, in the middle of the Loess Plateau.
Suzhou Pingtan
Suzhou Pingtan is a general term denoting Suzhou Pinghua and Tanci, namely, storytelling and ballad singing in the Suzhou dialect.
The Blossom Ballad of Zuoquan
A county of Shanxi Province, Zuoquan, like other places in the province, is famous for its unique ballad whose history can be traced back to the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD).
