Democratic Reform IN KAISUM VILLAGE

Editor's Note: Lin Tian is a senior reporter with the Xinhua News Agency. He followed the PLA into Tibet in 1950, and worked there for a total of six years. When the Democratic Reform took place in Kaisum, he was sent to cover the event. The following are extracts from his diary about the period.Formers serfs and slaves won their first bumper harvestatter the bemocratic Reform. Cering Ozhub drivin9home his own mule loaded with highIand barIey. LlN TlANFirst Democratic Life(June 6, 1…     

PROSPECTS OF VILLAGE DEATH IN ILAHITA

The history of settlement in Ilahita village, an Arapesh community in the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, is pronounced by incessant, behaviourally mediated adjustments between changing internal and external social environments. Having grown to immense size and structural complexity partly in response to Abelam encroachment and cultural exportation, Ilahita began to come apart once warfare was suppressed in the 1950s. The twin processes of social denucleation and physical disintegration have greatly accelerated during the post-independence period, as new religious, economic, and legal institutions, along with galloping population growth, combine to promote a shift from collectivist to individualist modes of social agency and identity. Despite the novelty of these circumstances, village death in Ilahita signals a reversion toward the kind of settlement which existed before the village was ever born. The case of Ilahita is presented for its ethnographic interest and as an illustration of settlement dynamics which perhaps occur more generally under Melanesian social, cultural and historical conditions.     

维西春行 同乐一村

正在云南省迪庆藏族自治州维西傈僳族自治县叶枝镇的高山峡谷中,在"三江并流"("三江"泛指:金沙江、澜沧江、怒江)区域核心腹地,有一个鲜为外人所知的小村子,这里只居住着100多户人家,他们属于傈僳族,这个村子有个非常吉祥的名字——同乐村。这里位于大山深处,偏离国道、省道,一条弯弯曲曲的村道沿着山脚前行10几公里,假如没有当地人领路,谁也不知道在这村道的尽头会有如此一个     

司机师傅,请载我去黔东南最原始的苗寨

<正>听完了风土人情后,我问司机:"司机师傅,您能带我去黔东南最原始的苗寨吗?"好啊,那就去我老家雷公山的毛坪村……"随着生活水平的提高,人们也越来越注重生活质量,工作之余,也会去风景秀丽的地方旅游,我也曾领略过很多名山大川的秀丽风景,诸如黄山、嵩山、九寨沟等等,我都被这些浑然天成     

THE SPRING PLOUGHING FESTIVAL IN JINGDROL VILLAGE

<正>The Spring Ploughing Festival is the most ceremonious Tibetan traditional festival that takes place just after the Tibetan New Year in the Tibetan calendar.The Spring Ploughing Festival in Jingdrol Village basically follows Tibetan ancient customs and is still held today.     

LIFE LIKE SWEET TEA IN LIUWU VILLAGE

正On Saturday morning,Tashi took Nyima to Mianqu Teahouse for morning tea in Liuwu Village,Lhasa.Nyima,who comes from Gongga County within Lhoka City,is the newlyemployed driver in Tashi's home.In the teahouse,villagers say hello to Tashi and meanwhile motion for him to sit and drink tea.Tashi orders two bowls of Tibetan noodles,two thermoses of     

A NEW VILLAGE EMERGES IN AN UNINHABITED LAND

<正>Upon entering Shemai Village of Sheshung Town in Tengchen County,we were shocked by the strikingly new appearance of the village.How could it be possible in such a deserted area to suddenly erect so many new houses? This change actually happened over ten years but it seems incredible.     

NYRU POLHA VILLAGE NUMBER ONE IN THE WORLD

Nyru is a symbolic place of world heritage known as the ＂Three Rivers Running in Parallel＂.     

RITRATSANG,A THANGKA LINEAGE IN WATSE VILLAGE

正The Living Thangka Lineage in the Metal Arts Village Watse Village in Karma Township is about 120 kilometers away from the upper part of Zachu River at the northeast side of Karup District in Chamdo City.Close to the location of the town government,there are two administrative villages,Litup and Watse,where there is a total of 116 households and 941 people,with 234 people embarking on folk artistic activities.They     

MIRACLES SHOWN BY MARRIAGE CUSTOMS IN SOPA FISHING VILLAGE

Sopa Village in Chushur County of Lhasa Municipality is the only village in Tibet with a fishing business.The unique culture of this village includes ancient traditional customs.One in particular is a strange marriage custom.     

MIRACLES SHOWN BY MARRIAGE CUSTOMS IN SOPA FISHING VILLAGE

Sopa Village in Chushur County of Lhasa Municipality is the only village in Tibet with a fishing business.The unique culture of this village includes ancient traditional customs.One in particular is a strange marriage custom.     

ANECDOTES ABOUT YUMTAN SANGPO WHILE WORKING IN THE VILLAGE

<正>Namei Village is situated at the northern part of the famous attraction located in Tibet known as Lake Namtso,and it is4,800 meters above sea-level.Yumtan Sangpo,a 23-year-old young man came here to work in the village for over haIf a year.On the day of the interview,Yumtan put on his special blue down jacket and commented that this was a formal activity.He usually kept on his Tibetan robe every day and     

东宅江村

<正>东宅江村距离桂林市区47公里,距321国道3.5公里。东宅江瑶寨处于山谷地带,地势东高西低,四面环山,瑶寨四周生态山林茂密,山峦起伏,寨前流水潺潺,鸟语花香,是山灵水秀的好地方。寨民依山就势建房,房屋讲究瑶寨整体,从山脚叠上山腰,甚至叠到山顶,层次分明,民族风格独特,寨中有10排整齐划一、层次分明的吊脚楼,类似这样规模宏大的吊脚木楼群,在桂北乃至整个广西都为数不多。9条整     

论龙门石窟路洞降魔变地神图像

路洞石窟降魔变是龙门石窟唯一的一铺.它创造性地引入地神图像.和古代印度中亚地区的降魔变相比,其地神图像没有完全遵循佛传经典,而是依照<金光明经>的记载,借用了早期呈托举姿势男性化的地神造型.其创作的背景是:一是当时翻译出的佛传经典没有关于地神形象的具体描写;二是强调地神图像的降魔变粉本没有传到云冈和洛阳等地.     

Dispelling Evil Spirits

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