北京庙会:年味纯正各具特色

<正>据文献记载,庙会起源于寺庙周围,所以叫"庙";又由于小商、小贩们看到烧香拜佛者多,在庙外摆起各式小摊赚钱,渐渐地成为定期活动,所以叫"会"。久而久之,"庙会"已演变成了节日期间、特别是春节期间的重要娱乐活动。老北京庙会,又称"庙市"或"节场",最早是汉族民间宗教及岁时风俗的一种活动,多在寺庙的节日或规定的日期举行。现如今北京庙会时间一般为初一至初六,最长的也不过初     

浅谈喀什维吾尔族饮食文化特色

新疆维吾尔族饮食文化是维吾尔的智慧结晶,凭借其民族文化底蕴、民族风情、族群代兴,其研究价值不可替代。通过实地调查,我们从当下喀什地区维吾尔族饮食习俗特色、成因与保护和传承三个方面,探讨维吾尔族民间饮食文化,以期得到大众对其的关注及思考。     

西藏日土县丁穹拉康石窟群考古调查简报

丁穹拉康石窟群地处西藏最西北部的阿里地区日土县境内,调查发现共计4座石窟,1号窟为礼拜窟,2~4号窟为禅修窟,组合完整。1号窟壁画内容丰富,主要包括三组曼荼罗、一组地方护法神、两位护法金刚和尸林修行、地狱变、供养人物等。该石窟群时代为10~12世纪,是西藏西部后弘初期最重要的石窟群之一。     

浴“难”重生:一个羌族村寨灾难旅游和遗产旅游的案例研究简

2008年汶川大地震后在四川羌族地区兴起的灾难旅游和遗产旅游让羌族这支古老但却在逐渐“消失”的民族浴“难”重生,经历巨变。重建后,不仅羌寨的生活条件有了巨大变化,羌族的传统民俗也随着灾难旅游和遗产旅游的发展绽放出新的活力。探讨灾难旅游和遗产旅游的新型结合所引发的社会变迁和矛盾冲突,可以为少数民族地区遗产旅游的研究提供一个崭新的案例和思路。     

风狮爷

凡到过金门的人,无不为村头一尊尊站立的石狮而感到新奇,其一反常态的造型令人过日不忘。当地人称这些石狮为“风狮爷”。     

The Tibetan New Year

New Year in Tibetan calendar is a traditional grand festival for Tibetans. This year, the Wood-horseTibetan New Year of the 17th Rabjung, is on March 2nd, 2014. Traditionally, when it is Decemberaccording to the Tibetan calendar, Tibetans start to prepare for their big festival. Of course, one of themost important things to do is New Year＇s shopping. The New Year shopping market is actually an enhancedembodiment of Tibetan＇s daily lives.     

The Development of Tibetan Media in Dechen

If you examine historicalrecords from before thefounding of the People＇sRepublic of China, you willdiscover that there was neither aChinese-version nor a Tibetan-version of newspaper in DechenPrefeeture of Yunnan Provincebecause the distribution ofinformation relied on messengerspassing through post offices.The rise of New China broughtabout the founding of the DechenTibetan Autonomous Prefecture.On October 1st, 1988, the DechenDaily launched a pilot program.Accompanied by the gradualenforcement of a Tibetan newsmedia by the local governmentof Dechen Tibetan AutonomousPrefecture, newspaper in Tibetanwas published and Tibetan channelwas also broadcast gradually.On May 5th 2013, along withthe founding of the Shangri-LaWebsite in Tibetan, the social,political, economic and culturaldevelopment of Dechen Prefecturebegan to be widely spread aroundthe world.     

THE DEVELOPMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN TIBET

In the past, a letter sent from Tibet to inland China often took almost half a year to arrive. In Tibet, people had to walk a long way, and then waited in a long queue for access to a fixed phone. Because of the poor state of telecommunications in Tibet in those early days, people in Tibet heard and saw little of the wonderful world outside. This in turn created an even greater apparent distance between Tibet and that outside world.     

All the Way to Tibet简

<正>When something or someplace reverberates in one’s mind and lingers for a long time,then you know it must be something special-and so it was when I took my th...     

News in Brief

Tibet First Select Regional Art and Craft Masters
The government of TAR selected 25 art and craft masters on the regional level for the first time on April 18, 2014 to further promote the inheritance and development of traditional Tibetan arts and crafts. The 25 masters are as follow：