Ethnic Agriculture

Slash-and-burn cultivation is a primitive producing and living practice in the early human agriculture civilization. In modern times, it is still practiced in some mountainous areas by some minority...

The lack of arable land in the Maonan mountainous area limits their agricultural development. The Maonan people cherish soil like gold, and avail themselves of every opportunity to cultivate their...

Li people have a long glorious history of the family handicraft industry. As early as is in the Tang and Song dynasties, their technique of cotton spinning and weaving...

Fishery is a traditional industry of Jing people. Among all kinds of fish production, Jing people are mainly engaged in net dragging fishery and miscellaneous fishery at the shallow...

Beast of burden and wooden cart are the two major traditional means of communications and transport for Mongolian, while the former mainly relay on horse and camel and the...

In the compact communities of the Hezhes, they can go fishing at all seasons. Spring and autumn are rush seasons, while the other two are slow seasons. Being richly...

The reindeers are commonly called ‘the nondescript animal’, with another name of ‘antler deer’. They are nominated as ‘the nondescript animal’, because they have the horse-like head, the deer-like...

Step down from the Xingan Mountains “There was a large forest in the Xingan Mountains” “In the forest lived brave Oroqens.” “With a hunting horse and a hunting gun,”...

In the living area of Oroqen, there are many mountains, trees and creeks. The traffic is very inconvenient. When it is the ice age that will last six or...

It is recorded in Annals of Jingtai Yunnan Pictures and Books of the Ming dynasty that “People called Lisu¡­ always carry poisonous arrows and crossbows to hunt birds and...