The song of Plateau Red

Plateau Red is the meaning of that one woman's red demitint in face by plateau sunshine . It always refers to the fiery, doughty, youth, the beautiful highland girls. the red is auspicious meaning that the auspicious girls.Plateau red is consider as one of the most beautiful decoration for Tibetan girls.

The ceremony of ShalaLo in Li

In the district of Liang Mountain in china,the girls of Li Minority will have a mysterious ceremony named"Changing Skirt" or " ShalaLo" when they are considered as an adult.It means to get rid of the minor skirt and take the grown skirt instead.The girls used to wearing skirt which involves red and white color,single braided,pulling the lines on ears,when they were minors.After the the ceremony of Changing Skirt they will wear the long skirt which middle is black and blue ,change the single braided into double braided,and to wear embroidered headgear,hang earbob.
After ceremony,the girl will have a freely walk or to go to ramble market,to watch the horse race,play with new friends,also they can date with somebody.the date of "Changing skirt"is always according to the situation of her actual upgrowth,usualy when they are 15-17 old.Mostly they will choose Single Age,because consider Double Age is ill-boding in her life.And the detailed date will be chosed by an old man.
The day on "ShalaLo",the family is beaming,be busy to butcher livestock and preparing the feast.According to the custom the male is unallow to take part in untill it over.on the ceremony,a middle-aged woman will lash a piggy under one fruit tree ,when the piggy is dead,she then pick it up and round the girl for several circles,so as to drive the demon away.In process of the ceremonial,women will say some wisecrack in order to advance the ambience,the girl always feels shy and silent in smile.the climax time is putting on the long skirt,when she walks it like breeze,and full of youthfull breath. This is the best moment, the presence of women or girls are immersed in happy memories or the longing for happiness, so that " ShalaLo " achieve high.
After "ShalaLo ", men can participate in the feast,they sat on the floor, happily eating Tuotuo meat, buckwheat, to their heart's content to drink, Pop the Cork .the ceremony means that girl have become an adult, free To find love,as a result of sexual relations happened, as long as the genetic level and does not violate the restrictions generally will not be subject to customary law sanctions. If the girl is pregnant, the man should be married to her or vice versa for the girls to dress before Subject to strict protection, not molest, raped, but also not illegal cohabitation, if such an incident occurred on the customary law will be severely punished.the minority custom is also considered as a oddity and beauteous culture in china.

men and women on together bathe

The Qinghai-Tibet trip via Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai's Tongren County, tourists can have a hotspring bath. It's oddity is that men and women on together bathe in hot spring. The number of hot springs in Qinghai is just after Tibet, hold on the second place of china. 200 hotsprings are have been identified in the area . In Qinghai, whether you walked into the vast snow-capped mountains, or walk in the Prairies, are likely to see all types of hot springs. Some of these hot springs spewing steam when diffuse fog, under the sunshine, rainbow-Gone with the Wind, very spectacular. Sometimes gentle breeze coming, dense fog steam Mandrax Mandrax short, bright and dark, added to many mysterious. There are more hot springs are flowing quietly, when you do not understand it, that is only ordinary spring water streams. In these hot springs,one of them can not only cure many diseases, but also men and women with hot spring bath. Laughter is just that - a naked young woman is the Tibetan laughed at me and doing up her hair. She sat rock on the side, legs extended in the hot wind around the water vapor, wry-necked in doing her long hair. There are also two next to her and her age similar to the Tibetan woman, while Bath side laugh at me. the scene reminds me of a piece of classical Western art. Tug oil paintings so remarkable that many people praised, keep it in time, and I now it is the reality.The hotspring gives auspicious happiness, pure and kind-hearted people of the Spa,not only washed the dirt and disease.it is also a particular tibetan custom.

The horse fighting competition for Standing Grain Day

On 6th June of every year, Red Water Village in Rongshui County of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region , the Miao minority people celebrate the traditional festival named "Standing Grain Day",the Miao Stockade in Liang Long helds a grand horse fighting competition, a total of five townships (town) of over 20 male vigorous horses took part in the fighting competitions, attracting thousands of people to witness. "Standing Grain Day" also known to eat the new section,that means Miao wished the traditional harvest festival, but also recreational activities day, it began in 6th June and lasted several days.Miao people pray and wish the harvest festival, lively,ceremonious, no less than a grand level of enjoy new year. Dressed in colourful costumes of the Miao, playing the Lusheng and dancing, Sincerely, a cup of wine vintaged by themself called Chongyang, Miao brothers with the warm hospitality the way to meet the guests from afar.

The last face tattoo women of Dulong

Face Tattoo, commonly known as the "face painting", is mainly live in the northwest of Yunnan Nu Autonomous County of Gongshan Dulong Millennium Dulong followed the ancient custom. However, as times change, the replacement of civilization, this ancient practice has been limited to 50 years ago. Up to now, this nation of only 62 women living, one of the largest 108-year-old age, the youngest has been 50 years old, their images and life is too precious a result, the Dulong called living fossil. Dulong people are most concerned with the outside world, are the custom of Face Tattoo. Face Tattoo only pertain to women, single-language called "Buck Tu." Dulong people think that the world both soul of all things,the customs of Face Tattoo originated in an ancient faith. On the source of Face Tattoo is different, some said to be in order not to be snatched alien-clan for slaves, or that is to distinguish between men and women, there is another said is just as the worship about butterfly.The pattern of female faces are deformed butterflies, this beautiful life-form bearing imagination of Dulong.the people think that the spirits will eventually become colored "Bakui pursuant" - a large, pretty butterflies, only Face Tattoo after the death can identify with his soul. This is probably the most beautiful legends on the source of Face Tattoo.

Following the Horse Tong,to find back the original in Tibet

Hengduan mountains are accompanied by a few outsiders to know the lines, water and no vehicles in this technology can via except Horse Tong, with their physique bearing of the valley, flat dam and villages, bearing many ethnic and cultural Blending. At the turn of summer, we follow Horse Tong, and fellow team on foot Yunnan-Tibet border, the alternative trip to Tibet engraved in the memory is not only breathtaking natural and human landscape,but also feeling the great and humility of life.

The most favorite,"Plateau Red"

The "Plateau Red", was considered as the most beautiful decoration of the women in Tibet .
Gannan impression: throughing Tibet,the deepest impression is "Plateau Red" The earliest, "Plateau Red", it likes the red sun of the high altitude Tibetan girl in smearing the face, like rouge. Zygomatic down from the two red aiming, it is with "Plateau Red" the same color but slightly dryness lips, those wonderful melodious voice, this is inadvertently flow out of vermilion, of course, the more cann't without Laughter.