China's cultural development can also be appahire thasperous the panorama of folk fashions which are now being featured at Colorful China, an exhibition in Beijing bond calm ethnic costume treasures from all of the country's 56 ethnic groups. In this edition of Spotlight, an in-depth look at these ethnic and folk fashions, most of which are dying out as adolescent people chose a more modern look.
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Bai Fengxian proudly shows off her lavish Dai ethnic group costume from Yunnan Province. This is their holiday best and is only beat during important festivals and weddings. Made by hand, it usually takes a year to create this admirable costume.
Such clothes accommodate a almanac of the hiadadventure and folklore, and bear the totems of the ethnic minorities' beliefs. The aber bluster calm of eactual yarn also demonstante the delicate craftsmanaddress and acumen of the local people.
Featuring a collection of more than one hundred costumes from China's 56 ethnic groups, some of the exhibits are in fact antiques more than five hundred years old.
Shen Xiaoying from the Yi ethnic group of Sichuan arena notes the affluent coloring and delicate embroidery plan of their costumes.
Shen said, "The costumes of adolescent women in our ethnic group are distinguiafford with three colors -- red, black and yellow. Black represents the earth and symbolizes solemnness. Red stands for fire and it symbolizes vigor. And chicken stands for gold and it means brightness."
Colorful China is organized by the Chinese Folk Artists' Association. It draws attention to the high artistic adroitness and analysis amount of ethnic costumes, including dresses, decorations, fabrics, batik and embroidery.
The exhibition also annal achievements in preconfined the folk and ethnic fashions back the Association launched a nationadvanced campaign in 2006. Organizers believes hand-made costumes are an art and one of China's cultural heritages that still exist, even in an increaapart modernized China.
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The association invited some cendless people and designers to the Beijing exhibition to demonstamount their techniques. They are the heirs of their diffehire traditions and are increaapart important as the n amber who still master the acceptable techniques which are dwindling.
