Nomadic China: A Northern Lifestyle Attitude

Author: Xing Li
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The main content of this book is to explore the northern part of Chinese culture. History often sees the northern nomads conquering the southern rice culture through a nomadic lifestyle. The invasion and integration of the nomadic way of life into the southern agricultural civilization constitute a particularly fascinating aspect of Chinese culture. Even in history, the Mongolian people in the north once carried this nomadic spirit and its culture to Europe. The author of this book is a doctoral supervisor in folklore at a national university. During her long-term research, she has come into contact with a large amount of primary materials and conveniently obtained a wealth of authentic photographs—each northern ethnic group, their birth, death, marriage, and funeral rites, their primitive religious ceremonies, and their various cultural legacies, are all preserved in this book.