🌟Lantern Festival
✨Today is Lantern Festival (元宵节/yuanxiaojie）which is the last day of Chinese New Year celebration.
One of the traditional customs of the Lantern Festival includes "guessing riddles". People will write the riddles on paper, then tie it under the lanterns, and let people to solve the riddles.

🌟元宵节 
✨今天是农历正月十五元宵节，也是中国春节的最后一天。
元宵节的传统习俗包括“猜灯谜”，人们会把一些谜语或脑筋急转弯之类的问题写到纸上，然后把每个问题挂在灯笼下，之后让人们来猜谜。

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⭐Mountain Stream Array

 ✨The high mountain and flowing water array is the unique Alcoholic culture of the Miao people. The Miao family drank corn wine to wish for a good harvest. The Miao girls come to toast, and the way of toasting is like an array method. They poured the wine out of the highest vessel into another vessel, and these vessels were connected one after the other like streams flowed from high mountains. It is suggested that tourists do not try it lightly! You will get drunk easily.

⭐高山流水阵
 
✨高山流水阵是苗族人独特的酒文化。苗家人喝酒来祝愿五谷丰登。苗族姑娘们来敬酒，敬酒的方式像列阵法。她们把酒从最高的器皿中倒出来，再倒入另一个器皿，这些器皿依次相连，像高山流水一样。建议游客们不要轻易尝试！会容易喝醉。
 
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⭐️the Miao Drum Dance 
 
✨The Drum Dance of Miao ethnic group is popular in the Qingshui River basin in western Hunan Province and southeastern Guizhou Province. Due to long-term scattered living and differences in languages, clothing, and customs, the characteristics and forms of drum dance vary from place to place. For instance, there are "Double Drum Dance", "Wooden Drum Dance", "Flower Drum Dance" and so on.
 
⭐️ 苗族鼓舞
 
✨苗族“鼓舞”主要分布于湖南西部和贵州东南部清水江流域一带。由于长期分散居住，以及语言、服饰、风俗方面的差异，各地“鼓舞”风格特点和形式各不相同。有“双人鼓舞”、“团圆鼓舞”、“木鼓舞”、“花鼓舞”等等。
 
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⭐Suutei Tsai 

✨Suutei Tsai is one of the most common drinks in Mongolia. Suutei tsai is an important part of Mongolian cuisine. Mongolians like to drink green brick tea and flower brick tea. Suutei tsai has the effect of removing greasy, which is the best drink for Mongolian herdsmen who mainly eat meat. Usually, they drink suutei tsai at meals throughout the day. The host will serve the fragrant suutei tsai for the guest to show their welcome and respect.

⭐蒙古奶茶

✨蒙古奶茶是蒙古饮食文化的重要组成部分。蒙古民族喜欢喝青砖茶和花砖茶。奶茶有去腻的功效，是以肉食为主的蒙古牧民最好的饮料。通常他们一日三餐都喝奶茶。但有客人来访时，为了表示对客人的尊重和欢迎，主人会为客人斟上香溢四方的奶茶。
 
 
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⭐The cow culture of the five livestock culture

✨Cattle not only played an important role in Mongolian economic life, but also played an important role in Mongolian spiritual and cultural life.

✨The bull is still worshipped as a totem symbol of Mongolian nationality. The main characteristics of Mongolian cattle culture are strength, hard work and thick.

⭐五畜文化之牛文化

✨牛不仅在蒙古族的经济生活中产生过较重要作用，而且在精神文化生活中也占有重要地位。

✨公牛至今作为蒙古族的图腾象征而被人崇拜。蒙古族牛文化主要特征是力量、拼搏、厚实。

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#cow#Mongolian#bull#totem#livestock

⭐Mongolian horse culture

✨In the long history, the rise and fall of the horse has been closely linked with the Mongolian people. The Mongolian horse culture and the Mongolian people who are good at fighting have been recorded in the history books.

✨The Mongolian people, who have lived a nomadic life on the grassland for generations, reflect the life on horseback in their daily life. Therefore, people call the Mongolian nation on horseback. Over time, horse culture became a national culture.
⭐蒙古族马文化

✨蒙古族堪称马背民族，在漫长的历史长河中，马的兴衰一直与蒙古族紧密联系，蒙古族马文化与能征善战的蒙古民族一同载入史册。
✨世世代代在草原上过游牧生活的蒙古族人民日常生活中的风俗习惯、生活用具等均反映了马背生活。因此世人把蒙古民族称作马背上的民族。久而久之马文化就变成民族文化。

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⭐Xilingol League
 
✨Xilingol league is located in the central part of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. With vast grasslands, it is an important livestock production base in Inner Mongolia. Owing to its developed horse industry, Xilingol league is known as "China's horse capital".

✨Xilingol league has one of the "Four Great Grasslands of China" -- Xilingol Grassland. It is considered to be one of the birthplaces of the Mongolian people.
 
 
⭐锡林郭勒盟

✨锡林郭勒盟位于内蒙古自治区中部。该地是内蒙古重要的畜产品生产基地，草原辽阔，牧马产业发达，有“中国马都”之称。

✨锡林郭勒盟境内有“中国四大草原”之一的锡林郭勒盟草原。它被认为是蒙古族发祥地之一。
 
 
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#xilingol #xilingolgrassland #landscape #mongolia #horse

⭐Honghe Hani Rice Terraces
 
✨The Honghe Hani Rice Terraces, located in Yunnan province, are a marvel of agricultural civilization created mainly by the Hani ethic people. It is widely known as "the most beautiful mountain ‘carvings’ in China."

✨With a history of more than 1,200 years, the Hani terraces are of a large scale, covering a total area of about 1 million acres. On June 22, 2013, the Honghe Hani Terraces were inscribed on the World Heritage List at the 37th World Heritage Conference.
 
⭐红河哈尼梯田
 
✨红河哈尼梯田位于云南省，是由以哈尼族为主的各族人民创造的农耕文明奇观。它被誉为“中国最美的山岭雕刻”。

✨哈尼梯田至今有1200多年历史，规模宏大，总面积约100万亩。2013年6月22日，在第37届世界遗产大会，红河哈尼梯田获准列入世界遗产名录。
 
 
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#haniterraces #hani #landscape #ancientagriculture #cultivation

⭐Hakka Round House
 
✨Due to the improvement of living conditions, the number of Hakka who are willing to live in Hakka Round Houses has gradually decreased, and the style of newly built houses is no longer in this form. The state of preservation of most of the Hakka Round Houses is worrying.
✨Luckily, after the 1990s, local governments in mainland China began to pay attention to the value of Hakka Round Houses as cultural heritage and began to preserve and maintain them. The Hakka Round Houses, as characteristic Hakka dwellings, are also gradually being developed as a tourist resource to attract visitors.
 
 
⭐客家围楼
✨由于生活条件的提高，愿意居住在围龙屋的客家人已经渐渐减少，新建的房屋样式也不再是这种形式。大部分围龙屋的保存状况令人担忧。
✨九十年代后，中国大陆的地方政府开始重视起围龙屋作为文化遗产的价值，开始进行保护和维修。围龙屋作为客家的特色民居，也渐渐被开发为旅游资源，以吸引游客。
 
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#hakkaroundhouse #hakka #unity #family #ancientbuilding