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Flour Food面食

Flour food(面食miànshí) has been popular with the Chinese people since ancient times. Flour of various materials is used to make all types of delicacies using an awful lot of cooking ways, such as steaming, boiling, frying, roasting, frying and stewing etc. Common flour food include noodles(面条miàntiáo), dumplings(饺子jiǎozi), wontons(馄饨húntun), stuffed buns(包子bāozi), steamed bread(馒头mántou) and so on.

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Hair Swinging Dance

The Gaoshan people are good at singing and dancing ever from the ancient times. Almost all the dinners, get-togethers or big activities cannot do without the lyrical and leidenschaftlich songs and dance. Gaoshan dance has distinct primitive color, simulating, reflecting and reproducing those movement and scenes of fishing, hunting, and farming. Though its content is rich and colorful, its forms are mostly collective dance. The number of participants varies from dozens of to several hundred, even to thousands of. Often with the bonfire as the center, people drink, sing, and dance. Forming a circle hand in hand, people stamp their feet, jump, shake their bodies, and wave their hands rhythmically. The vigorous, beautiful and passionate scene makes people acclaim it as the acme of perfection. The "hair swinging dance" features such a kind of traditional dance showing Gaoshan people's bold, unstrained, and optimistic spirit.

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Manti dumpling

Manti(羊肉水饺yángròu shuǐjiǎo) or Mantu are dumplings popular in most Turkic cuisines, as well as in the Hejaz and Caucasian, Central Asian, and Chinese Islamic cuisines.

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Uygur music in Xinjiang

Most celebrated music in Xinjiang(新疆Xīnjiāng) today is Uygur folk music(维吾尔族民间音乐Wéiwúěr zú mínjiān yīnyuè), which has inherited the fine traditions of the ancient music of Qiuci, Gaochang (Karahoja),Yizhou, Yutian and Shule.

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Chinese phrase translation: 门槛 (ménkǎn) threshold

门槛 (ménkǎn) threshold, doorsill Usage: “门槛”本是指门框下端的横木条,古代建筑的“门槛”有重要的意义,古人认为门槛可以阻挡不利因素进入家里。后来“门槛”比喻进入某范围的标准或条件。“门槛” is the wood at the bottom of a door. An ancient building’s “门槛” had great significance, as people then believed that they prevented bad things from entering the home. Later, “门槛” came to be a metaphor for criteria or conditions to enter something.

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About Banku and kenkey

Banku and kenkey fit the definition of a dumpling in that they are starchy balls of dough that are steamed. They are formed from fermented(having undergone fermentation) cornmeal dough. Banku are boiled while kenkey are partly boiled then finished by steaming in banana leaves.

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