Ethnic costumes in China combine rich colours and patterns with style, and their distinctive beauty and grace dazzle people entering a village inhabited by the Dong ethnic group. If they do, they ...

Indigo dyeing, a craft inherited through generations among the Dong ethnic group in southwest China's Guizhou Province, was listed the intangible cultural heritage of Guizhou Province in 2012. Lu ...

Colourful beauty of Lo Lo ethnic costumes Living at the foot of Rong (Dragon) Mountain in Lung Cu Commune, Dong Van District, Ha Giang Province, the Lo Lo ethnic community have effectively preserved ...

Woman of the Dong ethnic group air the newly-made cloth in Zhaoxing Dong Village of Liping County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, April 30, 2014. The handmade cloth is mainly used by local ...

The accelerating flight of young villagers to find work or education in cities has imperiled a folk tradition the Dong people have kept alive for centuries: the weaving and dying of indigo ...

Women of Dong ethnic group make embroidery works at Tongle Village in Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, January 26, 2013.

Yang Xiangni, the founder of a Dong ethnic minority chorus in southwest China's Guizhou Province, never imagined those melodies sung by her ancestors could link to a stunning show in a blockbuster ...

Brighten the canvas of celebration with these 5 leading ethnic trends. Flaunt Indigo! One colour that we all are unanimously going gaga over is indigo!

The cloth is wrung, scrubbed and pounded, before it is turned into traditional Dong garments — dark indigo outfits with a colorful flower trim for the women, plain for the men.

Villagers of the Dong ethnic group paint on bamboo trays at a studio in Sanjiang Dong autonomous county, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, last year. [Photo/Xinhua] The bright colors and local ...

Like Wu's family, the traditional wrestling of Dong ethnic group has been passed from generation to generation for nearly 400 years. Every year around the 15th day of the third month in Chinese lunar ...

Ever since she was a young girl, Mdm Yang, 74, has been weaving and dyeing indigo textiles using techniques that the Dong ethnic group in the southern Chinese province of Guizhou have passed down ...