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TRAVERSEChina Edition
MAY 2015
Three Course Tea of Life
Venturing With the Vas
What The Hui Holds
DALI MARBLE
DALI IS SO RENOWNED FOR IT THAT THECHINESE WORD IS NAMED AFTER DALI
FOUND AND USED WORLDWIDE
FROM THE MOUNTAINS OF DALI, YUNNAN DALIMARBLE.COM
So my phone ran out of battery last week. There I was, a tourist in the heart of Beijing’s busy streets, tapping on my phone screen frantically. By the time I scrambled to an power outlet, I was practically dipped in sweat like a melting popsicle. Thankfully, I didn’t miss any important messages from my colleagues.
My phone always keeps me busy. Whether its important phone calls or FlappyBird, phones are what really should be named “a man’s best friend”.
Just one week in China broadened my knowledge of China’s culture and how it’s modernizing. Often, people associate China with pandas, dumplings, and beautifully decorated silks, but rarely do people know much about China’s 56 ethnic minorities. You’ve probably heard of a few: Han, Mongols, Tibetan, but this issue of Traverse Magazine brings you to the villages of five very different minorities: Bai, Dai, Hui, Tu, and Va.
Traverse Magazine: China Edition will begin by taking you to the Three Course Tea of the Bai people (page 5), which lets you experience a ceremony celebrated on the 21st day of the third month, on the lunar calendar. Then, we bring you to the water splashing festival of the Dai, where splashing water is a symbol of “holiness, goodness, and purity” (page 31). Then, you experience the Mawlid al-Nabi, a celebration of the Hui people (page 23).
—ARDEN WANG
editor’sMAY 2015
Cover photography by Ellie Lee
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Page 4: 10 Interesting Facts About China
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Page 30: Festival Calendar
Page 29: Ningxia’s Tourism Statistics
Page 36: Va Minority VS She Minority
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