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Dujie ceremony of the Red Yao

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December 27th 2011
In order to be accepted into the Yao community, especially to be able join the ancestor after dead. Every Yao man should go through Dujie ceremony, if not, one wasn't a complete Yao. And every year in Yao village there should be young boy participated in the event, kind of like a bar mitzvah as some said after the ceremony the boy will be treat as adult. Dujie symbolic a new born. 10 years ago ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more