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This special month comes each September and gives you a chance to take part in authentic Manchu songs and dances, sacrifices, and a dragon dance. You can get a look at a Manchu-style Garden to give you a greater understanding of Manchu folk customs.
The Manchu-style Garden gives us a glimpse at civilized culture and folk customs in various art forms such as paintings, sculptures and performances, to put us in contact with the distant past.
The garden covers a more than 30,000-sq-m area in the eastern part of Manjiazhai – the Kuandian Qingshangou National Scenic Site in Liaoning Province. It is surrounded by green mountains, clear water, and luxuriant woods, with quiet, secluded. Manchu-style dwellings, stores, and pavilions filled with folk customs and charm.
The Garden is popular with tourists because of its primitive yet elegant and well-arranged architecture, and graceful ethnic feel.
Specialists from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’Manchu Research Institute refer to the Manchu-style Garden as the No. 1 garden of the Manchu ethnic group, because it is the largest, most complete, and systematic recreation of Manchu ethnic customs and folk culture in China.
The Manchu ethnic group has a long history and the largest population of all China’s ethnic groups. The Manchus had the greatest impact on modern and contemporary Chinese history. The rulers of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), China’s last, were Manchu.
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