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by Blaise GAUQUELIN Agence France-Presse PERTISAU, Austria (AFP) — With tender care, Sepp Rieser adorns the bulky heads of his reluctant cows with flower wreaths, adds some more fir twigs, and adjusts the large bells around their necks. “I’ve been doing this since I was a little boy,” Rieser says of the ancestral tradition in which cattle are decorated for their journey from the high Alpine Gramai pasture in Austria’s western Tyrol state, where they graze […]
by Anne BEADE Agence France Presse GIFU, Japan (AFP) — In the pitch black night, fires burn alongside a river in Japan’s Gifu as a handful of men prepare for a ritual that dates back over 1,300 years: fishing with cormorants. Dressed in traditional clothes, they look like they come from another time. They wield their cormorants, tied together with strings, like puppeteers. Their profession, known as “ukai,” was once common in waterside villages and […]
(CCTV) — A traditional Chinese lantern show has been gloriously brightening up the night sky at a park in the German city of Hamburg. The show, which is running from July 6 to 16, is co-hosted by China’s State Council Information Office, the government of southwest China’s Sichuan Province, the Chinese Embassy in Germany and the government of Hamburg City. Showcasing distinctive elements of traditional Chinese culture, the show features 23 sets of colored lanterns shaped […]
