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Fusion and Freedom of Ethnic Culture and Traditions in Singapore

Singapore, one of the South East Asian tigers has emerged as the major attraction among the tourists from across the world. It is regarded as one of the most prosperous city state in the world. Modern skyline along with natural serenity of the place offers so many diverse attractions to its tourist that they are awestruck during their visit to the island. Singapore hotels offer world class facilities and homely feeling to their customers. Restaurants and fitness and spa facilities in these hotels are fabulous and will help you soothe your body and mind.

Culture and traditions of Singapore are unique. Ethnic groups of the Island have made rich and varied contributions to the culture, tradition and heritage of the city state. Most of the ethnic groups of the island fall in the five broad categories. These may be classified as Chinese, Indian, Muslim, European and Malay. Singapore is unique in the sense that it could blend all these ethnic groups in a single national entity and at the same time could offer freedom to these groups. This freedom allows these ethnic groups to offer their unique cultural and traditional attractions to visitors.

The Chinatown in Singapore showcases Chinese cultural and traditional elements. Concentration of Chinese population in the place provides you feel of Chinese way of life. Three main attractions for the visitors in the China town are:

How Ethnic Design Approach Can Spice Up Your Home Decor

Ethnic furniture has a rustic and visually captivating appeal. Today, you find ethnic furniture from different cultures and distant lands almost in all furniture stores across America. Additionally, ethnic furniture is being sold by online furniture websites.

The combination of unique artistic approach and uncommon color schemes make ethnic furniture popular. Designing your home’s decor by combining various ethnic themes, such as African, Moroccan, Asian etc, together will lend a highly appealing and warm ambience to your interior spaces. Whether you choose bright colors, daring patterns, and a combination of different variety of textures, your interior design project is bound to lend a new dimension to the spaces.

So what does ethnic furniture mean?
Ethnic furniture is basically furniture that has been created by indigenous people or natives from a particular area in a country or a region. In interior design, ethnic furniture is the amalgamation of different design sentimentalities, fabrics, textures, colors and some such (basically natural elements) as a representation of a the culture, tribe, or people you may wish to highlight in your home to define the decor.

a Miracle in Chinese Folk Art (3)

Qiang’s ethnic folk art are rooted in China’s ancient history and folk culture, applied with colorful silk threads and cotton color threads, Qiang nation’s peoples created various embroidery patterns and images such as flowers and fruits, fowls and beasts, pines, bamboos, plums, chrysanthemums, a mass of blossom, Harmony in Water and Fish and so on. In those simple artistic forms, rich connotations are contained and displayed out.

Women in Qiang nation are all good at embroidery work, which is one of essential skills that Qiang nation women experienced, and it’s also a main rule to measure whether a Qiang nation girl is intelligent, dexterous and diligent or not. Women in Qiang are often be taught by their elderships to practice embroidery skill hardly when they are still a little girl. When they are in their 6 or 7-year old, the mother will began to teach her daughter to learn the embroidery skill, so when the daughter grew in her marriage age, she usually has become a skilled embroidery master, and when a man in Qiang nation going to pursue for a wife, the basic requirement is the girl should having grasped the embroidery skill well.

if the girl are not skilled with embroidery work, the man would not like her. As a result, no woman in Qiang nation could not do embroidery job.Women in Qiang nation commonly according to the intention person to choose the embroidery image pattern, for example, image patterns of “Fu”, “Lu”, “Shou” and so on are mostly designed for the elderly, and hereby to wish good health and longevity of the elderly; For children, images to against evil spirits would be picked mostly, and thus to bless healthy growth of children, and flower patterns would be choose also to imply children’s good health and favorable growth.