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Ethnic clothing exhibition
(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-11-12 11:37

The Exhibition of China's Ethnic Clothing Culture, that opens today at the Cultural Palace of Nationalities, will display the costumes of all of the nation's 56 ethnic groups, besides featuring music and dance performances by minority troupes from Xinjiang, Yunnan and Jilin.

The costumes come from the collection of the Chinese Folk Literature and Art Association that began a project to salvage China's folk culture heritage in 2003.

The exhibition, which also has the backing of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, can be seen till Nov 21.