Zhang Xiao aka Xiao Zhang aka 張曉 aka 张晓 (Chinese, b. 1981, Yantai, Shandong Province, China) - 1: Shanxi No.1 2: Shanxi No.2 3: Shanxi No.75 4: Shanxi No.24 5: Shanxi No.9 6: Shanxi No.5 7: Shanxi No.6 8: Shanxi No.22 from Shanxi series, 2007 Photography
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Students on break participating in a yangge group ( 秧歌; northern Chinese folk dance and song) as part of Chinese New Year festivities.
Participants on floats for a 血社火/xue shehuo (“blood festivities”) parade in Shaanxi province as part of new year’s festivities. 社火/shehuo is an sort of festival entertainment in China.
Xue shehuo is a folk custom originating from Shaanxi province. Like with most festival entertainment, the characters are derived from folk legend and opera, with xue shehuo’s main distinction being the bloody and macabre dress up. The procession is led by Wu Song, a hero from the classic Chinese novel 水浒传/Water Margin, followed by 13 hired thugs of Ximen Qing (an antagonist of the same novel), who have all been killed in different ways. The general message of the display is good (depicted by Wu Song) conquering evil.
Costumed horse riders in a Chinese New Year parade in Baoji, Shaanxi province.
Chinese new year festivities in Qinghai
A troupe doing gaoqiao (高跷; “stilt walking") in Hebei province, China.
Video is compiled from 11 clips. English added by me :)