白马人的曹盖舞

Cao Gai dance is a unique sacrificial activity of the Baima Tibetans living in Pingwu County. Sichuan Province. The local villagers dance it every year to get rid of the evil spirits and praying for an abundant harvest of the crops in the coming year. Cao Gai is basically a ferociously looked wooden mask made almost by every family hanging above the house gate or on the middle of the wall near the house brazier. Every 5th of the first month of the lunar year is the date for the Cao Gai dance. Masked themselves with the Cao Gai, the dancers put on the furlined jacket with inside out and tie a red cloth belt on the waist, dancing, shouting while walking, and setting off fire crackers all the way, lasting a whole day from themorning till the night.

延安市收藏的千手千眼观音铜造像

延安市收藏的这座铜造像由背光、坐像及基座三部分组成,通高110厘米,宽65厘米(背光宽)。观音坐像高46厘米,头戴五佛化冠,冠两边挂多尖旗状宝缯,宝缯下垂至两肩处,颈戴悬铃的圆形项圈,胸前饰璎珞宝珠,帔帛自肩向两侧下垂至肘部绕臂后下飘至膝。下身着长裙,赤足,结跏趺坐于莲花座上。两膝上各卧一相向的盘龙。