🎉 New #listing# 🌟 $NRT (Nireafty) will be listed on LBank! Traditional art meets blockchain and AI: Nireafty turns your digital creations into NFTs effortlessly. ❤️ Details:

🎨 Marathon Season 3 UGC Avatar Contest is LIVE! Think you've got what it takes to create the next Marathon Season 3 avatar? Now's your chance to leave your mark on STEPN. We're looking for 4 community-designed avatars to be added to the Marathon S3 Season Pass. Here's how to participate: 🟢 August 14 to 16: Register using the official form and provide your STEPN account details. 👉 Registration Form: 🔵 August 17 to 23: Create your avatar design and submit it in the dedicated UGC Event channel on our Discord server. 🟣 August 24 to 26: The community votes for their favorite designs. 🟡 August 27: We'll announce the 4 winning entries! A few things to keep in mind: 🔹 Your submission must follow the official Marathon S3 avatar dimensions and be a 1080 × 1080 PNG with a round shape and a transparent background. 🔹 Digital art, traditional art, and AI-generated artwork are all welcome. 🔹 You can submit multiple entries, but can only win once. 🔹 Copyrighted or existing IP is not allowed. 🏆 Each winner will receive 1 Marathon Season 3 Season Pass. Join our Discord to register, submit your artwork, and take part in the event! 👉 Discord: 👉 Registration Form: We can't wait to see what you create! 🎨

#Nansha# | 19 young participants from 13 countries gathered in #Guangzhou’s# Nansha District for a summer study tour exploring Xiajiaquan – a #Lingnan# martial art on the intangible cultural heritage list. 🏯✨ Guided by a master inheritor, they trained alongside local practitioners, broke cultural barriers, and gained deep appreciation for this ancient tradition. Nansha is keeping heritage alive – and the world is taking notice! 🌏💪 #Guangdong# #Xiajiaquan# #LingnanMartialArts# #IntangibleCulturalHeritage# #CulturalExchange# #KungFu# #TraditionalMartialArts# #ChinaCulture# #StudyTour#

Traditionalist think the greatest James Bond car of all time is the Aston Martin DB5, some think it's the Lotus Esprit S1 submarine edition. Truth is it's a stretched Corvorado combining Corvette (C3 chassis) and Eldorado (Cadillac Eldorado). Chop the backend off this and you can own one too!

"A work of surprisingly experimental temperament for a filmmaker best known as the nouvelle vague’s staunch traditionalist, Élisabeth exposes just how ill-fitting that reputation has always been..." Oliver Evans writes on Rohmer's newly translated novel.

The Vatican has declared a formal schism with the Society of St. Pius X, excommunicating its bishops and priests in a sweeping crackdown on a traditionalist group that has vexed the Holy See for decades.

Bahraini history. Qarmatian, Shi’ite and Other Dynasties (800-1281). Tradition reports that the Prophet Muhammad said, "The Israelites have been divided into seventy-one or seventy-two sects, and so have the Christians, but my community shall be divided into seventythree." True or false, by the ninth century opposing sects had formed, with the same fissiparous consequences that are observable in sixteenth century Europe, where also they took on a political form. A basic division was between Sunni and Shi'ite, between traditionalists and believers in the prescriptive right of the descendants of Ali to the caliphate. A new major division appeared in 827 when a rigid puritanical Mu'tazilite judge asserted that the Qur'an had been created, as opposed to the orthodox belief that it is the identical representation of a celestial original. Shortly thereafter Baghdad proclaimed the former position be law, and the caliph al-Ma'mun instituted an inquistion. In the mid-tenth century the orthodox creed was reestablished in Baghdad, and scholastic theology developed. Its greatest exponent was Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali, a professor at Nizamiyah college. To him is owed the development of Sufism and the mystical practices of the Islamic fraternities, similar in many respects to Christian religious orders. These fraternities contributed significantly to the spread of Islam beyond its Middle Eastern home as far as the Atlantic and sub-Saharan Africa and to Malaysia and China. In opposition to this orthodoxy the Ismailis, who today claim the Agha Khan as their leader, spread their esoteric doctrines by means of underground missionaries. From the Ismailis in the mid-ninth century Hamdan Qarmat, an Iraqi peasant, organized a secret society that preached a form of communism and set up an independent state in the Persian Gulf. From this society were derived the doctrines that formed the seed of the Fatimid movement in North Africa. In the eleventh century the Qarmatian movement engendered the Nusayris in northern Syria, while the Fatimids were the progenitors of the Druse in Lebanon and later the neo-Ismailis or Assassins, of Alamut and Syria, both borrowing greatly from Christianity. The Ithna'ashari Shi'ites in Persia and the Zaydites of Yemen and Tunisia represent a middle course, nearer to the Sunni doctrine, and more tolerant. - (An Illustrated History of Islam by G.S.P. FREEMAN-GRENVILLE and STUART CHRISTOPHER MUNRO-HAY) See less

They said you couldn’t embroider on coarse linen. This 1000-year-old craft proves otherwise. Xiabu Embroidery from Xinyu, Jiangxi, China, dates back to the Northern Song Dynasty. Rough ramie fabric meets glossy silk threads, making for living ink-wash masterpieces. #节日里的江西# #TraditionalCraft# #ChineseArt# #Embroidery# #Jiangxi# #JiangxiCulture# #China# #IntangibleHeritage#