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    Pictures of Chinese people - 56 ethnic groups

    Han people 汉族 - Wu people 江南人 An average speaker of a Wu dialect is mostly unaware of this name for the language they speak since the term Wu is a relatively recent classificatory imposition on what are less clearly defined and highly heterogeneous natural...
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    Pictures of Chinese people - 56 ethnic groups

    Han people 汉族 Wu people 江南人 or Wuyue people 吴越人, are a major subgroup of the Han Chinese. They are a Wu Chinese-speaking 吴语 people who hail from southern Jiangsu province 江苏, the city of Shanghai...
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    Pictures of Chinese people - 56 ethnic groups

    Han people 汉族 - Minnan people 閩南人 After the sweets they kneel before the bride's great grandmother and receive blessings and gifts The the same process with her grandparents Ditto her parents A picture with all her immediate family...
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    Pictures of Chinese people - 56 ethnic groups

    Han people 汉族 - Minnan people 閩南人 A Minnan traditional wedding The groom is just about ready in his new apartment The best man and the chauffeur wait for him down the street They reach the bride's resident But was harass at the door by the...
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    Pictures of Chinese people - 56 ethnic groups

    Han people 汉族 - Minnan people 閩南人 Minnan people have their own style of opera and they call it 保安宮‧歌仔戲. The operas are usually played on outdoor stages on temple environments Kids...
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    Pictures of Chinese people - 56 ethnic groups

    Han people 汉族 - Minnan people 閩南人 There are also many Minnan speakers in Hong Kong Most live among the mainstream These are the Minnan Tanka (people live in boats) This mingle with the regular Tanka people (another subdivision of Han...
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    Pictures of Chinese people - 56 ethnic groups

    Han people 汉族 - Minnan people 閩南人 Most Minna people trace their paternal ancestry to male settlers who migrated to Taiwan from Fujian in the 17th and 18th centuries. In Taiwan the Minnan people are referred as 河洛人 in Chinese. The...
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    Pictures of Chinese people - 56 ethnic groups

    Han people 汉族 - Minnan people 閩南人 Being seafaring people the Minnan people rely on the Goddess of the sea, Matsu 媽祖, to protect them A Tin Hau (Heaven Queen) Temple for Matsu A Tin Hau temple on the other side of the world - Los Angeles...
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    Pictures of Chinese people - 56 ethnic groups

    Han people 汉族 - Minnan people 閩南人 The "Three Lanes and Seven Alleys" of Fuzhou City, the capitol of Minnan people
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    Pictures of Chinese people - 56 ethnic groups

    Han people 汉族 - Minnan people 閩南人 Daily lives of Minnan mudflat fishermen The sun comes up in the morning again.....another day begins for everyone An early bird is out there to collect snails and oysters A little later real early birds...
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    Pictures of Chinese people - 56 ethnic groups

    Han people 汉族 - Minnan people 閩南人 Daily lives of Minnan mudflat fishermen Some fishermen live onshore with their wooden flat bottomed motor rafts park in front of the village Some even live on small towns with their territories carved out...
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    Pictures of Chinese people - 56 ethnic groups

    Han people 汉族 Minnan people 閩南人 Minnan people live in the coastal region of China that has 304 km of shallow coastline and, ingenuously, they developed an unique fishing method through generations - "Mudflat Fishing" 霞浦 Set...
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    Pictures of Chinese people - 56 ethnic groups

    Han people 汉族 Minnan people 閩南人 or Hoklo people. In narrower scope, the Hoklo people refers mainly to people who speak and use the Hokkien dialect of Min Nan Chinese spoken in southern Fujian, western Guangdong (Teochew people) and Taiwan, and by many...
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    Pictures of Chinese people - 56 ethnic groups

    Han people 汉族 Cantonese people 广府人 An ancient village in Guangdong A village in the farm land A village in the valley A bridge in 流溪河 An ancient ancestral hall Yangjiang temple...
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    Pictures of Chinese people - 56 ethnic groups

    Han people 汉族 Cantonese people 广府人 A unique in Guangdong countryside, especially in the county of Kaiping: Kaiping Diaolou 开平碉楼. There are more than 3,000 of this western style building around Guangdong Listed by...
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    Pictures of Chinese people - 56 ethnic groups

    Han people 汉族 Cantonese people 广府人 The first popular Cantonese song was 黄梅调, developed in Guanzhou and expanded in Hong Kong because of radios and TVs. It's a narrative kind of song that carries great melodies 林&#40667...
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    Pictures of Chinese people - 56 ethnic groups

    Han people 汉族 Cantonese people 广府人 The Cantonese opera 粵劇 was first developed in Guangzhou and when the country was in political and economical uncertainties the artists migrated to Hong Kong where they continued and expanded the great...
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    Pictures of Chinese people - 56 ethnic groups

    Han people 汉族 Cantonese people 广府人 The streets of Guangzhou- the center of Cantonese culture
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    Pictures of Chinese people - 56 ethnic groups

    Han people 汉族 Cantonese people 广府人 They are still very popular today, I suppose
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    Pictures of Chinese people - 56 ethnic groups

    Han people 汉族 Cantonese people 广府人 Guangzhou used to name "Five Goat Town" 五羊城, the center of Cantonese There used to be a wall encircled the city (it was much smaller then) but has since torn down The East Gate. I...
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