Pictures of Chinese people - 56 ethnic groups

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Jino people 基诺族


The Jino are basically happy people and have high spirits. They are very friendly, relax and believe in free loves

When a girl reaches 15 of age, 16 for a boy, adult ceremonies are preformed

An uncle is showing off his cellular phone to the village women

Another one make vessels from bamboo

Village women processing tea

 

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Jino people 基诺族


Village lives

A rigorous campaign to give up their guns

Showing great results

Weaving brings in good cash

It might be a lost art if the next generations are into these fancy new stuffs

 

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Jino people 基诺族


On April 6 (Lunar Calendar) 1979 (Wiki 1976, Chinese blogs 1976, will confirm) the Jino became the last ethnic group to officially join China's ethnic group big family. For the Jino that date is a celebration day and have observed annually

 

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Jino people 基诺族


The economic bloom of China in recent decades raises the consumption capability of Chinese people and that directly affect the Jino people as well as 6 other minority ethnic groups in the Yunnan tea growing regions. Chinese people all over the country love to drink tea and they also flock to the nature beauty of Yunnan mountain regions for vacations.


There are many airports in these regions

More new highways build every year

Tea plantations all over Jinoshan (as well as the other 6 tea mountains)

Tea processing are no long mom and pop operations

As a result Jino tea brands are in every local market

Also as a result, some Jino has problems of going back to his village

 

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Totally amazing ... our northern neighbor has a lot of diversity.

Another question "京" is an alpahabet or a word ?

She is beautiful !

Chinese has no alphabet and every character is a single word with a specific or various meanings. Although there exists more than 60,000 characters but a college graduate knows at most about 4,000. A person can probably goes though his daily reading of newspapers with 2,000 under his belt.

The uniqueness of Chinese writing is the compound words. By knowing only 2,000 words one can understand tens of thousands of terms because most items or wordings are in compound forms. These compound words also give you the precision of meanings and shorten the wordings it needs to produce the same meaning. Even if you don't know the meaning of the compound word you can pretty much guess the meaning itself because you know each of the characters.

Chinese writing is not as hard as one think because it has no grammar. If a 6 year old memorizes one character a day he'll know more than 4,000 characters by the time he's ready for college. That's more than enough because everyday words are just everyday words. The compound words are the great expansion of knowledge and the beautiful thing is you don't need to memorize them in order to comprehend what you read.

For example the word "京" means capitol of a country. If you put "族", which by itself mean family line, together with "京" it becomes "京族" which has a whole different meaning than the original word "京". "京族" in this case means the ethnicity of a Vietnam largest ethnic group, the Kinh.

 

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De'ang people 德昂族



De'ang people 德昂族, numbered around 21,000, are one of the official recognized ethnic group of China. The Chinese government also groups the Palé, Danau, Riang, Rumai and Shwe peoples together as the De'ang people. In Myanmar the De'ang are called Palaung 崩龙族, numbered more than half of a million, they live mainly in the northern parts of Shan State in the Pa Laung Self-Administered Zone, with the capital at Namhsan. There are also De'ang living in norther Thailand.

The De'ang speak one of the 3 Palaung languages that are not compatible to each other. Most De'ang are adherents of Theravada Buddhism and Buddhist temples can be found in most of their towns. Buddhism is present in all of the daily activities of this ethnic group. At the age of 10, many children are sent to the monasteries, primarily for education. Most of them return to lay life in later years. The Riang subgroup never took up Buddhism and remain animists.

The De'ang were named Palaung prior 1985 but partitioned the government for a name change and was granted. The reason was the name Palaung was a name given by others and they always called themselves De'ang.


Official portrait of a De'ang family

Distribution of De'ang people in China

De'ang's Palaung alphabets on the wall of De'ang Museum in Yunnan

An old De'ang manuscript

A symbol of De'ang people

The De'ang pillar in Beijing that represent the unity of the 56 ethnic races 民族团结柱. Each pillar is 13.6 meters in height and weights 26 tons

The grand opening of the De'ang People Museum earlir this year

Some De'ang are lucky enough to have shake the hands of Chinese Premier Mr. wen

 

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De'ang people 德昂族


An old picture of De'ang soldiers in actions during WWII

The De'ang, along with the Va, are the oldest people in these regions

Many ethnic groups in the whole SE Asia chew and consume 槟榔 areca for various health and beauty reasons and the De'ang are one of them

The red mark on her lips is from areca juice

 

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De'ang people 德昂族

 

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De'ang people 德昂族


It's a proven fact the De'ang are the oldest tea growers in the world

Village hidden among tea plantations

A De'ang village in Blangshan (Blang people's mountain)

A De'ang village in 三台山

An old house

Drying corn for animal feeds

Plenty of rooms in this house

Simple design

 

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De'ang people 德昂族


A newer village on the foot hill of 三台山

Some old house in the village

A remodeled house

What are you looking at, you never seen a lady smokes?

Administrative house of the village

Dress up farmers

A thousand year old tree

All village events are take place under this holy tree

 

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De'ang people 德昂族


A village girl. Notic the top buttons on her shirt - one of a easiest way to recognize an ethnic De'ang. Her ear rings are interesting too

Villagers going somewhere

Farmers working on the rice paddies

An old man smoking

Hi!

Taking a break in the tea processing center

Girls looking pretty

Someone is bring wedding gift to the village - another happy occasion soon

 

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De'ang people 德昂族


The Palaung people 崩龙族 in Myanmar are the ethnic brothers and sisters of the De'ang in China. Like the Jinpo and Jino they live on the other side of the international border in northern Shan State


There are more than half of a million Palaung living in Shan State, with Namshan as their ethnic capitol

A 1926 photo of Palaung girls

A Palaung village in Shan State

Another village high up on a hilltop

A woman working the steep village road

A woman yelling through a cut up window

Dressed up villagers

Villages kids

 

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De'ang people 德昂族


The Palaung people, ethnic brothers and sister on the De'ang people in China


A Palaung woman (She's not a long necked red Karen)

A group of Palaung men having lunch in a monastery

A young Palaung boy, as well as a De'ang boy, of 10 usually is sent to a monastery for education and he'll return to the village after a couple of years

Anti Burmese government young Palaung

Lives on the Palaung Palaw market

 

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De'ang people 德昂族


The Songkran Festival (so called in Thailand) is the Chinese equivalent of Water Festival 泼水节. It's the New Year Festival for the Dai and the De'ang in China and the Tai in Thailand. This most important holiday for various ethnic groups comes around mid April every year. Singing, dancing and feasting continuously for a couple of days and, of course, as the name implies every body gets wet.

 

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De'ang people 德昂族


Buddhism is in De'ang people's everyday lives and they probably have more temples per capita than any other ethnic groups

A boy of 10 usually is being sent to a temple to get his early education

A simple out of the way village temple

A township temple

An ethnic temple

A stupa

A shared temple in Ruili