Pictures of Chinese people - 56 ethnic groups

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Achang people 阿昌族


Sports and activities of Achang people

 

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Achang people 阿昌族


Ruili City on China side of the border is the transit point for Myanmar gemstones, in particularly jade stones. There are many high and low end stores, street kiosks and bazaars sell fine jades and bartered raw stone. Achang people participate the merchant side of a slightly different segment of the raw jade industry. It's called 翡翠赌石市场 Jade Stone gambling market:


There's no way to tell these stone are jades or simply rocks. You use your experiences and gambling heart

It can make you rich overnight or poor forever. Never use a flashlight because it won't tell you anything

You're probably have better lucks with these, however, they cost more

An American and a Chinese Thai want to roll the dices

Neah, they pass and go for saver bets

Besides the gambling market there are finished retail markets that sell fine jade at less than half the price you find elsewhere

Ask why this young man comes all the way from Karachi, he ain't no fool

Of course the ultimate excitement for rock gambling is to find a piece of raw rock for $10 and be able to carve something like this and sell it for a million plus.

 

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Pumi people 普米族




Pumi people 普米族, numbered about 35,000, are one of the officially recognized ethnic group of China. Ethnically related to the Tibetans the Pumi live in the Yunnan regions of Lanping 兰坪县, Ninglang 宁蒗县, Lijiang Old Town 丽江县, Yulong 玉龙, Weixi 维西县 and Yongshing counties. They share these regions, which are all over 9,000 feet in elevation, with other minority ethnic groups in SW China. Originally, they lived as nomads inhabiting the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau. Later, they moved to the warmer areas along valleys within the Hengduan Mountain Range in the 4th century B.C. By the 14th Century they finally migrated to the present area and settled down as farmers and landlords. Land holdings were a major part of the Pumi's economy until 1949 when they had to give up all their lands and share them with others.

Pumi speak a Prinmi language belongs to Qiangic family. They used the Tibetan script once as they were moving southward, however, today they adopted the Chinese writings. Because of their constant contact with the Tibetans the Pumi adopted the Tibetan school of Buddhism, along with the older practice of Bon. Almost all Pumi villages have their own local mountain gods, which are worshiped during festive seasons. They also have various ancestral worships.



Official portrait of a Pumi family

Distribution of Pumi people in northwestern Yunnan

"The Judgement on the Horseback" a recent released movie about the lives of Pumi with the river Nujiang as the backdrop

Nujiang, the mother river for many ethnic groups in China. The river will be named the Salween River once it crosses the border of Myanmar

Nanping Bai and Pumi Autonomous County where many Pumi live

A Pumi musical instrument

A wind musical instrument maker

Pumi carry baskets

 

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Pumi people 普米族


A 1964 photo of a Pumi family in Nanping County, Yunnan

Fishing in Lugu Lake, 1998

Women just finished washing clothes in Lugu Lake, 2000

Ninglang Pumi working on the field, 1958

Pumi workforce 1978

Young Pumi dancing and singing on the village square 2006

Pumi folk dances in 1958

Women herders on the grassland of the Himalayas 1978

 

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Pumi people 普米族


A 1990 photo of a Pumi mother and her child

The word pumi means white in Pumi's language and that's how they named themselves because their skin tones are paler than the others

 

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Pumi people 普米族


For the last decade or two there's been a new line of careers developed for many young people in western China, especially Yunnan, and that's ethnic singing and dancing in hot tourist spots like Lijiang Old Town, Dali and Dehong. The talented young Pumi are no exception...

 

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Pumi people 普米族


A Pumi village in Sichuan. It's probably the northern most Pumi village since most Pumi have migrated to Yunnan further south for centuries already

A village by the shore of Lugu Lake

A village tucks in the valley

Some scattered village houses

Another village tucks between the mountains

Villages on different elevations

Two villages in Ninglong County, Yunnan

 

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Pumi people 普米族


东巴谷 Dongba Valley is a culture village complex that're shared by 6 different ethnic groups and each group has its village and shops

A corner of the village complex

The front entrance

Recreation area

Community street

A Pumi bar and restaurant

A Pumi village within the complex

 

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Pumi people 普米族


A Mongolian style yurt house left over from the old days

A shop house

A well preserved timber and stone house

An old couple sit by the family hearth

Young people hanging around outside a house

Alcohol inside a house

A house by the cliff

 

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Pumi people 普米族


Village people

 

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Pumi people 普米族


Village people

 

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Pumi people 普米族


Village people

 

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Pumi people 普米族


The Pumi are going up the mountain to pay tributes to the mountain God

They too pay tributes to Confucius

Or local deity

Or to their own ancestors

But primary they are adherents to the Yellow Sect of Tibetan Lamaism

 

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Pumi people 普米族


Sports and activities of Yumi people

 

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Pumi people 普米族


Music and dancing


The Pumi chacha has been around for more than a thousand years

They're big in country music too

Country music and dancing

Wind instrument playing

Oh yeah!

A real life star