Pictures of Chinese people - 56 ethnic groups

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Uzbek people 乌孜别克族



Uzbek people 乌孜别克族, numbered about 13,000, are an official recognized ethnic group of China. Uzbek mostly live in western Xinjiang: Ili, Urumqi, Yining and Kashgar together with many ethnic groups. 大南沟乌孜别克族乡 is the only Uzbek autonomous township and there are 3 villages within the township of the total of 13 Uzbek villages in Xinjiang. The Uzbek in China are the descendents, who most of them intermarried with other ethnic groups in this area, of the Uzbek Silk Road traders from Central Asia from the 13th Century onward.

The Uzbek speak an Ataic Turkic language and have their own Arabic scripts. Most Uzbek belong to the Sunni sect of Islam. The Uzbek are mostly urban dwellers and about 30% of them are herders and farmers.



Official family portrait of an Ubek family

Distribution of the Ubek in Xinjiang

An old manuscript in Arabic

An Ubek family in a yurt

A family having a private celebration in the garden of their house

阿布拉甫 China national weight lifting champ

法蒂玛·马合木 a prominent Ubek politician

弹布尔 a favorite Ubek musical instrument

 

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Uzbek people 乌孜别克族


Ubek people in ethnic clothes

Getting marry

 

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Uzbek people 乌孜别克族


Old photos Ubek people


Ubek girls embroidering 1984

A mother and a child visiting a neighbor 1980s

A family celebration their first college graduate member- a daughter 1963

A happy bride 1990s

A family having dinner 2008

A young girl processing milk 1990s

An elderly woman processing milk 1990s

An elderly man 1990s

 

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Uzbek people 乌孜别克族


Ubek people


A 94 year old man

Two kids in the farm

An Ubek girl on a Urumqi street

A long day

Father and daughter

 

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Uzbek people 乌孜别克族


Ubek Fashion

 

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Uzbek people 乌孜别克族


A typical dwelling for the Ubek on a side street 大南沟乌孜别克族乡, an Ubek Autonomous town

Interior court

Exercise area

The kitchen room

An in house water well

Interior heating system

A section of the family sitting room

A typical northern Chinese bed room with a table on the bed (this family doesn't need it but is a habit) for eating, knitting and other uses

 

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Uzbek people 乌孜别克族


Building new villages in 大南沟 Ubek Autonomous town


A yurt village

High end village with yurt style roofs

Building brick houses

People begin moving in even before the villages are 100% ready

The community house for all the villages is just about ready

The Ubek are going cooperative for the economic of scale

They still have to decide on who's going to be the CEO for their co-op

Classes like this will open after the summer

 

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Uzbek people 乌孜别克族


The Uzbek don't eat pig, donkey, mule and dog meat but they love cow, goat and horse meat. Tea with milk and naan bread on every food table

Making naan bread

那仁饭 rice with goat meat & yogurt

揪面片 a wide noodle dish

A goat meat dish

羊肉手抓饭 Goat meat and rice

Light breakfast

Yurt milk

 

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Uzbek people 乌孜别克族


Most Uzbek belong to the Sunni sect of Islam religion. They have many local mosques and they also share mosque with other Sunni Muslim in the same area. Here's a mosque built in 1898 with a 75 meter tower

A mosque in Kashgar

Shared mosques; in Urumqi

A tomb of Sutanwaisi Khan

 

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Uzbek people 乌孜别克族


Sports and activities of the Ubek people

 

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Uzbek people 乌孜别克族


The Ubek love music, singing and dancing


Professionally

Or amateurishly

 

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Monba people 门巴族



Monba people 门巴族, numbered about 11,000, are an official recognized ethnic group of China. There are about 25,000 Monba living in Cona County 错那县, a dispute area with India. Most Monba in China live in the district of Medog County 墨脱县 ( Nyinchi 林芝 Prefecture), Monyu 门隅 region and Cona 错那 County of Tibet.

There are about 50,000 Monpa, as they are called in India, living in Arunachal Pradesh and centered around Tawang (where they constitute 97% of population) and West Kamang (where they constitute 77%). And there are also about 3,000 Monba living in Bhutan.

The Monba language belongs to the Tiberto-Burman family and uses tibetan scripts. The Monpa are generally adherents of the Gelugpa sect of Tibetan Buddhism, which they adopted in the 17th century as a result of the evangelical influence of the Bhutanese-educated Mera Lama. Tsangyang Gyatso, an ethnic Monpa, became the 6th Dalai Lama. Some Monba are Bon Buddhists and Shamanists.

When a Monba woman is marry she stays in her original house and her husband is the one who's moving into the family.



Official picture of a Monba family

Distribution of the Monba people in China and India

Monba use the Tibetan scripts

次仁央吉 a young singer

白玛央珍 a 19 year old linguist

墨脱石锅鸡 Chicken in slate pot - a must try dish if you travel to the Himalayas

门巴族黄酒 the process of making yellow wine

In a Monba marriage the groom presents himself to the bride house.....and stay there after

 

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Monba people 门巴族


Two women and a toddler in a farm 1960

Chatting on a balcony 2005

Kids crossing one of a major river in the Himalayas 1980s

A man serving his finest tea to his guests 2007

Two wives blessing their respective husbands with yellow wine for a safe trip 1981

Monba soldiers, men and women, taking light moments before a drill 1975

Archery is one of a required skill for the Monba, for protection and hunting, and the trainings begin at very young ages 1996

Monba women weaving baskets - for own uses or cash incomes 2006

 

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Monba people 门巴族


Monba people are very friendly

A whole village dress up for a photo session

The Monba are fierce fighters. They have to in order to survive in this land of mountains

A girl in Medog

Don't leave home without a sword and a bow/arrows

A woman gathering materials for basket weaving

A wedding scene with a makeshift yurt

Villagers tallying up this year's efforts or she's narrating a sad story?