Pictures of Chinese people - 56 ethnic groups

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Tajik people 塔吉克族



在帕米爾高原，有一個山谷素有“血谷”之稱。這裏氧氣含量不足平原的50%，風力常年在七八級以上，最低氣溫達零下40多攝氏度，也被當地人稱為“死亡之谷”。這就是古老、神秘、充滿傳奇色彩、一直被視為“萬山堆積雪，積雪壓萬山”的神秘禁區——紅其拉甫。

In the Pamirs, in a valley known as "Blood Valley said. Oxygen content less than 50% of the plains, wind perennial in more seventy-eight the minimum temperature of minus 40 degrees Celsius, also known as the "Valley of Death" by locals. This is the ancient, mysterious, legendary, has been regarded as the "Wanshan accumulation of snow, snow pressure WANSHAN" mysterious closed area - the Khunjerab Pass. (translated by Google)


The lives of a Tajik herder's family in the Pamirs

 

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Husa Knife 戶撒刀

 

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Husa Knife 戶撒刀

 

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I love the etching on the knives. Hard to get that delicate work with rudimentary stuff.
I think it's probably engraved instead of etched. Very beautiful work.

 

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Achang people 阿昌族


Husa people are a subgroup of Achang people. Even though they speak a distinct different tongue than the Achang and and did apply as a separated ethnic group, however, their efforts failed. Thus they're grouped as Achang people.

Most Husa people live in Husa Township Achang Autonomous Township in western Yunnan, near the border with Myanmar. Husa Township is one of the two Achang autonomous region, the other being Lianghe Township nearby.


The next exit on the expressway is Husa with Ruili, the last exit before entering Myanmar

Merchants and collectors from all parts of the world....

Sword making is a tradition in Husa and the skills are passed down from generations to generations for more than a millennium

Annual competitions.....

....rating

Trade shows

Testings

 

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Achang people 阿昌族


The best in the business is no doubt this 48 year old man, 项老赛, who was the first sword smith that uses the fine steel chassis of German cars for materials

He won so many annual competitions and earned himself the "King of Sword" 刀王

Some are lesser known but by no mean less skillful

A sword smith couple

Sometimes you can pickup a bargain at the street bazaar

 

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Achang people 阿昌族


Achang people 阿昌族, numbered about 35,000, are an official recognized ethnic group of China. Most Achang live in west Yunna, especially in Dehong Autonomous Region 德宏 , near the Myanmar border. The ancestors of the Achang were some of the first inhabitants of the province of Yunnan. Their ancestors lived near the Lancang river and during the 12th century they began to emigrate towards the border the west of the river. By the 13th century, some of them settled down in the area of Longchuan, whereas others settled around Lianghe. During the Ming and Qing dynasties they were governed by local village heads. A subgroup of Achang, the Husa people 戶撒, felt they are a distinct separate ethnic group from Achang and filed for separate listing. But the effort failed so far.

Achang speak a Burmish language called Achang but have no writing scripts, instead they use Chinese characters. Many of them use Dai for commercial transactions because Dai is the most common language in the areas where they live after Chinese. Most Achang are Theravada Buddhists with a minority of them Taoists. Because they have no indigenous writing system the Achang use song and singing to record their histories.


Official portrait of an Achang family

distribution of Achang people in western Yunnan, near the border with Myanmar

The Chinese Government provides Latin alphabets for Achang to use but it's not very popular

An Achang monk in Husa is trying to revise the alphabet scripts and we'll see what happen

An old photo of a loving Achang couple

A group photo of Achang people

A pair pure silver bracelets Achang women love

Silver is an Achang girl's best friend

 

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Achang people 阿昌族


Achang people in ethnic clothes

 

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Achang people 阿昌族


Achang people in ethnic clothes

 

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Achang people 阿昌族


Achang musical instruments


三弦天琴

三月箫

Foot drums

a very popular Achang folk singer 张月

 

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Achang people 阿昌族


Nujiang, the china section of the Salween River, where many Chinese ethnic groups build their villages around

An Achang village in a village in a valley

An ancient village

A remodeling village

A brand new village

Village houses

Fresh clean stream water for the villagers. Looks like the stone grinder hasn't used for awhile

 

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Achang people 阿昌族


Brick houses

Wooden houses

A new wooden house with an ancestral room in the middle

Some houses double up for sword makings

Some as restaurant

Or for weavings

Some need cleanups

Maybe pavings

 

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Achang people 阿昌族


Village people

 

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Achang people 阿昌族


Village people

 

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Achang people 阿昌族



阿露窝罗节, comes around March every year, is the most important holiday for the Achang people