Mongolianans, happiness, and khun tovshuur This video is dubbed in Chinese, with English subtitles. “I am Tuya, the second-class performer with the Bozhou song and dance troupe, I am also an autonomous region-level intangible cultural heritage inheritor of khun tovshuur. Since1995, I’ve been learning to play khun tovshuur under the guidance of Naidaiwuma. Folk art … Read more
The Kazak ethnic minority The Kazak ethnic minority, with a population of 1,250,458, mainly lives in the Ili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture, Mori Kazak Autonomous County and Barkol Kazak Autonomous County in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Some are also located in the Haixi Mongolian, Tibetan and Kazak Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province and the Aksay … Read more
The Jino ethnic minority Numbering 20,899 in all, the Jinos live in the Jinoluoke Township of Jinghong County in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. The language of this ethnic minority belongs to the Tibetan-Myanmese group of the Chinese-Tibetan language family. Its structure and vocabulary have much in common with Yi and Myanmese. Without … Read more
The Jingpo ethnic minority The Jingpos, numbering 132,143, live mostly in the Dehong Dai-Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, together with the De’ang, Lisu, Achang and Han peoples. A few of them are found in the Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture. The Jingpos mainly inhabit tree-covered mountainous areas some 1,500 meters above sea level, where the climate … Read more
The Jing ethnic minority The 22,517 people of this very small ethnic minority live in compact communities primarily in the three islands of Wanwei, Wutou and Shanxin in the Fangcheng Multi-ethnic Autonomous County, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, near the Sino-Vietnamese border. About one quarter of them live among the Han and Zhuang ethnic groups … Read more
The Hezhe ethnic minority The Hezhes are one of the smallest ethnic minority groups in China. In fact, poverty and oppression had reduced their numbers to a mere 300 at the time of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Since then, however, they have made speedy advances in their economic life … Read more