The Ewenki ethnic minority While believing in animism, Ewenkis also worship their dead ancestors, and lingering influences of bear worship is still found among Ewenki hunters. After killing a bear, the Ewenkis would conduct a series of rituals at which the bear’s head, bones and entrails are bundled in birch bark or dry grass and … Read more
The Zhuang ethnic minority The Zhuangs ethnic minority is China’s largest minority group. Its population of 16,178,811 approaches that of Australia. Most of the Zhuangs live in southwest China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, which is nearly the size of New Zealand. The rest have settled in Yunnan, Guangdong, Guizhou and Hunan provinces. While most Zhuang … Read more
Arts and Crafts of The Drung ethnic minority The Drungs, numbering about 7,426, live mainly in the Dulong River valley of the Gongshan Drung and Nu Autonomous County in northwestern Yunnan Province. Their language belongs to the Tibetan-Myanmese group of the Chinese-Tibetan language family. Similar to the language of the Nu people, their neighbors, it … Read more
The Dongxiang ethnic minority The Dongxiang people had been groaning under national and class oppression throughout the ages. This had driven them to take up arms against their oppressors many times. For several decades before the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949, the Dongxiang people were suffering under the oppressive rule of the feudal … Read more
Nestling among the tree-clad hills dotting an extensive stretch of territory on the Hunan-Guizhou-Guangxi borders are innumerable villages in which dwell the Dong people. The population of this ethnic group in China is 2,960,293. Situated no more than 300 km north of the Tropic of Cancer, the area peopled by the Dongs has a mild … Read more
The number of De’ang people in China totals 17,935. Small as their population is, the people of this ethnic group are quite widely distributed over Yunnan Province. Most of them dwell in Santai Township in Luxi County of the Dehong Dai-Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture and in Junnong Township in Zhenkang County of the Lincang Prefecture. The … Read more