Located in a canyon with a depth of 3,800 meters (12,467 feet) and surrounded by the Tibetan Plateau in the north, the Gaoligong Mountain in the east, and the Dandanglika Mountain in the west, the inhabitated area of the Dulong ethnic ...
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ORANGE, CA (BRAIN) — Cannondale has entered into a partnership with Team Sho-Air Inc. to launch the Sho-Air/Cannondale North American mountain bike team, based out of Southern California. Sho-Air and Cannondale unveiled the new ...
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In Chinese, 'Yugur' means 'wealth and solidity'. With a population of 13,719 as at the 2000 census, approximately 90 percent of the Yugur people live in the four areas of Sunan Yugur Autonomous County, and the rest in the Yugur village of ...
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The institution of family is the pinnacle of society. This is a fact that has long been realized by the Chinese who hold the family bonds as sacred and honor them accordingly. The traditional Chinese family has a hierarchical order with the ...
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Population and Distribution: The Chaoxian ethnic group (also written as 'Korean'), with a total population of 1,923,842 according to the census taken in 2000, is scattered mainly in Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning Provinces. Smaller ...
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The Dai ethnic minority, which numbers 1,158,989, is distributed throughout the Dai Autonomous Region and the Dehong Dai-Jingpo Autonomous Region in Xishuangbanna in the southern part of Yunnan Province. In the past, they were called ...
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The Dongxiang ethnic minority derived their name from their native region - Dongxiang. Today, numbering 513,805, they mainly inhabit the Dongxiang Autonomous County in Gansu, with a small number in Xinjiang and Ningxia. Language: The ...
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The Dong ethnic minority lives primarily in the border regions between Guizhou, Hunan and Hubei Provinces, and it was during the Tang Dynasty (618-907), that this minority separated from the mixed minority 'Bai Yue', naming themselves Dong. ...
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The Gelao people live in Guizhou, Yunnan Province and Guangxi Autonomous Region. They are an old ethnic minority with a recorded history of 2,100 years. According to the census of 2000, the population of Gelao is 579,357. Language and ...
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Folk customs reflect the life of the people -- their habits and customs, ideologies and beliefs, social activities and the like. Traditionally, folk customs and folk arts have been congenial twins. since the New Stone Age, folk arts have ...
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Diqing lies in the northwest corner of Yunnan province, in a geographic region where the Himalayan Mountains are slowly merged with the not so high peaks of the Hengduan Range. In the border with the Tibet Autonomous Region and Ganzi ...
The Uygur ethnic minority, with a population of 8,399,393 according to the national census in 2000, lives mainly in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regions, especially to the south of Mt. Tianshan. The Uygur have their own language and ...
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The Bai have a culture very elaborated with important works of history, religion, astronomy and medicine. Their most important myth is "Creation of the world" , which three sections well differentiated: Primordial times, Creation of the ...
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The Nama are about 50,000 or 60,000 people that live in two western districts of Yunnan Province: Lanping and Weixi. 750 years ago, when the Mongolian troops commanded by Kublai Khan conquered the Dali Kingdom, many of their inhabitants ...
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The Nama have been separated from the Bai for about seven centuries. Today they still preserve traditions now lost among many of the Bai. They think that all things have a soul, and they practice a cult of nature similar to what the Bai ...
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