Most of the dwelling houses of the Bouyei Ethnic Minority are stone houses of stilt style or half-side building style. Zhenning Autonomous County and Anshun City of Guizhou Province inhabited by Bouyei ethnic group are abundant in ...
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The population of the Bouyei Nationality is 2,545, 059. Most of the Bouyei people live in Qiannan and Qianxinan Bouyei Miao autonomous prefectures and Duyun, Dushan, Pingtang and Zhenning counties of Guizhou Province. Others live scattered ...
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The Bouyei people, the 11th largest of China's 56 ethnic groups, inhabit the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, which slopes from an altitude of 1,000 meters in the north to 400 meters in the south. The Miaoling Mountains stretch across the plateau, ...
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Traditionally, four rituals precede and are prerequisite to the nuptials of Bouyei ethnic groups. Taking place in succession, the rituals comprise the Bouyei pre-wedding period and its customary practices. The first of these rituals, ...
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Liuyueliu festival (June 6th Festival) is an important traditional festival of the Bouyei people in Guiyang. On every sixth day of the sixth lunar month every year, thousands of the Bouyei people in Guiyang and nearby gather on the ...
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Since the Stone Age the Bouyei ethnic minority have inhabited what is now Guizhou Province. Their main living areas are now Bouyei and the Miao's Autonomous Prefecture, Anshun and Guiyang City. This is a relatively large group with the ...
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