Hezhen people 赫哲族
Hezhen people or Nanai people 赫哲族, numbered about 5,500, are an official recognized ethnic group of China. Hezhen are Tungusic people of the far east living along Helongjiang 黑龙江, Songhuajiang...
Hezhen people 赫哲族
Hezhen people or Nanai people 赫哲族, numbered about 5,500, are an official recognized ethnic group of China. Hezhen are Tungusic people of the far east living along Helongjiang 黑龙江, Songhuajiang...
Hezhen people 赫哲族
At the end of WWII, after the Japanese long occupation of Manchuguo, the Hezhen people faced the possibility of extinction.....there were only 300 of them left within the border of new China - the People's Republic...
In Dechang County 德昌县 of Sichuan, China the Lisu people 傈僳族 (post 199 page 14), an official recognized ethnic group of China, still practice a wedding tradition that has uncommon conventions including bridal face-shaving, outdoor wedding banquet and...
Russian people 俄罗斯族
The Basque Festival 巴斯克节 is the Russian Easter holiday. After the church Chinese Russians gather for early afternoon dinners
Singing
Dancing
More food
Russian people 俄罗斯族
A Chinese Russian family in Ili
The baking oven is in the backyard
The wife is also a teacher
The principal of the same school
Neighbors
They are attend the same Orthodox church on Sundays
Russian people 俄罗斯族
Shiwei is also a beautiful township that draws in many tourists from the region
Tourists flock into the area every summer
Many hotel like this serve the motorists
Ferry motor crossing is a big draw here
Restaurant...
Russian people 俄罗斯族
Shiwei 室韦, bordering Russia in the east, is the only Russian autonomous region in China. The Chinese Russians of this area were once herders living in yurts. Now they living in 13 new villages with farming and animal husbandry as...
Russian people 俄罗斯族
Russian people 俄罗斯族, numbered about 16,000, are and official recognized ethnic group in China. These are the descendents of Russian settlers from the 17th Century. There are also another 70,000 Russian citizens...
Pumi people 普米族
The Pumi were once nomads and herders of the middle Himalayas
There are still many herders but most turned to farming and other industries
Some commercialized their favorite trade
Some to mushroom farming
The government...
Pumi people 普米族
Music and dancing
The Pumi chacha has been around for more than a thousand years
They're big in country music too
Country music and dancing
Wind instrument playing
Oh yeah!
A real life star
Pumi people 普米族
The Pumi are going up the mountain to pay tributes to the mountain God
They too pay tributes to Confucius
Or local deity
Or to their own ancestors
But primary they are adherents to the Yellow Sect of Tibetan Lamaism