Salar people 撒拉族
A group of young Salar farmers in 1953
A 1932 photo of a Salar man
The Salar people overjoyed when new merchandizes arrived their town in the lean years of 1977 in China
A 1933 photo of a young Salar woman
A 1932 wedding in...
Salar people 撒拉族
Salar people 撒拉族, numbered about 120,000, are one of the official recognized ethnic group of China. They live mostly in the Qinghai-Gansu border region, on both sides of the Yellow River, namely in Xunhua Salar Autonomous County...
Salar people 撒拉族
Searching for stones....on the Yellow River
There are many stores in Xunhua 循化, a city where the Salar live, that sell only choice polished stones like this one
Or a more upscale one like this
Artists from as far away as Singapore to...
Salar people 撒拉族
Searching for stones....on the Yellow River
The Salar people rely on the mercy of the Yellow River
It can wreck havoc to all the regions along it's path
It cal also give blessings to people on the way to the sea
The Salar live on both sides of...
Maonan people 毛南族
Lives on Huanjiang Maonan Autonomous County 环江毛南族自治县 streets
Elementary students taking tests in front of the school
Maonan people 毛南族
Pay tributes to the ancestors
Ancestral tombs
南瓜节 pumpkin day 9/9 on the Lunar Calender
放河灯
Shaman rituals
Bronze drum makers
Maonan people 毛南族
The Maonan people received a Guinness record for 千人牛宴 (thousand people feast)
广西环江毛南族自治县千人牛宴
Maonan's...
Maonan people 毛南族
The biggest festival of the year for the Maonan people is the Fenlong Festival 分龙节. On that day the Maonan come out to ask their God for blessings. They ask the God for good harvests, good lives and well beings and it last for a...
Maonan people 毛南族
There exist some isolated Maonan village like this one....
....or like this one
A newer one
However they mostly live in township like this now a day
You can't really tell them apart from the mainstream society...
Maonan people 毛南族
Maonan have a long history of masking making. Here's an artist at work
The Maonan wear Nuo masks for all kind of festive occasions: opera singing, ancestral worships, festival dancing and stage plays.
And there are all kind of Nou...
Maonan people 毛南族
Maonan people 毛南族, numbered about 110,000, are one of the official recognized ethnic group by China. Most Maonan live in Huanjiang Maonan Autonomous County 环江毛南族自治县 in...
Maonan people 毛南族
Another 12,000 Maonan live across the provincial border in 卡蒲毛南族乡, Guizhou
Maonan people 毛南族
There are approximately 110,000 Maonan people 毛南族 live in China and about 90% of them live in Huanjiang Maonan Autonomous County 环江毛南族自治县 in northern Guangxi, SW China...