Jino people 基诺族
There's an old southern Chines saying :舅公大過雷公 in which loosely translated: Your granduncle (your maternal grandmother's brother) is biggest than the god of thunder. In another word he's the boss of the extended...
Jino people 基诺族
Jino people 基诺族, numbered about 23,000, are one of the official recognized ethnic group of China. The Jino were only recognized as a minority group in 1979 and as their name means in their language: "Descending from the uncle" what...
These are ethnically Vietnamese Kinh girls that were born in China and with Chinese nationalities. They live right on China side of the shore border with Vietnam.
The Chinese characters 京族三岛 indicate their precise location with Vietnam on the left.
Jingpo people 景頗族
Jingpo Guiji (Jingpo ghost chicken) 景頗鬼鸡 is a famous food dish through out China
An other version of Jingpo Ghost Chicken
A cold snack version of Jingpo Ghost Chicken
Jingpo green feast
A Jingpo...
Jingpo people 景頗族
Sports and activities of the Jingpo people
First annual tapestry competition for the Jingpo people
And the winner is......
Jingpo people 景頗族
Jingpo People celebrate Munao Dancing Festival , their most important holiday of the year.
Homecoming Queen 2012
Jingpo people 景頗族
People and villages
Some houses in a village are being renovated
Upscale lakeside village
Kids are playing in the nearby park
Tenement road on a rainy day
Fancy farmers
Tea plantations
Village girls...
Jingpo people 景頗族
A village in Meng City
With the village water well sits right on the border of Myanmar and China. It say: "One village consumes the water of two countries"
Another village
Villagers walk to the nearby town
A farmer and his family
A...
Jingpo people 景頗族
Traditionally Jingpo men are fearless fighters and expert swordsmen
At least one dha, as the Jingpo called their swords, is to be carried by every male
Even parades and dances are choreographed with the art of sword...
Jingpo people 景頗族
Most Jingpo live in Dehong Prefecture 德宏 in Yunnan China
Ruili 瑞丽 is a major border city in Dehong. Burma Jade, rare stones and exotic wood make this city thriving with activities
A shopping mall
A lucky...
Jingpo people 景頗族
The Singpho people, as the Jingpo people are called in India, live in Arunachal Pradesh district of Lohit and Changlang; and some are also found in the Tinsukia district of Assam. There were originally 50,000 Singpho in India during the 1950 census...
Jingpo people 景頗族
The Kachin people
There are more than a million Kachin people, the Jingpo people by a different name, living on the other side of the border in Myanmar
An old photo of Aung San, the father of modern Burma, with some Kachin ethnic women...
Jingpo people 景頗族
The Jingpo, like the Va and other ethnic groups in China, love bright color clothes and red on black are their favorites.
Jingpo people 景頗族
Jingpo people 景頗族, numbered about 140,000, are an official recognized ethnic group of China. In Myanmar the Jingpo are call Kachin people, numbered more than a million, and mainly live in the Kachin Hill in the Kachin State...
Jingpo people 景頗族
The Jingpo people are protesting the treatments and the war of the Myanmar military against their ethnic brothers, the Kachin people on both sides of the border.
There are 19 refugee's camps on the China side of the border and more are being built...
Gin people 京族
A building in Dongxing City 东兴市
A bridge to Vietnam (right)
A border stone marker from the Qing Dynasty. Mong Cai Vietnam is beyond the marker
Entering Vietnam's Mong Cai 芒街 from Dongxing
Entering China from Mong Cai...