Gin people 京族
An old photo of a Gin girl
An old photo of fishermen
Toady's fishermen (something just never changed)
A girl eating 風吹餅
Truckers or shippers taking soft moments
A girl in the park
Ladies practicing...
Gin people 京族
Ha Festival
The Sea God is one of the most important Gin deity
Community deity
New worship platform for the tree deity
Busy day for the shamans
The Gin's ancestors did the same rituals before them
Gin people 京族
The Ha Festival 唱哈节 or Changha Festival is the Gin equivalent of the Chinese Spring Festival. It usually lasts 3 to 4 days with continuous festivities like ancestral worships, singing, dancing and feasting. China has put this holiday on the...
Gin people 京族
Jingdao Islands 京族三岛
After several years of development, Wanwei 万尾金滩 Golden Island has begun to take a shape of a tourist resort zone where tourism infrastructure, reception facilities, and recreational...
Gin people 京族
Jingdao Islands 京族三岛 are no longer islands anymore. They are parts of the mainland through reclamations, however, the island atmosphere still remained. They are now the second most island tourist draw in Guangxi and become the biggest...
Gin people 京族
As I mentioned before the Gin are the only ethnic group in China that are seafarers. They also have a unique way of fishing near the shores: the "stilt fishing'' 高跷捕鱼. The Gin stilt fishing are different then the Bangladeshi's, the only...
Gin people 京族
A young girl learning 独弦琴 from a master
A maker
Uses in all kind platforms......
......by the youngs....
..... and the old
Combines with other instruments.....
.... or playing solo like this...
Gin people 京族
Gin people 京族, numbered about 23,000, are an officially recognized ethnic group of China. The Gin connection to Vietnam is based on stories and documents which told that they moved from mainland Dai Viet to three sparsely inhabited islands of Wutou...
^^^It's true the Han consist more than 90% of the Chinese population but I think the government's policies are fair to the minorities as well. Some groups in the far west and extreme NW are little left behind in terms of timing, however in the last couple of years, the money is reaching those...
Daur People 达斡爾族
Daur's 库木勒节 Holiday opera singing performance
(Sorry there's a technical problem on this post)
Daur People 达斡爾族
Sports and activities of the Daur people
"Beikou" means 'white ball' - Daur's field hockey ethnic game
Old Daur love it
So do the youngsters
Daur People 达斡爾族
Many Daur are Shamanists and have their own traditional deities
The Shamans take charge of many ritual ceremonies
They worship their hero......
....and pay tributes to the soldiers that died fighting the Czar
Daur People 达斡爾族
The Daur prefer fresh water fish on all their dinner tables....
.....but is not always possible so a well cooked beef offal dish is a good change
A whole roasted goat on special occasion
Stuffed goat sausage sometime...
Daur People 达斡爾族
The Daur live near their mother river - Nenjiang
Traditional Daur village
Or a newer one
A typical old village house
Some Daur herders are constant on the moves
They go where their herds lead them
Some...
Daur People 达斡爾族
Daur People 达斡爾族, numbered about 140,000, are one of the ethnic group officially recognized by China. The Daurs are a Mongolic-speaking people and most of them live in the Morin Dawa Daur Autonomous Banner...