Sui people 水族
Sui's ancestral worship always involve food
A local Shaman......
.....or a senior man in charged
Sometimes the worshipers can takeover the whole hill
No, the food won't be through away, they bring them home and have feasts...
Sui people 水族
貴州三都千年霞節 Sui New Year celebrations last for days
All the villages and villagers are fully involved
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Sui people 水族
Sui people 水族, are numbered about 350,000 living in China, is an officially recognized ethnic group mostly living in Guizhou Province (of that number half of them reside in Sandu Shui Autonomous County...
What do most minority kids in China do in the summer time when the schools are out? Well, I guess, they do what most kids do all over the world who are living near the mountains all over the world. The Sui ethnic 水族 kids are no different and, it seems, they're having extraordinary...
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Lahu people 拉祜族
A more modern village by a small lake
A modern tenement build next to a village
A new village
Plenty of greeneries here
Interior of a new house
Another village
Modern paved roads and electric grids are common...
Lahu people 拉祜族
A new Lahu village house is being constructed
A Lahu village
Entrance pf an ancient village
this path will take you to another village
Lahu people 拉祜族
A wedding is always a big event
Gifts and food are to be exchanged
Friends and relatives are to be invited
Here comes the bride
And plenty of hungry people
Lahu people 拉祜族
The Lahu people love their music, dancing and festivals
On such occasions everyone is out on the streets
Large village parks
Small village courts
On the plantation hills
City squares
Lahu people 拉祜族
There are about 150,000 Lahu living in the northern hills of Myanmar, bordering Yunnan
A group of young Lahu Christians sing in front of a church in Myanmar
Lahu are one of the 6 hill tribes of Thailand with a population of about 100,000...
Lahu people 拉祜族
Lahu people 拉祜族, numbered about 500,000 living in mostly Yunnan China, is one of the official recognized ethnic group. In addition there are about 170,000 living in Myanmar and about 120,000 living in Thailand where they are...
Yanmenguan 雁门关 in Shanxi 山西
Must be a new village from recent centuries
There were originally brick cladding covered the rammed earth interior. The story went when China went through hard times in recent centuries the local villagers simply stripped...
Yanmenguan 雁门关 in Shanxi 山西
A few ancient houses on top of the mountain
Another pass tower that blocks a low area
Unrestored watchtowers on strategic high grounds
This rammed earth wall can't stand the test of time and natural...
Yanmenguan 雁门关 in Shanxi 山西 This section of the great wall is rather short because the strategic location of the mountain blocks the enemies from entering and only the low valleys needed protections like the ones here
This is only an interior passage...
Yanmenguan 雁门关 in Shanxi 山西 Yanmenguan is situated on Yanmen Mountain. The east side and the west side of the mountain face each other, and hence the whole mountain looks like a huge door. The Great Wall tower here makes sure not even a fly can pass through...
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida speak to the press following talks at the State Department in Washington, Friday, Jan. 18. (AP)
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