Pictures of Chinese people - 56 ethnic groups
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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 in the most isolated villages now a days
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 in the most isolated villages now a days
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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 fun the city kids would envy.
Always saver to have an other brother to teach you all the 'ropes' even with a tamed beast is around
Cowboys and cowgirls of China's wild west
Jet ski it's not but you do need to know how to swim. What I'm talking about here, even body knows how to swim in this part of the woods.
Some bookworms just never leave home without their books
At her age she's mature enough to help out her parents at the farms and she's philosophical about it
LOL, been there, tried it!
The lazy ones during the school year.......
They make sure to catchup (the fun and games) after an hour and a half everyday in summer school
Always saver to have an other brother to teach you all the 'ropes' even with a tamed beast is around
Cowboys and cowgirls of China's wild west
Jet ski it's not but you do need to know how to swim. What I'm talking about here, even body knows how to swim in this part of the woods.
Some bookworms just never leave home without their books
At her age she's mature enough to help out her parents at the farms and she's philosophical about it
LOL, been there, tried it!
The lazy ones during the school year.......
They make sure to catchup (the fun and games) after an hour and a half everyday in summer school
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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 三都水族自治县
in Guizhou. Some Sui live in Guangxi and Yunnan. The Sui are descended from the ancient Baiyue peoples, who had inhabited southern China before the Han dynasty. The name "Sui," which means "water" in Chinese, was adopted during the Ming Dynasty.
The Sui language, with 3 different dialects, is spoken by about 200,000 of the Sui people of Guizhou province and they have their own scripts, "Shuishu" 水書 as well. There are about 500 characters in Sui script with many borrowed from the Chinese and Chinese remains the script of choice for most young generations.
The Sui are organized around family clans. Villages usually have a few hundred inhabitants, most of whom have the same family name. The Sui are mainly polytheists and practice ancestor worship as well. Shamans were traditionally hired to carry out prayers and sacrifices in the houses of those that were sick or close to death. The Sui religion has more than 900 ghosts and gods that can cause both good fortune or misfortune. Some deities and legendary figures are also borrowed from Chinese folk religion.
Official portrait of a Sui family
Distribution of Sui people. Notice Sandu Shui Autonomous County 三都水族自治县 in Guizhou is their ethnic center
Fancy headgear
Women accessories
Women's bracelets
The township of Sandu 三都, the center of Sui people
Cobblestone paved streets of an ancient part of the town.
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 三都水族自治县
in Guizhou. Some Sui live in Guangxi and Yunnan. The Sui are descended from the ancient Baiyue peoples, who had inhabited southern China before the Han dynasty. The name "Sui," which means "water" in Chinese, was adopted during the Ming Dynasty.The Sui language, with 3 different dialects, is spoken by about 200,000 of the Sui people of Guizhou province and they have their own scripts, "Shuishu" 水書 as well. There are about 500 characters in Sui script with many borrowed from the Chinese and Chinese remains the script of choice for most young generations.
The Sui are organized around family clans. Villages usually have a few hundred inhabitants, most of whom have the same family name. The Sui are mainly polytheists and practice ancestor worship as well. Shamans were traditionally hired to carry out prayers and sacrifices in the houses of those that were sick or close to death. The Sui religion has more than 900 ghosts and gods that can cause both good fortune or misfortune. Some deities and legendary figures are also borrowed from Chinese folk religion.
Official portrait of a Sui family
Distribution of Sui people. Notice Sandu Shui Autonomous County 三都水族自治县 in Guizhou is their ethnic center
Fancy headgear
Women accessories
Women's bracelets
The township of Sandu 三都, the center of Sui people
Cobblestone paved streets of an ancient part of the town.
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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
And more often than not they enjoy the 'high time' with the spirit they favored
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
And more often than not they enjoy the 'high time' with the spirit they favored
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Sui people 水族
The Sui's script have a history as long as the Chinese script and they borrows characters from each other and modified them as times came along. Here's a tombstone copy of a Sui script
An ancient book
But the writing system is dying as most Sui prefer the Chinese characters instead
Here's a clear picture of Sui pictograph that still has many drawing in it
There are calls to rejuvenate the Sui scripts lately by scholars and community leaders
The Sui's script have a history as long as the Chinese script and they borrows characters from each other and modified them as times came along. Here's a tombstone copy of a Sui script
An ancient book
But the writing system is dying as most Sui prefer the Chinese characters instead
Here's a clear picture of Sui pictograph that still has many drawing in it
There are calls to rejuvenate the Sui scripts lately by scholars and community leaders
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Sui people 水族
An ancient Sui village under a modern bridge
On a side of a hill by a river
Higher up in the mountain......it's morning time
The day begins
An elderly man fixing the house
Another one cleans the alleys
Not old enough for schools
Too old to go to school or the farms
An ancient Sui village under a modern bridge
On a side of a hill by a river
Higher up in the mountain......it's morning time
The day begins
An elderly man fixing the house
Another one cleans the alleys
Not old enough for schools
Too old to go to school or the farms
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Sui people 水族
A village full of egg shaped rocks
Villagers use them to build foundations and walls
Or even a dam
A village market
From these Sui villages come a few national brands of products: a spicy and sour sauce
A rice wine if consume properly can have great benefits to your health
Other recognized brands of spirit
A village full of egg shaped rocks
Villagers use them to build foundations and walls
Or even a dam
A village market
From these Sui villages come a few national brands of products: a spicy and sour sauce
A rice wine if consume properly can have great benefits to your health
Other recognized brands of spirit
