Pictures of Chinese people - 56 ethnic groups

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Xibe people 锡伯族


Before the Xibe adopted the Manchu script the only way they can mark down what they needed to remember is to tie knots on a string and the person who developed this ingenious method is the legendary 喜利妈妈. Here's her shine on many households

 

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Index of Ethnic Groups in China



English Name.... Chinese Name Population(est.) Post # Page

Achang...............阿昌族.................40,000................

Bai ....................白族 ...................2 million..............144 .........10

Blang ................ 布朗族.................100,000..............

Bonan ................保安族 .................18,000 ..............2 ............1

Bouyei ................布依族 ................2 million ...........120 .........8

Dai ......................傣族 ...................1.3 million ........179 ........12

Daur ...................達斡爾族 ............150,000 ..............

De'ang .................德昂族 ................20,000 ..............

Derung .................獨龍族 ................8,000 ..............

Dong ...................侗族 ....................3 million ............6 .............1

Dongxiang ...........東鄉族 ................550,000 ............215..........15

Ewenki .................鄂温克族 ............35,000 ...........

Gaoshan .............. 高山族 ...............500,000 ............135.............9

Gelao .................. 仡佬族 ...............600,000 ........... .208 ...........14

Gin (Vietnamese)...京族 ..................25,000 ............

Han ......................漢族 .................1.25 billion .......

Hani .....................哈尼族 ..............1.5 million ..........152............11

Hezhen .................赫哲族 ..............5,000 ..............

Hui .......................回族 .................10 millions ..........42..............3

Jingpo ................. 景頗族 ..............150,000 ..........

Jino .....................基諾族 ................22,000 ..........

Kazakh ................哈薩克族 ............1.5 million..........159............11

Korean .................朝鮮族 .............. 2 million.............136 ...........10

kyrgyz .................柯爾克孜族 ........160,000..........

Lahu ....................拉祜族 ...............500,000 .............223 ..........15

Lhoba ..................珞巴族 ................3,000 ............

Li ........................黎族 ..................1.3 million ..........168 ..........12

Lisu .....................傈僳族 ...............700,000 .............199 ..........14

Manchu ...............滿族 ..................11 millions ..........34.............3

Maonan ...............毛南族 ...............110,000 ..........

Miao ....................苗族 ..................9 millions ...........59 .............4

Monba .................門巴族 ...............10,000 ...........

Mongol .................蒙古族 ...............6 millions ......... .84 ............ 6

Mulao ...................仫佬族 ...............220,000 .............281 ...........19

Nakhi .................. 納西族 ...............320,000 ..............251 ...........17

Nu .......................怒族 ..................30,000 .............

Oroqen ................鄂倫春族 ............10,000 .............

Pumi ...................普米族 ...............34,000 ............

Qiang ..................羌族 ...................320,000 .............261 .........18

Salar ...................撒拉族 ...............110,000 ..........

Russian ...............俄羅斯族 ...........15,000 ...........

She ......................畲族 .................750,000 ............190............13

Sui .......................水族 .................420,000 ............231 ............16

Tajik .....................塔吉克族 ...........45,000 ...........

Tatar (Chinese) ......塔塔爾族 ...........5,000 ...........

Tu ........................土族 ..................250,000 .............272 .........19

Tujia .....................土家族 ...............8.5 millions ........69............5

Uyghur ..................維吾爾族 ...........8.5 millions ........95 ...........6

Uzbek ...................烏孜别克族 ...... 13,000 ..............

Va .........................佤族 ................400,000 .............241 ........16

Xibe ...................... 錫伯族 .............200,000 ............290 .........19.

Yao .......................瑤族 .................7 millions ..........127 .........9

Yi .........................彝族 .................8 millions ...........77 ..........6

Yugur ....................裕固族 .............14,000 ...............104 .........7

Zang (Tibetan) ........藏族 ................4.7 millions ........109 .........8

Zhuang ..................壯族 ................17 millions .........23 ...........2



This is a preliminary index. a final index will be updated at the end of all my posts. Than you and I hope it'll help you to find various ethnic groups.

 

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Kyrgyz people 柯尔克孜族


A Kyrgyz postman making his daily rounds on the edge of the Pamirs mountain

A horse and a man..... they become the best of friends

Search out for the herders on constant moves

Lets take a breather and a bite - for me

"I'll give you a rest after we pass this deep cannon. Buddy," he said to the horse, " same time tomorrow"

Picks up his motorbike for the lower flat grassland

After a few more hours he calls the day

His lovely wife already has dinner ready when he gets home. But first pours him some water to wash up.

 

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Kyrgyz people 柯尔克孜族


The NE edge of the Pamirs mountain belongs to the Chinese Kyrgyz

 

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Kyrgyz people 柯尔克孜族


The NE edge of the Pamirs mountains belong to the Chinese Kyrgyz

 

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Kyrgyz people 柯尔克孜族


Kyrgyz people 柯尔克孜族 are Turkic people, numbered about 160,000 living in China, is one of the official recognized ethnic group in China. The early Kyrgyz people, known as Yenisei Kyrgyz, lived in the upper Yenisey River valley, central Siberia and were under the rule of Göktürk Kaganate and Uigur Kaganate in the early Middle Age. In 840 a revolt led by Yenisei Kyrgyzes brought down the Uigur Kaganate, that brought to a dominating position in the former Turkic Kaganate. At the height of their power, the center of the Kyrgyz Kaganate moved to Jeti-su, and brought about a spread south of the Kyrgyz people, to reach Tian Shan mountains and Eastern Turkestan, bringing them immediately to the borders of China to whom they were allied with the Tang Dynasty. The Kirghiz Khagans of the Yenisei Kirghiz Khaganate were descendents of a Chinese Han Dynasty general, Li Ling 李陵, and his troops.

The Kyrgyz today in China are predominantly Sunni Muslims with small groups are Buddhists and Shamanists. The Kyrgyz language is a language of the Turkic language family that uses Arabic alphabets (outside China the Cyrillic alphabets are in use). The Kyrgyz in China are mainly found in the Kizilsu Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture 克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治州 in the southwestern part of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, with a smaller remainder found in the neighboring Wushi (Uqturpan), Aksu, Shache (Yarkand), Yingisar, Taxkorgan and Pishan (Guma), and in Tekes, Zhaosu (Monggolkure), Emin (Dorbiljin), Bole (Bortala), Jinghev (Jing) and Gonliu in northern Xinjiang.


Official portrait of a Chinese Kyrgyz family

A cozy Chinese Kyrgyz family at home inside a yurt

Distribution of Chinese Kyrgyz in China

Chinese Kyrgyz script

Musical instruments

Musical instruments and musicians

 

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Kyrgyz people 柯尔克孜族


Chinese Kyrgyz in ethnic clothes

A group of Chinese Kyrgyz children visiting Shanghai

Chinese Kyrgyz women love the color red

 

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Kyrgyz people 柯尔克孜族


A Chinese Kyrgyz village in Kizilsu

 

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Kyrgyz people 柯尔克孜族


玛纳斯 Day celebrations

 

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Kyrgyz people 柯尔克孜族


Sports and activities for the Chinese Kyrgyz

 

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Kyrgyz people 柯尔克孜族


Ways for the Chinese Kyrgyz to earn a living beside herding and animal husbandry

 

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Kyrgyz people 柯尔克孜族


A 69 year old Chinese Kyrgyz woman helping out in the border area

Learn to write Chinese when the border is quiet

 

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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 莫力達瓦達斡爾族自治旗 呼伦贝尔市 in Hulun Buir, Inner Mongolia autonomous region of China. There are also some near Tacheng 塔城 in Xinjiang, where their ancestors were moved during the Qing Dynasty. The Daur, along with the Ewenki 鄂温克族 and the Oroqen 鄂倫春族, are three little known groups live near each other in the extreme NE of China, western edge of the Greater Khingan Range 大興安嶺.

The Daurs are descendants of the Khitan, a nomadic Mongolic people, who lived in NE China from the 4th Century onward. The Khitans were destroyed by the Mongols during the 13th Century when they established a kingdom further west. The descendents of the Khitans, now the Daurs, served the Qing courts and today they live in the extreme NE corner of China bordering both Mongolia and Russia.

Many Daurs are shamanists. Each clan has its own shaman in charge of all the important ceremonies in the lives of the Daur. However there are a significant number of Daurs who have taken up Lamaism. The Daur speak a Mongolic language and used Qing writing during the Qing rule but today they adopt the Chinese characters as their written script.


Official portrait of a Daur family

An old photo of a Daur family

Distribution of Daur people in NE China

There are about 6,700 Daur living in Tacheng 塔城市 in NW Xinjiang. They are the descendents of the 500 Daur soldiers/families in the great "Westward Migration" 西迁 of the Xibe.

The xinjiang Daur on their "Westward migration" holidays

A watercolor masterpiece by a famous Daur artist depicts the lives of Daur herders in the grasslands of the greater Khingan range

Nenjiang 嫩江, the mother river of the Daur

An old photo of a Daur bride

 

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Daur People 达斡爾族


Holidays on the grassland

 

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Daur People 达斡爾族


Holidays on the grassland