Pictures of Chinese people - 56 ethnic groups

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Gin people 京族


Ha Festival


An old photo of paying tributes to the ancestors during the Ha Festival

 

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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

 

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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 the moves

A young man learn to play Gin's most favorite musical instrument

 

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Gin people 京族


Girls in Vietnamese Cheongsam

 

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Gin people 京族


Sports and activities of the Gin people

 

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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 芒街

Mong Cai 芒街, with a population of only about 103,000, is one of the richest city in Vietnam

By the sores

 

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An excellent thread Ahfatzia, however some of your photos do not appear you should try to reupload them.

My gosh I was being so careful not to use 163.com and nicpic but am still got caught. Too bad the 2 post are closed for editing though.

 

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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 with the helps of Jingpo volunteers.

Because of the decades old struggles between the Myanmar military and the Kachin Independent Army (KIA) numerous skirmishes, large and small, happened constantly. The Kachin people, with their villages destroyed, are forced to find safe havens. With the recent bombings (first time since the struggle) by the Myanmar military they flee across the border to China.

Stay in temporary camps like this one.....

.....or a former camp that has since becomes a permanent village

Since both Myanmar and China disallow international organization to come in, these refugees are waiting for their ethnic brothers to build additional camps for them on lands the local government provides

Mr. Zhang Shengqi came from Beijing, with solicited donations, to help the Kachin refugees. But most of the private aids came from the Jingpo living in China side of the border. The political border that divides the same ethnic group.

Story of Mr. Zhang: Myanmar and China: The Kachin dilemma | The Economist

 

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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 mountain area bordering China. The ones living in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh are called Singpho people. The Jingpo people are an ethnic affinity of several tribal groups, known for their fierce independence, disciplined fighting skills, complex clan inter-relations, embrace of Christianity, craftsmanship, herbal healing and jungle survival skills.

One third of the Jingpo in China speak Jingpho language, a Sino-Tibeto-Burman language family, and the other two third speak Zaiwa language under the same classification. The latter can understand the former but the reverse is not necessarily holds. In the 50s the Chinese helped the Jingpo to adopt the Latin alphabets as their written forms. Most Jingpo in China today live in Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture 德宏傣族景颇族自治州 by the Kachin State Myanmar border.

The Jingpo ancestors lived on the Tibetan plateau and migrated gradually towards the south and by the 16thy century they reached the present day territory. After WWII the Jingpo in China were integrated into the state and the mainstream societies while the Kachin in Myanmar resisted the central government by forming resistant group by itself or form alliances with other ethnic groups until today.


An official portrait of a Jingpo family

An old photo of a Jingpo couple

Jingpo old pictographic script that has since became the symbol of Jinpo people

Jingpo pictographs on a road marker in Yingjiang

An out of the way bridge to Myanmar

A giant "Dragon drum" of the Jingpo

A Jingpo wind musical instruments

Jingpo swords

 

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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.

 

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Jingpo people 景頗族


Jingpo ethnic clothes

 

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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

On the Salween River

A border town market

Villagers on the border

The Kachin are under armed today

KIA training camp in Kaisa

 

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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, however due to the consumption of opium, there are only 7,200 of them left today. The Indian government recognizes the problems and is taking steps to help the Singpho.


A Singpho village in India

A Singpho girl in India

Hornbill Festival is the biggest event for the Singpho in Inda

Elderly people from the Singpho, Sema, Tangsa, Tai-Phake, TaiKhamyang, Tai-Turung, TaiKhampti and Tai-Aiton communities have assembled at Khamyung village, Powaimukh near Margherita in upper Assam’s Tinsukia district for a unique and path-breaking workshop that is being considered a milestone in the socio-cultural development of these indigenous communities who have been inhabiting in the foothills of the Patkai range for centuries now.

Funds are being prepared to educate the Singpho youngsters in the most isolated villages

 

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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 bet on these raw jade stones can literally make you an instant millionaire

A rare wood carving of a gigantic lion carries a price tag of $750,000

Ruili is also the home of Liele Pagoda Temple for the locals and tourists from faraway distances

 

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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 and body movements