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Mongol People 蒙古族


2nd Ordos Int'l Nadam Fair opens in China's Inner Mongolia Performers dressed in traditional costumes of Mongolian ethnic group prepare to take part in the opening ceremony of the 2nd Ordos International Nadam Fair in Ordos City, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Aug. 27, 2012. Nadam, meaning entertainment and playing in Mongolian language, is a folk festival of the Mongolian ethnic group. The eight-day fair in Ordos consists of art, cultural and trade

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Mongol People 蒙古族


Mongol People 蒙古族 is one of the 56 official recognized ethnic group in China and are numbered approximately 5.8 million, which represents twice of the number of mongols living in Mongolia. Most of them live in Inner Mongolia (68.8%), Northeast China 20%) and the rest spread through out China. There are a few groups who speak Mongols but are classified separately.

The Mongols are a Central-North Asian people and , by a wider sense, all people who speak the Mongolic language including the Calmyks in eastern Europe. In the Mongolia proper it further divides into Eastern Mongols (Khalkha Mongols, the Inner Mongolians and the Buryats) and the Oirats. Mongolic language is considered an Altaic language. The original religion of the Mongols Tengriism and eventully came into contacts with Confucianism and Daoism, but eventually adopted Buddhism
Official portrait of a Mongol family
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A modern day Mongol family
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Geography distribution of all Mongolic people
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Mongol alphabets
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Mongol scripts
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Mongol calligraphy
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Mongol water color
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Mongol carvery art
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It is interesting to note the similarities between the Mongol alphabets and Hindi language of India. I counted 11 alphabets from Mongol language with same formation as in Hindi language. Besides that very colorful ethnic costumes as well. Thank you again for sharing the life in China.
 
Uyghurs People 维吾尔族


The Uyghurs People 维吾尔族 Turkic ethnic group. There are about 8.5 million Uyghurs in China primarily live in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and about 4,000 live in Taoyuan County 桃源县, Hunan. An estimated 80% of Xinjiang's Uyghurs live in the southwestern portion of the region, the Tarim Basin. Outside of China, significant diasporic communities of Uyghurs exist in the Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. Smaller communities are found in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Turkey.

There's a group, Yugurs 裕固族, Buddhist Yugur.or Yellow Uyghurs, numbered about 15,000 and living in Gansu and are considered as another separated ethnic group

In current usage, Uyghur refers to settled Turkic urban dwellers and farmers of the Tarim Basin and Ili who follow traditional Central Asian sedentary practices, as distinguished from nomadic Turkic populations in Central Asia. However, the Chinese government has also designated as "Uyghur" certain peoples with significantly divergent histories and ancestries from the main group. These include the Loplik people and the Dolan people, who are thought to be closer to the Oirat Mongols and the Kyrgyz.

The Uyghur Khaganate stretched from the Caspian Sea to Manchuria and lasted from AD 745 to 840. In AD 840, following a famine and civil war, the Uyghur Khaganate was overrun by the Kirghiz, another Turkic people. As a result the majority of tribal groups formerly under Uyghur control migrated to what is now northwestern China, especially to the modern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous region. Following the collapse of the Uyghur Khaganate, the Uyghurs established kingdoms in present day Gansu and Xinjiang. During the subsequent centuries many Uyghur kingdoms were established and reconquered by different Chinese dynasties. In 1933 and 1944, with the backings of the Soviets, the Uyghur revolted and claimed independent, but they were quickly put down by the Ma Clique of the Muslim Hui Group.

Uyghurs are Sunni Muslim, unlike the Salar and Hui who are also mostly Muslim, oppose coeducation (grouping male and female students together). Conversely, women are generally excluded from public Uyghur Muslim life, also in contrast to Salar and Hui practices. Most studies concluded Uyghurs are genetic 1/2 European and 1/2 East Asian ancestries. Uyghur language belongs to the Uyghuric branch of the Turkic language family, which also includes languages such as Salar and the more distantly related Uzbek, and historically been influenced strongly by Persian and Arabic, and more recently by Mandarin Chinese.


Official portrait of a Uyghur family
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An ethnic distribution in Xinjiang
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Uyghur concentrated area in green
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Old Uyghur alphabets
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A wall with ancient Uyghur scripts and Chinese writings
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Uyghur Arabic keyboard
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Uyghur Arabic scripts
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Uyghur dictionaries
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Uyghurs People 维吾尔族


Fragrant Concubine 香妃 Khoja Iparhan 1734-1788, who became a consort of Qianlong Emperor in 1760
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Her tomb in Kashgar today



Rebiya Kadeer 热比娅·卡德尔 b1946 leader of the World Uyghur Congress.
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Dilber Yunus b1958, une éminente soprano chinoise
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Nur Bekri b1961 current CPC Party Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
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Erkin Abdulla 艾尔肯·阿布杜拉, is a contemporary Chinese Uyhghur musician specializing in Flamenco.
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Musical instruments of the Uyghurs
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Uyghurs People 维吾尔族


A Uyghur street in Yarkand
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A Xinjiang classroom
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Uyghurs on On Hongshan or the Red Mountain, Ürümqi, China
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Dancing in traditional costumes
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Uyghur girls
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Uyghurs People 维吾尔族


Id Kah Mosque 艾提尕尔
It's located in Kashgar and is is the largest mosque in China. Every Friday, it houses nearly 10,000 worshippers and may accommodate up to 20,000. The mosque was built by Saqsiz Mirza in ca. 1442 (although it incorporated older structures dating back to 996) and covers 16,800 square meters.
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Prayers outside the Id Kah Mosque
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Different angle
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Interior prayer court
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Uyghurs People 维吾尔族


An Uyghur mosque in Yinging, notice a Hui mosque in Chinese style architecture
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A mosque in the city center of Yanqi Xinjiang
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Emin Mosque, Turpan Prefecture
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city mosque in Urumqi
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A mosque in Khotan
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A mosque in Yarkand
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A Mosque in Yarkand
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A mosque in Khotan
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Uyghurs People 维吾尔族


Naan and other bread items are essential in Uyghur diets
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Uyghur food is characterized by mutton, beef, camel, chicken, goose, carrots, tomatoes, onions, peppers, eggplant, celery, various dairy foods, and fruits.
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A marinated lamb sauteed with onion in a spicy sause
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A lamb sausage stuffed with rice, carrots, celery
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Dumpling and noodle dishes are heavily Chinese influences and are the favorites of the locals
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A meatloaf (beef) sandwich
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Uyghur pilaf 手抓饭, a staple food
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Lagman (Suiru) - Handmade Noodles with Meat and Vegetable
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Uyghurs People 维吾尔族


Kashgar 喀什 is a city in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, with approximately 350,000 residents and predominately Uyghurs, is the western most city of China. It's an oasis town on the ancient 'Silk Road' and is geographically closer to Europe than Beijing.


Train services are available now from Shanghai and Beijing
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A city of minarets
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A street scene
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A street in the old section of the town
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New section of Kashgar
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The rail station. Some day trains from Europe can stop here.
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Kashgar mercado
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A 1868 photo of Kashgar
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Lives on the streets of Kashgar 喀什


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Yugur People 裕固族


Yugur People 裕固族 or Yellow Uyghurs are the original Uyghurs who retained the Buddhist religion and live primarily in Sunan Yugur Autonomous County in Gānsù Province. They are numbered about 15,000, about half of them speak Turkic Western Yugur language and Mongolic Eastern Yugur language while the other half speak Chinese. They are considered half Turkic and half Mongolic and they practice Tibetan Buddhism along shamanism and are considered one of the 56th official ethnic group of China. The yugurs are primarily work in the field of animal husbandry.


Official portrait of an Yugur family
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Distribution of Yugurs in China (green)
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Yugur style clothing for women
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Ceremonial dress
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The Ballad of the Yugur Ethnic Minority Group
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Traditional dress
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Yugur's religious symbol
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Yugur People 裕固族


Western Yugur women wear their traditional clothing in the village of Huangnibao about 20 kilometres from Jiuquan. These Yugur, who live in close proximity with Han Chinese, can no longer speak their native Turkic dialect. Only a couple thousand Western Turkic speakers survive today, and their linguistic outlook does not look good.
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Some live in yurts
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Some in regular farm houses
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Or even colorful houses
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A farm village off the ancient 'Silk Road'
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Toiling the land
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