Pictures of Chinese people - 56 ethnic groups

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Yugur People 裕固族


Mati Temple in Sunan Yugur Autonomous County, by thr grottoes

Kanglesi temple in Sunan

Old Yugur gatekeeper at the Kanglesi Buddhist temple in the Sunan Yugur Autonomous County in Gansu

Construction of new housesin the Western Yugur Village of Lianhua

Lives are simple here

 

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Yugur People 裕固族


The Yugur are a small, mysterious tribe who speak a Turkic dialect, worship Tibetan Buddhism, eat and dress like Mongols and also borrow traits from the Han Chinese

They have their own traditions that passed along for generations

Tourists come to see their festivals

 

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China is incredibly diverse and beautiful. I still remember a slight glimpse of sights in China when my family made a visit there during 1990's. Was too young to remember anything more.!

 

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Zang People 藏族


Zang People 藏族 are numbered 5.4 million, the 10th largest ethnic group in the country. Significant Zangs also live in India, Nepal, and Bhutan. Tibetans language is a non tonal language with many different dialects and varieties of which are mutually unintelligible. They belong to the Sino-Tibetan languages and Tibeto- Burman subgroups. Tibetan languages are written in an Indic scripts with alphabets.

Most Zangs practice Tibetan Buddhism, though some observe the indigenous Bön and other religions. Zang lamas, both Buddhist and Bön, play a major role in the lives of the Tibetan people, conducting religious ceremonies and taking care of the monasteries.

Most Zangs wear their hair long, although in recent times due to Chinese influence, some men do crop their hair short. The women plait their hair into two queues, the girls into a single queue. Because of the cold weathers in the Himalayas the men and women wear long thick dresses (chuba). The men wear a shorter version with pants underneath. The style of the clothing varies between regions, and Nomads often wear thick sheepskin versions.


Official portrait of a Zang family

distribution of the zangs in China (in yellow)

difference group of zangs in Greater Zang region

Tibetan alphabets

Tibatan writing

Zang's "suona" horns

Various Zang drums

Zang's "jingang" bell

 

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Zang People 藏族


Traditional dress for Zang women

Traditional ritual master costume

Modern wears. The boy in orange chuba

A lamb fur boa

A family in Lanchow, China 1944

A modern day Kham family

A monk and a woman

A group of young monks

 

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Zang People 藏族


Zang people are traditionally herders. Here's is a girl using a sling to control the domesticated animals

They go where the goats take them

Not without struggling though

In this vast colorless Tibetan Plateau

Whole family might have to tack along

 

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Zang People 藏族


Potala Palace 布达拉宫 in Lhasa is named after Mount Pitalaka and is supposed to be the main resident of the current Dalai Lama. The Palace was built as the seat of the government in 1646.

The 'White Palace' of Potala

A peaceful park, pond, and chapel behind the Potala.

A closer view of the roof structures

At night

The following 3 monasteries are the 'great three' Gelukpa university monasteries of the Greater
Tibet


Drepung Monastery 哲蚌寺 is the largest of all Tibetan monasteries and is located on the Gambo Utse mountain, five kilometers from the western suburb of Lhasa. Built 1417 and can accommodate 10,000 monks

Ganden Monastery 甘丹寺 was built 1409 and is one of the 'great three' Gelukpa university monasteries of Tibet, located at the top of Wangbur Mountain, Tagtse County, 36 kilometers ENE from the Potala Palace in Lhasa, at an altitude of 4,300m.

 

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Zang People 藏族


Sera Monastery 色拉寺 was built 1419 and is located 2km north of Lhasa.

Jokhang 大昭寺, built in 642, is located on Barkhor Square in Lhasa and it's the most sacred and most important temple for most Tibetans. This Gelug school's temple architectural style is a mixture of Indian vihara design, Chinese Tang Dynasty design, and Nepalese design.

Mindrolling Monastery is one of the six major monasteries of the Nyingma school in Tibet. It was founded by Rigzin Terdak Lingpa in 1676. It's approximately 43 kilometers east of the Lhasa airport, on the south side of the Tsangpo river.

Nechung Monastery 乃琼寺 built in 17thcentury and is located in Doilungdêqên County, Lhasa. It's the seat of State Oracle.

Sakya Monastery 萨迦寺, originally built 1073, is about 127 km west of Shigatse. The seat of the Sakya or Sakyapa school of Tibetan Buddhism, its Mongolian architecture is quite different from that of temples in Lhasa and Yarlung.

Samye Monastery 桑耶寺 is the first Buddhist monastery built in Tibet, was most probably first constructed between 775 and 779. The monastery is located in Dranang, Shannan Prefecture. It was supposedly modeled on the design of Odantapuri monastery in what is now Bihar, India.

Tashilhunpo Monastery 扎什伦布寺 founded in 1447 by Gendun Drup, the First Dalai Lama,[1] is a historic and culturally important monastery next to Shigatse, the second-largest city in Tibet. The monastery is the traditional seat of successive Panchen Lamas, the second highest ranking tulku lineage in the Gelukpa tradition.

Tsurphu Monastery 楚布寺 served as the traditional seat of the Karmapa. It is located in Gurum town 70 km from Lhasa. The thick-walled monastery was built by the first Karmapa in 1159.

 

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Zang People 藏族


Tea is very important for Zang people. Heres a monk churning for buttered tea

Sun dried cheese

Barkhor Street in old area of Lhasa City

A cave restaurant for locals in Lhasa

Dishes served here

Tsamba, and beef and mutton are known as four treasures of Zang food.

BBQ lamb

 

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Zang People 藏族


Baima Zang 白马藏人 nuns, a Zang subgroup living in SE if Gansu and NW of Sichuan

Balti, a subgroup of Tibetan, scattered around northern Pakistan

Bhotiya, a subgroup of Tibetan, living near the borders of Bhutan & Sikkim

Limbu, a subgroup of Tibetan, indigenous to the hill and mountainous regions of east Nepal between the Arun and Mechi rivers to as far as Southern Zang, Bhutan and Sikkim.

The Monpa people 门巴族, a subgroup of Tibetan, most living in NE India and Xizang. They are also considered one of the 56 ethnic group of China

Adi people is a major collective tribe living in the Himalayan hills of Arunachal Pradesh.

Adi people's hill village in AP.

A woman is dancing with Lepcha or Rong children, they are the aboriginal people of Sikkim, who number between 30,000 and 50,000. Many Lepcha are also found in western and southwestern Bhutan, Tibet, Darjeeling, the Ilam District of eastern Nepal, and in the hills of West Bengal.

 

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Zang People 藏族


Golok peoples are groups from Amdo in eastern Tibet near the upper reach of yellow River. The Golok, not homogenous, was a haven for malcontents, refugees and miscreants from all over the Ambdo and Kham region, and thus the people are an amalgamation of peoples of diverse origin. They were renowned in both Tibet and China as ferocious bandits.

A Golok mother and her kid

A Golok girl

A Golok woman milking her cow

Kham People. For reasons of simplicity, the Chinese government combines the various ethnic groups of Kham together with the Tibetans to form one big nationality, called the "Tibetan Nationality". There are, however, significant differences in traditions and beliefs—even physical appearance—between the peoples of Kham and Lhasa. At least one-third of Kham residents are speakers of Qiangic languages, a family of twelve distinct but interrelated languages that are not closely related to the Khams Tibetan language.

The people of Kham are reputed warriors.

Great horsemen and shooters too

 

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Zang People 藏族


A Tibetan villages at Danba 丹巴藏寨 – Beauty in the empty valley

A village in the Himalayas

Shuzheng Tibetan Village

A Tibetan house in Sichuan

A Tibetan house in Xizang

An interior of a typical Tibetan house

 

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Zang People 藏族


Shaman festival

People hanging around

Praying and prostrating

 

[El Weirdo]

I love Buddhisam. Probably thats one reason I can relate India a bit to China.
Off topic - When I was younger ,m around 10 , I used to think "never mess with the Chinese , they all know Kung- Fu" and there are millions of Shaolin Monks in China." ;p

I also saw a Documentry about Shaolin Monks , teaching little kids Kung Fu and was astonished to learn that ALL of these monks are vegetarians and so are their disciples where did THAT strength comes from... ?? (and people consider meat their Staple diet )
Hail Lord Mahavira!!

 

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Bouyei People 布依族


Bouyei People 布依族 is an ethnic group living in southern China. Numbering 2.5 million, they are the 11th largest of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. Some Bouyei also live in Vietnam, where they are one of that nation's 54 officially recognized ethnic groups. Despite the Chinese considering them a separate group, they consider themselves Zhuang (Tai peoples).

Bouyei language is considered another dialect of the Zhuang language (a Tai language family) and, just as the Zhuangs, they too latinized their writing system the same way the Chinese use pinyin system. However most Bouyeis are bilingual and the young generations are more fluent and have adopted the Chinese language. The Bouyei are the native Tai peoples of the plains of Guizhou. They are one of the oldest peoples of China, living in the area for more than 2,000 years. They and the Zhuangs were linked together; the differences between both ethnic groups grew greater and from year 900 already they were two different groups. (See Zhuang people for Bouyei religions and histories)


Official portrait of a Bouyei family

Distribution map of Bouyei people

Bouyei's traditional writing before the adoption of Latin alphabets in 1980s

Chinese - Zhuang dictionary

A Bouyei song sheet using Chinese scripts

Bouyei musical instruments

Bouyei bamboo-string musical instrument

A Bouyei weaving machine