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Hezhen people 赫哲族
Hezhen people or Nanai people 赫哲族, numbered about 5,500, are an official recognized ethnic group of China. Hezhen are Tungusic people of the far east living along Helongjiang 黑龙江, Songhuajiang 松花江 and Ussuri 乌苏里江 rivers on the Middle Amur Basin. The ancestors of the Hezhen were the Jurchens of northernmost Manchuria. There are about 12,000 Hezhen, who are named Goldi, living across the border in Russian Far East.
The Hezhen belongs to the Manchu-Tungusic branch of the Altai languages. In China they use Chinese characters and Cyrillic scripts in Russia. The Hezhen are mainly Shamanist, with a great reverence for the bear (Doonta) and the tiger (Amba). They also worship the spirits of the sun, the moon, the mountains, the water and the trees. According to their beliefs, the land was once flat until great serpents gouged out the river valleys. They consider that all the things of the universe possess their own spirit and that these spirits wander independently throughout the world.
Hezhen are traditional fishermen and their clothing was made out of fish skins, hence, the name "Fish-skin Tartar" 鱼皮鞑子. This name has also been applied, more generically, to other aboriginal groups of he lower Songhua Valley and lower Amur basins. During the Manchukuo period, the Hezhen were practically wiped out in China by the Japanese and in 1949 they were numbered about 300.
Official portrait of a Hezhen family
A Hezhen family of three generations
Distribution of Hezhen people in China. Most Hezhen live on the China side of the Helongjiang River and both banks of the Songhuajiang River in Helongjiang Provence
Hezhen's traditional abodes are yurts made out of tree branches and covered with tree barks
Hezhen people have no written language and this is one of a method or record keeping
Han Geng 韩庚 b1984, a Chinese Mandopop singer, actor and skillful in all China's 56 ethnic traditional dances, as well as ballet and hip-hop dance. He has been dubbed "Dancing King" and "King of Popularity" in China. He debuted as a member of a South Korean boy band "Super Junior" in 2005.
雷雷 a young actor
In the drama 《东方红》 雷雷 plays Mao's son 毛岸英
Hezhen people or Nanai people 赫哲族, numbered about 5,500, are an official recognized ethnic group of China. Hezhen are Tungusic people of the far east living along Helongjiang 黑龙江, Songhuajiang 松花江 and Ussuri 乌苏里江 rivers on the Middle Amur Basin. The ancestors of the Hezhen were the Jurchens of northernmost Manchuria. There are about 12,000 Hezhen, who are named Goldi, living across the border in Russian Far East.
The Hezhen belongs to the Manchu-Tungusic branch of the Altai languages. In China they use Chinese characters and Cyrillic scripts in Russia. The Hezhen are mainly Shamanist, with a great reverence for the bear (Doonta) and the tiger (Amba). They also worship the spirits of the sun, the moon, the mountains, the water and the trees. According to their beliefs, the land was once flat until great serpents gouged out the river valleys. They consider that all the things of the universe possess their own spirit and that these spirits wander independently throughout the world.
Hezhen are traditional fishermen and their clothing was made out of fish skins, hence, the name "Fish-skin Tartar" 鱼皮鞑子. This name has also been applied, more generically, to other aboriginal groups of he lower Songhua Valley and lower Amur basins. During the Manchukuo period, the Hezhen were practically wiped out in China by the Japanese and in 1949 they were numbered about 300.
Official portrait of a Hezhen family
A Hezhen family of three generations
Distribution of Hezhen people in China. Most Hezhen live on the China side of the Helongjiang River and both banks of the Songhuajiang River in Helongjiang Provence
Hezhen's traditional abodes are yurts made out of tree branches and covered with tree barks
Hezhen people have no written language and this is one of a method or record keeping
Han Geng 韩庚 b1984, a Chinese Mandopop singer, actor and skillful in all China's 56 ethnic traditional dances, as well as ballet and hip-hop dance. He has been dubbed "Dancing King" and "King of Popularity" in China. He debuted as a member of a South Korean boy band "Super Junior" in 2005.
雷雷 a young actor
In the drama 《东方红》 雷雷 plays Mao's son 毛岸英
