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Black Nuosu Yi of Daliangshan. The Yi or Nuosu people (Nuosu: Yi: ꆈꌠ, ; see also § Names and subgroups) are an ethnic group in southern China.Numbering nine million people, they are the seventh largest of the 55 ethnic minority groups recognized by the Chinese government.
The Dai people (Burmese: ရှမ်းလူမျိုး; Tai Lü: ᨴᩱ/ᨴᩱ᩠ᨿ; Lao: ໄຕ; Thai: ไท; Shan: တႆး, [tai˥˩]; Tai Nüa: ᥖᥭᥰ, [tai˥]; Chinese: 傣 族; pinyin: Dǎizú) are several Tai-speaking ethnic groups living in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture and the Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture of China's Yunnan Province.
The Burmese and the Chinese agreed on the joint domination over Xishuangbanna, whose ruler was enthroned in a ceremony in which both Burmese and Chinese representatives jointly presided. [9] In the 19th century, the region briefly became a tributary state of Luang Prabang and the Rattanakosin Kingdom during the Burmese–Siamese War (1849 ...
The Yunnan Nationalities Village, colloquially Yunnan Ethnic Village, (Chinese: 云南民族村; pinyin: Yúnnán Mínzú Cūn) is a theme park that displays the various folklore, culture, and religion of 26 ethnic groups in Yunnan Province, China next to Dianchi lake. [20] The park covers an area of 89 hectares including 31 hectares of water. [20]
The Derung (also spelt Drung or Dulong) people (simplified Chinese: 独龙族; traditional Chinese: 獨龍族; pinyin: Dúlóngzú; endonym: Drung pronunciation: [tə˧˩ɻuŋ˥˧ ə˧˩tsəŋ˥˧]) are an ethnic group. They form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by China.
Today, the Bai people accept minority status for pragmatic reasons; however, they are culturally nearly indistinguishable from Han Chinese. [ 5 ] One prerequisite for creating a hybrid form of Chinese would be a unique cultural identity, distinct from the Han, but the Bai people have been said by the sinologist Charles Patrick Fitzgerald to ...
The Dong family is selling the historic home and donating $5 million to Black college students — but they wanted the Thompson family to tour the storied home first.
California is the top state in the country with the largest Laotian population, which as of 2015 is 271,000 across the country. [12] Among the population of Laotians, Hmong people are counted as well. They are mostly in Northern and Central California, in Oakland, Richmond, Fresno, Sacramento, and Stockton. There are some in Southeast San Diego.