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The Yi also play the hulu sheng, though unlike other minority groups in Yunnan, the Yi do not play the hulu sheng for courtship or love songs (aiqing). The kouxian, a small four-pronged instrument similar to the Jew's harp, is another commonly found instrument among the Liangshan Yi.
A small minority of Dai practice Islam. These specific Dai are often called "Parshi Dai" or "Dai Hui". Hui (Chinese Muslim) merchants from Dali and other parts of Yunnan settled in Xishuangbanna in the early nineteenth century. These settlers assimilated and intermarried with the locals which eventually led to the creation of a unique Dai and ...
Yunnan [a] is an inland province in Southwestern China. ... (1966–76), in which several minority cultural and religious practices were suppressed, ...
Subsequently, they moved to Northern Sichuan in the 7th century, and subsequently to northwest Yunnan in the 14th century. Many of them settled down to become farmers, and local landlords dominated the Pumi economy in Lanping and Lijiang counties. Except for a small number of common areas, the landlords held large areas of lands and collected ...
Mosuo girl weaver in Old town Lijiang Clothes of religious ceremonies of Moso, photo taken at Moso's Folk museum.. The Mosuo (Chinese: 摩梭; pinyin: Mósuō; also spelled Moso, Mosso or Musuo), often incorrectly referred to as the Naxi, [1] are a small ethnic group living in China's Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces.
Typical daily attire of ethnic Hani in China. In Yuanyang County, Yunnan Province. A Ho (Hani) woman and her child in Laos, circa 2003. The Hani or Ho people (Hani: Haqniq; Chinese: 哈尼族; pinyin: Hānízú; Vietnamese: Người Hà Nhì / 𠊛何贰) are a Lolo-speaking ethnic group in Southern China and Northern Laos and Vietnam.
The Yunnan Ethnic Village (Chinese: 云南民族村; pinyin: Yúnnán Mínzú Cūn) is an ethnographic village and theme park that displays the various folklore, culture, and architecture of 26 ethnic groups in Yunnan Province, China. [1] The park's major goal is mainly to display some aspects of Yunnan's ethnicity, cultural diversity, and ...
Historically, the Dali Kingdom was the first Buddhist nation in Yunnan, excluding the Tibetan people in northwestern Yunnan. [23] Buddhism was brought to the Bai people as early as the 8th century. The Bai people once practiced Mahayana Tantric Buddhism. [24] After Wu Sangui's Three Clans Rebellion, it was decisively quelled by the Qing Dynasty.