ethnic china

Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. (20100830)

In the northwest of Yunnan. It is inhabited mainly by Tibetan people, but there are also Lisu, Yi, Naxi, etc

Documentary Films about the Tujia Nationality: (20100702)

Some films about their most remarkable cultural traits.

Birth Customs of the Hani: (20100628)

When the child is born the person helping the mother will not pick it up until it has cried three times, the first for a life span, the second for the whole village and the third as a request of help.

Some books about the Axi branch of the Yi nationality: (20100627)

A first selection of books related to this important branch of the Yi

The dragon is the most important totem of the Buyi. According to their legends they were originated from the mating of a man with a Dragon woman. They think there are dragons everywhere, in valleys and mountains, and the people must be careful to do not disturb dragons

Home of some Hani groups, Dai and Yi branches. The women of these branches wear different dresses. Their languages are different, and the people belonging to each branch celebrate their main festivals in a different way.

Thousands of pilgrims, arrived from different places walked from the morning until night around the Potala Palace, the Jorkhand Temple or the perimeter of the Old City.

This book provides some interesting information about the Hani culture, but drawing materials from different sources, lacks a sense of harmony, of being a single book and not a patchwork of different materials.

They believe that people are eminently spiritual beings that have twelve souls. After death the soul of people becomes a spirit.

There are three main characteristic that differentiate the Yiche people: the short dressed by the Yiche women, their retarded marriage and sexual freedom, and the specill way they celebrated the Kuzhazha Festival.

Just after the umbilical cordon is buried, an old folk will be invited to bind his wrist with cotton strings, if the new born is a boy a red string will be tied in his right wrist; if is a girl will be tied to her left wrist

There is an extraordinary variety of them, as they are divided into clans, and again into families. The women of each family have adopted a different head-dress, and by this distinctive mark one may know them apart.

Notes on the Bai religion: (20100531)

In most of the Bai villages the religious life turns around the cult to Guanyin and their Benzhu or Local Lords cults. The cult to Guanyin is mixed with some ancestral feminine cults, as usually include rituals related with the fertility and the protection of the children.

A history of oppression. The Nusu believe they descend from a feminine ancestress.

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Notes on the Bai religion: (20100531)