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Jingpo Ethnic Group |
Jingpo ethnic group shares land with the De'ang, Lisu, Achang and Han people. The Jingpo people are concentrated in the Dehong Dai-Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province in southeastern China. Some of the Jingpo people also live in the Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture. |
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Achang Ethnic Group |
More than 90 percent of the 27,708 (by 1990) Achangs live in Longchuan, Lianghe and Luxi counties. |
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Munao Singing Party of Jingpo Ethnic Group |
Though there are many dancers, the change of the team pattern and steps are kept in order. The Jingpos have a rich, graceful and popular oral literature including epics, myths, stories, fables, proverbs and riddles. The Munao Singing Party reflects their origin and history of migration, and is believed to have made the Jingpos wiser, braver and more united. |
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Peacock Dance |
Nearly all the Dais, especially those in Ruili County, can dance Peacock Dance. |
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Va Ethnic Group |
In some areas in Yongde, Zhenkang and Fengqing, where a few Vas live with other ethnic peoples, the Va economy had developed into the stage of feudal landlord economy. |
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Waist hoops: the favorite of De'ang girls |
The most striking feature of De'ang people's costumes is the waist hoops worn by De'ang girls. Besides, young people in love often choose to give a waist hoop to each other as a token of their love. |
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Lisu Ethnic Group |
Within each clan, except for a feeling of kinship, individual households had little economic links with one another. The Lisu people divides a year into ten months, based on their natural calendar. |
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Water-Splashing Festival of Dai Ethnic Group |
They gather along roadsides and in public parks and squares armed with buckets and basins of water or carrying squirt guns, to drench each other in wishes for good luck and a happy new year. |
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De'ang Ethnic Group |
The De'ang people have their own language, which belongs to the Wa-De'ang branch of the Mon-Khmer Austronesian of the Austroasiatic Phylum. Most De'ang people can speak Chinese and languages of Dai and Jingpo. |
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