{"id":6537,"date":"2019-11-20T16:05:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T16:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/china-039-s-minority-peoples-the-hanis\/"},"modified":"2019-11-20T16:05:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T16:05:53","slug":"china-039-s-minority-peoples-the-hanis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/china-039-s-minority-peoples-the-hanis\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#039;s Minority Peoples &#8211; The Hanis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span>  <\/p>\n<p>Today, a great majority of the Hani people, numbering  1,253,952, live between the Ho<em><\/em>nghe and Lancang rivers in the south of  Yunnan Province. Others are distributed in Pu&#8217;er, Menghai, Jinghong,  Mengla, Luquan and Xinping. In history, the Hanis called themselves  variously such as &quot;Hani&quot;, &quot;Kaduo&quot;, &quot;Aini&quot;, &quot;Haoni&quot;, &quot;Biyue&quot;, &quot;Budu&quot; or  &quot;Baihong&quot;. After the founding of new China, they were generally called  the Hani Nationality.<\/p>\n<p>The Hani language belo<em><\/em>ngs to the Yi language branch of the  Tibeto-Burman group of the Sino-Tibetan family. This oral language  co<em><\/em>ntains 3 dialects &mdash; the Hani, Bika and Haobai. In the 1950s, an  alphabetic writing system was created, but it aborted.<\/p>\n<p>Most Hani people live on the level tops of mountains a<em><\/em>bout 800 to  2,500 meters above sea level. They build terraced fields that climb from  the valley bottom to the mountain top, irrigated by water piped from  rivers and streams. Mojiang produces the most shellac in China.<\/p>\n<p>Hani people worship natural god and their ancestors. Rich folk tales  are left. In Hani villages, men and women, young and old always keep  their favorite musical instruments at hand. A Hani New Year begins in  the 10th lunar month, and their festivals include the Tenth Mo<em><\/em>nth  Festival and Sixth Mo<em><\/em>nth Festival (Kuzhazha), also known as the field  worshipping festival.<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1311407150\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, a great majority of the Hani people, numbering  1,253,952, live between the Honghe and Lancang rivers in the south of  Yunnan Province. Others are distributed in Pu&#8217;er, Menghai, Jinghong,  Mengla, Luquan and Xinping. In history, the Hanis called themselves  variously such as &quot;Hani&quot;, &quot;Kaduo&quot;, &quot;Aini&quot;, &quot;Haoni&quot;, &quot;Biyue&quot;, &quot;Budu&quot; or  &quot;Baihong&quot;. After the founding of new China, they were generally called  the Hani Nationality.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-ethnic-minority"],"views":181,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}