{"id":6521,"date":"2019-11-20T02:22:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T02:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/china-039-s-minority-peoples-the-achangs-a-chang-zu\/"},"modified":"2019-11-20T02:22:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T02:22:59","slug":"china-039-s-minority-peoples-the-achangs-a-chang-zu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/china-039-s-minority-peoples-the-achangs-a-chang-zu\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#039;s Minority Peoples &#8211; The Achangs \u963f\u660c\u65cf"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span>The Achangs, with a population of 27,708, mainly inhabit  Tongchuan and Lianghe counties of Dehong Dai-Jingpo Autonomous  Prefecture, Yunnan Province. A few are found in Luxi, Yingjiang,  Tengchong and Yunlong counties with their communities intermixing with  Dai and Han villages.<br \/>  The Achangs build their homes in the Gaoligong Mountains farming on tiny  plains, and in river valleys. The land is fertile and the water  abundant, suitable for fine rice strains, which the Achangs are noted  for.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><span><span>  <\/p>\n<p>As the aborigines in the territory of Yunnan,  historical records of different periods referred to these people as the  Echangs or Achangs. After the founding of New China, they were generally  called the Achang Nationality.<\/p>\n<p>The Achang language, containing the Tianghe and Husa dialects,  belongs to the Tibeto-Burman group of the Sino-Tibetan family. As the  Achangs have long amalgamated with the Hans and Dais, most Achang people  can speak both Chinese and the Dai language.<br \/>  <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"292\" src=\"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20191121_5dd584855ae71.jpg\" alt=\"China&amp;#039;s Minority Peoples - The Achangs \u963f\u660c\u65cf\" \/><br \/>  <span>An Achang wedding ceremony. When the groom meets his  bride, her sisters will play tricks on him. First, they blacken the  groom&#8217;s face with ashes and then force the groom to pick up a piece of  meat with their deliberately prepared bamboo sticks, which are much  longer than the normal chopsticks. As there are several tricksy  relatives, the groom&#8217;s simple task seems extremely hard to accomplish.  What a poor groom and what an amusing wedding ceremony!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><br type=\"_moz\" \/>  <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-429528961\"><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>As the aborigines in the territory of Yunnan,  historical records of different periods referred to these people as the  Echangs or Achangs. After the founding of New China, they were generally  called the Achang 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-6521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-ethnic-minority"],"views":179,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}