{"id":6533,"date":"2019-11-20T12:04:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T12:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/china-039-s-minority-peoples-the-drungs\/"},"modified":"2019-11-20T12:04:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T12:04:51","slug":"china-039-s-minority-peoples-the-drungs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/china-039-s-minority-peoples-the-drungs\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#039;s Minority Peoples &#8211; The Drungs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span>The Drungs, with a population of 5.817, mainly live in  Nujiang Lisu Auto<em><\/em>nomous Prefecture, and along the banks of the Dulong  River in Go<em><\/em>ngshan Drung-Nu Auto<em><\/em>nomous County in the northwest Yunnan  Province.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><span><span>In the past, the Drungs have no general appellation.  They named themselves by rivers or places such as &quot;Dulong&quot; and &quot;Dina&quot;.  The Hans called them the Qiu, Qiuzi or Qu people. After the founding of  new China, they took the name Drang.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/span><span><span><span>  <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">During the Spring Festival, a bull is  usually killed by a Drung young man, as others beat go<em><\/em>ngs and dance with  knives and swords in hands.<\/p>\n<p>  The Drung area borders on Zayu of Tibet in the north and Burma in the  southwest in the east is the 5,000-meter-high Gaoligong Mountain,  through which flow the swift currents of the Dulong River. From the  bottom of deep valley to the top of high mountains, the climate changes  vertically, so do the species of plants. In winter, this river valley is  completely cut off by snow, while in summer; it is humid and rainy  because of the tropical mo<em><\/em>nsoon from the Indian Ocean.<br \/>  &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/span><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>Drung society had long been primitive owing to the  semi-locked location. Slash-and-bum farming was pre<em><\/em>valent. Gathering and  hunting are im<em><\/em>portant parts of the economy.<\/p>\n<p>The Drung language, without a s<em><\/em>cript, is an independent branch of the  Tibeto-Burman group of the Sino-Tibetan family. Some Drungs speak  Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>  <span>The Drungs by nature are diligent, brave and  simple-minded. They keep their promises and have good credit. They never  use locks for safety. The barns are simply marked by crossed branches  and free from stealing. In addition, the Drungs are hospitable and  willing to help others. o<em><\/em>nce a family is in difficulty, other villagers  offer their generous aids without any hesitation. Today, though the  modem life has changed the Drungs quite a lot their fine traditions  remain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span><span><span>  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/span><br type=\"_moz\" \/>  <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1822704086\"><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>During the Spring Festival, a bull is  usually killed by a Drung young man, as others beat gongs and dance with  knives and swords in hands.<\/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-6533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-ethnic-minority"],"views":138,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}