{"id":6536,"date":"2019-11-20T15:03:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T15:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/china-039-s-minority-peoples-the-gelos\/"},"modified":"2019-11-20T15:03:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T15:03:56","slug":"china-039-s-minority-peoples-the-gelos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/china-039-s-minority-peoples-the-gelos\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#039;s Minority Peoples &#8211; The Gelos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span>The Gelos, with a population of 437.997, live in Wuchuan  Gelo Auto<em><\/em>nomous County and Daozhen Gelo- Miao Auto<em><\/em>nomous County of  Guizhou Province. A small number are scattered in Yunnan and Guangxi.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><span><span>Located in the north of Guizhou Province and bordering  on Sichuan Province, the Gelo area is in a large transitio<em><\/em>nal region  between the Sichuan Basin and the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. With  complicate landforms and excess rainfall, this area reserves rich water,  plant and animal resources and is suitable for agriculture and a  diverse economy.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/span><span><span><span>Fanning is the chief occupation of the Gelo people. On  flatland they plant rice, while in mountainous areas; they grow other  crops, thus developing a kind of rice- growing economy.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span>The Gelo people possess an extremely long history. Their  ancestors have close relations with the Baipus of the Shang, Zhou and  the Western Han periods, and the Pus and Liaos of the Eastern Han, and  the Southern and Northern dynasties. Later, historical records referred  to them as the Geliao, or Gelo people. After the founding of new China,  they were officially called the Gelo Nationality.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span>The Gelo language is under the Sino-Tibetan language  family. However, as to which branch and group does the language belong  to, linguists co<em><\/em>nsider variously. Now, o<em><\/em>nly a few old Gelo people can  speak their native language. As the Gelo language has no s<em><\/em>cript. Chinese  is now their common language.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br type=\"_moz\" \/>  <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1519146029\"><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>The Gelos, with a population of 437.997, live in Wuchuan Gelo Autonomous County and Daozhen Gelo- Miao Autonomous County of<\/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":[118],"class_list":["post-6536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-ethnic-minority","tag-culture"],"views":177,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6536","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=6536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}