{"id":6538,"date":"2019-11-20T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T17:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/china-039-s-minority-peoples-the-hezhens\/"},"modified":"2019-11-20T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T17:14:00","slug":"china-039-s-minority-peoples-the-hezhens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/china-039-s-minority-peoples-the-hezhens\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#039;s Minority Peoples &#8211; The Hezhens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span>The Hezhen Nationality, with a population of 4.245, is  one of the smallest ethnic groups of China. Most Hezhen people live in  close communities in Jiejinkou, Sipai and Bacha townships of Raohe and  Fuyuan counties, Heilo<em><\/em>ngjiang Province.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><span><span>In ancient times, ancestors of the Hezhens lived in the  Heilong, So<em><\/em>nghua and Wusuli river valleys. They were variously called  the Heijin, Heizhen, Hezhen, Qileng or Hezhe people in different  historical periods. After the founding of new China, these people were  generally called the Hezhen Nationality, meaning &quot;people living in the  east or the lower reaches of rivers&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/span><span><span><span>The Hezhen language, with a lot of ex<em><\/em>pressions similar  to the Manchu language, belo<em><\/em>ngs to the Manchu-Tungusic group of the  Altaic family. But now o<em><\/em>nly old people can speak it. As the Hezhen  language has no s<em><\/em>cript, they use Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span>Traditionally, the Hezhens are Shamanists. They lived in  a rich mountain area with many rivers meandering through. The excellent  natural enviro<em><\/em>nment made the Hezhens excel in hunting and fishing. It  was said that the Hezhen area was so rich that the Hezhens could hunt  roe deer with stick, fish with bowl and wild ducks were often found on  the dining table. At present, fishing is the most im<em><\/em>portant part in the  Hezhens&#8217; eco<em><\/em>nomy and thus forms the basis of the unique but rich native  culture. The Hezhens, young and old, men and women, are good fishermen.<\/span><\/span><\/span><br type=\"_moz\" \/>  <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2368953746\"><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 Hezhen Nationality, with a population of 4.245, is one of the smallest ethnic groups of China. Most Hezhen people<\/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-6538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-ethnic-minority","tag-culture"],"views":289,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538","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=6538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}