{"id":6541,"date":"2019-11-20T20:15:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T20:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/?p=6541"},"modified":"2019-11-20T20:15:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T20:15:38","slug":"china-039-s-minority-peoples-the-jingpos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/china-039-s-minority-peoples-the-jingpos\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#039;s Minority Peoples &#8211; The Jingpos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span>The Jingpo population is 119,209. Most of them live in  Luxi, Longchuan, Yingjiang, Ruili and Lianghe counties of Dehong  Dai-Jingpo Auto<em><\/em>nomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><span><span>The Jingpos make their homes in deep mountain areas  a<em><\/em>bout 1,500 to 2,000 meters above sea level. The mild climate, adequate  rainfall and fertile land enable the plants to grow all the year round.  Besides rice, maize and millet, the Jingpo area is rich in mineral  resources and produces many valuable cash crops and tropical fruits such  as padauk, nanmu, bamboo, rubber, tung tree, coffee, tea, lemongrass,  pineapple, jackfruit, mango and bajiao banana. The deep forests are  homes of many rare animals and birds.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/span><span><span><span>The Jingpos have close relations with the ancient Di and  Qiang peoples coming from the Qinghai- Tibet Plateau. The ancestors of  the Jingpos were called &quot;Xunchuanman&quot; or the Gaoligong people in the  Tang historical docu<em><\/em>ments. In the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, other  names such as &quot;Echang&quot;, &quot;Zhexie&quot; and &quot;Yeren&quot; appeared successively.  After the founding of new China, they were officially called the Jingpo  Nationality.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span>The Jingpos have five branches. Its language belo<em><\/em>ngs to  the Tibeto-Burman group in the Sino-Ti- betan family. In the past, they  have no written language. At the end of the 20th century, a Romanization  writing was created.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span>At a Jingpo wedding, the new couple will step across such a bridge covered with the Chinese character &quot;xi&quot;, meaning happiness.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br type=\"_moz\" \/>  <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2503153930\"><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 Jingpo population is 119,209. Most of them live in Luxi, Longchuan, Yingjiang, Ruili and Lianghe counties of Dehong Dai-Jingpo<\/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-6541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-ethnic-minority"],"views":283,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}