Walk in Mojiang, Ethnic Villages (part 1)
We take a shopping trip through the backstreets of Mojiang, then drive out into the country to visit a Hani village.
A Trip To The Village Yuan Yang in Yunnan China Part 1
This is some video I took on a recent trip to YuanYang China which is very near the Vietnamese border. YuanYang is famous for it's plethora of step-terrace farmed mountians. It is also a village setting with several ethnic minorities that still wear their traditional minority outfits. The majority of which are Hani or Yi ethnicity.
I have been living in China for 6 years and sometimes act as a translator for small tour groups, this was one such occasion.
Sorry for the shakiness of this vid, I have another vid or two of YuanYang coming up soon which are more steady!
Travel to China--Yunnan
Yunnan is located in the southwest of China, at the intersection of the North-South International Corridor and the third East-West Eurasian Continental Bridge starting from Shenzhen，is a gateway city open to Southeast Asia and South Asia, located at the intersection of ASEAN 10 + 1 free trade area economic circle, Greater Mekong sub regional economic cooperation circle and Pan Pearl River Delta regional economic cooperation circle.
Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, is also called the city of spring and flowers. Kunming has four seasons like spring, which is a major feature of Kunming. The regional temperature is between 0-29 ℃, and the annual temperature difference is the smallest in China. Such climate features are rare in the world. Flowers are open all year round, plants are green all the year round, and Kunming is a light industrial city with low pollution, blue sky and white clouds, which is very suitable for living.
Famous tourist attractions in Yunnan Province include:
Shangri-la，Tibetan means sun and moon in the heart，that is a famous novel Lost Horizon by British writer James Hilton, which is yearned for by the world. It was soon made into a film of the same name and won several Oscar Awards. In the film, Shangri La is a place of eternal peace and tranquility far away among the mountains in the East.
Old Town of Lijiang，It is one of the two ancient cities that China has successfully applied for the world cultural heritage with the whole ancient city. Lijiang ancient city has a variety of local ethnic customs and entertainment activities. Naxi ancient music, Dongba ceremony, divination culture, ancient town bar and Naxi Torch Festival are unique. Lijiang ancient city embodies the achievements of ancient Chinese urban construction, and it is one of the types of Chinese folk houses with distinctive characteristics and styles.
Jiuxiang scenic spot is a member of the international cave Association and a national key scenic spot in China. Located in Jiuxiang Yi Hui Township, Yiliang County, Kunming City, Yunnan Province, it is 90km away from Kunming and 30km away from the famous stone forest scenic spot. Jiuxiang is a new comprehensive scenic spot, which takes karst cave landscape as the main body and integrates natural scenery, cultural landscape and national customs outside the cave. Jiuxiang karst cave, developed in the Sinian period 600 million years ago, has hundreds of caves of different sizes. It is the largest cave community system in China with the largest number and the most peculiar cave landscape. It is known as the cave Museum by experts.
Hani Terracing in Yuanyang located in the south of Ailao Mountain, Yuanyang County, Yunnan Province, it is a masterpiece left by Hani people for generations. The terraced fields developed by Hani nationality in Yuanyang vary with the mountain topography, and they are adapted to local conditions. Large slopes open large fields, small steep slopes open small fields, and even the stone gap under the ditch bank also open fields. Therefore, the terraced fields are several mu in size, while the small ones have only a dustpan, often thousands of Mu on one slope. Yuanyang terrace is the core area of Hani Terrace in Honghe River.
Shilin World Geological park，Kunming Shilin scenic spot has been rated as World Geopark and World Natural Heritage scenery by the United Nations arts and education department. It is a national 5A level scenic spot and national civilized scenic spot.
Tengchong hot sea wind shadow area，Tengchong is one of the three major geothermal areas in China, with more than 80 hot springs and Boiling Springs all over the country, especially the hot sea, which is the second largest hot field in China and the best place for geothermal recuperation.
Ashima's neighbors: Self-performed agro-opera by the Hani Yi of Yunnan - see aug 16-17
The clip is the first in a sequence of staged-narrative reperformances of rice-field farming in the terraced fields of the Southwest, a UN-preservation protected swatch of hills where this kind of irrigation is feasible.
What we are seeing is a kind of self-enacted by us, for us, about us dance/song performance, the plot being a run-through of the annual rice production cycle.
The performances started in 2009 as part of an effort to protect local song and dance culture from tourist degradation. There is only one performance a year, and it is not in or near a town with hotels etc.
The program began and remains a project under the supervision of the modern dancer and Ynnan highlands born Yang Liping, which is why the movements as seen by the camera are so dance-like - so reminiscent of the two-column duige (cross-singing) of the 3/3 Fair we see in Ashima.
Wa national minority song dance - China Yunnan Lincang Cangy
Wa national minority song dance - China Yunnan Lincang Cangyuan Wa national minority
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The Hani language (Hani: Haqniqdoq or xa˧˩ɲi˧˩; simplified Chinese: 哈尼语; traditional Chinese: 哈尼語; pinyin: Hāníyǔ; Vietnamese: Tiếng Hà Nhì) is a language of the Loloish (Yi) branch of the Tibeto-Burman linguistic group spoken in China, Laos, and Vietnam by the Hani people.
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Yunnan (云南) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country. It spans approximately 394,000 square kilometres (152,000 sq mi) and has a population of 45.7 million (as of 2009). The capital of the province is Kunming, formerly also known as Yunnan. The province borders the Chinese provinces Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, and the Tibet Autonomous Region, and the countries Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar.
Yunnan is situated in a mountainous area, with high elevations in the northwest and low elevations in the southeast. Most of the population lives in the eastern part of the province. In the west, the altitude can vary from the mountain peaks to river valleys as much as 3,000 metres (9,800 ft). Yunnan is rich in natural resources and has the largest diversity of plant life in China. Of the approximately 30,000 species of higher plants in China, Yunnan has perhaps 17,000 or more. Yunnan's reserves of aluminium, lead, zinc and tin are the largest in China, and there are also major reserves of copper and nickel.
The Han Empire first recorded diplomatic relations with the province at the end of the 2nd century BC. It became the seat of a Sino-Tibetan-speaking kingdom of Nanzhao in the 8th century AD. Nanzhao was multi-ethnic, but the elite most-likely spoke a northern dialect of Yi. The Mongols conquered the region in the 13th century, with local control exercised by warlords until the 1930s. From the Yuan dynasty onward, the area was part of a central-government sponsored population movement towards the southwestern frontier, with two major waves of migrants arriving from Han-majority areas in northern and southeast China. As with other parts of China's southwest, Japanese occupation in the north during World War II forced another migration of majority Han people into the region. These two waves of migration contributed to Yunnan being one of the most ethnically diverse provinces of China, with ethnic minorities accounting for about 34 percent of its total population. Major ethnic groups include Yi, Bai, Hani, Zhuang, Dai and Miao.
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00:02:28 1 History
00:02:37 1.1 Prehistory
00:03:07 1.2 Pre-Nanzhao period
00:06:10 1.3 Nanzhao period
00:11:11 1.4 Dali Kingdom
00:12:15 1.5 Ming and Qing dynasties
00:14:43 1.6 Post-Imperial
00:16:26 1.7 Naturalists
00:17:40 2 Geography
00:18:48 2.1 Geology
00:20:06 2.2 Paleontology
00:20:24 2.3 Climate
00:21:52 2.4 Topography
00:23:30 2.5 Borders
00:24:21 2.6 Lakes
00:25:14 2.7 Rivers
00:26:52 2.8 Biodiversity
00:29:28 2.9 Designation
00:30:19 2.10 Natural resources
00:32:09 2.10.1 Drought
00:32:41 3 Scenic areas
00:32:51 3.1 National parks
00:33:12 3.2 UNESCO World Heritage Sites
00:33:48 4 Governance
00:33:56 4.1 Administrative divisions
00:34:37 4.1.1 Urban areas
00:34:45 4.2 Politics
00:38:28 5 Demographics
00:38:37 5.1 Ethnicity
00:40:34 5.2 Languages
00:42:05 5.3 Literacy
00:42:41 5.4 Religion
00:44:22 6 Agriculture
00:47:14 7 Economy
00:52:59 7.1 Economic and Technological Development Zones
00:58:04 8 Education
01:00:37 9 Health
01:00:57 9.1 HIV-AIDS
01:01:09 10 Transport
01:01:18 10.1 Railways
01:03:55 10.2 Burma Road
01:05:29 10.3 Highways
01:07:34 10.3.1 Expressways
01:08:57 10.4 Waterways
01:09:57 10.5 Airports
01:10:55 10.6 Bridges
01:11:44 10.7 Metro
01:12:02 11 Culture
01:13:08 11.1 Eighteen Oddities of Yunnan
01:13:17 11.2 Cuisine
01:13:25 11.3 Tea
01:13:53 11.4 Music
01:14:01 11.5 Chinese medicine
01:14:22 11.6 Tourism
01:17:53 11.7 Places of interest
01:18:29 11.8 Sport
01:18:55 12 See also
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Yunnan (云南) is a province of China. Located in Southwest China, the province spans approximately 394,000 square kilometres (152,000 sq mi) and has a population of 47.368 million (as of 2015). The capital of the province is Kunming, formerly also known as Yunnan. The province borders the Chinese provinces Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, and the Tibet Autonomous Region, as well as the countries Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar.
Yunnan is situated in a mountainous area, with high elevations in the northwest and low elevations in the southeast. Most of the population lives in the eastern part of the province. In the west, the altitude can vary from the mountain peaks to river valleys by as much as 3,000 metres (9,800 ft). Yunnan is rich in natural resources and has the largest diversity of plant life in China. Of the approximately 30,000 species of higher plants in China, Yunnan has perhaps 17,000 or more. Yunnan's reserves of aluminium, lead, zinc and tin are the largest in China, and there are also major reserves of copper and nickel.
The Han Empire first recorded diplomatic relations with the province at the end of the 2nd century BC. It became the seat of a Sino-Tibetan-speaking kingdom of Nanzhao in the 8th century AD. Nanzhao was multi-ethnic, but the elite most-likely spoke a northern dialect of Yi. The Mongols conquered the region in the 13th century, followed by the Ming dynasty.
From the Yuan dynasty onward, the area was part of a central-government sponsored population movement towards the southwestern frontier, with two major waves of migrants arriving from Han-majority areas in northern and southeast China. As with other parts of China's southwest, Japanese occupation in the north during World War II forced another migration of Han people into the region. These two waves of migration contributed to Yunnan being one of the most ethnically diverse provinces of China, with ethnic minorities accounting for about 34 percent of its total population. Major ethnic groups include Yi, Bai, Hani, Zhuang, Dai and Miao.