This is a selection of the photos taken by Denis LeGourrierec during his travels in China, when he visited Chinese minority groups in Yunnan province. You can visit his web site at the Entrance
All Minority Group photos copyright D. LeGourrierec, all rights reserved.
Chinese Minority Groups, Customs and Costumes, Yunnan Province, China.
Chinese Women of Lisu Minority Group In Colorful Dresses
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These Lisu ladies of a Chinese minority group were at a festival in Dali. It is a big tourist attraction but some aspects of the festival felt very "communist and artificial". The tribune was filled with comfortably sitting officials, all in military uniforms, watching the dances in the stadium. This is not a "village festival" !
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Naxi Chinese Minority Group Related To The Tibetans
A lady member of the Naxi Chinese minority group in a street in Lijiang, Yunnan Province. This Chinese minority group has a society that is traditionally matriarcal based, and they are related to the Tibetans,
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Traditional Medicine Sold At Chinese Minority Group Festival
This stall at a minority group Festival in Dali, was selling traditional Chinese medicines. There were so many of them selling all sorts of weird looking stuff, including paws of tigers, horns of deer.
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Chinese Farmer of Minority Group Sells Piglets In Market
At a market near Dali I came across one of the local Chinese minority farmers
selling piglets. I waited patiently for the chance to take the
photo when they would be nicely aligned but of course
the little piggies kept moving !
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A Selection from Robert's Wild Cards
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On a visit to a Farmer's Market near the Temple of Heaven we saw this bearded man who had arrived on a bike almost as old as his 87 years. Adding his image to the pictures of old people in Beijing was no problem, but he requested that copies be sent to him. It was difficult to assess his true age, not that it mattered, for old people of whatever age are well respected in China. |
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| Robert's wild card collection shows China pictures from the Minorities Park, Beijing, with boats and houses. The China pictures include Wind and Rain Bridge, Dong Nationality; Yunan Yuanmo Earth Forest, Yi nationality; Stone Board Building, Buyi Nationality; Watch Tower, Miao Nationality. |
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Chinese New Year celebrated by Chinese people in Beijing. "Bringer Of Prosperity" for the Chinese New Year in lobby of China hotel. Traditional savory dumplings on eve of Chinese New Year. Chinese children receive Fun Bao at Chinese New Year. No fireworks for Chinese New Year in Beijing. Chinese New Year aka Spring Festival.
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The Chinese paper cuts included in Robert's wild cards, were distributed by the China National Tourism Administration in the form of a special twelve picture calendar for the year 1999. The work of cutting and mounting all the Chinese Paper cuts was carried out by farmers in the Shanxi Province of China. |
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| Wild card picture of Shaolin Temple boy sleeping after active day preparing to become a kung fu student. The boy sleeping with his head resting on table, perhaps dreaming of Kung Fu, could not be tempted by the Chinese food on the supper table. |
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